Ensuring that employees and visitors to an oil, gas or petrochemical installation have ID information that cannot be compromised is more important than ever. But secure ID means a lot more than just showing a card or typing in a password, as Phil Desmond discovers.

When lightning struck on or near a petroleum tank at the Magellan Midstream Partners distribution terminal in Kansas City, Kansas, in 2008, the tank, containing approximately 1.2 mn gallons of unleaded gasoline, caught fire, sending a large plume of smoke across portions of the greater Kansas City metro area.

Expro’s ground-breaking AX-S subsea well intervention system has been designed from the outset as a deepwater system, not merely an extension of surface or shallow water technology taken to depth.p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-decoration: none;">Expro’s ground-breaking AX-S subsea well intervention system has been designed from the outset as a deepwater system, not merely an extension of surface or shallow water technology taken to depth.

ENGINEERING GIANT FMC Technologies won a US$520mn contract from Total to build subsea production equipment for the Clov project off Angola.