Team provides fast, economical technical bolting services for turnarounds and day-to-day maintenance, and can provide you trained, experienced technicians for large as well as small bolt torquing and tensioning jobs.

Advantages of Team's bolt torquing and tensioning program
	Fast, accurate, reliable way to insure joint integrity
	Greatly reduces/eliminates gasket leaks
	Helps ensure leak-free startups
	Multiple applications
	– Utilize for any size bolt torquing and tensioning job
	– Easily used in confined spaces
	– Ideal for offshore platforms, gathering/compressor stations, pipelines
	– Available worldwide
	– Uniform bolt loading

Overview of Team’s Technical Bolting Services (TBS) Programs
	Team applies proven techniques to the disassembly and assembly of bolted joints	A major bolting job for a customer in Alabama
	Focus is on critical elements of overall joint integrity
	– Flange surface quality
	– Joint alignment
	– Gasket selection
	– Bolt preparation
	– Uniform bolt loading
	– Selection of best tightening method     - ie - torquing or tensioning
	– Preload verification using ultrasonic equipment

Team’s Joint Integrity Program
	Strong field and engineering support strengthens Joint Integrity Program	Team's Joint Integrity Program insures tensioning and torquing methods are properly applied
	All critical elements associated with bolted joint integrity are controlled
	Flanged joints are inspected and restored to ANSI/API specifications
	Joints are reassembled and properly aligned using the appropriate gaskets
	Bolts and nuts are properly cleaned and lubricated
	Bolts are tightened using the most appropriate method (torquing or tensioning) to achieve uniform bolt loading
	Approved written procedures are used to bolt joint

Team’s Quality Assurance Program
	Structural integrity/leak-free bolted joints are QA/QC goals
	Bolt tightness is verified
	Ultrasonic measurement is utilized
	Bolt elongation determines, residual preload
	Sound inspection, assembly practices are utilized

 

Team's Specialty Bolt Torquing and Tensioning Services
	Hot bolting
	– A proven, effective method of preparing bolted joints for disassembly prior    to shutdown.
	– Bolts are loosened one bolt at a time (while in service and hot)
	– Lubricant is applied
	– Bolts are reassembled in order to ease cold disassembly, minimize    galling
	Nut splitting
	– Fast, sure, safe method of removing corroded, galled or seized nuts and    bolts
	Stud Removal
	– Achieved with special stud removal equipment
	– Team’s Field Machining Services can drill out studs without damaging    body thread when studs cannot be removed