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Refineries

Process units, exchanger banks, piping circuits, and tankage assessed at component level between turnarounds.

The asset class

Clear the backlog.

ABYSS puts measured conditions in front of the planners, so the turnaround list is built from evidence and the backlog finally moves. Defects across pressure equipment, and structures are classified, located, and ranked based on risk so you get to the most critical parts first.

Engineer evaluating condition of process piping and lines at a refinery.
Corrosion under insulation

Find the CUI a walkdown cannot see.

ABYSS can identify CUI candidates a general visual inspection misses and ranks them, sending NDE to the circuits most likely to be degrading instead of to a fixed percentage of the population. The damage that used to progress unseen between campaigns now shows up in the plan.

Insulation pulled apart to reveal corrosion under insulation on a critical refinery line.
Why ABYSS Fabric™ for refineries

Why refineries run on ABYSS Fabric™

ABYSS Fabric™ image view of refinery equipment with condition assessment and defect classification.
01

Scope from evidence, not from last cycle

The turnaround list is built from measured condition, located and ranked before scope freeze.

02

Capture while the unit runs

No waiting for the outage. Drone, laser, and 360 capture cover the unit live, and findings land in the plan months ahead of the shutdown.

03

Every circuit in one record

Findings sit in the same ISO 14224 hierarchy your CMMS already uses, so every vessel, circuit, and tank carries its history in one place.

04

NDE dollars where they count

A ranked worklist sends inspection and repair spend to the circuits that need it first, instead of a fixed percentage of the population.

Marine terminals

Marine Terminals

ABYSS can also cover refineries with loading platforms or loading docks in a separate solution line. Terminals are the hardest assets to inspect and the most expensive to lose, which is why they are usually the worst documented. ABYSS changes that by grading every visible member using quantitative thresholds rather than opinion and saving exponentially on human effort.

Up to 60%
cost savings

In Inspection and maintenance scoping

Only 2 days
of berth outage

Against about a week of lost throughput while divers work the structure.

Sub-mm
defect location

Sharp enough to feed an engineering twin.

Aerial view of a refinery's marine terminal, tankers alongside the jetties with process units and tank farms behind
Standards

Supports the codes a refinery inspection program runs on.

  1. 01API 510pressure vessels
  2. 02API 570piping
  3. 03API 653aboveground storage tanks
  4. 04API RP 580 and API RP 581risk-based inspection
  5. 05API RP 571damage mechanism review
  6. 06API 579-1 and ASME FFS-1fitness for service
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