Balboa Inspection and Maintenance, LLC
"The Difficult to Inspect Experts"
Houston-based company developing robotic ILI crawlers and tethered EMAT pigs for difficult-to-inspect oil & gas pipelines, including unpiggable facility piping.
Balboa Inspection and Maintenance, LLC (Balboa I&M) is a Houston, Texas-based company founded in 2018 that designs, manufactures, and operates robotic in-line inspection (ILI) tools for difficult-to-inspect pipelines—particularly unpiggable or challenging-geometry pipes such as small-diameter lines, back-to-back 1.5D bends, low-flow or no-flow conditions, and inside-the-fence facility piping at refineries and tank farms. The company serves oil and gas operators in high-consequence areas (HCAs) where conventional inspection pigs cannot be deployed. Note: the slug 'babloa' is a typographical transposition of 'balboa'; the correct entity is Balboa Inspection and Maintenance, LLC at balboa-im.com.
Balboa's robot fleet includes the COPPERHEAD crawler (20–60 inch pipe, high-resolution NDE with rotating circumferential scanning for wall-loss and axial-cracking detection), the MOCCASIN crawler (16–54 inch pipe, ACFM-based metal-loss detection for water and drained facility piping), the VIPER tethered pig (6–12 inch pipe, compressed air or nitrogen propelled, EMAT ultrasound, navigates 1.5D bends, travels up to 3 miles at 3,000 ft/day), and the ATLAS general-use visual inspection crawler. Balboa also offers aerial thickness surveys using UAV drones equipped with EMAT ultrasound for remote measurement of metal assets. Technology used includes EMAT ultrasound (Innerspec-based), laser profilometry (LPM), ACFM, and high-resolution cameras.
The company exhibits at PPIM (Pipeline Pigging Inspection and Maintenance) conferences and is listed in the Sprint Robotics and OnestopNDT directories. President Brian Carlson leads the technical and commercial operations.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
COPPERHEAD
Robotic ILI crawler for 20–60 inch pipelines with high-resolution NDE and rotating circumferential scanning for wall-loss and axial-cracking detection.
MOCCASIN
ACFM-based ILI crawler for 16–54 inch water pipes and drained facility piping with metal-loss detection.
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Company Facts
Founded
2018
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Manufacturer
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Primary Region
North America
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