Chemical Plants & Refineries
Cleaned, flushed, and handed back inside your outage window.
When a trusted contractor is needed for your tank and vessel cleaning, we will be there. PMI mobilizes with trained people, equipment and site credentials already in hand, usually within 24 hours.
The record
- 6Locations in Louisiana and Texas
- 300+Employees across the company
- 24/7/365Dispatch and response
- 50+Years in operation
The problems this ends
A turnaround day lost to a contractor who showed up short of people or equipment costs more than the entire cleaning scope did.
When a contractor walks off mid-outage, the replacement still has to clear your gate, your orientation and your permit system before touching anything.
Products like ethylene dichloride, acid or an H2S atmosphere turn an ordinary cleaning job into an exposure and release problem when the plan is thin.
Contaminated wash water and sludge leaving by truck adds disposal cost and unnecessary exposure and liability.
A fouled glycol or amine system quietly drags dehydration performance down until the unit becomes the reason for your next outage.
Curated for this industry
Services for Chemical Plants & Refineries
The planned work runs alongside that: tank and vessel cleaning, glycol and amine dehydration flushing, confined space rescue coverage, vacuum work, lancing, and wash water treated at the unit instead of transported offsite for disposal.
Automated & Conventional Tank Cleaning
View serviceDehy System Flushing (Glycol & Amine)
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View serviceWash Water Recycling & Reclamation (EC-AOP)
View serviceHeat Exchanger & Tube Bundle Cleaning (Flex Lancing)
View serviceGuzzler & Hydro Vac Services
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On the job
Recent work
At a Louisiana chemical plant we cleaned an ethylene dichloride storage tank for the mechanical integrity group: cleaning, ventilation, isolation and confined space rescue coverage, with the wash water processed on site. The job came in under budget and ahead of schedule, and treating the water at the tank saved more than $32,000 in disposal cost. At the same plant we cleaned a Teflon-coated sulphuric acid tank, 5,700 gallons, through a 36-inch manway, to the unit inspector's spec and without incident.
Why PMI
What changes when PMI runs the job
Two things decide how a cleaning job actually goes: whether anyone has to go inside, and what happens to the water afterwards. Both are answered before the crew mobilizes.
15,000+
The record is not a startup's
Vessels and barges cleaned, plus 5,700+ platforms and 346 rigs and drillships turned around. New to your site, not new to the work.
Zero entry
Automation the incumbents do not run
RoosterEX cleans tanks up to 120 ft in diameter with personnel outside the shell, proven on heavy paraffin. The entry you do not authorize is the exposure you do not carry.
0 trucks
Water that never leaves your site
EC-AOP treats wash water at the tank and returns it to the wash. No competitor on the Gulf Coast offers this inside a cleaning scope.
Questions we get
Chemical Plants & Refineries FAQs
Can you mobilize mid-turnaround if another contractor falls through?
Yes. We keep trained personnel, equipment and site credentials ready for exactly that call, and we mobilize on a rapid-response basis, usually within 24 hours.
Who covers confined space rescue on your jobs?
We do. Confined space rescue is one of our own service lines, so the attendant standing your permit is a PMI employee and not a third party you have to schedule and pay separately.
Do you flush glycol and amine dehydration systems?
Yes. Dehydration system flushing is usually tied directly to getting a unit back in service.
How many people can you put on the job?
Crews run 2 to 12 or more, all cross-trained, and for larger scopes we pull from our Port Fourchon operation, which houses 60 to 80 people.
What credentials do your people carry?
Valid TWIC cards, general safety training, confined space entry and confined space rescue training, plus your own site orientation and site-specific training.
What happens to the wash water?
Our unit clarifies it where the work is, using electro catalytic advanced oxidation, so hydrocarbons and solids come out and the water goes back to use. On one chemical plant tank that saved more than $32,000 against disposal.
Do you offer coating or inspection?
No. We clean and hand the equipment back so your coating and inspection contractors start on schedule.
How fast can you mobilize?
Usually within 24 hours.
Tell us what has to be clean, and by when.
Send the unit, the product and your outage dates. Dispatch answers 24/7, which is the number that matters when a turnaround contractor stops showing up.
