Sonomatic Ltd

Sonomatic specialises in NDT inspection design, development and application combined with integrity engineering capabilities and has been servicing many industry sectors since the 1980s. Sonomatic brings innovation and bespoke inspection solutions to the market through in-house development of equipment, software and robotics, to reside as a global market leader for ROV-deployed subsea inspection and non-intrusive inspection (NII) technologies. Rope access, conventional and advanced NDT services are all provided via the Sonomatic RAIS Division.

Integrity Services

Sonomatic's IS team strives to maximise the value of advanced inspection in the context of integrity management. The team achieves this by combining years of experience in this field with specialised data analytics, statistical methods and custom software development.

Sonomatic has pioneered the formal industry approach for NII and has developed practical statistical methods for analysis of inspection data and inspection planning through to analysis and simulation. Sonomatic is well positioned to support the IM sector in its inevitable transition to increased data-driven decision-making.

Key offerings include:

• Fully integrated NII package
• Sonomatic integrity management software
• Data science and analytics, including data extrapolation and comparisons
• Inspection modelling
• Fitness-for-service 
• Mini digital twin.

Specialist Field Services

Aberdeen office: The Core Business Park, Berryhill Crescent, Bridge of Don AB23 8AN (tel: +44 (0)1224 823690).

Topsides Inspection

With over 30 years as a leading industry provider of specialist inspection solutions, Sonomatic continues to advance inspection technology with novel solutions for topside inspection challenges in all industries. Providing expert field technicians, unrivalled technical support and specialist inspection technology, Sonomatic topside field services aims to lead the way in: 

• Non-intrusive inspection (NII)
• Automated corrosion mapping
• Advanced time-of-flight diffraction, including high-temperature
• In-house developed multiplex phased array
• TOFD screening
• Autonomous confined-space NII
• Multiple method CUPS inspection: MSkip/CHIME/SHEMAT
• Dynamic response spectroscopy (DRS) for composite repair and challenging coatings
• Caisson/conductor and riser inspection
• Early-stage flange face inspection
• Small-diameter phased array
• High-temperature hydrogen attack (HTHA).

Subsea Inspection

A leading provider of ROV/diver-deployed robotic technologies capable of advanced subsea inspections. With the ability to adapt existing technologies to suit specific client requirements, Sonomatic is one of the industry leaders in this field.

Believed to be unique in that the company designs/develops its own inspection systems that have been modified over time to meet specific requirements for inspection performance, deployment and reliability.

With internal integrity support, the team assists operators by providing the field data and a range of integrity services, including innovative statistical analysis methods, ensuring decision-making is aligned to the real conditions of subsea assets. The company's proven track record in safe delivery of subsea inspection services includes:

• Structural/hot tap nozzle weld inspections: TOFD and/or PA
• Hyperbaric weld repairs
• Diver/ROV-deployed
• Pipelines/flexibles
• Automated CM/PA for internal corrosion
• Pipeline screening using EMAT/MultiSkip
• Subsea computed tomography for concrete-coated lines/pipe-in-pipe and flow assurance applications
• Subsea dynamic response spectroscopy (DRS) for challenging insulation coatings
• ILI external verification
• Targeted inspection for unpiggable pipelines
• Ovality/out-of-roundness and local dent mapping
• Subsea phased array inspection for critical welds and subsea corrosion mapping.

Sonomatic RAIS (Rope Access and Inspection Services)

Providing conventional and advanced NDT services, access solutions, inspection engineers and fabric maintenance, the RAIS division brings an innovative angle to providing a total inspection service to the company's clients. Supported by its SMEs and NDT Level 3 personnel, RAIS offers fast, quality, cost-efficient and safe solutions across all sectors, including:

• Newly fabricated NDT (RT, MT, PT, PWHT and hydro) via its purpose-built NDT bases
• In-service inspection using NDT, including ACFM, phased array, TOFD and LRUT
• Tank inspection deployed using NDT accompanied by tank-specific techniques such as MFL, Vac Box testing and UT via crawlers
• Tube inspection using ET, RFT, PSEC, IRIS, NFT, NFA and ECA
• Servicing term contracts.

Consultancy Services

Through its technical expertise embodied within its Technical Support Group (TSG) and management teams, Sonomatic Specialist Field Services and Integrity Management divisions are able to offer unparalleled consultancy services to solve technical/engineering issues and to help clients meet their integrity management goals.

Examples of the manner in which Sonomatic is in the position to assist clients include:

• Improved asset performance through inspection and integrity initiatives
• Alternative inspection strategies: less frequent, higher-value inspection
• Technology development to meet specific integrity management goals
• Client representation for procurement and monitoring of inspection services, including inspection qualification.

Innospection

Innospection, now a division of Sonomatic Ltd, is a provider of advanced inspection services for the integrity and lifetime assessment support for the energy (onshore and offshore (topside, splash zone and subsea)), defence, utilities and food and drink (distilling) sectors. The company offers innovative and unique solutions to solve standard and niche inspection challenges. In addition, the Group has sole ownership of an extensive portfolio of patents in respect of magnetic eddy current technology (MEC™) tooling and its method of application. For more information, refer to the Innospection listing.