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New lube, sealants brochure

A new brochure describes how Molykote brand specialty lubricants and Dow Corning brand severe-duty sealants help with oil field operations.

The brochure says its specialty lubricants and severe-duty sealants are designed to help solve problems that occur during exploration and extraction, transport, storage, and processing.

Molykote brand Smart Lubrication solutions include severe-duty greases, antiseize pastes, antifriction coatings, and silicone oils and greases. The firm says these advanced formulations can help control friction and wear, reduce fretting corrosion and galling, extend lubrication intervals, and improve reliability.

Severe-duty silicone sealants, including pastes, coatings, form-in place gasketing materials, and hot-melt assembly adhesives, are suited for equipment assembly, maintenance shop repairs, and in-field service.

Source: Dow Corning Corp., Corporate Center, Box 994, Midland, MI 48686-0994.

New version of wellbore software platform

Newly released Techlog 2011 software is the latest version of this firm's wellbore software platform.

It enables customization at several levels of granularity—from the corporate perspective, within a project, and for the petrophysicist, geoscientist, or engineer, the company notes.

The new pore pressure prediction module incorporates industry standard methods to compute the pore pressure and fracture gradients and establish the safe mud weight window to ensure safe drilling operations. The 2011 release also sees the full implementation of GeoFrame ELAN functionality in Techlog, augmenting the existing mineral solver capabilities with the proved algorithms from this application.

The 2011 release delivers a complete modernization of the application interface. The new ribbon interface combines intuitive icons with complete customization capability—to bring clarity and knowledge sharing directly into the application. The convenient dashboard mode supports automatic window tiling to maximize the work space and reduce mouse movements. Furthermore, an intelligent right-mouse-click in context brings frequently used tools and actions directly to the users' fingertips.

The work flow interface enables users to create comprehensive cross-domain analysis work flows that are applicable across single or multiple wells with equal ease. Work flows can be saved and shared as templates, edited, and re-applied to new data facilitating consistency, ease of use, and efficient sharing of expertise across asset teams, the firm points out.

Source: Schlumberger Ltd., 5599 San Felipe, Suite 100, Houston, TX 77056.

New ultrasonic liquid level detectors

A new line of products detects and micromeasures ultrapure chemical fluids.

The SL 900 Series of ultrasonic liquid level detectors has no moving parts that can induce impurities in the liquid causing false readings, downtime for maintenance, and a complete loss of product. The additional feature of a thermocouple sensor to monitor temperature avoids the costs of welding a thermocouple well in the ampoule, the company notes. The product line is applicable to a range of applications in the semiconductor chemical vapor deposition process.

Features include no particle contamination, as many as eight alarm points, functioning independent of a liquid's density and viscosity, and measuring accuracy.

Source: Cosense Inc., 155 Ricefield Lane, Hauppauge, NY 11788.

New oil field hydroexcavator

The new Mud Dog 1600 promises to meet demanding hydroexcavation challenges in oil field uses.

The unit features a 16 cu yd debris body, standard 1,500 gal water capacity, and rear-mounted boom that in addition to offering 335° rotation can pivot down 25° for 8 ft of extra digging and access to hard-to-reach areas.