Shell Engineering are a fabrication company in Birtley, Chester-le-Street, and a client of our North East business, JML Inspection. On a Wednesday morning in September they asked for radiography of 16 butt welds on eight check valves, eight 3” and eight 4”, with everything needed for their client’s inspector from Saipem at 10am the next day.
JML’s Durham team was fully booked, so the valves came across to our Lillyhall facility in Cumbria the same morning. Our PCN Level 2 radiographers ran them through two radiography compounds that day using Selenium-75 to ASME B31.3, alongside dye penetrant inspection, and the work was complete in time for the inspection. It is what being one Group is for: when one business is at capacity, another picks it up.
Services undertaken include
- Radiography of 16 butt welds on eight check valves, 3” and 4”
- Selenium-75 across two radiography compounds, same day
- Compliance with ASME B31.3
- Dye penetrant inspection
- PCN Level 2 radiographers
- Requested Wednesday morning, complete for a 10am client inspection on Thursday
“Test Inspect are a pleasure to work with. Their NDT service is second to none, their inspectors are exceptional, and they consistently go above and beyond to deliver — often at the drop of a hat. Whatever the challenge, they always find a way to make it happen.”
Mick Emberson
FABRICATION AND WELDING MANAGER – SHELL ENGINEERING
Numech are a fabrication / machining company based in Workington Cumbria. Test Inspect are engaged to undertake Non-destructive Testing and inspection of items destined for both Marine / offshore and Nuclear within Sellafield.
Services undertaken include
- Welding Inspection CSWIP
- Surface flaw detection Magnetic and Penetrant
- Ferroxyl and Passivity testing of stainless steel items
- PCN Level 3 procedure creation and approvals for the nuclear industry, mainly Sellafield
Richard Tubman
MANAGING DIRECTOR – NUMECH
When Wind Ambition was afloat in the Irish Sea offshore of Barrow-In-Furness the owner C-Bed had a requirement for our services. We sent out a welder to carry out 21 3inch carbon pipe butts and a brazed inspection glass and then carried out subsequent inspection using both Dye Penetrant and Pressure Testing using nitrogen to 20bar.
Primary services
- Provide SQEP Personnel with offshore training
- Supply Welding Plant and Oxy Acetaline Equipment
- Pressure Testing with Nitrogen
- Non Destructive Testing Using Penetrant
Aadriane
OFFSHORE FACILITIES MANAGER C-BED FLOATING HOTELS
Stainless steel TIG welder qualification for Amentum at Sellafield: quote to signed certificate in three days.
On a Tuesday morning the mechanical quality team at Amentum (formerly Jacobs) on Sellafield asked us to quote for a stainless steel TIG welder qualification on 15 mm Schedule 10 pipe. The quote went back just over an hour later, with the test already booked for 08:30 that Friday at our Lillyhall facility in Cumbria. The client supplied the parent material and filler wire; we supplied everything else.
The welder passed, and the signed qualification certificate was issued before lunch on the day of the test. We had promised it for the following Monday.
How the week ran
- Tuesday 11:13: enquiry received
- Tuesday 12:19: quote issued and test date booked
- Friday 08:30: test welded at Lillyhall
- Friday 11:21: signed welder qualification certificate issued
Primary services
- Same-day quotation and test booking
- In-house welding bay and supervision of the test at Lillyhall
- Mechanical testing of the test piece under the same roof
- Signed welder qualification certificate issued the same day
“Great turnaround and service from Flawed.”
John Irving
AMENTUM MECHANICAL QUALITY INSPECTOR, SELLAFIELD
