Maintenance Aligned With Production Excellence
We deliver integrated oil and gas maintenance services that unify preventive planning, predictive monitoring, corrective execution, and asset performance optimization within a comprehensive reliability framework designed to enhance operational continuity and long term asset value. Our methodology positions maintenance as a strategic function that directly supports production efficiency, safety assurance, and capital preservation rather than as a reactive operational necessity. By applying risk based inspection models, condition driven maintenance strategies, and data informed scheduling practices, we enable operators to anticipate equipment degradation, minimize unplanned downtime, and optimize intervention timing across complex energy infrastructure.
Crane Inspections and Preventive Maintenance
An active inspection and preventive maintenance program are crucial to improving safety and productivity. Regular inspections and preventive maintenance activities help identify risks and opportunities for improvement while supporting compliance. We can help you create a proactive, customized maintenance plan based on your equipment, application and duty cycle to reduce downtime and increase reliability.
Inspections for safety and compliance
Crane inspections are designed to assess the safety of equipment, detect wear and tear and identify maintenance needs for safe, productive operation. Inspections can also verify that your equipment complies with current local standards and regulations, helping you avoid costly fines and disruption of operations.
In addition to regular crane inspections it is beneficial to develop a comprehensive plan of preventive maintenance, scheduled repairs and advanced services that take a deeper look at your crane and its components. With a coordinated program, you can more effectively maintain a safer, more reliable and compliant operation.
Compliance Inspections
Regularly scheduled crane inspections can save companies great expense by verifying compliance with local regulations and highlighting safety and production issues.
We offer many types of inspections that are designed to satisfy your local regulatory requirements. And in countries where there are no statutory requirements for compliance inspections or when you need an inspection to simply determine the condition of your equipment, we offer various inspections based on the manufacturer’s recommendations and our industry experience and expertise.
Inspect equipment for deficiencies and deviations from manufacturer recommendations and applicable standards that may cause a risk to the safe use of your equipment. Typically required before a new crane is taken into use, or if a crane is taken into use after being out of operation for a long period of time, moved to another location or if there has been a major modification in crane structure or components.
Preventive maintenance inspections
Preventive maintenance inspections help fulfill local regulatory requirements for maintenance.
Having an annual compliance inspection does not make you compliant. Regulations in most countries and industry best practices require much more. Regulations often require preventive maintenance, repairs to address deficiencies, lifetime inspections, general overhauls, engineering evaluations and load tests.
Pro partners SA offers both compliance and preventive maintenance inspections and can provide one, or both, depending upon your local requirements.
Our preventive maintenance inspections are performed by our trained personnel to ensure that your cranes are safe to operate.
Lifting Services
- Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER)
- Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)
Third party inspection and color coding of lifting Equipment
Overview: Third party inspection plays an important role in various industries that deal in the production or supply of manufacturing, construction, and development related equipment. By hiring the best companies in the market that provide unbiased and excellent inspection services these companies conduct timely inspections to maintain and enhance the quality of their equipment.
This ensures credibility, safety, and longer lifespan of the lifting equipment. To ensure this entire thorough examination or the inspection is performed by highly qualified and experienced LEEA competent inspectors to as far as reasonably practicable check that the processes are running optimally, workers are safe and will not be affected by any accidents. Thorough examination of lifting equipment is widely conducted in construction, industries, factories, and businesses.
Importance of third-party inspection for lifting equipment:
Reduces the risk factor: With advancements in technology and increasing number of companies providing such equipment, it is highly important for the businesses as well as the customers to assure that the products, materials or services they are manufacturing or buying are of optimum standards and are duly rectified and verified by inspection authorities and conform to the specific requirements. The lifting equipment or products are examined with regards to certain characteristics required against set standards by competent persons. Choosing technically competent minimizes the risk of producing or supplying damaged equipment.
Avoid expensive re-inspection:
The third-party inspection needs to be reliable as inspecting products and materials can be expensive and time-consuming. The quality of the inspection needs to be good to avoid any future consequences of the similar type. Poor inspection services can lead to repeated equipment recalls, rework, litigation and reimbursement. Plus, re-inspection is also irrevocably damaging to the reputation of the supplier of the equipment. Choose third-party inspection companies wisely to minimize the additional requirement of further inspections.
Builds customer reliability:
If a competent body has thoroughly inspected the lifting equipment, then customers have confidence and faith in the company and its products and show the customers that the inspection team is itself been evaluated by a third-party inspection team.
Reduce costs and improve the quality of goods:
The third-party inspection services provided by Pro partners SA are accredited, technically competent, with international recognition that allows their inspection reports to be authentic. This, in turn, helps reduce costs for manufacturers and exporters.
At Pro partners SA, one of the foremost inspection companies, we highly recommend the timely inspection of your lifting equipment to be sure of smooth functionality of lifting equipment.
Rigging Loft Management and Control
Pro partners SA supplies and maintains fully equipped and comprehensive rigging lofts complete with tee-card management systems.
Pro partners SA will handle full control and management of all portable lifting equipment and accessories ensuring that our clients are working in complete accordance with the lifting regulations.
Our fully containerized rigging lofts are kitted to suit the type of working environment that they are to be utilized in, with the option of being either client owned or rented on a six-monthly color-coding on rotational basis.
The basic function of such rigging lofts is to ensure that all portable lifting equipment and accessories are:
1. Correctly stored to reduce the risk of accidental damage and to slow down deterioration.
2. Effectively controlled to ensure no unauthorized use.
3. Given pre-use checks by a competent person prior to use.
4. Removed from service when their condition has deteriorated such that they are no longer in good repair and quarantined prior to returning for repair.
We also carry out repairs and maintenance of any defective lifting equipment and ensure that it is fit for purposes.
FPSO Integrity Management
Pro partners SA has certified inspection and rope access experts with over 15 years of experience in providing specialist services
to the Oil & Gas Industry. Pro partners SA is perfectly positioned to offer large cost savings and efficiency improvements in the inspection, classing and maintenance of Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) facilities.
Our integrated program gives you an “all-inclusive approach” for the inspection and maintenance needs of an FPSO including combining class related activities with general maintenance inspection for turret, transfer systems, process equipment and the vessel itself.
How our integrated approach saves you time and money
Though the use of multi-skilled Rope Access technicians, a majority of scaffolding can be eliminated, saving storage areas, bed space and long-term rental cost. Rope Access is today recognized as being safer, more cost effective and faster than conventional scaffolding for most tasks offshore.
Combining inspection with light maintenance work (painting, sandblasting, repairs, replacements, etc.) can further offer savings through more effective use of available resources as well as eliminating scaffolding requirements.
Below are listed some of the areas where Pro partners SA can offer a “one stop shop” for individual or combined services at any location worldwide. We would be keen to take this further to see how we together can develop new and innovative methods and directions for improving safety and efficiency while drastically reducing costs.