FRALEX ESS // Engineered Service Solutions

About FRALEX ESS

FRALEX ESS, Engineered Service Solutions, is an independent engineering standard and consultancy founded in June 2026 by Frank Havemann. It is built on 25 years of field experience in live interventions on pressurized, degraded piping systems and addresses a structural gap that no existing committee norm covers.

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Years field experience25
Published standard volumes43
Pages of engineering standards7,500+
Standard subsystems4
The gap

The gap FRALEX fills

Established industry norms, ASME B31.3, PCC-2, API 570, ISO 24817 and EN 13480, terminate before the live intervention decision moment on degraded, pressurized, operational assets. At this critical point, decision responsibility is silently delegated to the executing contractor, who has no norm covering the actual scenario.

FRALEX ESS is the first independently developed decision framework that governs exactly this moment. The grey zone where existing standards go silent and real liability begins.

Person

Who is Frank Havemann

Frank Havemann is the founder of FRALEX ESS with 25 years of hands-on field experience across Oil and Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical and Offshore industries. His expertise covers the four core live intervention disciplines: Online Leak Sealing, Hot Tapping, Pipe Freezing and Composite Repair.

He also serves as independent Sales Representative for Deacon sealants, covering the DACH region, Benelux and France, and operates the IFI Forum, an industry knowledge exchange platform for live pressure system professionals.

Services

What FRALEX ESS provides

FRALEX ESS does not execute interventions. It governs the decision that precedes them. The four core disciplines are the subject of the standard, not services offered.

ConsultingDecision governance advisory for operators and asset owners facing live intervention decisions, directly with Frank Havemann.
Analysis and auditsStructured expert assessment of live intervention decision processes, on site or remote.
TrainingIn house FRALEX ESS training for engineering and maintenance teams, up to 5 participants, with certificate.
Standards and publicationsThe FRALEX standard system: 43 published volumes, toolkits and decision frameworks via the Veritas Library.
IFI ForumMembership based industry knowledge platform for documented, anonymised failure cases.
Deacon sealantsTechnical sales and application consulting for the DACH region, Benelux and France.
The system

The FRALEX standard system

43 published volumes across four subsystems, totalling over 7,500 pages.

GLSSGlobal Leak Sealing Standard
LPLeak Prevention
GLSCGlobal Leak Sealing Code, hot tapping, composite and mechanical reinforcement
HSE / MGMTGovernance and accountability
Difference

What makes FRALEX different

FRALEX ESS is not a certification body, not a trade association, and not a committee. It is a single author engineering standard built from 25 years of direct field experience at the exact moment every existing norm goes silent: live intervention on aged, pressurized, degraded assets in operating plants.

The standard is independently developed, not consensus driven. It covers what committees cannot: the actual decision architecture at the point of intervention.

Industries

Industries served

Oil and GasUpstream and downstream
Petrochemical and ChemicalProcessing plants
OffshoreInstallations and platforms
Power generationPlant technology
Industrial pipingAcross Europe
FAQ

Common questions

Short answers on FRALEX ESS as an organisation and a standard. The technical logic sits on the method pages and in the Veritas Library.

FRALEX ESS, Engineered Service Solutions, is an independent engineering standard and consultancy for live interventions on pressurized equipment, founded in 2026 by Frank Havemann.
No. FRALEX ESS governs the decision that precedes an intervention and therefore stays vendor independent. Execution remains with the contractors.
ESS stands for Engineered Service Solutions.
43 published volumes with over 7,500 pages across the four subsystems GLSS, LP, GLSC and HSE/MGMT.
No. FRALEX replaces neither ASME B31.3 nor PCC-2, API 570 or ISO 24817. It closes the gap where those standards no longer give a conclusive answer for the specific decision.
Through the contact form on the homepage or directly by email at [email protected].
Next step

Need to own a decision?

When a live intervention is due and the release has to hold up, FRALEX structures the decision. Directly with Frank Havemann.

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