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Welding warrior

ESAB’s new Warrior cutting tool is a heavy-duty, multi-process welding machine with wire feeder. It was developed for reliability, minimal downtime, and maximum productivity. The machine will perform MIG/MAG (metal inert gas/metal active gas), fux-cored wire, manual metal arc, and TIG welding tasks, as well as arc-gouging. It incorporates inverter technology for energy savings and high functionality, delivering up to 500 amps at 60% duty cycle. It welds 0.8-2.0mm fux-cored and solid wires, carbon arc-gouges with electrodes up to 10mm diameter and has a full range of MMA (manual metal arc) capabilities. The wire feeder has a high-torque, four-roll drive, offering superior feed, even with long MIG/MAG welding guns.

Additional features include meters that can be read in sunlight, and accessible controls, which can be adjusted with a gloved hand. www.esab.com

New PDC cutter introduced platforms. The system will be online sealing. The new products are a range

Smith Bits, a Schlumberger company, August 2013. The TUP Diving System of spring seals—elastomer seals which released the ONYX 360° rolling poly- is comprised of a three-men bell, incorporate a spring and are suit- crystalline diamond compact (PDC) launch and recovery system, triple lock able for applications encountering cutter. This technology enables a PDC decompression chamber, an air/mixed high pressures, high temperatures or cutter to rotate 360° while drilling, gas dive control and hyperbaric rescue aggressive media and environments. improving drillbit durability in abra- craft. The seals are available in Perlast sive formations and extending drillbit www.n-sea.com and Endura materials, making them life and footage drilled per run. The invaluable in extreme environments rolling cutter uses its entire diamond and applications such as downhole, edge to shear the formation as the wellhead, surface equipment and high bit rotates, distributing wear over its pressure pipeline, and riser systems.

full circumference, and allowing the www.prepol.com diamond edge to stay sharp longer— increasing penetration rates and extending drillbit.

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New drilling fuid system

Baker Hughes launched their

MPRESS™ drilling fuid system, which allows operators to reduce stand pipe pressure and apply more horsepower to the bottomhole assembly and drill bit, increasing rates of penetration and decreasing non-productive time. Baker

Altitude measurements

Hughes recently commercialized the OceanTools Ltd. completed a redesign

MPRESS system to reduce viscosity in of their MA500 Precision Altimeter. the drillstring, while optimizing vis- DSP electronics combined with fre- cosity in the annulus for more effcient quency swept CHIRP technology are

Under pressure

The TUP (transfer under pressure) cuttings transport. housed in a hard anodized aluminium

Diving System, designed and built www.bakerhughes.com housing rated to 3000m as standard. in-house by N-Sea, has undergone a The MA500 uses a new composite reft and been converted to allow it be transducer array enabling altitude

Increased seal offerings used as a mobile system, deployable Precision Polymer Engineering (PPE) measurement with millimetric accu- from most DPII support vessels and broadened its range of advanced racy and resolution. It may be used in

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