Steve Hewitt looks at the uses of load measuring pins with the oil industry

IMOSTI Inc trains and educates the workforce in offshore oil and gas industry

The Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology has produced a report entitled Best Practice Guide on Biomass Handling and Biomass/Coal Co-handling

BEL Valves focus on high pressures, critical valve applications such as emergency shut down valves

Flange Rescue Gasket enables maintenance teams to get up and running quickly by providing high integrity sealing on damaged flanged connections

Kurt Schmidsberger explains how plastification of a lubricated steel core increases the service life of ropes

Sean Ottewell reports on a raft of technology tie-ups are providing users with novel technologies together with increased technical support and training services

Thanks to improvements in data handling, many of the latest seismic surveys - from the Seychelles and the Falklands to Iraq and Albania - are revealing promising oil and gas reserves. Eugene McCarthy reports

Hydrographic surveys can now handle large multibeam sonar datasets even faster and make use of improved georeferencing and motion control technology. Sean Ottewell explains

Evolving health and safety regulations are prompting a broad range of new initiatives within the industry, including a subsea well incident response project, novel landing string assemblies, and new guidelines to make offshore support vessels safer

Operating companies continue to invest heavily in automation and control technologies, both for new plants and revamps, in the drive for better efficiency, as Sean Ottewell explains

Continuing worldwide demand is driving investment in high-quality drilling rigs and drillships. Sean Ottewell reports

Wireless subsea cameras, a smart wireless network linking wells, rigs and drilling units, and an ultrasonic scanner on flexible risers are among the latest wireless innovations on offer. Sean Ottewell reports

The US Eagle Ford and Marcellus shales continue to attract inward investment as sales revenues begin to flow. Eugene McCarthy reports

Hejie Wang, Usman Raja, Jingdong Liu and Ottar Sandvin evaluate the Fresnel Zone Binning infill criteria used in a 3D survey acquired for Statoil at Nordkapp in the Barentsea.

Sandy Thomas looks at the problems encountered while using to foot switches in tough offshore environments

Andrew J Patrick provides case study information of specific repairs which have been completed using composite technology, the repair structure utilised and the overall benefits the use of a composite system provided for the specific repair solution

The Miros OSD System utilises a standard marine X-band radar and advanced image processing algorithms for the detection of oil spill

Phil Burge explores the ways in which plant and maintenance engineers can reduce operating costs, while improving machine reliability and plant productivity, through the use of a new generation of dedicated component technologies

Vessel combines a large, obstruction free main deck with ample accommodation facilities; cable loading capacity of 5,000 tonnes