Equipment & safety

Living the legacy of innovations that have shaped the industries it serves and equipping Vermeer for the future.

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Rolf Gunnar Lie and Neil McKnight, T.D. Williamson, discuss a new approach to the safety and design of pig trap quick actuating closures.

Mapping and surveillance have shown a repeated high return on investment for asset management, says Luke Brouwers and Ibtesam Hasan, Fugro.

Shell and TSC Subsea explore advanced high-resolution wall thickness for coated unpiggable subsea pipelines.

Alejandrino Ruiz, John Healy and Bradford Edwards, Pipecare US LLC, discuss detecting and sizing small diameter ‘pinhole’ type defects.

Winners announced of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) Awards.

Natural gas blended with hydrogen is increasingly being seen as an important solution in the move toward a net-zero economy, says Rodrigo Quintero Bejarano, Endress+Hauser.

UAVOS drone-based data collection for pipeline construction.

Decommissioned pipeline to be tested with 100% hydrogen at facility in Cumbria.

DNV research points to cyber security investment drive in the energy industry, but more action is needed to plug critical gaps.

WRC Bulletin 601 provides technical background and validation for quantitative non-destructive testing methodology for FRP composite equipment.

With today’s technology, contractors can continuously update the pipeline owner on the coating project status, says Kristopher Kemper, AMPP.

Advances in control valve trim manufacturing set to alleviate cavitation issues that are costing process and industrial plants thousands of pounds.

Darran Pledger, STATS Group, discusses techniques that allow operators to perform necessary maintenance, repairs, and modifications without interrupting the flow of the product, while reducing downtime and increasing efficiency.