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Compact loading stations

Oklahoma-based Tulsa Power’s offshore loading stations are designed to eliminate hoses being laid on deck and dangling from saddles – avoiding trip hazards; reducing UV exposure, hose kinks and fatigue/breakage failures, and reducing the chance of spills. The stations offer up to four-times-longer hose life when compared to laying on deck or saddles. Powered deployment and retrieval of hoses minimizes manpower and operator exposure, greatly enhancing personnel safety. This system also weighs 30% less than competi- tor’s reels and offers a neat and safe way to store the hoses.

http://www.tulsapower.com its acoustic digital spread spectrum

New gyro compass launched Remote intregity monitoring 2

Germany’s Raytheon Anschütz (ADS ) signaling technology to house Aberdeen-based Flexlife deployed its launched a new generation, mainte- the hydrophone within a ruggedized, new integrity monitoring technology, nance-free gyro compass. The Horizon non-corrosive, pvc material. This FlexGuard, at Chevron’s Captain feld

MF is a strap-down eliminates most water corrosion issues. in the UK North Sea. The new moni- compass sys- The hydrophone is also more compact toring tool provides the operator with tem that uses and lighter in weight, and employs instant, continuous monitoring of any hemispheri- an identical mounting fange so it can subsea riser. This information can be cal resonator directly replace existing hydrophone acquired remotely from any location gyros (HRG) to models on existing deployment poles in the world – ensuring a failsafe early measure angular and methods. warning system, providing major cost rates for heading http://www.nautronix.com and safety benefts. The system can be calculation. The installed either during installation or system provides by retroft to risers already in operation

Wireless monitoring the same advanced WFS Technolo- in the feld. functions as standard gyro compasses, gies and Stork http://www.fexlife.co.uk such as heading selection and monitor- Technical ing, automatic switch-over functions, Services an independent transmitting magnetic unveiled their compass and individual speed error Seatooth Smart correction, with a MTBF value of more CP, a subsea than 100,000 hours. wireless http://www.raytheon-anschuetz.com/ cathodic protection (CP) monitoring system designed for retroft to existing felds. The system monitors the effects

NASDrill upgraded

Aberdeen-based Nautronix enhanced of corrosion by measuring anode the functionality of the Nautronix current wirelessly in “real-time” using

NASDrill USBL acoustic position- a Seatooth S100 device and a wireless ing systems by incorporating a new enabled ROV.

transducer design. The company used It also enables wireless monitor- ing of the condition of the anode to verify that it is functioning and the rate of depletion. The CP Engineer can extrapolate what weight of anode mate- rial is required to optimize levels of protection based on actual conditions on the structure. http://www.wfs-tech.com/

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