Exploration • Drilling • Field Services
Maintaining instrumentation C
enelec Standards Inspections Ltd were selected to manage and carryout
Electrical & Instrument BS EN 60079-17 inspection programmes to ‘Close’ and ‘Detailed’ grades of Inspection utilising its electronic steering vehicle of ecom instruments
i.roc 621 hand-held inspection PDAs (Personal Digital Assistant) along with specially developed software which enables extreme efficiency in reporting results back to client engineers for analysis. The contract incorporates managing
activities for planned preventative maintenance, planning gap analysis, safety investigation of incidents, defect reporting, reliability reporting, root cause analysis of consistent failures, recommendations to root cause analysis, obsolescence notification reports and recommendations for cost reductions. The project includes maintaining all instrumentation,
fire and gas, lighting, public address systems, heat tracing, small power, function testing of emergency lighting systems at six month intervals and bulk re-lamping programmes are planned and monitored. The project is driving towards DSEAR Compliance
Accreditation for Inspection and Maintenance endorsed by UKAS for Quality systems to ISO9001-2008 accreditation which will enable the Easington Terminal as well as the Rough Fields Alpha and Bravo to achieve leading status for
Inspection requirements in the UK. Mark Temple, ATEX/DSEAR Projects Manager
comments: “The ecom
i.roc has been used to good effect ensuring our inspections utilise the ‘Best Available Techniques’ on the market. The lack of paperwork and associated document management problems has helped us create a robust, demonstrable and dynamic customer compliance package that has the potential to be updated hourly from anywhere in the world, this solution also aids our customers on the way to ISO 14001 Environmental Compliance. The future is bright for the relationship between ecom and Cenelec Standards Inspections Limited as we help our customers towards Non Electrical ATEX Compliance, Full Maintenance Management with Preventative Maintenance/PCM and IEC 61508/11
Functional Safety Compliance. The constantly evolving range of equipment available from ecom instruments will be utilised by Cenelec Standards Inspections Ltd. across many customers and industry sectors.” Carl Henderson, of ecom instruments UK
added: “We have a great working relationship with Cenelec Standards Inspections and it’s great to see a forward thinking company use technology in order to ensure increased efficiency and give themselves an edge, the company has a great reputation throughout the industry and are trusted to inspect the hazardous areas of a number of global high-
profile companies, ecom instruments UK and Cenelec Standards Inpections are both companies very much on the up and we can look forward to an exciting future working together.” The ecom instruments four core disciplines of
mobile computing, communication, measurement and calibration and portable lighting, has recently seen the further addition of lone worker protection systems which has become an important focal point for the company and sees ecom instruments leading the way in the protection of vulnerable personnel working in hazardous areas across the globe. ●
For more information, visit
www.ecom-ex.co.uk
Subsea cables transmit hydraulic and injection fluids C
able manufacturer Tratos will be exhibiting at this year’s SPE Offshore Europe 2011 Oil and Gas
Conference and Exhibition (6-8th September) in Aberdeen where its subsea umbilical cables will take centre stage. SPE Offshore Europe attracts thousands of
professionals in the upstream industry - including engineers, technical specialists, industry leaders and experts - providing them with the opportunity to engage suppliers face-to-face. Tratos, whose primary market is the oil and gas
industry, is looking to impress such visitors to the show with its extensive range of hydraulic, electro-hydraulic and electrical umbilical cabling for subsea oil and gas extraction and Oil&Gas BS6883
cables.The Tratos subsea cable range allows for hydraulic and injection fluids to be transmitted, as well as power and data, depending on the
cable type. They are suited for installation at depths up to 2000 metres, with select umbilicals qualified for depths of 3000 metres. The bespoke subsea umbilical cables are
manufactured in alliance with Brazilian cable manufacturer MFX. Tratos produce the internal signalling and power, while MFX manufacture the tubes and assemble the finish product. The result is an integrated system that produces exceptional quality cabling which other manufacturers are unable to guarantee as they outsource key components. Tratos Oil&Gas BS6883 low and medium voltage
and instrumentation cables will also be on display. The range is available options including reduced halogen and halogen free, fire resistant up to 950°C, armoured and unarmoured and individually or collectively screened.
All Tratos offshore cables have been tested
extensively both in laboratory trials and actual installations and have proven to be exceptionally reliable. They can be produced to a very wide range of standards including UK standard BS6883, Norwegian standard NEK 606, Eni Italian standard and also to bespoke customer requirements The product range includes single and multi
conductor high temperature, fire resistant, low smoke and fume, rubber, energy cables from low voltages up to 132kV, railway, motorway, data, fibre optic, oil and gas, shipwiring, drum reeling and telecommunications. As well as cathodic protection, composite and bespoke cables. The company’s testing facilities which include the
standard test for voltage, spark test and resistance as well as more in depth tests for elongation, heat shock, shrink back and vertical flame tests. TRATOS Limited is accredited with ISO 9001:2000 for their Quality Assurance also for the ‘enhanced quality management systems for product related functions’. ●
For more information, visit Tratos
www.tratos.co.uk
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