Pipeline Integrity International has merged with Pipetronix GmbH.
PII offers a range of specialist products and services for the inspection, maintenance, intervention, repair and rehabilitation of pipelines. It was purchased from BG plc by Mercury Private Equity in 1998. The Pipetronix Group, based in Germany, offers a wide range of services and products for the pipeline and energy industries.
The combined group will operate as PII Group Limited. The group is headquartered in Northumberland, UK. The company will have operations in North and South America, Europe, CIS and the Middle and Far East.
The acquisition provides a number of benefits. It will enable the Group to offer its customers a more comprehensive range of products and services. Customer service will be enhanced due to a wider geographic presence, a stronger combined network and increased resources.
Fisher-Rosemount Systems, Inc. and MDC Technology have announced the establishment of a formal business partnership to provide Advanced Process Optimization products and services to Fisher-Rosemount customers. Products from MDC Technology will be embedded in Fisher-Rosemount's DeltaVtrademark automation system to offer extraordinary ease of implementation and a higher return on customer investment for these important business improvement applications.
The partnership increases the scope and value of the Fisher-Rosemount product suite through the addition of proven technology and solutions from MDC Technology that provide comprehensive process and business optimization. By tightly integrating MDC Technology's products with the DeltaV system, DeltaV's leading ease-of-use capabilities are applied to MDC Technology's products to provide a superior alternative to competing non-integrated process optimization products.
MDC Technology products have been integrated with the DeltaV platform through the use of industry standard OPC (OLE for Process Control) technology built into the DeltaV system, offering extraordinary ease of implementation and maintenance. MDC Technology's products which are being integrated with the DeltaV system include SMOC (Multivariable Optimizing Control), RTO+Registered (Real-Time Optimization), IPM+ (Intelligent Performance Monitoring), and MSPC+Registered (Multivariable Statistical Process Control). These products are in use on over 500 refining, petrochemical and chemical process units around the world. Together with the DeltaV system, these products form a complete suite of process and business optimization solutions for Fisher-Rosemount customers across all process industries.
Fisher-Rosemount is a supplier of process management products and solutions, including control valves, regulators, transmitters, analysers, process management systems and related services. PlantWeb field-based architecture combines intelligent field devices, scalable platforms, and modular software to provide not only process control, but also asset management and integration with other plant and business systems. Fisher-Rosemount is part of Emerson Electric Co.
MDC Technology is a world-wide provider of production optimization and performance monitoring solutions to the oil & gas, hydrocarbon processing, petrochemicals, chemicals and utility industries. The company has global project delivery and support capability coordinated from offices in the UK and USA.
Schlumberger Limited has agreed to purchase from Stellarton Corp./Calgary, Alberta, all of the worldwide assets and business of Secure Oil Tools.
Secure Oil Tools, a division of Stellarton, is an oil and gas service company offering advanced products in the areas of enhanced production technology (primarily plunger lift), Multi Lateral Production Systems (MLPS), sand filters (MeshRite) and production and thermal tools.
A unit of Williams, Tulsa, Okla., has announced it has signed an agreement with three companies-Oceaneering International, Inc., T.D. Williamson and Oil States HydroTech Systems, Inc. -to design equipment for performing deep-water hot taps without the use of divers.
Hot tap is a term used in the energy industry for connecting a new pipeline to an existing line without taking the existing one out of service. The procedure is common onshore, but requires the use of divers offshore and cannot be performed at depths greater than 1,000 feet because of water pressure.
The equipment and processes the companies are developing, dubbed Deep Tap technology, use remotely operated vehicles to connect gathering pipelines to transmission lines in water depths up to and beyond 8,000 feet.
Deep Tap technology could be applied on pipelines up to 20 inches in diameter that are operating at pressures up to 2,000 pounds per square inch (psi) with ANSI pressure ratings up to 1,500 psi.
When applied to existing pipeline infrastructure, Deep Tap technology enables producers to develop small-to-moderately sized reserves that in the past could not independently support platforms and export pipelines.
T.D. Williamson is developing the hot tap cutting machine that will be used to tap into existing transmission lines, while Oil States HydroTech Systems Inc. is designing and manufacturing the Diverless Hot Tap Clamp and required collet connectors.
Oceaneering will act as prime contractor and perform the hot tap, connecting gathering lines to transmission lines using proprietary tooling and remotely operated vehicle technology.
Williams is leading the project and plans to apply Deep Tap technology to its existing gathering pipelines along the Gulf Coast of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Falcon Group Construction, Houston, Tex., has begun construction on a design-build, fast-track, $20 million, 236,740 square-foot integrated facility for Baker Inteq/Baker Atlas in Houston. Baker Inteq's world headquarters, also built by Falcon Group Construction, was already located at this site. Baker Atlas has been moved from another location in Houston and the two facilities have been combined.
The new concrete tilt wall additions to the existing facility will include 185,500 square feet of space for testing and electronic assembly, 31,500 square feet for an instrument characterization building, 19,740 square feet for other support facilities, and 140,000 square feet of interior renovations for the existing office, manufacturing and warehouse facility. The two divisions of Baker Hughes design and manufacture tools and instrumentation used in oilfield exploration and production.
Falcon Group Construction is a construction firm providing project delivery through design-build, finance design-build and general construction. Founded in 1986, Falcon Group provides these services for commercial, industrial, educational, retail and multi-family facilities.
