Equipment

General
Fill pumps
Pressure Pumps
filters
volume Flow meters
Pressure relief Valves
Test heads/Manifolds
Piping temporary Works
Instrumentation for Hydrotesting
Test heads/Manifolds
Dead weight tester
Pressure Recorders
Atmospherc Pressure recorders
Temperature Recording Equipment
small volume Measurements
Pigs
Gauge plates

Process
Flooding

Equipment specifications
Clean sea water (brakish /estuarine, harbor
water not acceptable)
water to be treated for corrosion control &
biological attack
oxygen scavenging
Corrosion inhibitor

Procedure

A slug water shall be usedfor lu

the Pig
Valves shall remain open

Water tolerance limits after treatment

oxygen level 0 PPb(ug/l)
solids permitted-1.0 mg/l
Not more than 100 bacteria per ml
SRB(sulphate reducing bacteria)< 1per ml
pH 6.5
Cleaning
std DNV-OS-F101

Gauging
std DNV-OS-F101

Hydrotesting

Dewatering

Swabbing

1 bypass (jet) Pig

1 or more Brush pig
1 Magnetic pig

Water treated to 200 mtr length

shall introduced ahead of pig fo
material removal
Pig shall driven by treated filter

Bi-directional gauging pig with 4 discs

2 Aluminium gauging plates installed one
behind the first cup and one before last cup
Intelligent Pig for production pipeline
Pressure 259 barg (psig)
Pressure increment 0.5 bar/min
pressure test duration 24 hrs
Temporary
shall
be overpressure
armoured type
Pumps shallhose
be fitd
with
protection devices at 500 kpa above
hydrotesting pressure
Dry air or De -watering pigs propelled by
compressed air
De-watering shall be high sealing pigs with
atleast two guiding and four sealing discs
Freshing water swabbing if pipeline tested
with sea water
5 % water of the pipe volume

2 High sealing dics pigs

Drying by air/vaccum Foam swabbing pig propelled by compressed 30 hrs after swabbing
air at speed of 1 to -1.5 m/s

Vaccum drying

Nitrogen purging

Nitrogen to packed to a pressur

Nitrogen shall have dew pressure of -50degC

Procedure

slug water shall be usedfor lubrication of

e Pig

alves shall remain open

Parameters to be recorded
Volume of water pumped in front of pig

Volume of water between pig

Volume & flow rate behind last Pig
Temp of injected water

ater treated to 200 mtr length of pipelength Flushing water at the time of arrival of the
hall introduced ahead of pig for foreign
pig will have 98% of particulate of dia 50
aterial removal
micron or less
g shall driven by treated filtered water
No visible dust or debris

0 hrs after swabbing

Volume of displaced water shall be measured

during dewatering process to assess the
effectiveness and needfor additional dewatering

Salt content in residual water shall be less

than 200mg per kg of sea water
last pig shall have increased weight by less
than 10% of weight
Dew pt minus 5 deg c

trogen to packed to a pressure of 1 barg