Run the numbers

What one position is costing you.

Put in one spool or elbow you replace on a schedule. This is what that single position spends in a year, before anyone argues about what it is worth to measure it.

Your position

Replacement intervalThe calendar interval you actually work to today.Spool part costDelivered price of the replacement spool only.Labour, crane, rigging, accessCrew, crane, scaffold, permits, isolation and flush, gaskets and bolts.Planned downtime per changeoutWhat the shutdown window costs you, if it is not already absorbed elsewhere.

This position, every year

$105,000

3.0 changeouts a year at $35,000 all in, for as long as the line runs.

That is one position. Most sites have several.

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Validated in the field

12×

return on one survey engagement, the published figure

An operator of critical water infrastructure

~50 m of NPS 24 steel pipeline

Their engineers needed to know whether an existing line could be recommissioned or had to be replaced. HELIX mapped wall thickness, screened for cracking along the run and delivered a 3D asset model. The fitness-for-service call stayed with their engineers.

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