Equipment & safety

Cortec Laboratories has created the first water based coating to withstand a minimum 1000 hours of intense salt spray at super thin coverage rates.

US states have been awarded more than US$49 million in pipeline safety grants, reimbursing up to 80% of operating costs for state pipeline programmes.

ProjectWise ConstructSim improves capital project construction execution through advanced work packaging.

TransCanada Corp. has announced that all conditions required to complete the acquisition of Columbia Pipeline Group Inc. under the terms of the merger agreement have been satisfied.

The new and innovative non-weld Roxtec SPM seal for metal pipes in the marine and offshore markets has now received its MED certification from DNV-GL and its type approval certificates from ABS and RMRS.

DVGW certificate for the HexelOne high pressure pipe system.

Corrosion Inhibitors has released data on the US corrosion inhibitors market, with input from a new study from The Freedonia Group.

Congresswoman Watson Coleman is set to introduce a legislation intended to strengthen FERC’s oversight of proposed oil and gas pipelines.

G.B.C. Group's portable cold cutting and bevelling equipment is now available through Mathey Dearman distributors in the US.

Apprentices, employed by Bibby Offshore, but still too young to go offshore, will benefit from operational experience in the field with live ROVs.

The potential of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) was the main topic of the 41st annual Honeywell Users Group (HUG) Americas conference.

New company, PJ Piping, is set to offer operators specialist piping components in the oil and gas sector.

Andreas Haindl and Herbert Willems, NDT Global, Germany, discuss the challenges of inspecting today’s deepwater pipelines, and how ultrasound inspection technology combined with greater co-operation early in the pipeline design process is helping to reduce complexity and cost of inspections down the road.

Andreas Haindl and Herbert Willems, NDT Global, Germany, discuss the challenges of inspecting today’s deepwater pipelines, and how ultrasound inspection technology combined with greater co-operation early in the pipeline design process is helping to reduce complexity and cost of inspections down the road.

Subsea Innovation has been awarded a major order, to provide five ROV installed structural pipeline repair clamps in Australia.