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Oil & Gas operators are regularly faced with issues relating to obsolescence when parts of their subsea control systems need replacing. Operators usually either prefer to replace parts with like for like alternatives which fit into existing systems, or upgrade the technology to benefit from additional functionality. When critical parts become obsolete, replacement options ...

Importance of Railway Maintenance In the old world of business, maintenance was commonly referred to as a ‘necessary evil’, something that one must contend with but does not value. It had to be done to keep the lights on but should be driven to a minimum in the name of efficiency. In safety-critical industries ...

It is an old adage that electricity and water don’t mix. You wouldn’t want to be standing in a puddle holding a live wire. Why is this? Because water is generally an excellent conductor of electricity and those electrically charged ions are looking for somewhere to land. A human body ...

Founder & Director of Circle2Success, Suzanne Hall-Gibbins, interviewed Managing Director, Edward Davies, to learn more about Viper's innovation culture. Viper Innovations Ltd, was founded in 2007 by Co-owners and Directors Max Nodder and Neil Douglas. Initially set up as an engineering consultancy, offering design and project management services for subsea distribution equipment it invested heavily ...

Network Rail has approved the use of Viper Innovations’ Cable Monitoring System for AC electrified routes making the system fully approved for use across all Network Rail regions. CableGuardian is an award-winning product created by UK based technology company Viper Innovations.  Its product initially received Network Rail approval in June this year, when it ...

What is Asset Integrity Management? Asset integrity management is a three-word term that can be explained more simply with one word: maintenance. Taking your family car for its annual check-up and servicing is asset integrity management. In other words, you are taking care of your asset, i.e. the car, on a ...

Portishead based innovation and technology company, Viper Innovations has pledged its support to help “Turn The Tide Portishead” with their latest initiative to help reduce the amount of litter reaching our surrounding tidal water and coastlines. Turn The Tide Portishead is a not for profit organisation run by a group of volunteers dedicated to ...

Spread Spectrum Time Domain Reflectometry (SSTDR) technology can be utilised in a number of different variants and can work with most communications and control options in fully housed sensor modules for permanent installation. Sensor ‘engines’ are available in the form of fully engineered, credit-card sized printed circuit boards and multi-board ...

Subsea engineering is the industrial equivalent of fluid engineering and computer systems plus video games and the internet mixed in with a bit of the Wizard of Oz. It remains relatively new – certainly less than 50 years old – and is often seen as something ‘new-fangled’, even though it has been used extensively around ...

Insulation testing is a commonly used technique allowing the user to monitor and determine the insulation integrity of a given system. One can continuously monitor the insulation resistance (IR) with a line integrity monitoring device, or simply test as and when required with an insulation tester. IR testing has the capability of determining whether ...