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 a locally owned company by Al Masaood Oil Industry Supplies and Services Co. It was established in Abu Dhabi in 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 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:
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.
It 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. It has 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.
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.
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, its highly-skilled technicians provide complete in-situ machining services.