Rosen’s latest developments in ultrasonic technologies provide a powerful mechanism for inspecting the integrity of a natural gas pipeline.

Oil and gas procurement has extended to even harsher environments. Arctic application represents the severest challenge for today's structural steel plates. Lower and lower design temperatures require steels showing improved fracture toughness combined with high strength and high thickness. Dr Frank Hanus and Wolfgang Schütz report.

Gregory S Charney looks at how proper padding of pipelines can protect against damage from rock impingement and cut the cost of repairs.

The UK cannot rely on the current market to deliver large gas storage facilities of a sufficient scale to ensure UK security of gas supply, the independent analysts ILEX Energy Consultancy warns.

In oil rigs, refineries and petrochemical plants, an explosion-proof beam detector from Fire Fighting Enterprises will protect large areas against smoke.

Downhole Products’ casing centraliser Blade Runner has been used to perform an installation,  in the Caspian Sea.

A new, completely sealed and waterproof surface control unit for ROV operations has been developed by Seaeye.

Any engineer designing equipment for the oil and gas industry will know how their work has been transformed over the past decade. CAD experts are predicting a third stage in the evolution

The idea of Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (Scada) systems dates back to the 1970s when minicomputer-based telemetry systems were deployed to look after oil pipelines and widely distributed remote assets of water and power industry resources.

Established in the 1970s as a provider of undersea communications equipment, Deep Sea Electronics has become a leading supplier of control and monitoring systems to the power generation industry.

The College of the North Atlantic-Qatar (CNA-Q) is the product of an agreement between the state of Qatar and the College of the North Atlantic in Canada. It is being built in Qatar. About 3000 students will take part in major education programmes there, including engineering technology, health sciences, information technology and business.

The student training systems supplied to CNA-Q are air or liquid flow loops from standard Feedback training designs, but in general combine two or three separate process streams so that these can interact.

EN14181 Stationary Source Emissions – Quality Assurance of Automated Measuring Systems is the new European standard intended to improve air pollution standards by tighter monitoring of emissions.

Oil industry engineers must be aware of bound charge and secondary arc risk to oil facilities, since secondary lightning effects such as bound charge and secondary arc can be 1000 times more common than direct lightning strikes.

Explosive decompression (ED) usually occurs when elastomers are subject to a rapid pressure drop after being exposed to high gas pressures.

Being able to accurately measure mercury levels in crude oil is vital to ensuring that a plant is operating as safely as possible. However, mercury levels differ from crude to crude, depending on their source. And the analysis process, being laboratory based, takes time.

SimSci-Esscor's simulation technology is involved in the first industrial plant for the manufacture of odour- and sulphur-free fuel from wood

Non-contact sensor in test rig monitors torque in gearbox, generating a performance profile that can be compared with the ideal performance standard

The Giove-A satellite is a step towards a navigational system to rival the USA’s GPS. Jon Severn talks to Maarten Meerman, director of research at SSTL, the company that designed and built Giove-A.

System has excellent chemical resistance due to its acid-proof enamel coating, is anti-adhesive and can withstand high thermal loads