BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.1
By Leman Zeynalova - Trend:
NDT inspection process of facilities of SOCAR’s Kulevi oil terminal is ongoing in accordance with the Risk-based Inspection Plan of 2021, Trend reports with reference to the terminal’s website.
At Kulevi Oil Terminal, since the date of its establishment, in frames of the Integrity Management Strategy monitoring and inspection activities are being carried out that ensure the facility remains fit to its purposes.
One of these activities is continuous NDT inspection process, which involves various inspection (ultrasonic, x-ray, vacuum testing, magnetic particle testing, visual inspection) and monitoring techniques, data collection, analysis, reporting and corrective actions. In particular, storage tanks and pipeline systems, steel structures and separate equipment are covered by this process.
NDT inspection data of all storage tanks, which consists of inspection data of more than 9 year period, are unified in BST Storage Tank Inspection Register with complete technical inspection checklists attached for each storage tank systems. Based on the data of the abovementioned register further inspection plans are being generated and corrective actions are being planned and executed. NDT inspection data of all process, utility and firefighting pipes is unified in Risk-based Inspection Register of BST Pipeline Systems. Based on the actual corrosion rates, product groups and pipeline categories, the file generates plans of further inspections and defines necessities for corrective maintenance for each pipeline systems.
The terminal is used for shipment of crude oil, fuel oil, diesel fuel, gas oil, methanol, aviation fuel, propylene, liquid pyrolysis resin, naphtha, isopropyl alcohol, diesel fuel with ultra-low sulfur content, industrial oil, and condensate.
The terminal in the Kulevi port was put into operation in May 2008, and the transshipment of oil products was launched in June. The total capacity of the terminal is 10 million tons of liquid bulk oil cargo per year, including three million tons of oil, three million tons of diesel fuel, and four million tons of fuel oil. The total capacity of the tank farm of the terminal is 402,000 cubic meters.
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