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Chikyu: Exploring Earth’s Secrets with Offshore Drilling
Deep-Sea Research Vessel Uses Offshore Drilling Techniques to Unlock Earth’s Secrets The deepest parts of the ocean floor hold the answers to some of the Earth’s greatest mysteries. The gradual movement of the planet’s crust and plate tectonics reveals clues to unlocking those mysteries—or what res...
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Ensuring Reliable Deepwater Well Operations with Custom Solutions
Ensuring Reliable Deepwater Well Operations with Custom Solutions Kevin Gravouia, Upstream & Construction Sales Manager, Swagelok Louisiana Some of the highest-stakes offshore oil and gas activity takes place in the Gulf of Mexico, where world-leading oil extraction companies wrestle with some of ...
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The Benefits of On-Site Field Engineering Support for Semiconductor Chip Manufacturing
How Engineering Assistance Can Help Keep Semiconductor Production Humming: A Q&A With Global Field Engineering Manager Greg Mlynar With the need for shorter supply chains and material sourcing, availability and shipping resolutions, and the rapid rate at which new fabs are being constructed, chip m...
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Why Materials Science Training Matters to Oil and Gas Instrumentation Engineers
Why Materials Science Training Matters to Oil and Gas Instrumentation Engineers Brian Van Valkenburg, Training & Services Marketing Manager As the offshore oil and gas market has evolved, the stakes for reliable, leak-free operation have only become higher. Oil and gas operators looking to maintai...
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Swagelok Field Engineer Services: Improving Analytical Instrumentation
Swagelok Field Engineer Services: Improving Analytical Instrumentation Mike Frost, Field Engineer Worldwide, plants and facilities across every industry are facing the same pressures—decreasing manpower, increasing safety regulations, and an overall loss of fluid system knowledge. The ever-widenin...
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Types of Tube Fittings: Learn the Key Differences
Your Guide to Choosing the Right Small-Bore Fittings Reliable small-bore fluid systems should be designed and constructed with high-quality components—and one of the most important is the small-bore fitting . Used at critical connection points, fittings should provide leak-tight performance to help...
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Selecting Materials for Corrosion Resistance
Materials Matter: Selecting the Right Material for Corrosion Resistance An offshore platform can have nearly 50,000 feet of tubing, more than 20,000 fluid system components, no fewer than 10,000 fittings, and as many as 8,000 mechanical connections. That’s why when selecting materials, it is import...
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What is Sour Service and Q&A on Material Selection
Four Answers on Material Selection for Sour Oil and Gas Fields As oil and gas producers seek to meet the world’s energy needs and expand their revenue streams, there has been a collective move toward tapping unconventional resource reserves at greater depths and further distances offshore. Here, le...
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Why Haven’t Sampling Systems Improved— Three Main Reasons
Why Haven’t Sampling Systems Improved — Three Main Reasons Mike Frost Over the last few decades, process analyzers have become even more reliable while sampling systems have not. Many process analyzer sampling systems are not fulfilling their intended purpose of delivering an uncontaminated, repre...
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Closing the Manufacturing Skills Gap: Develop a Well-Trained Team
Closing the Manufacturing Skills Gap: Develop a Well-Trained Team Andy Hitchcock, Product Manager, Global Services Manufacturing plants all over the world are facing a growing challenge—highly-tenured employees nearing retirement, creating a manufacturing skills gap. For plant managers, this means...