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The Oil and Gas industries as well as the Oil Refining and Chemical Plant processes have been subjected to continuous and strenuous rules and regulations from Governments, Customers and End users. This demand for quality and system performance requires test equipment and test systems to meet or exceed these requirements. In addition to world wide testing standards Safety has become paramount in the development and use of test systems and equipment. Personnel
can no longer be subjected to situations that could cause injury or loss of life. Safety Audits, Protective Barriers, Test Equipment, Test Systems, High Pressure Pumps and Valves designed for specific applications and Enclosure designs have to be designed to contain leaks or failures at elevated pressures.
Failure of production valves, fittings, pipe, pumps and related equipment used in the daily process of Oil and Gas related products no longer go unnoticed. When these failures occur and the items in question have not been tested and certified or have been tested on less than adequate equipment questions arise as to the safety of the systems and component parts. In addition, leaks caused by untested or incorrect testing methods are the cause of costly environmental regulations not to mention the cost of the product leaked to atmosphere. Literally millions of dollars a year is lost due to simple leaks and additional monies spent to clean up the mess.
Calder Testers, Inc. has been solving these types of problems since 1981. We have fabrication facilities in Houston, Texas USA and Morpeth, England with staffed sales, engineering and fabricating personnel. Calder Testers has five patents on valve test systems, pumps designed by ourselves that can attain pressures up to 200,000 psi, valves for block, bleed, metering, and rapid flow high pressure check valves designed for the respective pump pressures. Our pumps are High Pressure High Volume systems at full pressure. We have testing facilities with protective walls on premises for third party testing. The test is monitored by computer and has video camera inside the protective walls so visual viewing of the test being performed as well as monitoring the pressure, temperature and hold times as the tests are being performed.
Calder Testers, Inc. has performed on site safety audits of customers facilities and provided complete reports on items found that require attention, complete repair or design to fix the problem and the ability to perform the work to bring the customers facility up to a standard that will insure safety as well as updated testing systems or procedures.
As the Oil and Gas industry progresses so does technology. CTI has been designing equipment and systems with real time computer monitoring, digital readout instruments and PLC logic controls for 20 years. As customers requirements become more technical the products Calder Testers designs and manufactures continues to meet those needs. We help our customers update their test facilities and equipment or perform the testing for them so that they remain in the forefront of the technical advances.
The products and services Calder Testers provides include the following consolidated list for an overview of our capabilities.
• We build a complete line of standard valve test machines that cover block valves, safety relief valves, butterfly valves, control valves as well as special valves and fittings to meet the requirements of our customers.
• We have designed and manufactured special systems Burst testing, Proof testing, Controlled leak rate testing, Fatigue testing and fully automated monitoring systems.
• Hydraulic test pumps for pressures up to 200,000 psi, air driven pumps up to 35,000 psi, high pressure valves and fittings to compliment the respective pump pressures.
• Third party testing in a controlled atmosphere protected by barriers eight feet high and designed to withstand the forces produced if failures occur during testing.
• Patented flange valve testing machines and patented safety relief valve testing machines.
• Systems design and manufacturing for air, water, oil based mediums and gas to meet test or monitoring requirements.
• Hose test system, Steam test systems, Gas boosters, High Pressure compressors up to 6000 psi, ASME code pressure vessels up to 10,000 psi, Data Acquisition and Control systems, Data Acquisition and Monitoring systems and Computer controlled systems for controlling field or production applications.
• We can provide Safety Audits, update or design existing systems , design and manufacture test barriers for safe testing on site.
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