Supporting Petrochemical, Oil & Gas Refineries Across the UK

Central to the UK economy is the oil and gas industry. Keeping these facilities operating at maximum productivity is a challenge that requires meticulous planning.

Planned turnarounds and maintenance are pivotal to the success of petrochemical, oil and gas assets.

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Petrochemical, Oil and Gas

Providing Hire Solutions To Your Challenges

Effective management of hazards while works take place at a refinery is of utmost importance. RVT Group have a real understanding of your challenges, including the critical nature of them.

When working within a high pressure environment, you need a supplier that understands your challenges and provides solutions that align with your project and environment. RVT Group have had repeated success at Phillips 66 Humber, ExxonMobile Fawley, and Essar Energy Stanlow. Common challenges we help with include:

Entering confined spaces: Turnarounds often involve opening and entering vessels, tanks, columns and reactors, which pose a risk to staff and contractor safety.

Hot works: Carrying out hot works such as welding, cutting and grinding is unavoidable during a turnaround. Hot works can lead to a fire or explosion with sparks travelling to other areas, and fume buildup creating unsafe working conditions.

Dust: Dust can be caused from a variety of activities including abrasive blasting, renovation activities, insulation removal and more.
Ventilation: Poor ventilation is a common challenge when workers enter vessels or tanks. Workers are at risk of exposure to a reduction in oxygen levels and toxic gases, as well as heat stress.

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Specialist Dust and Fume Extraction Installed at a leading UK Oil Refinery During Repair Works

RVT provided a highly efficient hazard control solution to keep all workers safe

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Effective Hire Solutions For Your Turnaround

Over the years we have built up a lot of experience and knowledge around the challenges and hazards faced during a Turnaround. Our focus is on providing the full turn-key solution, working with you to identify and develop a strategy to effectively manage and control hazards that can have an impact on your long term health.

Common Hire Solutions For Turnaround Projects:

When carrying out hot works such as TIG or MIG welding, cutting, burning, grinding, or burning, and various painting and coating activities, workers can be exposed to fumes that are hazardous to health, as well as negatively impact the surrounding environment. RVT Group provide effective fume extraction systems that extract the fume from source, preventing any build up and creating a comfortable, safe working environment.
Dust control is imperative during a turnaround, ensuring it's not left to build up and compromise the refinery in any way. RVT Group provide effective dust control hire solutions, including local exhaust ventilation systems, and dust extraction and filtration. We can work with you to create a modular system that's suitable for you and your project.
RVT Group appreciates how overwhelming calculating ventilation requirements can be. Our industrial specialist can work with you to calculate your requirements, and ensure the solution is suitable for the application it's being used for.
We offer a range of confined space equipment, from gas monitoring to ATEX rated fans for providing fresh air, we can ensure you receive a solution that supports any project within a confined space.
Maintaining stable climatic conditions within vessels is critical to ensure high quality of workmanship is maintained. Whether it be introducing heat to help curing of materials, or ensuring a cool work environment is maintained to manage heat stress, there are a number of strategies that can be deployed to ensure compliance is maintained.
Managing water resulting from specific processes can be costly, with the added risk of prosecution if contamination of nearby water courses occurs. Implementing temporary water treatment solutions on site helps to remove the need of tankering water off site for treatment.