Forty Years Inside Alberta's Energy Sector

NDT & Inspection for Oil & Gas

Oil and gas has been CIC's home market since 1982 — wellsite fabrication, gas plants, upgraders, terminals and the pipe between them. The sector's inspection needs are unforgiving: sour service that punishes hard welds, insulation hiding corrosion, turnaround windows that price every idle hour. Our crews and programs are built around exactly those realities.

Where We Fit in Your Operation

• Turnarounds and shutdowns — planned scopes, night coverage, and findings fast enough to act on inside the window

• API programs — 510 vessels, 570 piping circuits and 653 tanks, with the NDT data generated in-house

• Sour service verification — PMI and hardness testing against the limits your H2S service imposes

• CUI programs — risk-ranked hunting for the corrosion your insulation is hiding

• Construction and tie-in welds — RT and PAUT to B31.3 on new fabrication and repairs

• Failures — when something lets go, our independent lab determines why before it repeats

The Testing Methods Oil & Gas Buys Most

Method choice follows the application. In this sector, the mapping is well-worn:

• New welds on piping, tie-ins and fabrication → radiographic testing (RT) and PAUT — volumetric acceptance to ASME B31.3, with PAUT winning where exclusion zones can't

• Corrosion and wall-loss monitoring → UT thickness surveys at CMLs, escalating to PAUT corrosion mapping when thinning spreads beyond spot readings

• Alloy mix-ups and sour-service limits → PMI testing plus portable hardness — the two-instrument verification H2S service demands

• Corrosion hiding under insulation → CUI programs combining UT windows, profile RT at supports and targeted stripping

• Surface cracks at nozzles, saddles and attachments → MPI on carbon steel, LPI on stainless

• Vessels, piping circuits and tanks in service → API 510/570/653 inspection, generating and consuming all the data above

Upstream to Downstream, Plus the Heartland

Coverage spans wellsite equipment and field fabrication, midstream terminals and pump stations, gas processing and petrochemical facilities in Alberta's Industrial Heartland, and refinery-side work — with Edmonton dispatch putting crews inside the province's energy corridor instead of flying them in.

Why Operators Keep an Independent on Call

Energy work is audited work: regulators, owner-user programs and insurers all read the reports. Independent inspection means CIC's dispositions carry no fabrication or repair interest — the finding is the finding, whether it clears a weld or condemns a circuit. Forty years of those honest calls is why the reports get accepted without argument.