SwRI supports the offshore oil and gas industry with deep-ocean pressure simulation testing services for equipment, pipelines, components, submersibles, insulation, and more. Find the pressure testing category that meets your needs or contact us to develop a custom testing solution.
ASTM Test Procedures
Find the standard for your equipment, products, structures, casings, and more.
- API/ISO equipment tests
- Valve tests – API6A, APP.F; API17D; 17E; 17J
- Tubulars and pipe – API5C3, API5C5, API15HR, API16C
- Non-metallic – API 15 HR/LR (ASTM D2992, ASTM D2924)
- Structures and casing
Non-Metallic Material Tests
- Fiberglass and composites
- API 15 HR/LR
- ASTM D2992
- ASTM D2924
- Composite housings, risers, vessels
- Subsea insulation testing (materials service life simulation tests, or coupons, submarine viewport testing; buoyancy materials testing; elastomeric material oilfield fluid exposure testing
Hydrostatic Pressure Test
Test internal and external chambers and perform burst tests. Test under high pressures for safety and performance of deep-sea equipment.
- Submersible pressure testing
- Submarine pressure testing
- Subsea equipment testing (verify, ‘qualify’, FAT)
- Mux pod assembly pressure testing
- Riser equipment testing
- Subsea control module testing
- Sea pumps and drive testing
- Subsea rotor testing
- Subsea mate/de-mate actuation testing
- Subsea cable evaluation
- Temperature, IR, fiber optic, connectivity
- Sonar array
- Battery
- Pressure, charge, discharge, housing
- Underwater camera housing testing
- 1 Atmosphere dive suit proof testing
Offshore Product Testing
Test electronics and materials up to 30,000 psi at simulated ocean depths to 67,000 feet.
- Blowout preventers
- ROV and submersible robotics
- Product pods
- Electrical cable systems, bells, submarines
- Flotation and buoyancy materials
- Riser flotation collars
- Actuator and valve assemblies
- Hydrophone cables
- Pressure housings
- Environmental test systems
- Temperature shock and temperature cyclic
Marine Services & Products Testing
- Hydrostatic tests
- Diving systems
- Diving
- Decompression chambers
- Composite structures
- Operational system
- Field test services
- Component tests
- Pressure/vacuum tests
Ocean Simulation Facility
- Live/dead oil release
- Oil/gas/water flow loops
- Dispersants, hydrates
Pipeline Integrity Tests
Ensure your offshore pipeline equipment can perform in harsh conditions.
- OCTG pipe collapse, API 5C3, API 5C5
- Fatigue and fracture testing to 4 million pounds
- Downhole and subsea environmental simulation
- External pressure vessels (90-inch inside diameter, 20-feet deep, 30,000 psig)
- Sour gas mixtures (H2S, CO2, methane, other downhole combinations)
- Temperature cycling of downhole connections with high axial loading, internal gas pressure, and internal spray quenching
- Temperature cycling (high axial loading, internal gas pressure, internal spray quenching)
- Hose and fitting impulse tests
- Burst tests
- On-site, real-time, computer-assisted data collection, reduction, and analysis
- Custom design, fabrication, and installation of specialized tubular product testing equipment
Structural Testing & Evaluation
Ensure structural integrity of offshore platforms and infrastructure.
- Large-scale, full-scale testing
- In situ testing
- High-load, high elongation
- Static and dynamic tests
- Open and closed loop displacement control
- Stress analysis, fatigue and fracture
- Residual stress
- High-pressure, high-load capacity
- Corrosion in sour gas environments
- Large, precision models on a special test frame
For more information about standard tests for offshore technology, please contact Joe Crouch at +1 210 522 4295 or Chris Storey at +1 210 522 3992.