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NPESI
Breaking New Ground
in Flare Maintenance
As
featured in American Industrial
Magazine
To
request more information, please
contact:
National
Petroleum and Energy Services,
Inc. (NPESI)
Email:
Lynnie
Long, CEO and Founder
Call:
972-463-8225 or visit: www.npesi.com
National
Petroleum and Energy Services,
Inc. (NPESI) recently completed
a special emergency environmental
project for a gas and energy
facility in Texas. The scope
of work included replacing defective
pollution control devices and
piping at the top of a one hundred
se
venty
five-foot tall flare. What made
the project unique was the fact
that the facility remained up
and running, and the flare in
full operation. Lynnie W. Long,
CEO and Founder of NPESI, gave
American Industrial Magazine's
Kerry Liles an exclusive interview
and on-site video coverage of
the highly specialized project.
(View online video) "Safety
is the first and foremost consideration
on any project, but this one
took some special engineering,"
Long began. "We ran an infrared
survey at top of the flare to
determine the heat range. The
temperature was from 350 to
600 degrees. The work took place
on the existing catwalk, so
we utilized a crane with a fixed
man basket on the end of a fifty-foot
lattice boom to transport the
workers. Two of our best pipe
fitters conducted the task while
a safety attendant stayed on
the basket and manned the fire
hose in case of a release. All
three men wore 2000 degree high
heat proximity suits and were
under supplied breathing air,"
Long continued. Two weeks prior
to the beginning of the project,
Long meet with Jack Vinable
of RBJ Safety Services and David
Jensen of Electronic Safety
of Houston (ESH) to map out
and engineer the safety aspect
of the job. " RBJ supplied the
breathing air and respirators,"
Long explained. "They also furnished
the heat suits and wrapped the
fresh air lines with fire resistant
material." "Electronic Safety
of Houston set up the Lifeline
wireless gas detection system
for confined space monitoring.
The system was attached to the
man basket and 02, LEL content
and Hydrogen Sulfide readings
were transmitted back to a central
console that was constantly
monitored by a safety technician,"
said Long. "Despite some bad
weather and high winds that
kept us grounded for a day and
a half, we were still able to
complete the project safely
and within the time frame estimated,"
Long concluded.
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