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Oilfield services specialist Weatherford has announced that it has expanded its pipeline inspection services operations to include new facilities in Villahermosa, Mexico and Larnaca, Cyprus.
The Swiss-based company also said that its Pipeline & Specialty Services group upgraded and expanded existing facilities in Houston, Texas, Lukhovitsy, Russia and Lingen in Germany.
“These new facilities, complemented by the existing ones, will better enable Weatherford to provide the following technologies: multichannel caliper, magnetic flux leakage (MFL), transverse field inspection (TFI), ultrasonic wall measurement (UTWM) and ultrasonic crack detection (UTCD) inspection technologies,” the company said in a statement. .
“These technologies and facilities support a global effort to meet both the integrity and compliance needs of pipeline operators,” it added.
