March 2013 Tube Products International
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business & market news
Spotlight on New Technology award
ClampOn has had the honour of using
the Spotlight on New Technology logo
since receiving an award last year. The
company received the award for its
development of the ClampOn Subsea
Corrosion-Erosion Monitor (Subsea
CEM), a project realised with the support
of BP and Innovation Norway.
The technology used in the Subsea
CEM enables operators to monitor the
rate of erosion or corrosion in their
pipelines. The instrument includes up
to 32 ultrasonic transducers installed on
the outside of a section of pipe up to
two metres long. The transducers ‘talk’
to each other and the ultrasonic signals
passing between them change as the
pipe wall thickness reduces.
ClampOn states that it is presently
the only manufacturer that can offer
technology that can measure erosion
or corrosion on the pipe itself in water
depths of up to 3,000m, although it
expects competing systems to enter the
market at some point. Since receiving
the award, the company has signed
contracts for deliveries of the Subsea
CEM with operators, large and small, in
the North Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and
Asia.
ClampOn AS
– Norway
West Coast mechanical tubing depot opens
Marmon/Keystone’s Los Angeles
branch has begun stocking 100 new
sizes of DOM and cold drawn seamless
products in a recently established West
Coast mechanical tubing depot.
“These additional sizes provide
a broader range of material that is
available for faster delivery to our
customers in the region,” said Barry
Glaser, regional vice president, western
region. “The depot was specifically
created to meet our customers’
growing needs, and it complements
our already strong mechanical tubing
business.”
As a wholesale distributor of tubular
products for over 100 years, Marmon/
Keystone inventories more than 15,000
sizes and grades of carbon, alloy,
stainless and aluminium tubular and
bar products. Service centres and sales
offices are located throughout North
America, with corporate headquarters in
Butler, Pennsylvania.
Marmon/Keystone LLC
– USA
