Universal Successfully Upgrades Turbine Exhaust System at BP Bruce - 2012-12-3

Universal Acoustic and Emission Technologies is proud to announce the recent successful completion of a turbine exhaust system upgrade to the BP Bruce Platform, approximately 211 miles northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland, in the North Sea. In August 2011, Universal was selected to provide a customized solution for an important oil and gas turbine system on the BP Bruce Platform. The platform system extracts oil and gas from the Bruce Reservoir, drawing from numerous subsea and platform wells. Com ...Read More.

Trinity Steel Fabricators Acquires Triton Vessel Manufacture - 2012-12-3

Trinity Steel Fabricators, Inc. announced today that it acquired Triton Vessel Manufacture of Houston, Texas, an ASME pressure vessel fabrication business. The purchase expands Trinity Steel's service offering to now include vessel fabrication. The new division will produce pressure vessels, separators, reactors, columns and towers for the upstream and downstream oil & gas and chemical industries. "The success of Trinity Steel revolves around operational excellence in metal fabrication. With ...Read More.

Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology Acquires HGV Vosseler - 2012-12-1

With the acquisition of HGV Vosseler GmbH & Co. KG in Ohringen, Germany, Carl Zeiss Industrial Metrology (IMT) is strengthening its presence in the market for process control and inspection in car making. With HGV Vosseler, we have acquired the best technology available on the market. The products have a good reputation with customers," states Dr. Rainer Ohnheiser, President & CEO of IMT. "This move enables us to provide our customers with total solutions in the field of quality processes in ca ...Read More.

UniWest Brings 4-Frequency Eddy Current Portable Instrument to the Marketplace - 2012-11-30

UniWest's US-454A Eddy Current Instrument offers single and multi-frequency Eddy Current (EC) inspection, unprecedented signal-to-noise ratio, frequency mixing capabilities, USB and Ethernet data storage capability, and exceptional digital strip chart data collection. It also features UniWest's EddyView color display. The 454A's signal to noise ratio redefines NDE inspection in the field, the lab, and wherever high level, accurate eddy current testing is needed. It's unprecedented signal to nois ...Read More.

Atlantic Subsurface Imaging Is Now Doing Golf Course Irrigation And Drainage Mapping - 2012-11-30

With the recent weather patterns and how drastically it is changing, golf courses need to stay on top of their grounds in order to keep the course in working shape. Atlantic Subsurface Imaging is now helping golf courses scan for irrigation, drainage mapping, and utility locating in New York. Whether a course is planning to remodel, improve their irrigation system, or locate a pipe junction for replacement, it is very important to make sure that a person has an accurate map of the courses under ...Read More.

Energy & Technology Corporation Awarded Long Term Well Inspection Contract - 2012-11-28

Energy & Technology, Corp., with affiliate company Technical Industries, Inc., was recently awarded a long term contract with a world major oil company for the development of deep, offshore, and land wells. Technical Industries, Inc. patented 3D Imaging, wall mapping, and diameter mapping has proven to be needed in determining the burst, collapse and tensile strength of each pipe which is a major factor in order to avoid disasters similar to the BP Gulf of Mexico. About Energy & Technology, C ...Read More.

Los Alamos names Farrar as Fellow for Structural Health Monitoring - 2012-11-28

Three distinguished members of the Los Alamos National Laboratory scientific staff are being honored with appointment as Laboratory Fellows for 2012. The committee ranked a collection of nominations on the basis of: 1) Sustained, high-level achievements in programs of importance to the Laboratory; 2) A fundamental or important discovery that has led to widespread use; 3) Having become a recognized authority in the field, including outside recognition and an outstanding record of publications. ...Read More.

API Inspection Company is Expanding Nationwide - 2012-11-28

Chem Ref Services is excited to expand nationwide to gain exposure in the mechanical inspection industry. Chem Ref Services is the leading provider in Texas for "pressure vessel inspection" (API 510) "Storage tank inspection" (API 653) "Piping inspection" (API 570) and "NDE Level 11 inspections". We are pleased to announce the expansion of our company to include the remaining areas of the United States of America (USA). Chem Ref Services have proudly served the Houston area since 2004. We pro ...Read More.

TUV Rheinland Opens New NDE Services Operation in Richland, MS - 2012-11-28

TUV Rheinland Industrial Solutions, Inc. (TRIS) has opened a new testing operation in Richland, Miss. Equipped with a variety of non-destructive evaluation (NDE) equipment, the new 3,000 square foot facility provides testing, inspection and certification of materials, components and structures. The services feature a full range of NDE tests, including computed radiography, film radiography, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, visual, phased array and positive material identification (PMI) tests. TRIS ...Read More.

Eighty Years of Damage Detection from the Allianz Center for Technology - 2012-11-23

A rotating compressor blade in a multi-ton gas turbine is broken; the power plant has to go offline. Millions of Euros lost with no clear answer as to the cause. Defective design, material failure or human error after all? This is a case that calls for the loss assessment experts from the Allianz Center for Technology (Allianz Zentrum fur Technik or AZT). Their diagnosis: In a routine replacement of parts, compressor blades with a slightly different material composition were used, which could no ...Read More.