Delegates from across the oil and gas industry are being invited to learn about the current state of the subsea industry and what the future might look like at a networking event with Scottish Enterprise (SE). Taking place on the first day of Subsea Expo on Tuesday 5 February, the ‘Scottish Enterprise Business Breakfast’, will provide guests with a networking opportunity whilst demonstrate the growing number of subsea opportunities for Scottish companies. The event will provide an insight into how Scottish Enterprise is continuing to support the subsea sector, one of Scotland’s global strengths, as well as hear from a number of companies on the importance of diversification and international

Subsea & Offshore Service magazine (SOS) picks the brains of Phil Robinson of Bender UK. Bender is a global leader in electrical safety technology, delivering solutions which monitor and provide advanced warning of developing insulation faults in a diverse range of industry sectors. Welcome to SOS Magazine, so first up please introduce yourself and Bender UK Limited… Phil Robinson. I am responsible for managing oil, gas and mining customers and finding new applications for our electrical safety technology - specifically within the UK and Ireland. Oil, Gas and mining are key sectors for Bender. We patented the worlds first insulation monitor over seven decades ago in a mining application. In

Nord-Lock Group is a pioneer in innovative bolting solutions. The company has decades of experience solving tough bolting challenges in extreme environments all over the world. Thanks to its extensive range of technologies, which are created in-house, Nord-Lock Group is able to meet the exacting standards required to support applications in offshore and subsea environments. Tried and tested solutions This range includes Nord-Lock wedge-locking technology, which prevents bolts from loosening, even when subjected to extreme vibration and dynamic loads. Nord-Lock wedge-locking washers have been used extensively in the offshore and subsea industries, including to maintain the clamp load on bolte

Since the ECITB Mechanical Joint Integrity (MJI) programme was introduced in 2011, Joint integrity specialist, Hydratight has delivered ECITB MJI training to more than 7000 learners. At this year’s ECITB Training & Development Awards, the company was a finalist in the ‘Approved Training Provider of the Year’ category and received a ‘Highly Commended Award’. The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB) Mechanical Joint Integrity training is an industry recognized series of approved courses, providing a method of training and validation of skills in the critical area of bolted pipework connections. Safety and joint integrity assurance are the key drivers to learning both the te

Well construction specialist, DeltaTek Global, has announced the key appointment of Chris Johnstone as Operations Supervisor. Chris brings a wealth of engineering and drilling experience to the team and will be focussing on managing wellsite operations offshore and helping to design and develop new technologies. He will also be responsible for implementing an equipment maintenance system and subsequent procedures. Prior to his appointment, Chris was a Wellsite Drilling Engineer/Performance Coach at EnQuest. This followed an extensive engineering career which he began as an Operations Engineer at Stork and progressed to become a Drilling Engineer with LR Senergy and AGR Petroleum Ltd. Tristam

CAPE Investment Partners is proud to announce the acquisition of the majority shareholding in CAPE Holland and FoundOcean from the sustainability focussed private equity investor Ambienta who held its participation since 2012. With the new shareholder, a new phase for both companies will start. The companies aim to further grow their unique market positions in the rapidly expanding offshore wind and recouping offshore oil and gas markets. CAPE Holland is the world leader in offshore vibro technology, providing a cost saving and environmentally friendly solution to pile driving and pile handling with their Vibro Lifting Tools (VLT). From monopiles for the offshore wind to subsea anchor piles,

Rhopoint Energy is pleased to offer Emerson’s new digital, ultra-capacitance transmitter, the PaineTM 420-22-0010 series, offering high precision pressure and temperature measurements in the harshest long-term petroleum and natural gas applications. Rhopoint Energy is a brand of Rhopoint Components and is dedicated to looking after the energy markets with a range of products that are innovative and demanding for today’s needs. We have extensive expertise in pressure and temperature sensors, as well as high temperature precision components for the on/off shore oil & gas and subsea energy market sectors. In downhole petroleum and natural gas applications, precise measurements during rapid chan

Working with bolted joints in the field can be difficult enough and having to handle separate bolts, nuts and washers just adds to the complication but what if you could easily combine your chosen bolt with a locking washer, that would make life a lot easier wouldn’t it? The team at HEICO, manufacturers of the proven HEICO-LOCK® wedge locking washers, have done just that with their new HEICO-LOCK® Combi-Washer system. It is common practice to produce a SEMS screw which involves captivating a washer onto a screw or bolt in a 1 piece design. This is usually expensive and time consuming and requires specialist manufacture. The answer from HEICO is, as is often the case, simple. The HEICO-LOCK®

Eddyfi Technologies is proud to announce the latest release of M2M Capture. Natively embedded on both M2M Gekko and M2M Mantis PAUT flaw detectors, Capture v2.3 offers new advanced features and dedicated tools to improve the user experience and speed up NDT inspection. Released twice a year, Capture software is an evolutive platform combining state-of-the art technologies and highly intuitive interface to answer new market challenges. On this latest upgrade, M2M introduces significant improvements required by customers. New applicative setups and tools now facilitate the corrosion mapping and composite inspection, and a complete set of analysis tools for TOFD inspections is available. Captur

Subsea Expo returns 5-7th February 2019 and attracts over 5,000 delegates and around 150 exhibitors. Subsea Expo is the world’s largest subsea exhibition and conference and is completely free to attend. Conference The Subsea Expo Conference runs multiple parallel sessions over three days and attracts a broad range of experts to discuss the challenges facing the industry, new and transformational technologies and clean energy, among other topics. Call for Speakers With the recovery of the oil and gas sector beginning to filter through, industry has embraced new methods of working and taken cost efficiency to a whole new level. As a leaner, smarter and more efficient sector, we are well placed

Insulation monitoring devices pioneered by Bender, provide plant operators with reliable electrical safety technology which reduces the costs of maintenance, providing early trend results in monitoring the insulation resistance. The ISOMETER® series iso685 is proven across the globe and Bender has witnessed a very positive response following the launch of the new isoHR685. This device variant can measure insulation resistances up to the 10 GΩ range in subsea applications. Early recognition and quality assurance It is possible to counteract the sudden appearance of an insulation fault at a very early stage: The isoHR685 measures insulation resistances in a range up to 10 GΩ. The measured valu

Test chambers are designed to examine various types of materials in many different ways for a wide scope of applications. Chambers may be required to measure corrosion or to test components to destruction. Their primary function is to speed up the processes to simulate time in an environment. Finding the long term resistance to corrosion for various types of materials requires the speeding up of corrosion up by using certain substances. For example, a salt spray testing chamber would recreate the effects of a harsh offshore environment to evaluate the corrosive properties of supplies, such as, paint coatings and phosphated surfaces. This will simulate the effects of years of exposure to salt