Fairtex Group provide its clients with high-quality storage tank inspection, engineering, maintenance, access, and data management expertise, for the prevention of corrosion, cracking, and leakage in refinery storage tanks. Our services are crucial for plant productivity, safety, and compliance.

Our storage tank protection solutions include:

• Engineering experts to optimize new and existing storage tank designs and ensure regulatory compliance

• A robust suite of traditional and advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) inspection solutions to detect and locate leaks, corrosion, and other tank damages

• Maintenance and light mechanical service technicians for corrosion, insulation, and industrial cleaning services

• Storage tank-specific inspection data management software

• At-height and subsea access solutions, including rope access technicians, trained divers, and drones

Fairtex Group uses a wide range of advanced NDT techniques for aboveground and underground tanks and all of their individual components, including floors, welds, annular rings, roofs, shells, and more. Our storage tank inspection services help tank operators identify signs of damage, including corrosion, leakage, cracking, and wall thinning.

Our NDT tank inspection techniques and services includes:

• Acoustic Emission (AE)

• 3D Laser Scanner

• 3D MFL (Magnetic Flux Leakage) Mapping with Top & Bottom Defect Discrimination

• Edge Settlement

• Guided Bulk Wave (GBW)

• Intrinsically-Safe, In-Service UT Probes

• Magnetic Flux Leakage (MFL)

• Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC)

• Tank Floor Inspections and Mapping

• Tank Shells/Roof Corrosion Surveys

• Tank Strapping

• Time-of-Flight Diffraction (TOFD)

• Ultrasonic Prove-Up

• Ultrasonic Testing (UT)

• Ultrasonic Thickness (UTT) Measurements

Storage Tank Maintenance Services

Fairtex Group provides periodic cleaning for storage tank interiors and exteriors to maximize their operational lifetimes and prevent contamination of the product they store. Corrosion, mud, and grime buildup needs to be removed before it worsens, and old coatings that no longer protect tank exteriors may be doing more harm than good.

Our Corrosion Removal and Mitigation Services Covers:

• Abrasive Blasting

• Baking Soda Blasting

• Cleaner/Greener Slurry Blast

• Coating Removal and Re-Application

• Fireproofing- Chartek Certified Applicator

• General Power Tooling

• Surface Preparation

• Flexible and Rigid Lancing

• Glycol Dehydration Cleaning (Manual and Chemical)

• Skid Vacuum Systems

• Storage Tank Cleaning and Degassing

• Cladding

• Insulation Blankets

• Spot Welding

• Insulation with Metal Jacketing