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GermanyThe Innospection Germany GmbH contained the Research & Development, Technology, Product Development, Production and all data analysis departments of the Innospection Group. Innospection Germany GmbH and the entire team were split off and taken over by the private family-owned company InnetiQs GmbH.
With the transfer into InnetiQs GmbH from the beginning of 2022, the entire team from the departments of measurement physics, mechanical design, electronics and software development, data analysis, project management, system assembly and service remained together unchanged. Although InnetiQs GmbH is a young company, its team is characterized by its many years of experience and cooperation in the field of advanced non-destructive material testing and the associated technologies.
InnetiQs GmbH's core competence is the development of innovative and advanced NDT technologies paired with automated, robotic scanning solutions and field inspection.
They offer individual support for a wide range of inspection requirements from deep-sea- and splash zone applications to top-side, and generally downstream, mid- and upstream.
Its goal is to develop and provide innovative, intelligent, reliable and cost-effective inspection solutions and systems for the provision of valuable inspection data. Their offerings for the global market are the innovative support of its advanced inspection technologies and the provision of meaningful condition data for intelligent integrity assessment. Their main business areas are summarized in the graphic below.
The MagControl – FR electromagnetic technique focuses on the external scanning of the risers to detect corrosion, cracks, wire breaks and wire misalignments within the tensile armour- and pressure wire layers on the bespoke layer configuration. The MagControl – FR scan head is integrated into the MagIQ SC 200 subsea crawler, which has a diving depth rating of up to 2,500 m.
The subsea crawler MagIQ SC200 scans in the axial and circumferential directions due to the integrated intelligent drive system. Once the crawler has been deployed to the riser, typically by Work Class ROV, the crawler will operate on its own and scan the riser in Auto-Drive-Fast mode. This independent crawling ability allows the MagIQ crawler to travel toward the Splash Zone on flexible risers despite the potential limitations of ROVs. The scan data is transferred for online data acquisition. High-resolution sensors enable high detection capability of single or multiple wire damage. The variation of the inspection parameters enables focusing on the different layer analyses.
Integrated encoders provide high-resolution crawler position data, integrated cameras support operation and offer added value through visual inspection.
The result of the MagControl FR scan is extended C-scan data of the layers with defect data and wire structure data. The individual findings are analysed and sized.
Flooded annulus detection has a high supportive information element for the integrity assessment of Flexible Risers, therefore InnetiQs has developed in cooperation with a major international operator the deep sea crawling system FADS – E01. The FADS crawler has an integrated scanning system with an ultra-high resolution local scan to enable the detection of annulus flooding within the riser’s outer and potentially inner tensile armour wire layer. The developed scanning system was prepared to provide reliable flooding data despite the influence of water depth pressure.
The great advantage of the FADS scanning system is that it can quickly reach the inspection position for an ultra-high resolution scan, despite the ROV’s underwater limitations. Like the MagIQ SC200 crawler, the FADS crawler is also equipped with holding arms and encoders that enable a scan with high positional accuracy along the risers, which is particularly advantageous for comparison scans.
The result of the FADS scan is a scan data overview of the inspected areas with a C-scan display of wire configuration and associated visibility of flooding or non-flooding.
The pulsed eddy current testing technique allows the inspection of thick insulated and concrete weight coated subsea pipelines. The subsea scanning crawler system enables inspection of up to 200mm of insulation or concrete weight coating. The detection capability with PECT technology in particular of internal pipe defects is upfront modelled as depending on size footprint generatable related to the overall coating and the pipe wall thickness.
