Daniel Gonzaga Pinto

Project: Onshore and Offshore Wind Towers Manufacturing

AUT Search Unit: Olympus Omniscan X3 / Omni_Pc software.

Technical Duties: UT / PAUT / TOFD inspections on carbon-steel butt welds, scan plan development, advanced data evaluation, and training of inspectors and scanner operators.

Project: ITER Project - Nuclear Vacum Vessel

AUT Search Unit: Olympus Omniscan / Tomoview and Omni_Pc software.

Technical Duties: Full review of PAUT system parameters and weld-inspection processes, ensuring proper execution from system calibration to data audits. Verification of all scan parameters, indications, and supplier reports, including cross-checks with Visual, Dimensional, and Radiographic Inspection data. (Base material: Stainless steel).

Project: In-service maintenance Inspections

AUT Search Unit: Olympus Omniscan / Tomoview and Omni_Pc software – Eddify Gekko and Mantis / Capture Software.

Technical Duties: UT / PAUT / TOFD / FMC-TFM and corrosion mapping on pressure vessels. Phased Array inspections on nozzle and node welds. Qualification of procedures, scan plans, data analysis, and training of inspectors and scanner technicians.

Key Responsibilities:

• End-to-end supervision of inspection activities, ensuring full compliance with project procedures and technical requirements.
• Strategic planning, scope definition, and allocation of resources for each inspection scenario.
• Coordination and interface with clients, engineering teams, auditors, and technical consultants.
• Management of workflows, deadlines, deliverables, and team performance.
• Monitoring of inspection results, quality metrics, and project progress until final completion.

Project: In-service maintenance Inspections

AUT Search Unit: Olympus Omniscan / Tomoview and Omni_Pc software – Eddify Topaz / Ultravision Software.

Technical Duties: UT/PAUT/TOFD/TFM/Corrosion Mapping/HTHA inspections, including PAUT at nozzle and node welds. Qualification of PAUT/ToFD procedures, development of scan plans, AUT data analysis, and training of inspectors and scanner technicians.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end supervision of inspection activities, ensuring full compliance with project procedures and technical requirements.
• Strategic planning, scope definition, and allocation of resources for each inspection scenario.
• Coordination and interface with clients, engineering teams, auditors, and technical consultants.
• Management of workflows, deadlines, deliverables, and team performance.
• Monitoring of inspection results, quality metrics, and project progress until final completion.

Project: PUMA II

AUT Search Unit: Olympus Omniscan X3 / Omni_Pc software

Technical Duties: UT/PAUT/TOFD/FMC-TFM inspections of P-91 steam pipe welds (Ø 2”×5 mm to 24”×56 mm), including scan plan development, data analysis, and training of inspectors and scanner technicians.

Development and validation, in partnership with Petrobras, of a PAUT procedure for CRA pipelines using DLA probes (Carbon Steel and Inconel 625).

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end supervision of inspection activities, ensuring full compliance with project procedures and technical requirements.
• Coordination and interface with clients, engineering teams, auditors, and technical consultants.
• Monitoring of inspection results, quality metrics, and project progress until final completion.

Project: In-service maintenance Inspections

Technical Duties: UT/PAUT/TOFD/TFM/Corrosion mapping/HTHA inspections. Phased Array inspection at Nozzle and Node welds, inspection welds of special alloys, such as: Stainless Steel, Duplex, Super-Duplex, Incolloy as well as Carbon Steel. Qualifications of procedures, scan plans, AUT data analysis, training of inspectors and scanners technicians.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end supervision of inspection activities, ensuring full compliance with project procedures and technical requirements.
• Strategic planning, scope definition, and allocation of resources for each inspection scenario.
• Coordination and interface with clients, engineering teams, auditors, and technical consultants.
• Management of workflows, deadlines, deliverables, and team performance.
• Monitoring of inspection results, quality metrics, and project progress until final completion.

Project: Revamp MODEC MV-29

AUT Search Unit: Olympus Omniscan / Tomoview and Omni_Pc software

Technical Duties: Phased Array inspection of welds in special alloys — Stainless Steel, Duplex, and Super-Duplex — using the Water Wedge technique. Procedure qualification for stainless steel pipes with Ø1” diameter.

Project: Construction of Storage Tanks

AUT Search Unit: TD-Handy Scan / TD-Scan Software

Technical Duties: PAUT/TOFD inspections of welds, carbon steel, scan plans, data analysis, training scanners technicians.

Project: In-Service Inspection - ShutDown

AUT Search Unit: TD-Handy Scan / TD-Scan Software

Technical Duties: Monitoring of discontinuities for Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) analysis using TOFD, Phased Array, and Conventional UT techniques, applied to butt welds and nozzle welds in pressure vessels.

Project: White Martins Power Plant (CSP)

AUT Search Unit: TD-Handy Scan / TD-Scan Software

Technical Duties: Qualification Procedure of Sectorial Phased Array, Inspection welds of carbon steel and stailess steel.

Project: Emissary Submarine Pipeline (Petrobras/COMPERJ) - (API-1104/ASTM E:1961)

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end supervision of inspection activities, ensuring full compliance with project procedures and technical requirements.
• Strategic planning, scope definition, and allocation of resources for each inspection scenario.
• Coordination and interface with clients, engineering teams, auditors, and technical consultants.
• Management of workflows, deadlines, deliverables, and team performance.
• Monitoring of inspection results, quality metrics, and project progress until final completion.

Project: Inspection of nozzles of H2 e H2S Pressure Vessels (Petrobras/REPLAN)

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end supervision of inspection activities, ensuring full compliance with project procedures and technical requirements.
• Strategic planning, scope definition, and allocation of resources for each inspection scenario.
• Coordination and interface with clients, engineering teams, auditors, and technical consultants.
• Management of workflows, deadlines, deliverables, and team performance.
• Monitoring of inspection results, quality metrics, and project progress until final completion.

Project: Construction of Oil Storage Tanks (Petrobras/COMPERJ)

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end supervision of inspection activities, ensuring full compliance with project procedures and technical requirements.
• Strategic planning, scope definition, and allocation of resources for each inspection scenario.
• Coordination and interface with clients, engineering teams, auditors, and technical consultants.
• Management of workflows, deadlines, deliverables, and team performance.
• Monitoring of inspection results, quality metrics, and project progress until final completion.

Project: Inspection of Power Pipping welds (Talisman Energy)

AUT Search Unit: Olympus Omniscan / Tomoview software

Technical Duties: Calibrations Setups of Sectorial Phased Array/Water Wedge, data acquisition, and PAUT data analysis.

Project: Inspection of Power Pipping welds (Petrobras/REVAP)

AUT Search Unit: TD-Handy Scan / TD-Scan Software

Technical Duties: Control documentation traceability, qualification Procedure of Sectorial Phased Array for small diameters, data acquisition and PAUT data Analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end supervision of inspection activities, ensuring full compliance with project procedures and technical requirements.
• Strategic planning, scope definition, and allocation of resources for each inspection scenario.
• Coordination and interface with clients, engineering teams, auditors, and technical consultants.
• Management of workflows, deadlines, deliverables, and team performance.
• Monitoring of inspection results, quality metrics, and project progress until final completion.

Project: Inspection of Power Pipping welds (Petrobras/REVAP)

AUT Search Unit: Olympus Omniscan / Tomoview software

Technical Duties: Control documentation traceability, data acquisition and PAUT data Analysis.

Project: Inspection of Power Pipping Welds, Structural Pipe Rack, Water Pipeline (Petrobras/UTGCA)

UT Search Unit: Sonatest - Sitescan 240

Project: GASDUC III Pipeline (Petrobras) - (API-1104/ASTM E:1961)

AUT Search Unit: SCI Systems (multi-probe)

Technical Duties: Control documentation traceability, qualification Procedure of zonal discrimination and ToFD techniques, training of scanners technicians, AUT data Analysis.

Project: Jumper Fabrication (Rizers / Flowlines, Umbilicals and Subsea Hardware Installation)

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-end supervision of inspection activities, ensuring full compliance with project procedures and technical requirements.
• Strategic planning, scope definition, and allocation of resources for each scenario.
• Coordination and interface with clients, engineering teams, auditors, and technical consultants.
• Management of workflows, deadlines, deliverables, and team performance.
• Monitoring of inspection results, quality metrics, and project progress until final completion.

Project: Pipeline maintenance, tie-ins

UT Equipaments: Sonatest - Sitescan 240

Assignments: Control documentation traceability, calibrations, inspections and reports.

UT/PAUT/TOFD inspections on carbon steel full penetration butt welds with a wide range of thicknesses, scan plans, analysis of PAUT/ToFD data, training of inspectors and scanner technicians.

Revision of all parameters of PAUT systems and weld inspection processes to ensure the correct execution of Phased Array inspection procedures, from calibration of PAUT systems until audits on scan data files and check all parameters as well as all indications and reports made by suppliers.

UT/PAUT/TOFD/TFM/Corrosion mapping inspections on pressure vessels. Phased Array inspection at Nozzle and Node welds.

UT/PAUT/TOFD/TFM/Corrosion mapping/HTHA inspections. Phased Array inspection at Nozzle and Node welds.

UT/PAUT/TOFD/TFM inspections of steam pipe welds, P-91 material, wide pipe range (Ø 2”x5mm to 24”x56mm), scan plans, data analysis, training inspectors and scanners technicians.

UT/PAUT/TOFD/TFM/Corrosion mapping/HTHA inspections. Phased Array inspection at Nozzle and Node welds, inspection welds of special alloys.

Phased Array inspection in welds of special alloys using Water Wedge technique.

PAUT/TOFD inspections of welds, carbon steel, scan plans, data analysis, training scanners technicians.

Monitoring discontinuities for RBI analysis using TOFD, Phased Array and Conventional UT for Butt welds and Nozzle welds in pressure vessels.

Qualification Procedure of Sectorial Phased Array, Inspection welds of carbon steel and stainless steel.

Team management, communication interface between manufacturer, customer, and AUT team, control documentation traceability, qualification Procedure of zonal discrimination, Sectorial Phased Array and ToFD techniques, training of inspectors, AUT data Analysis and audits.

Team management, communication interface between manufacturer, customer, and AUT team, control documentation traceability, qualification Procedure of Sectorial Phased Array, training of inspectors, PAUT data Analysis and audits.

Team management, communication interface between manufacturer, customer, and AUT team, control documentation traceability, qualification Procedure of Sectorial Phased Array and ToFD, training of inspectors, PAUT/ToFD data Analysis and audits.

Calibrations Setups of Sectorial Phased Array/Water Wedge, data acquisition, and PAUT data analysis.

Control documentation traceability, qualification Procedure of Sectorial Phased Array for small diameters, data acquisition and PAUT data Analysis.

Control documentation traceability, data acquisition and PAUT data Analysis.

Control documentation traceability, training inspectors for AWS procedure, calibrations, and reports.

Control documentation traceability, qualification Procedure of zonal discrimination and ToFD techniques, training of scanners technicians, AUT data Analysis.

Supervision and Qualification of Heat Treatment procedures Rizers.

Control documentation traceability, calibrations, inspections and reports.