Norske Conoco AS and Kvaerner Oil Field Products AS have developed a high-pressure composite drilling riser for field demonstration, which they believe is the world's first. Partially sponsored by EU ...
Moving to manufacture:One final issue is manufacturing capacity. Salama reckons the technology is ready to go into production, but the ability to meet demand does not exist. 'It all hinges on somebody ...
It took just 90 minutes for fire to race up 20 storeys of the Grenfell Tower in June 2017, killing 72 people. Last month, a cigarette sparked a blaze that quickly jumped five floors of Melbourne's ...
Introduction:The highest payoff in the use of composites is for primary load-bearing elements of deepwater systems. This use is on the verge of testing, as Marshall DeLuca investigates. Just as the ...