Arkad Engineering & Construction Company

Pipeline
Standards & Procedures, SATIP & SAIC

SAES-L-450: Construction of on land & near shore pipelines

SAES-L-150: Pressure Testing for plant piping & pipeline

SAES-A-004: General Requirement for Pressure testing

SAES-A-007: Hydrotest fluid & Lay-up Procedure

SAES-L-108: Selection of Valves

SAES-L-109: Selection of Flange, Gasket & Stud bolts

SAEP-385: Preservation of Project procured material

SAEP-381: Project Quality Issues & Escalation Process

SAEP-302: Instructions for Obtaining a Waiver of a Mandatory Saudi Aramco Engineering

Requirement
SAEP-35: Valve Handling, Hauling Receipt test & Storage

04-SAMMS-035: General Requirement for Valves

04-SAMMS-048: Valve Inspection & Testing

SATIP-L-450-04: Inspection & Test plan for buried pipeline

SATIP-L-004-01: Hydrotest & Lay-Up

SAIC-L-2112: Visual Inspection & Material verification

SAIC-L-2114: Cold Bending/Field Bending

SAIC-L-2115: Temperature Tie In

Schedule Q
Attachment I: Contractor & Sub Contractor quality personnel qualification requirement.

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Attachment II: Company standard & procedure containing quality requirement.

Attachment III: Quality requirement for contractor procured material.

Attachment IV: Quality Requirement for construction phase.

Attachment V: Summary of Quality system deliverables.

Attachment VI: Project Specific quality requirements.

SPECIAL PROCESS MECHANICAL:

 Welding/Brazing
 NDT
 PMI & Colour Code Verification
 Heat Treatment & Hardness Test
 Hydrotest
 Valve Testing
 Gasket & Bolt Installation
 Hot Tap Calculation
 Gap Control

NON CONFIRMANCE REPORT:

 INCR should be report to SA within 48 hours RC, CA PA & ACD to be submit within 7 days
 For SANCR RC, CA PA & ACD to be submit within 48 hours
 LBE should reply in QMIS within 48 hours
 SANCR should be reply to SAPID within 48 hours & RC, CA & PA will be given within 48
Hours

CALIBRATION LIMIT:

 PSV calibration validity 1 week & as per new standard 2 weeks

 Gauges calibration should be valid 1 month from the date of tested
 All gauges’ range should be 30% ~ 80% of the test pressure
 PSV limit set @ 5% of the test Pressure
 Manifold Calibration should be 5years (60 Months)

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 Set limit of manifold 1.2 times of the test pressure

VALVES

 SAES-L-108: Selection of Valves

 SAEP-35: Valve Handling, Storage, Hauling, Testing
 04-SAMMS-035: General Requirements for Valves
 04-SAMMS-048: Valve Inspection & Testing
 API-598: Valve Testing
 All Valves shall be handle with care as per manufacturer recommendation
 Valves shall be preserved

 Valves open ends shall be close with wooden plank with 4 equal bolts to prevent any
debris or water inside
 Valves shall be tested before installation
 Valves long term preservation inspection to be done every 3 months and end cover,
grease and rust prevent lubricant shall be apply as per manufacturer recommendation
 Valves body and seat test to be done as per manufacturer recommendation & API
598/SAMSS-048
 Fist Test holding time shall be 5 minutes, 2nd 15 minutes of to be follow the procedure
 After testing valves shall be dried and lay up accordance with approved lay-up
procedure/manufacturer recommendation

1. MATERIAL RECEIVING:
 Documents required for material receiving,
 To be follow SA-175 to check the material,
 PO, MR, DN, MTC, NMR 601~603, approved vendor list, IRN, Regulated vendor list
 If valve Data Sheet required.
2. BENDING:
 Bending procedure should be approved
 Bending machine should be calibrated & valid
 Gauge plate should be prepared as per SAES-L-450 Para 11.7 (97.5% of ID)
 Bite space should be as per SAIC-L-2114 Appendix B Attachment B1
 After bending pipe diameter should not reduce more than 2 ½ % of NPD
 Bends shall not be made 600 mm from the edge of pipe.
3. LOWERING:
 All Strings to be welded as per SAES-L-450 and length should be 900 mtr to 1200 mtr

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4. TEMPERATURE TIE IN:
 Tie in procedure should be approved

 Both strings length should be more than 450 mtr & backfilled

 3 days’ temperature should be monitored

 String should not lift with side booms
 RFI to be raise before 24 hours of the fit-up & welding

Pre-Commissioning Stage

 Cleaning & gauging procedure should be approved by SAPMT

 Hydrotest procedure should be approved by PTSD
 Lay-up procedure should be approved PTSD/CTU/ME/CCU/CSD
 All gauges & PSVs should be calibrated
 All approved procedure should be available at site
 Hydrotest package should be review & approved by SAPID
 All “YES” items should be close
 Pre Test punch list to be done.

5. HYDROTEST PACKAGE CONTENT:

 Approved Hydrotest procedure

 Lay-Up Procedure
 Flange joint Gasket verification & bolt tightening procedure
 Hydrotest diagram
 Calibration certificate of gauges, PSV, test recorder
 SIS
 Alignment Sheet/P&ID, Isometric drawing
 Weld Map, Weld Summary
 NDT Reports
 Water Test Report
 Pipeline Internal Cleaning Gauging SATR
 Pressure test report
 Flange joint tightening inspection report
 Pre Test Punch list pipeline
 Test Manifold Test reports

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 Inspection of filling pressurization
 Visual Inspection of test pressure
 Pressure test report
 Depressurization & water disposal
 Draining & Swabbing/Layup (Air Drying)
 Chemical Cleaning
 Reinstatement
 Final inspection for MCC

6. CLEANING & GUAGUNG:

 Install the scraper launcher & receiver to run the pigs

 Type of Pigs
 Poly Pig
 BI-DI Brush Pig
 BI-DI Magnetic Pig
 Note: Poly pig Dia will be more than internal Dia of the pipe up to 4” to 6”
 Brush Dia shall be same of the pipe ID & Magnetic pig shall be less than Pipe ID.

7. WATER FILLING:

 Water analysis report shall be complying SAIC-A-2008 & SATR-A-2014

 Water Analysis report shall be available at site with hydrotest & Lay-Up Procedure
 Water Test to be conduct (SRB, Chloride & PH Value to check before filling)
 In test headers to be loaded the 2 By Die pigs
 Pigs will push air out from the pipeline
 2 Thermo-Couple will be install at every 5/6 Km to monitor the temperature before
pressurizing & difference should be less than 1 degree.
 Note: These 2 pigs will help to stop air inside the pipeline

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8. START PRESSURISING FOR HYDROTEST

 Pressurizing will start stage by stage as specified below,

30% 80%

Will held pressure for 2

To check the air
hours to check the
content
Leakage on flange joints

95% 100%

95 %of the test pressure

and held for 30
minutes, then the To held for 2 hours to check the
pressurization will be strength test after stabilizing the
increased to the specified pressure
test pressure at a rate
not exceeding 0.5
bar/min.

 Pressurizing will start up to 100% of test pressure to check the strength of the pipe & to
be hold up to 2 hours.
 Will decrease the pressure from 100% to 95% to check the tightness of pipeline & to be
hold up to 24 hours.

9. DEWATERING:

 Depressurizing to be done stage by stage (40% then 100%)

 3rd pig to be run to transfer the water from other end.

10. SWEPING & DRYING:

 Swapping: To run by Die with dry air to achieve -1-degree dew point
 Drying: To run foam pig with dry air till arrive

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11. CALIPER RUN:

 Caliper run pig with sensor will run with dry air to detect the any dent, damage or other
problems in the pipeline.

12. LAY-UP:

 Chemical Cleaning: As per approved procedure chemical cleaning to achieve -1-degree

dew point.

13. REINSTATEMENT

14. NITROGEN PURGING

15. Test Pressure Calculation:

2 X Tm X 0.9 X SMYS

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