OGMT North America
Technical Overview

Upstream
EQUIPMENT, DOWNHOLE DRILLING AND RESERVOIR MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY

• Advances in reservoir maintenance technology
• Preventing loss of reservoir porosity, EOR, sand control
• Advances in downhole / drill string inspection & monitoring
• Use of lasers
• Maintenance of equipment such as:
  • Artificial lift systems
  • Electronic, pneumatic and hydraulic control systems
  • Flow meters
  • Transfer pumps
  • Downhole tubing and casing
  • Production separators, tanks, flowlines, filters and other processing vessels
  • Scada systems
  • Preservation maintenance

Downstream
REFINERIES AND PROCESS INDUSTRIES

• Advances in monitoring technologies for refinery equipment
• Advances in predicting equipment reliability
• Repair, rehabilitation and cleaning of fouled or damaged equipment
• Prevention of stress corrosion cracking
• New processes, material and maintenance strategies to minimize fouling from off-gases
• Prevention of corrosion and fouling due to high-sulfur feeds
• Safety management
• Quality control
• Plant reliability
• Energy conservation
• Planning / scheduling of equipment testing
• General shutdown guidelines
• Tower and vessel inspection & repair
• Furnace and boiler inspection & repair
• Heat exchanger monitoring & maintenance
• Rotating equipment maintenance & vibration monitoring

Midstream
PIPELINE SYSTEMS

• Pipeline construction in challenging environments
• Pipeline manufacturing and metallurgy
• Rehabilitation methods and materials technology
• Risk assessment and area classification
• HAZOP (Hazard and Operability) studies, security and integrity
• Leak detection and cathodic protection systems
• Inline inspection and development of repair plans
• Risk Assessment and preventative measures
• Offshore pipeline inspection, repair and rehabilitation
• Selection and maintenance of valves
• Project management
• Pipeline damage, measurement and assessment
• Online inspection work
• Hydrostatic testing
• De-watering and drying of sales gas pipelines
• CO2 and Biofuels – Conversion hazards, maintenance worries.
• Third-party damage – Accidental, Deliberate
• Greenhouse gas moderation (R&M implications)
• Direct Assessment methodologies
• Coating technology
• Polymer and epoxy degradation
• Environmentally assisted cracking
• SCC
• Microbiological corrosion