Coverage Areas/South Plains · Permian Gateway
NDT Inspection in Lubbock & the Permian Gateway
A real Prime Inspections office in Lubbock puts certified pipeline inspection crews within reach of the entire South Plains and the northern Permian Basin.
Staffed Prime Inspections office
Prime Inspections keeps a staffed office in Lubbock — not a name on a map. That means when a project breaks in the South Plains or the northern Permian, you get a local crew, not a truck dispatched from four hours away.
Lubbock sits at the gateway between the Panhandle and the Permian Basin, and the pipeline, gathering and facility work that comes with both.
From girth-weld radiography on a new gathering line to AUT on a transmission tie-in, our Lubbock crews deliver radiographs and encoded AUT/PAUT data, reported to the governing code — Level II technicians certified to our written practice under ASNT SNT-TC-1A, with ASNT Level III oversight — without the mobilization cost of pulling a crew off the coast.
Why the work is here
- Northern Permian and Midland Basin gathering and transmission lines
- Panhandle and South Plains oil, gas and NGL infrastructure
- Cotton, agriculture-adjacent industrial and utility facility work
- New-build gathering systems tying into regional takeaway
NDT methods that matter in Lubbock
The methods our crews run most in this market — matched to the assets and codes buyers here work to.
Pipeline Girth-Weld Radiography (RT)
API 1104 weld inspection for new gathering and transmission construction.
Automated Ultrasonic Testing (AUT)
Encoded, code-compliant mainline girth-weld data across the Permian gateway.
Phased Array UT (PAUT)
Crack and corrosion detection on station and facility piping.
API 653 Tank & API 570 Piping
In-service inspection support for regional storage and process piping.
- Permian Basin (northern)
- Midland Basin
- Anadarko (Panhandle)