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News Release from: Tinius Olsen | Subject: H10KT
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 07 June 2005
Tester confirms undersea mating
abilities
A company specialising in undersea equipment for the oil and gas industry is using Tinius Olsen equipment and test software to ensure its connectors will work reliably even at depths up to 3000m.
A company specialising in undersea equipment for the oil and gas industry is using Tinius Olsen equipment and test software to ensure its connectors will work reliably even at depths up to 3000m Tronic, based in Cumbria, is one of a team of companies involved in ways of extracting oil and gas from ever deeper parts of the ocean
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 18 Oct 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Much of the technology is placed on the seabed rather than using conventional fixed oil rigs and, although this offers a number of advantages, it also places even greater reliance on the efficiency on the equipment being used.
"It is essential that our connectors can be joined together and, when necessary, taken apart easily and reliably by ROVs (remotely operated vehicles)", explains Tronic's Laboratory Manager, Justin Taylor.
"When working at such extreme depths any problems would not only present immense technical difficulties but would quickly become very expensive".
Reliability is therefore paramount and Tronic needed a means of testing its connectors before they enter the working environment.
The company chose an H10KT materials testing machine from Tinius Olsen to measure the joining and parting forces.
"We liked the quality of the Tinius Olsen machine and, because of the unusual nature of the project, Tinius Olsen also developed the bespoke software we needed to operate and record the test operations", comments Taylor. Request a free brochure from Tinius Olsen ...
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