Donald Ballantyne, Tracerco, UK, explains how the business is meeting the challenges of deepwater pipeline maintenance.
As assets age over time, the oil and gas sector face the ongoing challenge of ensuring efficient production and consistently maintaining pipeline integrity. As operations move into deeper waters and more challenging environments, advances in technology have become more critical to ensure these pipeline assets perform to their optimum efficiency, integrity is maintained and lifespan is extended. Tracerco’s DiscoveryTM and ExplorerTM technologies have been specifically designed to provide accurate, in-depth and real-time data insights.
Industry leading technology
Through the development of its market leading technologies Discovery and Explorer, the business has developed unique and groundbreaking methodologies that allow for the online inspection of a pipe from the outside without the need to remove the protective coating or interfere with production. Both technologies are already proven global successes, deployed by oil and gas operators across the globe.
Developed to provide owner operators with an enhanced understanding of a pipeline, its coating and process fluid – all whilst fully operational – Discovery has fast become the market leader with the technology deployed on assets across the globe …
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