There has been a high demand for in-service inspection in the UK for many years across many industry sectors. The oil & gas sector has many ageing assets that are in their'period of life extension' (periods beyond the originally defined period for which a facility is to operate while still maintaining acceptable standards of operational and technical integrity), where CM, NDT and inspection continue to provide essential information. This is also typical in the power generation sector, especially as power generating plant is used in different ways to those it was designed for, often with short duty cycles. The type of flaws that are manifesting themselves are significantly different to those encountered during manufacture, hence why there are specific training and certification programmes for this.
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