UK-based ScanTech Offshore bagged this year’s ‘Technical Innovation of the Year’ award for its pioneering well testing product ‘HeaterSentry’.
The company’s representatives who collected the award said ScanTech developed HeaterSentry after “getting a lot of requests from customers”, who were complaining about hydrocarbon contamination in their boilers and surrounding equipment.
ScanTech’s representatives said they were delighted to win as they considered themselves minnows in the regional market and were up against heavyweight contenders for the award. “It feels brilliant since we were up against industry majors like Saudi Aramco,” Jennifer Broom, marketing coordinator, ScanTech Offshore, remarked.
“We actually felt great to have been nominated for the awards in the first place. To get shortlisted was a major achievement, to win it was delightful. We are really happy,” she said.
The product, which was developed in phases, provides early warning of heat exchanger process coil failures. It is installed between the heat exchanger and return line to the steam generator, hence it detects and detects hydrocarbons in condensed water from heat exchangers and conserves 85% of potable water by pumping hot water back to the steam generator.
ScanTech Offshore has produced models that provide single detection for liquid hydrocarbons and twin detection of the more difficult to detect gasses. HeaterSentry safely. All models are fitted with ‘PowerTrap’ that helps pump condensed steam back to the boiler and prevent the common phenomena of heat exchanger stall.
Highly commended in this category was Al Hosn Gas for its HSEIA Lifecycle Tracking System: ‘Keeping it Evergreen’, with one of the judges calling it “an application with quantifiable results.”
ScanTech, which already has a presence in the Far East, South America and Europe, is presently on an expansion spree in the Middle East. “Our plans for a base in Dubai is taking shape as we speak and will be completed by the year-end. We want to start 2016 fresh,” Craig Ballantyne, sales manager in MENA region, Scantech Offshore, said.
“We are at the stage now where we are even pushing the product (HeaterSentry) in Abu Dhabi and companies are liking it so this is the right market for us,” he added.
