Ultrasonic Testing (UT) Services
Precise Internal Assessment for Critical Components.
Our certified technicians deliver advanced ultrasonic testing to detect internal flaws, measure thickness, and support safe, reliable operations across industrial systems and pressure equipment.
Ultrasonic Testing Services
Summit Inspection Services provides ultrasonic testing (UT) to accurately evaluate internal conditions of materials and components. UT is ideal for thickness measurement, flaw detection, and condition assessment without damaging the asset.
Inspections are carried out by qualified technicians using calibrated ultrasonic equipment, delivering reliable results and thorough documentation to support quality control and integrity programs.
Supporting Integrity & Asset Reliability
Ultrasonic testing is used in fabrication, maintenance, and in-service inspections to find internal defects, monitor corrosion, and verify material condition. Our services integrate smoothly with broader NDT and inspection initiatives.
We support oil & gas, petrochemical, pipeline, and power generation facilities, ensuring findings contribute to informed maintenance decisions and long-term asset reliability.
What Our API Inspections Include
Summit provides full-service API inspection support covering the complete lifecycle of pressure equipment, storage tanks, and piping systems. Our inspections are performed in accordance with applicable API codes, jurisdictional requirements, and site-specific operating conditions.
Pressure Equipment & Tank Inspections
- In-service pressure equipment inspections (API 510, API 570, National Board)
- Atmospheric storage tank inspections (API 653)
- Installation inspections for new pressure equipment
- Internal and external vessel inspections, including PSV verification
- Soil-side corrosion detection and mapping beneath tank floors
- Oversight of repairs and alterations, including required NDE
Pipeline Integrity Inspections
Our pipeline integrity inspections are used to verify pipeline condition and confirm the accuracy of inline inspection (ILI/MFL) results. Typical inspection activities include:
- Documentation of as-found pipe condition and coating defects
- External and internal corrosion and pitting assessment
- Manual and automated UT corrosion mapping
- Wet MPI (fluorescent or visible) for welds and SCC
- Internal pit detection, sizing, and profiling
- Dent and gouge measurement and characterization
- RStreng defect assessment support
- Pipe-to-soil potential measurements
- Oversight of weld and coating repairs
Supporting Data & Sampling
- Soil, scale, and bacteria sample collection
- Iron sulfate testing
- Documentation of excavation conditions, elevation, and environment
All inspection findings are supported by clear, detailed reporting designed to integrate into your integrity management and maintenance planning processes.
Explore Our Services
We deliver certified API inspections (API 510/570/653) for pressure vessels, piping, and tanks, backed by experienced inspectors, clear reporting, and oversight aligned with industry codes.
Hardness testing evaluates material strength and resistance to wear, helping assess component fitness and support decisions in inspection and maintenance planning.
Cracking surveys target high-stress equipment like compressors, identifying crack initiation and fatigue damage to support safer operation and reliability.
Tank MFL scans detect and map floor corrosion and structural anomalies in above-ground storage tanks, providing accurate condition assessment for integrity planning.
EMAT ultrasonic testing enables couplant-free inspection at elevated temperatures, ideal for corrosion, erosion, and weld root evaluation in challenging field conditions.
Phased Array UT delivers precise, multi-angle ultrasonic inspection for welds and components, providing accurate flaw detection, sizing, and detailed imaging.
API Inspections
Our wealth of knowledge gained from years of experience performing inspections on pressure equipment, pressure piping systems, and above ground storage tanks, combined with our extensive knowledge and experience performing NDE inspections on both in-service pressure equipment and new construction vessels in fabrication shops has allowed SUMMIT Inspection to become recognized as the industry leader in performing API visual inspections and repair and alteration oversight on in-service pressure equipment.
Our team includes multiple API inspectors who have years of documented training and experience in pressure vessel (API 510), tank (API 653), and piping inspection (API 570), cross-qualified and CGSB certified in multiple NDT disciplines. Our in house software, THETA, tracks hours (both training, and hours spent inspecting) specific to equipment type (e.g. boilers, exchangers, fired equipment, vessel, etc.) and industry (e.g. chemical/petrochemical, oil/gas, cryogenic, power generation, etc.). Our documented training programs and procedures will guarantee not only a competent inspector is dispatched to your job, but you will have ample documentation to prove it!
Inspection Services;
- In-service Pressure Equipment Inspection (API 510, 570 or NB)
- Installation inspections
- Atmospheric Storage Tank (API 653)
Full service API inspections include:
- Asset location and inventory verification of pressure equipment
- Internal Inspections of all types of pressure vessels
- External Inspections of all types of pressure vessels including PSV verification
- Installation inspections of pressure equipment
- Full inspection of above ground storage tanks, including detection and mapping of soil side corrosion below tank floors
- Inspection of pressure piping systems
- Oversight of repairs and alterations to pressure equipment and storage tanks (including performing required NDE)
Pipeline Integrity Inspection, (API 570 Pressure Piping)
Pipeline integrity inspections are one of the ways used to confirm the integrity of a pipeline, or confirm the accuracy of an MFL tools results. Our years of experience performing pipeline integrity inspections give us an advantage in knowing what to look for and how to find it. A typical pipeline Integrity Inspection will look for and contain the following:
- Documentation of the “as-found” pipe condition
- Inspection of coating and documentation of defects
- Documentation of external corrosion and pitting
- Profiling of external and internal corrosion for RStreng pipeline defect assessment
- Wet MPI (fluorescent or visible) of welds and corrosion areas for SCC
- Manual UT and automated UT mapping of internal corrosion
- Internal pit detection/sizing/profiling
- Dent deflection measurements
- Gouge characterization, measurement, and profiling
- Documentation of dig site conditions including soil condition, water, elevation,
- Bacteria sampling
- Soil samples collection
- Scale samples collection
- Testing for iron sulfate
- Arc strike removal
- Oversight of weld repairs or coating repairs
- Pipe-to-soil potential measurements