Two Named to NSRI Board
, a specialist consultancy providing financial services, regulatory advice and corrective action, which was acquired by Money Extra. He went on to found Insensys in 2002, developing and commercializing fiber optic strain sensing for wind energy, aerospace and oil and gas applications. He sold the oil and gas division to Schlumberger in 2007 and the Wind Energy and Aerospace divisions to Moog Corporation in 2009. The inventor of 12 granted patents, Jones is also the founder and Chairman of M-Flow and Chairman of Magma Structures which has recently delivered the world’s largest ever yacht masts
J+S Installs HV Splice for CNR Lyell MPBP
In what is reported to be a first in the North Sea, J+S Ltd, part of the Cohort Group, from its Aberdeen-based oil and gas division, has created an engineering solution to terminate HV connectors complete with pigtails onto an existing umbilical. The solution required replacement of a single three-phase connector with separate phase connections to each core. As most HV connectors are not field-installable and need to be pre-terminated to an umbilical, CNR asked J+S to deliver a solution which would enable an in-field assembly onto the existing umbilical. The J+S splice assembly design incorpora
Caterpillar Engines to Power Six Drillships
investment in the Piracicaba facility enables them to offer a wide range of main power, auxiliary, and emergency generator sets to meet the Brazilian national content needs of the fast growing Brazilian offshore oil and gas industry. Caterpillar Global Petroleum, Caterpillar Inc.’s oil and gas division with headquarters in Houston, Texas, groups all the sales and service activities for Cat oil and gas power solutions. Since the 1930s, Caterpillar has manufactured engines for the oilfield and provides power solutions with outputs from 31 to 16,000 kW