Spotlight on New Technology

ClampOn (Norway) has been named as recipient of a "Spotlight on New Technology Award" by the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) for its development of the company's Subsea Corrosion-Erosion Monitor (CEM). The award showcases technological developments and products that are leading the oil and gas industry into the future.

Corrosion and erosion represents a huge challenge to operators, and subsea operators in particular. ClampOn’s Subsea Corrosion-Erosions Monitor has been designed to operate in water depths down to 3000 metres, and the product's development has been supported by BP and Innovation Norway. The Subsea CEM measures changes in wall thickness over entire sections of pipe up to two metres in length and is an enormous technological leap forward. So far, the system has been delivered to BP and Total.

ClampOn began developing a topside version of the technology 10 years ago, and this technology has now been adapted for subsea use. The award represents an important step forward for ClampOn, which until now has been best known for its highly regarded topside and subsea sand monitors, PIG detectors and leak monitors.