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Intertek Announces New Services for Oil and Gas Industry at Offshore Technology Conference
Intertek (News - Alert) (LSE: ITRK), a leading provider of quality solutions to
industries worldwide, has announced the launch of new service offerings
for customers in the oil and gas industries: functional safety, custom
pre-shipment inspections and expanded hazardous areas training,
including CompEx. These new services were announced at the Offshore
Technology Conference, where Intertek is exhibiting.
The new services offer increased expertise to customers with the goal of
optimizing operations, improving safety and quality, mitigating risks
and meeting regulatory requirements, while getting products to market as
quickly as possible. The offerings round out Intertek's comprehensive
solutions for offshore and land-based oil and gas customers by providing:
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Functional safety: Functional safety solutions reduce systemic
risk and optimize system and product performance. Intertek serves
global oil and gas, industrial, medical and other industry clients
seeking analysis such as Performance Levels (PLs), Safety Integrity
Levels (SILs), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and related
services.
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Custom pre-shipment inspections: Pre-inspecting equipment,
installation, wiring and facilities before other manufacturer audits
and inspections take place helps to ensure compliance to end-user
specifications. Services include vendor inspections, facility
inspections, hazarous locations site support, and equipment
certification and installation oversight and confirmations. In
addition to customers in the oil and gas industry, these services are
also relevant to anyone with equipment going into hazardous locations
or potentially explosive atmospheres.
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Expanded hazardous areas training: Intertek will offer courses
at its Houston CompEx licensed training center and its Edmonton,
Alberta, facility to train industry professionals on hazardous areas
competency. Courses include CompEx Ex 01-04 Gas & Vapors (Houston
only), CompEx Ex F Foundational and CompEx Ex 12 Application & Design,
as well as non CompEx courses such as general hazardous areas
competency and ATEX/IECEx/NEC (News - Alert) awareness.
Intertek provides global solutions to the oil and gas industry with a
proven track record of success supporting clients with both offshore and
onshore activity. Services offered to the industry include oilfield
safety and equipment certification; oil conditioning and monitoring,
metering calibration and measurement, crude oil services; manufactured
buildings and housing inspection; jet fire testing; research and
technical support; vendor inspection and compliance; corrosion testing;
exploration and production analysis; hazardous locations consulting;
asset integrity management; and technical staffing. For more information
visit http://www.intertek.com/oil-and-gas.
About Intertek
Intertek is a leading quality solutions provider to industries
worldwide. From auditing and inspection, to testing, training, advisory,
quality assurance and certification, Intertek adds value for its
customers by helping improve the quality and safety of their products,
assets and processes. With a network of more than 1,000 laboratories and
offices and over 38,000 people in more than 100 countries, Intertek
supports companies' success in the global marketplace, by helping
customers to meet end users' expectations for safety, sustainability,
performance, integrity and desirability in virtually any market
worldwide. Visit www.intertek.com.
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