• Pipeline Cleaning

All types of cleaning procedures, including new construction, online, progressive, and chemical for the oil & gas, municipalities & mining, chemical & petrochemical, food & beverage, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.  We are capable of performing cleaning operations on pipelines with product impurities, excessive build-up, and sand and other heavy sediment build-up, and fine debris accumulation.

• Pig Tracking

Pig tracking services on any pigging application, from 2” to 60” pipelines, with no limit to length or terrain. Detailed reports are supply after the job, with information such as pig speed and pressure charts that are keys in pointing out possible problem areas in the pipeline.

• Layout and Design

Pigs Unlimited, Inc. offers assistance in layout and design for plant design, launcher and receiver design and other applications. Our expertise towards ensuring that plants and other piping and fittings, (valves, tees, ells, etc.) are properly configure for optimum pigging efficiency.

• Pigging Consultation

Pigging consultation for various needs, such as, selection of the best-suited pig, frequency of pigging procedures, as well as, the best pigging procedure.

• Field Supervision

Pigs Unlimited, Inc. is available for supervision of field operations to supervise operations and instruct personnel of what types of pigs to use and what type of pigging procedure to adopt.

• On-Site Inspection

We are capable of providing on-site inspection for verifying another cleaning company has performed satisfactory services. This service also is available for determining what type of service would be best to clean your pipeline.

• Trouble-Shooting

Troubleshooting is provided for use with our (or any other manufacturers pigs). Although using pigs is easy, sometimes the wrong pig is use on an application, and problems ensue. We are available to give recommendations on not only the correct pig for an application, but to also aid in troubleshooting the current problem.

• Training Seminars

Pigs Unlimited, Inc. also offers pigging seminars for training customers and distributors about pigs and pigging. These detailed classes include information regarding:

 

• Pigging Applications

• Pig Selection

• Pig Capabilities, Limitations, Performance and Effectiveness

• Launching & Receiving Procedures

• Pigging-Related Accessories

• Pigging Basics and Theory

• Various Pigging Procedures

• Developing and Implementing a Routine Maintenance Pigging Program

 

These sessions are design to instruct attendees of the appropriate applications of the varying types of pigs including foam pigs, steel-mandrel pigs, solid-cast pigs, spheres, dual-diameter pigs, and special design or hybrid pigs.

 

Other topics of discussion also include intelligent pigging, utility cleaning pigs, utilizing engineering firms, caliper pigs, tracking pigs, and risk assessment of existing pipelines with the new government regulations being pass. Classes are available for groups as few as one or as many as one hundred. The location for classes can be at customer facility or local exhibit hall.

• Time and Material Quotes

Time and material quotes are based on services to be performed. We offer quotations for our products as well, but the time and material quotes offer you a budgetary idea of what a particular service is to cost. We want our customers to see that our pricing for our services is as attractive as our pricing on our products.

• Cost and Savings Analysis

We also offer cost and savings analysis for various services we perform, as well as, other applications including implementing a routine pigging program, flow characteristics after cleaning a pipeline, etc.

• Contract Manufacturing

Pigs Unlimited, Inc. is willing to manufacture products under contract manufacturing. We are capable of producing pipeline pigs and pigging-related items under “private label”. We also are willing to produce products not related to pigging, but that require raw materials that we currently use, including steel, foam, polyurethane, etc.

• Special Design

We are able to design pigs and pigging-related items to be used in special applications where standard products are not capable of performing. We have recently designed patented pigs and helped others with patented designs.

• Caliper Pig Services

With recent governmental regulations, the demand for caliper pigging services has increased drastically. We offer complete caliper services for determining bend radius, geometric surveys, and wall-thickness verification during pre-inspection and online applications. We are able to determine areas with reductions due to dents, buckles, wrinkles, flat spots and our-of-roundness.