Millions of viewers saw how a geyser fed by a broken pipe flooded UCLA last July, but few have heard how a dozen city welders used string, math, clay and white-hot metal to restore water service. One ...
Fusion operators were under pressure to get the pipe moving again. Taking a chance on an innovative method for installing a mile-long force main appears to have paid off for a South Carolina water ...
CAPITAL REGION -- "Unexpected, unknown break." A lengthy repair project at the hands of these crews in Loudonville - a water main break they say proved to be a challenge. "This job was more difficult ...
A composite carbon-fiber material bonded directly on the pipe surface provides an alternative for obtaining standoff for completion and drilling tools, production riser systems, pipe-in-pipe flowlines ...
Helical buckling in wellbores is a critical phenomenon observed in elongated, slender tubular strings subjected to complex loading conditions during drilling operations. As the directional trajectory ...
EnCana Corp. had a new rig built for reverse-circulation airlift drilling to prevent lost-circulation through thick, fractured, vuggy basalts. Encana was faced with drilling Miocene basalt sections as ...