Know exactly what shape every fire tube in your heater treaters is in — without pulling it, draining the vessel, or shutting in the well.
Before us, a fire tube inspection meant pulling the tube out of the heater treater and beating on it. That's thousands of dollars a tube, and you're still trusting your eyes — so defects slip through. The tube "passes," then fails a few weeks later.
We spent two years working with vendors all over the world to take magnetic flux leakage technology and build a scanner made for the inside of a fire tube. There's nothing else like it, and it reads corrosion to about +/-5%.
Request a DemoThe vessel stays full and the well keeps producing. The only thing we touch is the burner. Your output doesn't change while we work.
Our guys handle their own safe-work permits and the whole inspection on their own. You don't need to send anybody out to run with us.
Most tubes are done in under an hour, and you know the condition within seconds — not days later waiting on a lab.
Magnetic flux leakage — MFL — is a non-destructive way to find corrosion, pitting, and wall loss in steel. Here's the short version of how it works:
What you end up with is a clear picture of where the tube is failing and how bad it is — so you can plan the work instead of reacting to a failure.
We make the fuel-gas lines safe, pull the burner and arrestor, and log a visual check on the way in.
We clear the soot, scale, and rust out of the tube with our brushes and compressed air so the scanner reads true.
The scanner runs the tube and builds the image on the spot. We know the condition right then — and we call you the second a tube reads critical.
We put the burner back, secure it, and relight it exactly how we found it. We leave the treater the way it was.
Click any photo to enlarge.
We built the report so you can read it at a glance in your morning meeting — color-coded by how bad it is, with clock positions so you know right where the corrosion sits.
Minimal wall loss. Address at a later date — no action needed now.
Worth watching. Can be delayed and monitored more closely.
Elevated wall loss. Plan an intervention soon.
75%+ wall loss. We call you immediately so it gets priority.
Every scan lives in a secure web database, and you get a weekly email with the prior week's results — pull it up at the office or out in the field.
About 99% of fire tube failures happen in the bottom of the tube, where the flame hits it hardest. That's exactly where we look — so a hot spot turns into a planned repair instead of an emergency. From there we can protect the tube with cathodic protection, or change it out with our crane trucks when it's done.
Request a DemoNope — that's the whole point. Nothing on location gets shut in. The vessel can stay full and the well can keep producing. The only thing we do is turn off the burner.
The scan itself is under 30 minutes. Cleaning the tube so it reads true is usually what takes the longest, but most tubes are wrapped up in under an hour.
Anything over 75% wall loss is a "Red." When we hit one, we call your point of contact right then — on top of the weekly email that covers the rest of your tubes.
Neither one. MFL reads the steel itself, so scale and build-up don't throw it off, and the weather doesn't change a thing.
Not much. Our crews handle all the safe-work permits and the inspection themselves. We just need a contact and a heads-up on which sites you want hit first.
We can, but about 99% of failures happen in the bottom of the tube where the flame hits hardest. We focus where the risk actually is.
We run fire tube inspections out of Midland, Williston and El Reno, across nine states. Let us walk you through the scan and the database, and show you what it'd look like on your locations.
Request a Demo