Gulf and Caribbean CCR platformer VCFEs get special treatment

Following its pioneering work cleaning a Texas tower (VCFE) in the Caribbean this Spring, Tube Tech concluded many months of delicate negotiations with the successful clean of yet another VCFE, this time in one of the foremost Arabian Gulf states.

In the Caribbean, Tube Tech broke new ground by successfully using a 'continuous drilling system' to fully clear blocked tubes from below, as the top header was welded on and could not be removed.

Topside access to the VCFEs in the Middle East was not a problem, although once again ambient conditions proved challenging, with working temperatures peaking at around 50 DegC. This time, however, there was no access available from below.

Each VCFE had 3,100 vertical tubes, 21 metres long and the client estimated that no more than 300 tubes in each exchanger were blocked. Once Tube Tech got to work, however, tt became clear that the number of tubes blocked was almost 3,000. The nature of the contamination also varied unexpectedly across the tube face from coke-like deposits to heavy gum, blocking the full length of tubes. Fortunately the Tube Tech team had taken four alternative systems with them to cover all eventualities and were able to adapt quickly to the heightened challenge.

Despite the change to the original brief, every tube was unblocked and cleaned in just five days, to a level suitable for the client's inspection.

Contact us for more details of our skills, experience and success in completing jobs that defeat other cleaning contractors and discover how we can improve the performance and profitability of your refinery.

Offshore Europe 2007 is coming - are you ready?

If you are in the global offshore oil and gas industries, then Aberdeen's Offshore Europe show, from September 4-7 is undoubtedly a 'must attend' on your calendar.

Tube Tech is doing more and more work in the offshore environment - this year we've been back to the North Sea and the Arabian Gulf, bringing the good news about in-situ cleaning and the huge cost savings it can offer, to more production platforms.

We are saving platform operators many hundreds of thousands of dollars by eliminating the need to transfer fouled waste heat recovery and fin-fan units ashore for cleaning or replacement, because our specialised technology means we can clean right round serpentine bends without them having to be cut off first (and welded back on afterwards). The outstanding level of cleaning we provide also returns plant to duty working better than ever, so productivity and profitability rise.

Visual concept of the Tube Tech stand/booth for Offshore Europe 2007

At Offshore Europe we will also be unveiling two innovative cleaning techniques, specially developed for the offshore market, that will offer savings and performance improvements in completely new areas.

Be sure to make Tube Tech one of the companies you must visit at the show - you will find us on stand 1341 in the Blue Zone - we look forward to seeing you there. If you can't afford to wait until September, why not make contact with us now? We're waiting for your call or email.

Visit the Offshore Europe site for more information on the show - we look forward to seeing you there. www.oe2007.co.uk

Food, glorious food - it's all more work for Tube Tech

The trend towards healthier cooking oils, lower in saturated fats and higher in unsaturated or mono-unsaturated fats, has had an unexpected bonus for Tube Tech's own 'health'. The newer sunflower oils may be better for people, but they are not so good for the plant of leading food producers like the UK's #1 brand of nut snacks, the top-brand manufacturer of frozen part-cooked chips/French fries for oven-baking and the UK's leading brand of crisps/potato chips. Heat exchangers handling the healthier oils are fouling faster and proving harder to clean than they used to with more conventional oils. Tube Tech has been able to tackle these tougher cleaning problems with specially-configured cleaning heads and carefully-matched jetting pressures to take the fouled exchangers back to bare metal rapidly, enabling production to restart sooner - and at optimum efficiency.

Contact us to find out how we can power through the baked-on oils in your processing plant.

Racing Start for Tube Tech

Little did Tube Tech MD Mike Watson know, when visiting the former BP Coryton refinery, that a shared love of fast cars would lead to him sponsoring an up-and-coming racing driver. During business discussions with Mike Richards, a Coryton (now Petroplus) employee, his racing aspirations came into the conversation. When Mike Watson discovered that Mike Richards was seeking some commercial support for his race-prepared Caterham track car, he was interested immediately.


Mike has had some mixed fortunes in the current racing season but recent results showed better form: races at the famous Snetterton and Donington circuits in the UK yielded two first and two third positions. You can see the trophies on the bonnet/hood of Mike's car above.

In the 2007 Caterham UK season, Mike's racing overalls are provided by Tube Tech and carry the company's logo.

To find out more about how Tube Tech can race to the rescue of your plant, visit our website.

Tube Tech goes to Drain Trader exhibition to give money away

Tube Tech will be at the UK's new Drain Trader Exhibition in Cheltenham, September 5-6, to recruit professional drain cleaners who hate turning away tough or unusual commercial work and want to develop an additional revenue stream.

The company has already established an agreement with the UK's leading operator, becoming its official hi-tech, specialist partner. Critical, complex or seemingly impossible jobs are passed on to Tube Tech, in return for referral commission.

Unusual projects include drains blocked by concrete or unlikely intrusions and obstructions, such as steel piles. Whatever the challenge, Tube Tech has the expertise to meet it head-on. With its in-house R&D engineering workshop, the company can design or adapt whatever is required.

For the first time, professional drain cleaners can make money from every cleaning job - thanks to Tube Tech.

www.dtexhibition.com

Tube Tech heads for the Caribbean, but it’s no holiday:

In March the company mobilises one of its international teams to tackle a major cleaning project on a Texas Tower (VCFE) at a refinery on a Caribbean Island. Amongst the 10 tons of equipment being air-freighted ahead of the team is a new remote jetting system developed specially to cope with blockages and the limited access 35 metres above ground and beneath the VCFE.

Find out more about our international deployments and rapid-response options for urgent requirements.

http://www.tubetech.com/contact.asp

Offshore Europe, September 4 - 2007 – stand – 1341, blue zone

Tube Tech doesn’t attend many industry shows, but there is one that cannot be ignored. Our growing experience in the offshore environment and the major savings we are able to offer customers through the in-situ cleaning techniques we have developed, mean we have plenty to offer the offshore operator. Read more here:

First ever mechanical, in-situ, cleaning of waste heat recovery unit (W.H.R.U.) on an offshore oil production platform ( North Sea) – soon to be an online cleaning procedure!

http://www.tubetech.com/CS-serpentinewhru.asp

Tube Tech turns the heat up for offshore oil platform ( Arabian Gulf)

http://www.tubetech.com/CS-crudeoilheatexchanger.asp

We look forward to welcoming you to our stand – 1341, blue zone.

http://www.oe2007.co.uk

New marketing department set to leave competition behind:

Very few industrial cleaning contractors can boast a dedicated research and development department. Even fewer can boast of their own marketing resources. As ever, Tube Tech is the rare exception – Peter Gallon recently joined Tube Tech as PR & Marketing Manager. He brings over twenty years experience in industrial, high-tech and business-to-business marketing communications to Tube Tech, with a mission to build on CEO Mike Watson’s vision of the most professional industrial cleaning company in the world.

Peter is already working with customers past and present to develop more case studies and articles that illustrate how Tube Tech’s inventive approach to seemingly intractable cleaning problems. Watch out for more news of Tube Tech in the world’s industrial media.

Contact Peter: +44 (0) 1268 786999

Customer satisfaction survey

A key element of bringing in dedicated marketing resources, is to improve communications with customers old and new. We hope that, whether you have used Tube Tech’s cleaning services before or not, you will be willing to take a couple of minutes to take part in the survey. To encourage participation, we are offering entry to a prize draw for everyone who completes the survey. The prize will be a substantial discount on your next Tube Tech cleaning job. Everyone who takes part will be sent a download link to receive our new white paper ‘Using the right cleaning approach to get back into production on time and on budget’

Investment in research & development pays off for customers:

Unusually, if not uniquely for an industrial cleaning company, Tube Tech continues to seek ways to set the standard in its industry. In 2006 this has meant creating an in-house research and development function. The export expertise of Tube Tech International has been recognised in the International Business Awards.

Graham May joined Tube Tech in June this year as R&D Engineer, bringing a wealth of product development experience to the company. He has been kept busy turning the ideas of our inventor MD, Mike Watson, into practicable cleaning solutions that deliver real improvements to the service we provide.

Ask Mike Watson for more details about Tube Tech’s inventiveness and how it can help your business. e-mail: invent

Rising to the Tube Tech challenge

Tube Tech International’s Managing Director, Mike Watson, firmly believes that international business is key to the company’s growth. He sees the company as a blend of Mission Impossible and Red Adair Company Inc., going ‘anywhere, anytime’ to tackle the toughest cleaning jobs that defeat other companies – and doing them better and faster than the competition.

Tube Tech continues to challenge its own industry and the industries it serves, by tackling the jobs that defeat competitors and by developing innovative solutions to cleaning problems that drastically shorten downtime, while dramatically improving overall cleaning quality.

Tube Tech’s return-on-investment assurance means that the cost of your cleaning job is more than offset by reductions in downtime and improvements in plant efficiency.

Why not put us to the challenge with your next cleaning problem?

Tube Tech International Newsletter June 2007

Newsletter - June 2007

Welcome to Tube Tech’s third quarterly newsletter

In this issue:

Gulf and Caribbean CCR platformer VCFEs get special treatment

Offshore Europe 2007 is coming - are you ready?

Food, glorious food - it's all more work for Tube Tech

Racing Start for Tube Tech

Tube Tech goes to new Drain Trader exhibition to give money away

Gulf and Caribbean CCR platformer VCFEs get special treatment

Following its pioneering work cleaning a Texas tower (VCFE) in the Caribbean this Spring, Tube Tech concluded many months of delicate negotiations with the successful clean of yet another VCFE, this time in one of the foremost Arabian Gulf states.

A typical VCFE Texas Tower

In the Caribbean, Tube Tech broke new ground by successfully using a 'continuous drilling system' to fully clear blocked tubes from below, as the top header was welded on and could not be removed.

Topside access to the VCFEs in the Middle East was not a problem, although once again ambient conditions proved challenging, with working temperatures peaking at around 50 DegC. This time, however, there was no access available from below.

Each VCFE had 3,100 vertical tubes, 21 metres long and the client estimated that no more than 300 tubes in each exchanger were blocked. Once Tube Tech got to work, however, tt became clear that the number of tubes blocked was almost 3,000. The nature of the contamination also varied unexpectedly across the tube face from coke-like deposits to heavy gum, blocking the full length of tubes. Fortunately the Tube Tech team had taken four alternative systems with them to cover all eventualities and were able to adapt quickly to the heightened challenge.

Despite the change to the original brief, every tube was unblocked and cleaned in just five days, to a level suitable for the client's inspection.

Contact us for more details of our skills, experience and success in completing jobs that defeat other cleaning contractors and discover how we can improve the performance and profitability of your refinery.

Offshore Europe 2007 is coming - are you ready?

If you are in the global offshore oil and gas industries, then Aberdeen's Offshore Europe show, from September 4-7 is undoubtedly a 'must attend' on your calendar.

Tube Tech is doing more and more work in the offshore environment - this year we've been back to the North Sea and the Arabian Gulf, bringing the good news about in-situ cleaning and the huge cost savings it can offer, to more production platforms.

We are saving platform operators many hundreds of thousands of dollars by eliminating the need to transfer fouled waste heat recovery and fin-fan units ashore for cleaning or replacement, because our specialised technology means we can clean right round serpentine bends without them having to be cut off first (and welded back on afterwards). The outstanding level of cleaning we provide also returns plant to duty working better than ever, so productivity and profitability rise.

Visual concept of the Tube Tech stand/booth for Offshore Europe 2007

At Offshore Europe we will also be unveiling two innovative cleaning techniques, specially developed for the offshore market, that will offer savings and performance improvements in completely new areas.

Be sure to make Tube Tech one of the companies you must visit at the show - you will find us on stand 1341 in the Blue Zone - we look forward to seeing you there. If you can't afford to wait until September, why not make contact with us now? We're waiting for your call or email.

Visit the Offshore Europe site for more information on the show - we look forward to seeing you there. www.oe2007.co.uk

Food, glorious food - it's all more work for Tube Tech

The trend towards healthier cooking oils, lower in saturated fats and higher in unsaturated or mono-unsaturated fats, has had an unexpected bonus for Tube Tech's own 'health'. The newer sunflower oils may be better for people, but they are not so good for the plant of leading food producers like the UK's #1 brand of nut snacks, the top-brand manufacturer of frozen part-cooked chips/French fries for oven-baking and the UK's leading brand of crisps/potato chips. Heat exchangers handling the healthier oils are fouling faster and proving harder to clean than they used to with more conventional oils. Tube Tech has been able to tackle these tougher cleaning problems with specially-configured cleaning heads and carefully-matched jetting pressures to take the fouled exchangers back to bare metal rapidly, enabling production to restart sooner - and at optimum efficiency.

Contact us to find out how we can power through the baked-on oils in your processing plant.

Racing Start for Tube Tech

Little did Tube Tech MD Mike Watson know, when visiting the former BP Coryton refinery, that a shared love of fast cars would lead to him sponsoring an up-and-coming racing driver. During business discussions with Mike Richards, a Coryton (now Petroplus) employee, his racing aspirations came into the conversation. When Mike Watson discovered that Mike Richards was seeking some commercial support for his race-prepared Caterham track car, he was interested immediately.

Mike has had some mixed fortunes in the current racing season but recent results showed better form: races at the famous Snetterton and Donington circuits in the UK yielded two first and two third positions. You can see the trophies on the bonnet/hood of Mike's car above.

In the 2007 Caterham UK season, Mike's racing overalls are provided by Tube Tech and carry the company's logo.

To find out more about how Tube Tech can race to the rescue of your plant, click here

Tube Tech goes to Drain Trader exhibition to give money away

www.dtexhibition.com

Tube Tech will be at the UK's new Drain Trader Exhibition in Cheltenham, September 5-6, to recruit professional drain cleaners who hate turning away tough or unusual commercial work and want to develop an additional revenue stream.

The company has already established an agreement with the UK's leading operator, becoming its official hi-tech, specialist partner. Critical, complex or seemingly impossible jobs are passed on to Tube Tech, in return for referral commission.

Unusual projects include drains blocked by concrete or unlikely intrusions and obstructions, such as steel piles. Whatever the challenge, Tube Tech has the expertise to meet it head-on. With its in-house R&D engineering workshop, the company can design or adapt whatever is required.

For the first time, professional drain cleaners can make money from every cleaning job - thanks to Tube Tech.

Tube Tech Newsletter March 2007

Newsletter - March 2007

Welcome to Tube Tech’s second quarterly newsletter

In this issue:

New customer case studies:

Full output restored after Tube Tech cleans dual steam condenser on-line at Midlands, UK, waste-to-energy plant.

http://www.tubetech.com/CS-dual-steam-condenser-cleaning.asp

Full 860MW output restored from 500MW low after Tube Tech cleans massive air cooled condenser at InterGen combined-cycle gas-fired power station in one week.

http://www.tubetech.com/CS-intergen.asp

Tube Tech gets construction company out of a hole and goes to new depths to fix a ‘one in a million’ problem – hydro-cutting a steel pile driven through a deep drain.

http://www.tubetech.com/CS-Deep-Drain-Cleared.asp

Tube Tech heads for the Caribbean, but it’s no holiday:

In March the company mobilises one of its international teams to tackle a major cleaning project on a Texas Tower (VCFE) at a refinery on a Caribbean Island. Amongst the 10 tons of equipment being air-freighted ahead of the team is a new remote jetting system developed specially to cope with blockages and the limited access 35 metres above ground and beneath the VCFE.

Find out more about our international deployments and rapid-response options for urgent requirements.

http://www.tubetech.com/contact.asp

Offshore Europe, September 4-7 –
we will be there – can you afford to miss it?

Tube Tech doesn’t attend many industry shows, but there is one that cannot be ignored. Our growing experience in the offshore environment and the major savings we are able to offer customers through the in-situ cleaning techniques we have developed, mean we have plenty to offer the offshore operator. Read more here:

First ever mechanical, in-situ, cleaning of waste heat recovery unit (W.H.R.U.) on an offshore oil production platform ( North Sea) – soon to be an online cleaning procedure!

http://www.tubetech.com/CS-serpentinewhru.asp

Tube Tech turns the heat up for offshore oil platform ( Arabian Gulf)

http://www.tubetech.com/CS-crudeoilheatexchanger.asp

We look forward to welcoming you to our stand – 1341, blue zone.

http://www.oe2007.co.uk

Semi-rigid lance tackles Texas towers

Faster, cleaner, safer - we're always looking for ways to do things better. Texas towers (VCFEs) present a special challenge: they are very tall and access to the exchanger tubes is often restricted. We wanted to find a way to clean hundreds of tubes at super high pressure quickly and safely from the top of the tower. The specially-designed and treated semi-rigid lance was the answer.

Coiled loosely on a reel that dismantles quickly for shipment, the semi-rigid lance can be introduced to tubes accurately and safely, so cleaning can be carried out faster and better.

Contact us for more information on cleaning Texas towers and other industrial plant with limited maintenance access.

http://www.tubetech.com/contact.asp

New marketing department set to leave competition behind:

Very few industrial cleaning contractors can boast a dedicated research and development department. Even fewer can boast of their own marketing resources. As ever, Tube Tech is the rare exception – Peter Gallon recently joined Tube Tech as PR & Marketing Manager. He brings over twenty years experience in industrial, high-tech and business-to-business marketing communications to Tube Tech, with a mission to build on CEO Mike Watson’s vision of the most professional industrial cleaning company in the world.

Peter is already working with customers past and present to develop more case studies and articles that illustrate how Tube Tech’s inventive approach to seemingly intractable cleaning problems. Watch out for more news of Tube Tech in the world’s industrial media.

Contact Peter: e-mail - +44 (0) 1268 786999

Tube Tech Newsletter January 2007

Welcome to the latest newsletter from Tube Tech International - 'Cleaning the Impossible'।

In this issue:

Rising to the Tube Tech challenge

Tube Tech investment in research and development pays off for customers

Customer satisfaction survey

Rising to the Tube Tech challenge:

Tube Tech International’s Managing Director, Mike Watson, firmly believes that international business is key to the company’s growth. He sees the company as a blend of Mission Impossible and Red Adair Company Inc., going ‘anywhere, anytime’ to tackle the toughest cleaning jobs that defeat other companies – and doing them better and faster than the competition.

Tube Tech continues to challenge its own industry and the industries it serves, by tackling the jobs that defeat competitors and by developing innovative solutions to cleaning problems that drastically shorten downtime, while dramatically improving overall cleaning quality.

Tube Tech’s return-on-investment assurance means that the cost of your cleaning job is more than offset by reductions in downtime and improvements in plant efficiency.

Why not put us to the challenge with your next cleaning problem?


Click here to tell us about it.

Investment in research & development pays off for customers:

Unusually, if not uniquely for an industrial cleaning company, Tube Tech continues to seek ways to set the standard in its industry. In 2006 this has meant creating an in-house research and development function.

The export expertise of Tube Tech International has been recognised in the International Business Awards.

Graham May joined Tube Tech in June this year as R&D Engineer, bringing a wealth of product development experience to the company. He has been kept busy turning the ideas of our inventor MD, Mike Watson, into practicable cleaning solutions that deliver real improvements to the service we provide.

Ask Mike Watson for more details about Tube Tech’s inventiveness and how it can help your business. e-mail: invent

Customer satisfaction survey:

A key element of bringing in dedicated marketing resources, is to improve communications with customers old and new. We hope that, whether you have used Tube Tech’s cleaning services before or not, you will be willing to take a couple of minutes to take part in the survey. To encourage participation, we are offering entry to a prize draw for everyone who completes the survey. The prize will be a substantial discount on your next Tube Tech cleaning job. Everyone who takes part will be sent a download link to receive our new white paper ‘Using the right cleaning approach to get back into production on time and on budget’