SC Field Technical Services

SCFTS repairs and maintains mechanical vapor relief and control equipment on large aboveground storage tanks (AST) and truck loading racks primarily found in oil refineries, fuel terminals, and oil production fields. Such equipment protects tanks by relieving internal tank pressures and vacuums. Defective, poorly maintained or improperly set equipm... ent are a leading source of fugitive emissions to the environment. We also repair and maintain the mechanical gauges that indicate the tank liquid level. In the early days, many customers hired SCFTS simply to repair and maintain pressure/vacuum relief equipment in response to governmental regulation concerning hydrocarbon fugitive emissions. Today, SCFTS uses a rational engineering approach to demonstrate to customers that proper application and configuration of vapor relief and control equipment has the additional benefit of improving system performance and reducing the long-term cost of ownership. As a project consultant, SCFTS balances, re-sets, and engineers vapor relief and control systems using American Petroleum Institute (API) Standards. These processes minimize fugitive emissions to the environment and reduce oxygen intrusion into these tanks which lead to the reduced life of the tank and piping via accelerated corrosion. SCFTS has consistently worked with customers to convince them that regular maintenance "pays" instead of "costs". With the dramatic recent increase in the cost of crude oil, customers readily accept that concept because fugitive emissions represent a substantial economic loss beyond the pollution that is required to be controlled. SCFTS has a solid reputation as a safe field contractor. This includes meeting or exceeding current industry and Federal/Cal OSHA safety standards.Read More