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Protect your investment. Backed by best-in-class R&D programs, sophisticated technology and expert knowledge, Intero brings a turnkey approach to your pipeline’s whole life cycle.

Today’s complex operational challenges demand optimum plant efficiency. At Intero we ensure it with an essential range of dedicated services that meet your safety and regulatory requirements. And maximize your asset potential.

Our mission is to keep your facilities working at peak performance, with minimum downtime. To achieve this, we combine an innovative industrial service package with the latest inspection and robotics systems, backed by smart sensors and advanced data management.

Tank storage facilities play a vital role as import/export distribution terminals or industrial and hub terminals. For tank terminal operators, it is critical that facilities are kept operationally safe and at the same time eliminate potential environmental impact.

When it comes to the inspection of your company’s pipelines, challenging infrastructure often forces tough choices. Compromising the quality of your inspection data shouldn’t be one of them. To meet the growing demand for richer data and more comprehensive inspections of challenging pipelines, we developed Pipeline Explorer, a fleet of advanced inspection robots designed to tackle the most difficult pipelines no matter where they are found.

Regular cleaning and inspection of your heaters increases its reliability and continuity. Knowing the remaining wall thickness of the tubes can also lengthen the lifecycle of the heater tubes and prevent unwanted shutdowns. Intero has designed an intelligent, free-swimming tool that is capable of inspecting tubes and bends of your heaters, with a minimum impact on shutdown time.

Intero's versatile Pipeline Surveyor is aimed at inspecting non-piggable pipelines. Unpiggable features are often found in shorterlength transfer pipelines. Dual diameter, mitered bends, full-bore unbarred tee pieces, and single entry configurations are well within the capabilities of our system and can be inspected utilizing regular, high, and ultra-high resolutions. Combined with highly-experienced field crews, an effective integrated solution is available to ensure the integrity of previously non-piggable pipelines.

Removing coke is step one in getting heaters to an optimal condition, a safe startup and reliable run time expectance is key. Intero’s Cokesan will help you to determine cleanliness.

Operators request Fitness-For-Service (FFS) assessments to quantitatively evaluate, and further demonstrate the structural integrity of their assets. We have extensively performed FFS assessments on various assets (pressure vessels, pipelines, heater tubes, etc...) – helping oil and gas operators make “run-repair-replacement” decisions.

Intelligent pigging developed rapidly in recent years, however, owners continued to operate heaters which required modifications to access and inspect the heater coils.

The Assessments consists of a comprehensive report, highlighting both any current and likely future integrity concerns.

Storage tanks should be regularly inspected. Until now, they have normally been taken out of service for inspections like tank bottom corrosion assessments and settlement inspections. But why open the tank for inspection when its integrity can perfectly well be determined during operation? Tank owners can significantly reduce the costs of inspections to avoid down time, cleaning costs and (off-spec) product waste. Intero operates a suite of innovative inspection solutions that can be deployed while the tank remains in operation.

• Effective LDAR programs
• Methane Accounting Program
• Best available measurement technologies
• Expert advisory services
• Advanced emission management software
• Benchmark emissions from multiple sites
• Comply with regulations
• Reduce carbon footprint
• Increase safety
• Improve maintenance efficiency

• OGI screening for visual inspection
• Functionality checks with PID/FID
• Quantification in kg/year with HFS
• LDAR on tank equipment surroundings
• Identify and quantify emissions
• Demonstrate compliance to legislation
• Report detailed, reliable emission figures
• Prioritize repair activities
• Full emission management software

• Identify unintended and intended emissions
• Make emissions transparent from well to market
• Quantify methane emissions for each equipment
• Report accurate and reliable data to stakeholders
• Accelerate methane reduction through benchmarking
• Manage your environmental reputation

• Identify and quantify fugitive emissions
• Demonstrate compliance to legislation
• Report detailed, reliable emission figures
• Set clear priorities for repair activities
• Full emission management software
• Minimize product loss
• Save costs

• Screen potential leaking sources fast
• Check inaccessible sources safely
• Focus on biggest emitters
• Demonstrate compliance to legislation
• Quantify leaks with FID/PID or HFS
• Report detailed, reliable emission figures
• Full emission management software
• Save costs

• Effective site surveys
• Best available measurement technologies
• Expert advisory services
• Avoid accidents
• Ensure safe, continuous operation
• Minimize pipeline corrosion
• Maintain the integrity of your installations
• Avoid fire hazards

• Know where your flare losses are
• Achieve a high Return On Investment
• Detect the biggest emitters and save costs
• Define losses in kg/year per product
• Reduce/avoid unnecessary repairs
• Ex ultrasonic measurements
• Mapping of internal passing valves
• Signalization of leaking equipment

• Reduce energy consumption
• Achieve an ROI of only 5 months
• Save costs
• Steam process screening with thermal camera
• Defective / open bypass or process valve analysis with thermal camera
• Internal leak detection with ultrasound measurements
• Temperature modus of steam trap with infrared pyrometer

Over the past years, the R&D team has worked on the development of a Large Diameter Phased Array tool. The objective of this tool is to obtain better inspection results on Large Diameter pipelines. After a rigorous development project, which consisted of concept design, system simulations, engineering, prototyping and testing, we have executed some pilot projects with 2 different customers. All the results of these activities have been evaluated and summarized in several papers and publications. We have presented these results at the PPIM conference in Houston. It was planned to be presented at PTC in Berlin as well, however, this was unfortunately cancelled due to Covid-19.

Offshore pipelines are often very challenging pipelines to manage, though certainly not less critical than their onshore counterparts. Small leakages can cause environmental consequences significantly larger than similar situations onshore, while at the same time interventions offshore are a lot more difficult to undertake.

Offshore pipelines are often very challenging pipelines to manage, though certainly not less critical than their onshore counterparts. Small leakages can cause environmental consequences significantly larger than similar situations onshore, while at the same time interventions offshore are a lot more difficult to undertake.

As the years have progressed and technologies have improved, pipelines currently constructed and those built decennia ago are being operated under the same regulations / conditions, but do we really know where they are located and how much material is still above them?

Utilizing robotics to provide in-service tank inspection has many benefits for the client. A primary benefit is the elimination of risks associated with having personnel enter the confined space while conducting the tank inspection. Another important benefit is the time/cost savings for a client. Robotic inspections for tanks can be completed with the tank full of product. A robotic inspection for a tank can often be completed within 1-3 days.

Managing corrosion integrity for tanks and associated pipelines is a challenging and costly endeavor. In order to inspect tank floors, the tank's hydrocarbons or chemicals are usually emptied from the tank causing the tank to be out-of-service for an extended period of time. In addition to the monetary costs there is also a significantly increased safety risk.

The definition of unpiggable pipelines has been discussed numerous times in the industry in technical papers and presentation. Despite this fact, there remains controversy on what is an unpiggable pipeline. As has been noted in the past by the Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI), pipelines are in fact largely “piggable” today. For this reason, the term “Difficult to Inspect” is now widely used. However, it would be remiss to not mention that pipelines are modified daily in order to accommodate an inspection vehicle.

Presentation: Avoiding Modification Costs and Downtime when Inspecting Refinery Heater Coils with oversized Common Headers - Refcomm 2019

Pipelines are used to transport large volumes of fluids, some of which are hazardous to people and the environment. Alongside their operational responsibility, the pipeline operators must guarantee public safety. As the global media has evolved over the years, even the smallest incident can lead to massive reputational damage. How can one, as a pipeline operator, ensure that pipelines securely contain their contents at all times?

Pijpleidingen zijn voor de Rotterdamse haven wat bloedvaten zijn voor het lichaam: belangrijke transportleidingen, zonder welke er geen leven mogelijk is. En terwijl bloedvaten zorgen voor de aanvoer van voedingsstoffen voor de cellen en de afvoer van afvalstoffen, zorgen de pijpleidingen voor het transport van (ruwe) olie, olieproducten, gas en chemicalien. Niet alleen tussen de bedrijven in de haven onderling, maar ook ver het achterland in, naar bestemmingen in Nederland, Belgie en Duitsland.