Tracerco has secured a million-dollar contract within the Gulf of Mexico which can see the enterprise deploy its inspection know-how throughout a number of oil and fuel platforms.
Below the contract, Tracerco will deploy its pipeline inspection know-how – Discovery – as a part of an settlement between three of America’s largest oil and fuel corporations, all of whom function completely different riser pipes on a number of platforms within the Gulf.
The challenge additionally comes as a part of the primary life extension allow granted for these belongings, Tracerco famous.
Jim Bramlett, Tracerco’s Industrial Supervisor for North America, stated: “The truth that three of the biggest American oil and fuel corporations have joined forces to do that offers them not solely economies of scale but additionally permits us to get standardisation on these risers as we work with these operators to keep up pipeline integrity and lengthen the lifespan of their belongings.”
Developed with subsea CT scanning know-how – generally used for non-invasive medical diagnostic method – Discovery supplies essential movement assurance and integrity knowledge with out the necessity for coating removing and, in actual time.
To this point, Discovery has been deployed on over 100 oil and fuel belongings throughout the globe gathering over tens of 1000’s of scans and serving to operators refine and enhance the effectivity of present pipeline fashions. The know-how is already in operation on developments throughout the Americas, Australia, Europe and West Africa.
