Furmanite, a UK based company owned by Xanser Group with a worldwide network of subsidiaries and associates, has refined its expertise in providing specialist engineering services and related products to meet the plant start up maintenance and turnaround requirements of the process industries.

The company has over 75 years of experience in under pressure leak sealing service and has progressively developed additional specialist services as described hereunder.
Throughout the world, Furmanite has a dependable reputation for solving of customers' problems by the cost-effective application of on-site services.
Industries using Furmanite services include power stations, desalination plant, oil and gas production (onshore and offshore), refining, petrochemical, pulp and paper, marine, pipeline transmission and many other industries.
Furmanite UAE Limited is locally owned company by Al Masaood Oil Industry Supplies and Services Co. The company was established in Abu Dhabi on May 1990 as a joint venture between Furmanite International Limited and Al Masaood Oil Industry Supplies and Services Co.
Since then, the company has succeeded in establishing very efficient teams of well trained and equipped specialist field service technicians capable of responding to the customer's needs, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
From the beginning of year, 2001, Furmanite UAE Ltd has been managed by MOISS under a licence agreement signed to cover the UAE, Oman and Yemen, and to expand to other areas in the Middle East.'
Furmanite UAE with the strong support of Al Masaood OISS, has built up full local resources, with expatriate staff and set-up to provide the following services:
Under Pressure Leak Sealing: Furmanite has developed more than 22 types of sealing compounds to carry out leak sealing under pressure, for most products, hydrocarbon/chemical.
The techniques employed are the result of 50 years expertise and with the accumulated experience and knowledge of over 600 technicians currently sealing various types of leaks around the world.
Furmanite can deal with virtually every type of leak problem, be it a leaking flange, valve gland, heat exchanger joint, screwed coupling, pipe union, or pinholed pipe. Furmanite have the capability to seal leaks of steam, water, hydrocarbons and gas including 300 types of chemicals - at temperatures ranging from sub-zero to 900 deg C and at pressures from vacuum to 850 kg/em2.
"Trevitest" On-line Safety and relief Valve testing: Developed and patented worldwide by Furmanite, the revolutionary Trevitest system tests safety and relief valves on-line, either under normal operating conditions (hot testing) or under no pressure (cold testing). Trevitest, test the valves with no interruption to plant production, thus achieving considerable cost savings and operational advantages.
Additionally, for safety reasons, the valve would be free to pop throughout the Trevitest operation, should it be an actual requirement.
Trevitest can be also used for cold testing. This testing enables identifications of valves, which are in need of overhaul, if carried out immediately after the shutdown. It also keeps a footprint record of any valve performance after complete overhauling.
On-site Machining: Furmanite's On-site Machining service provides industries with fast, economical solutions to maintenance/machining problems.
Using standard portable machines designed and manufactured in-house to appropriate national and international standards and/or using a special machine designed specifically for a job need, Furmanite's highly-skilled technicians provide complete in-situ machining services.
Hot Tapping and On-line Plugging: Hot Tapping is a technique employed by Furmanite for making a connection to piping or vessels while the existing system is under pressure.
Furmanite holds a complete series of Hot Tapping equipment suitable for working on pipeline pressure up to 100 bar g at 38 deg C or up to 48 bar g at 370 deg C. Tapping sizes range from 6mm to 1,000mm and can be either size on size tap or tank taps, e.g. a 300mm tap on a 15-metre diameter vessel.
Composite Repair: Strong, lightweight and non-corroding. The benefits of composite technology are significant. Furmanite has broadened its on-site and on-line services to include composite material.
Permanent pipe repair: Restoring both axial strength and hoop strength to damaged pipelines, composites provide a rapid-response solution.
Pipe rehabilitation: Being lightweight, composites impose very little additional loading on pipes. This makes them ideal for extensive rehabilitation projects where corrosion has set in.
Caisson rehabilitation: Avoiding the need of costly and disruptive hot-work, composites offer a cost effective and long lasting method of caisson rehabilitation.
Flare lime repair and strengthening: Furmanite has engineers with every necessary skill, including abselling, enabling even complex repairs to be undertaken with very little disruption.
Complex geometry: Flexibili-ty and the' ability to form a repair in-sicu. The two properties that make composites ideal for use on complex installations. They can be elbows and flanges without the need for expertise pre-fabrication.
Small-bore pipe repairs: Small-bore pipes often do not possess the structural integrity of larger pipelines. Conventional steel clamp solutions may be too heavy, again, composites lightweight properties provide a viable alternative.
Nozzle repair: Repairs using composites are specially designed to ignore the original strength contribution of the existing structure. Thus although the repair becomes a part of the structure; its strength is independent of it. For potentially weak, points, therefore, such as a nozzle junction, composites are ideal.
On-line Valve Maintenance: Another important online service to ensure that the Bait, Gate and/or Globe valves, on pipelines or X-mass Trees, are kept healthy under good maintenance scheme that will get the valve to close when there is a real need to isolate any line.
This service incorporate special materials for fleshing the valve first then inject the lubrication. It extends to inject sealant at high , pressure when 100 per cent isolation is required on passing valves.
Further services offered by the firm. Include controlled bolting services, Profaned Advanced hire protection, pipe freezing and Smart Shun Conductor Analysis and Chocking services.
New Move; Catalyst Services: Under an agreement between Ratqa Contracting Co, of Kuwait and Al Miasaood Oil Industries Supplies and Services Co, Furmanite is now offering, full Catalyst Handling Services.
This includes carrying out of catalyst in reactors, vessels, towers and reformers of any unit/plant. The scope is also extended to skimming, unloading, transportation, screening, hand, picking and loading (partial loading for skimmed vessel) fresh, regenerated or screened catalyst into the reactor vessels, plus mechanical cleaning. The company will supply heavy duty plastic bags, bucket hoppers, cranes, forklifts, trucks.