Welding set · 500 A
Lincoln Electric Vantage 500
Lökbatan yard · ×2
- with operator
- ₼300 / day
- without operator
- ₼95 / day
Baku · Onshore
Crews for a refinery shutdown
Welding, fitting, rigging and NDT crews worked two shifts for 36 days
- Client
- A refinery’s planned shutdown
- Period
- May 2021 – June 2021 (2 months)
- Most people on site in a day
- 148
- Man-hours
- 61,000
- Lost-time injuries
- 0
The brief
A refinery needed welding, fitting, rigging and NDT crews on top of its own staff for a planned shutdown: 36 days on two shifts.
In figures
- on site on the busiest day
- 148people
- made
- 1,870welds
- on two shifts
- 36days
How the work went
- Certificates for all 148 people reached the refinery two weeks before the shutdown.
- Crews worked under the refinery’s permit system, with our supervisors on every shift.
- Our NDT crew tested welds on the same shift they were made.
Result
1,870 welds, 61,000 man-hours without a lost-time injury; the refinery restarted on schedule.
The paperwork was ready in advance, so the crews were at work from day one.
The refinery’s shutdown manager
Services
Equipment used
Welding set · 200 A
Lincoln Electric Pipeliner 200D
Lökbatan yard · ×4
- with operator
- ₼285 / day
- without operator
- ₼80 / day
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