Could Your Next Reformer Shutdown Have Been Prevented?

August 2026 | Blog

Convection section tube failures can cause unplanned reformer shutdowns, production loss, and costly maintenance. Learn how advanced inspection helps operators move beyond conservative life estimates and improve asset integrity decisions.

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Revolutionizing Furnace Coil Maintenance

June 2026 | Whitepaper

Fired heaters, furnaces, and boilers with common headers are vital across refining, LNG, petrochemical, power, and steam reforming—but difficult to inspect. This whitepaper shows how advanced access and integrity data improve reliability, reduce risk, and support confident maintenance decisions.

Engineering Simulation for Hydropower Integrity Assessment

November 2025 | Event Presentation

At a recent conference Quest Integrity team presented how engineering simulation gives hydropower operators deeper integrity insight and more confidence in asset decisions. A spiral casing case study demonstrated how fracture mechanics and finite element analysis help prioritize maintenance, reduce unnecessary repairs, and support safer infrastructure.

Digital Twins of Gas Transmission Pipelines

October 2025 | Blog

Isya Muhajirin with Quest Integrity presented at the 2025 IMM + MTI Conference on the evolution and practical use of digital twins in gas transmission pipelines, from their PLM origins to their growing impact in oil and gas.

Streamlining Maintenance of Fired Heater, Furnace and Boiler Coils Attached to Common Headers

September 2025 | Blog

Furnace coils connected to common headers are difficult to clean and inspect. In our recent webinar blog, Cleaning and In-Line Inspection of Furnace Coils Without Removing Manifolds, we highlighted these challenges and showed how our Header Delivery System improves asset reliability, performance, safety, and delivers actionable insights.

Missing Cylinder Circumferential Surface Crack Solutions for API 579 Annex 9B

July 2025 | Technical Paper

New cylinder crack solutions help close key gaps in API 579 Fitness-for-Service guidance. By applying advanced 3D crack modeling, this paper delivers validated geometry factor data that enables more accurate integrity assessments, supports smarter asset management decisions, and provides a stronger technical foundation for future API 579 standards updates.

Unlocking New Possibilities in Steam Reformer Maintenance

May 2025 | Blog

Steam reformers are critical to ammonia, methanol, and hydrogen production, yet convection coils are often overlooked because they are difficult to inspect and maintain. A new approach—ultrasonic smart pigging combined with advanced mechanical cleaning—is changing that.

Fracture Mechanics Analysis Comparison Using Abaqus Progressive Damage and 3-D Crack Meshes of a Downhole Tool

May 2025 | Event Presentation

Quest Integrity analyzed a downhole tool designed to fracture during deployment, confirming it performs as intended. Abaqus results identified peak fracture force and sustained deployment force.

From Ship to Shore: In-Line Inspection of Loading Pipelines

March-April 2025 | Article

Advanced in-line inspection (ILI) improves loading pipeline safety, detects internal and external defects, reduces inspection costs and downtime, minimizes environmental risk, and enables proactive integrity management with complete, high-quality data.

Addressing Damage Mechanisms in HRSGs

October 2024 | Event Presentation

At the 2024 ABHUG Conference in Brisbane, Quest Integrity shared insights on damage mechanisms and HRSG performance. He explained how Heater Integrity Optimization removes fouling, identifies inefficiencies and damage mechanisms, and reduces cleaning time to improve heater and furnace reliability.