TCP-X-Unit enables advanced data communication even with legacy field devices Hamburg International software and consulting company, Implico, announced a new, more powerful tool enabling customers to connect legacy field technology with the OpenTAS terminal management system. The new TCP-X-Unit is capable of simultaneously converting signals from three serial-linked field devices for OpenTAS. In addition, the…
A futuristic flying fish-styled defense system for the Royal Navy, was envisaged by Saab Seaeye systems engineer, Ali Roy. With defense dangers acute at the waterline, she designed an organic shaped concept with the nimble agility to both fly and swim – to avoid detection or pursue a quarry. Joining a team of the UK’s…
Applied Motion UL-Recognized stepper motors include both single and double-shaft versions in NEMA frame sizes 17 through 34, with torque values from 31 to 1,841 oz.-in. These motors are designed to work optimally with applied motion stepper drives, ensuring smooth motion and high performance in every application. The company’s UL-recognized servo motors include J series…
By William Sattlegger, P. Geo.President, Foreshore Resources Ltd. The energy industry is faced with accrued environmental liabilities in part due to end of life reserves, subpar economics, and the culture of deferring well suspensions, abandonments, and site reclamations has resulted in an ever-increasing inventory of inactive wells across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. This is…
By Amit Mehta CEO of Houston-based Moblize (www.moblize.com Well drilling is utilizing more and more technology each year, yet engineers are still making many key decisions based on educated guesses. However, driven by innovative professionals, skilled in both E&P and data analytics, daily operations are becoming much more technically precise. Making People Smarter…
In Calgary’s corporate headquarters, it had been long been acknowledged, very quietly of course, that Saskatchewan’s energy regulator is “a bit lax” in how it policed the oilpatch. Executives believed they could get away with more. Sadly, last fall a consortium of media claimed it had uncovered almost five years of violations in how industry…
