When corrosion, fatigue or damage affects the structures that carry your people, equipment and pipelines, you need more than a visual opinion. You need an independent structural integrity assessment that quantifies real capacity, risk and remaining margin of safety.
NWE provides specialised structural integrity assessment services for offshore and onshore assets, using advanced analysis tools and recognised assessment procedures such as API 579 / ASME FFS-1 and BS 7910, supported by finite element analysis (FEA) where needed.
Our work helps you:
A structural integrity assessment is typically required when you must decide how to manage degradation, new loads or extended operation on important structures.
Typical triggers include:
In each case, a structural integrity assessment provides a quantitative, code-aligned view of strength, stability and fatigue performance, so you can make confident decisions on repair, reinforcement or continued operation.
NWE’s structural integrity assessments are designed to give clear engineering answers, not just analysis outputs.
A typical assessment delivers:
The goal is simple: support safe continued operation where possible, and define clearly what must change where it is not.
NWE performs structural integrity assessments across a wide range of offshore and onshore structures used in the energy sector and related industries.
Typical structures:
Typical conditions and challenges:
If your structure or scenario is not listed here, NWE’s engineers can review your case and confirm whether a structural integrity assessment is the right tool.
NWE combines accredited inspection heritage with focused structural and integrity engineering support.
Key strengths:
For asset owners, this combination means structural integrity assessments that are technically sound, practical to implement and defensible to external stakeholders.
Structural integrity assessments often sit alongside other NWE services, including:
These related services help ensure that structures, pressure systems and inspection programmes are evaluated consistently across your asset base.
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We apply recognised defect-assessment and fracture-assessment procedures such as API 579 / ASME FFS-1 and BS 7910, together with relevant structural and offshore codes as appropriate for the asset and location.
Typically we require structural drawings and models (where available), design and operating data, material information, and inspection findings (e.g. thickness measurements, crack indications, deformation records). In ageing assets, we can also work with partial or legacy documentation and help identify data gaps.
Inspection tells you what has been found (e.g. corrosion, cracks or deformation). Structural integrity assessment quantifies what those findings mean for strength, stability, fatigue life and overall fitness for purpose, using engineering calculations and recognised assessment procedures.
Yes. Assessments are often used to justify life extension for offshore and onshore structures by demonstrating that residual capacity and fatigue life remain acceptable, and by defining any required repairs, reinforcements or monitoring measures.
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NWE provides independent third-party inspection services and separate asset-integrity engineering support—improving quality and safety, protecting operations and budgets, and enhancing environmental performance.
