Weld Inspection Services in Tampa 2026 — ASNT Level III Led

Atlantis NDT delivers weld inspection services in Tampa. Methods: UT (including PAUT and TOFD), RT, MT, PT and VT, with procedures and reports reviewed by an ASNT NDT Level III. Technicians are certified by their employer to its SNT-TC-1A written practice. Where we work: nationwide. Technicians are mobilised to your site anywhere in the USA; apart from the Houston office there is no local office, so mobilisation is planned and quoted for each job.

For the national service, with the methods used, what you receive and how crews are mobilised, see weld inspection services.

Weld Inspection Services Scope

Weld inspection covers: butt, fillet, socket, and overlay welds per AWS D1.1 + ASME Section IX; pipeline girth welds per API 1104; pressure-vessel and piping welds per ASME B&PV Section VIII + B31.3. Full-penetration volumetric examination (RT/UT/PAUT/TOFD) plus surface examination (MT/PT/VT) at root, intermediate, and final-cap stages. Atlantis NDT Level III approves every Procedure + signs off final disposition + audit-ready records via Atlantis NDT ERP.

Code + Compliance

Weld Inspection Services per: ASME B&PV Sections V + VIII + IX + XI; ASME B31 piping series; API 510 + 570 + 571 + 579 + 580 + 581 + 653 + 1104 + 1169; ASTM E-series; ISO 17635/17636/17640; AWS D1.1/3.6; IACS Rec-20 marine; NACE MR0175 + MR0103 sour-service.

Free Consultation

Atlantis NDT publishes no pricing — varies by region + scope. Request your free 30-minute consultation. Every job is quoted on request. See also verticals, Tampa ERP, Tampa training, Tampa consulting.

What weld inspection involves

Weld inspection verifies that a joint meets the acceptance criteria of the governing construction code, using methods selected for the defect types credible in that joint configuration and material.

Scope of work

Visual examination of profile, undercut, reinforcement and surface condition to a written procedure
Radiography or ultrasonic examination of weld volume, including phased array and TOFD on thicker sections
Magnetic particle or penetrant examination for surface-breaking indications
Welder and procedure qualification record verification against ASME Section IX
Positive material identification where material substitution is a risk

Governing codes

ASME Section VIII and Section IX, ASME B31.1 and B31.3, AWS D1.1, API 1104, and ASME Section V for the examination methods themselves.

Working in Tampa

Scope in Tampa is set by the local asset base, the client's own vendor-approval regime and the inspection intervals required by the governing in-service code. Mobilisation, permit and access planning are agreed before the crew travels, because on most sites those constraints decide the cost of a campaign more than the examination itself does.

How the work is controlled

Agree personnel qualification, equipment checks, procedure revision and review responsibilities for the examination. Retain those records with the results and coverage limitations.

What you receive

A report in your required format, with findings located against the component and, where relevant, against a persistent corrosion monitoring location so trends stay continuous between campaigns
Raw data in the instrument-native format plus an open export, so the dataset outlives any single supplier relationship
The procedure revision, technician certification state and instrument calibration status applicable at the time of examination
Where a finding affects continued service, the specific code clause governing the acceptance decision

Part of NDT inspection services in Florida and the full range of NDT inspection services from Atlantis NDT.

Third-party weld inspection in Tampa: ship repair yards, fuel terminals and plant piping

Third-party weld inspection in Tampa is needed mainly in three places: ship repair and conversion at the Port Tampa Bay yards, tank and piping repairs at the fuel terminals on the bay, and pressure piping at the power and fertilizer plants. Atlantis is Houston-based. It mobilizes technicians for each job, and every procedure and report passes review by an ASNT NDT Level III.

Marine weld inspection at the Tampa yards. Edison Chouest Offshore owns the Tampa Ship yard at Hookers Point, which has graving docks and a covered erection building and has built offshore supply vessels and harbor tugs. Gulf Marine Repair, part of Hendry Marine Industries, works on repair, conversion and modification of tugs, barges, articulated tug-barge units, dredges and government vessels. Hendry Corporation lifts tugs and barges on its 2,500-ton drydock at Port Hendry. In August 2026 the US Department of Transportation announced a Maritime Administration Small Shipyard Grant for Gulf Marine Repair. It pays for a welder training program and equipment upgrades, so the amount of welding on this waterfront is set to grow.

Marine weld acceptance comes from the classification society's rules and the vessel owner's specification. For piping, boilers and pressure vessels on inspected US-flag vessels, the Coast Guard's welding and brazing rules in 46 CFR Part 57 also apply. A typical marine scope is:

visual and magnetic particle examination of structural fillet welds;
ultrasonic examination of butt welds in hull plate;
radiography or ultrasonics of piping butt welds where the specification calls for volumetric coverage.

Gulf Marine Repair lists 6GR carbon steel and stainless pipe qualifications among its welder certifications. Under ASME Section IX, welder test coupons like these can often be examined by radiography in place of bend tests.

Terminal tanks and transfer piping. Argus reports that nearly half of Florida's petroleum supply passes through Port Tampa Bay, and Florida has no refinery of its own. Kinder Morgan, Buckeye, Global Partners, Chevron and Citgo all run terminals here. Kinder Morgan's Central Florida Pipeline carries product inland to Orlando. On these sites, weld inspection covers:

shell and bottom repair welds under API 653;
welds on new tanks under API 650;
girth welds on pipeline tie-ins, examined to API 1104 within the operator's 49 CFR Part 195 program.

Power and fertilizer plants. Tampa Electric's Big Bend station at Apollo Beach was rebuilt as a 2x2x1 combined-cycle plant with two heat recovery steam generators. It entered commercial operation in 2023, and its power piping is built and repaired under ASME B31.1. Mosaic's Riverview phosphate complex, with its sulfuric and phosphoric acid units, is a source of alloy piping repairs. Those repairs pair penetrant examination with positive material identification, on top of any volumetric examination the code requires.

Who signs what in Florida. Chapter 554 of the Florida Statutes, the state boiler law, applies its inspection requirements only to boilers in public assembly locations. Industrial pressure equipment around Tampa therefore relies on the owner's program, the insurer and the construction code. When a repair is made under the NBIC, the repair organization and its Authorized Inspector own the sign-off. Atlantis performs the NDE and writes the report, and it never signs as inspector of record. Florida is an NRC Agreement State. Weld radiography therefore needs a radioactive-materials license from the Bureau of Radiation Control at the Florida Department of Health, and the radiography arrangements are confirmed for each job.

Next steps. The methods and deliverables are on weld inspection services across the US. Phased array inspection covers thick butt welds, and tank inspection in Tampa covers terminal work. Yards that need written NDT procedures, or a Level III to approve them, can use NDT procedure development. Send the Tampa weld scope with the drawings, the governing code and the access dates, and the quote is prepared from that.