Floating Pontoon Robot
Practical Engineering Australia (PEA) recently had the opportunity to work with Matthew Dunbabin and his research team at QUT. They had been engaged by Seqwater to design and manufacture a floating pontoon robot. Seqwater’s Autonomous Motorised Monitoring Instrument (SAMMI) is a solar-powered self-driving system with GPS and collision detection. SAMMI provides an innovative way to...
Has it landed on Mars?
Has it landed on Mars? The ‘Hobbit’ Scout Drilling Rig is the brainchild of Nautilus Minerals. The seafloor drill can effectively land and recover a core sample from many meters under the seabed up to 3km below the surface. How do you maximise sampling at these depths? Practical Engineering Australia Engineering designed...
Practical Engineering Fuel Gas Heater Pressure Vessels
Gas pressure vessels are generally designed to stir, mix and hold gas at a substantially different pressure than that of the surrounding atmosphere. As a result of this pressure, there are a variety of safety precautions that manufacturers and operators must take and the applicable Australian Standard is AS1210....
Practical Engineering Testing and Certification in the Oil and Gas Industry
Testing and certification is a key part of keeping work sites, staff members and contractors safe whilst operating on Australia’s oil and gas fields. The ‘golden rule’ of testing is that if a piece of equipment can kill or harm someone, cause financial loss, or if it is in any...
Gas Flaring Systems
Practical Engineering has developed a range of flaring systems to cater to the drilling and mining industries. The systems range from mud-gas separating Flare Tanks to gas venting Blooie Pilots and degassing applications for CSG and flaring ahead of mining activities. We specialise in the design, manufacture and installation...
Practical’s High-Tech Chimney Sweeps
Practical Engineering prides itself on having a qualified engineering workforce that is unafraid of getting their hands dirty. However, a recent boiler stack assessment required the attending team to get a lot more than their hands dirty. Practical’s Mechanical Engineers Jai Rice, Ed Butcher and Scott Cox recently travelled...
Equipment Certification
Practical Engineering provides ongoing equipment certification for a wide range of industries. Do you import equipment from overseas? Equipment importers, designers and fabricators may not be aware that under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 there is a requirement for equipment to be certified safe for use in...
Practical Supports Drilling Operators in Papua New Guinea
Practical Engineering has a proud history of operating within the drilling industry not only in Australia, but also in Papua New Guinea’s vast oil and gas fields. PNG poses its own unique problems when it comes to drilling, with terrain, weather and resource depths being three key influences to...
Drill Rig Repairs in PNG
Practical Engineering have recently returned from a successful mission to PNG assisting Western Drilling (WDL) with a permanent repair to a mast segment on their Rig 1. To provide some background, in the midst of a drilling operation in the PNG Highlands in late 2014, site personnel noticed a...
Certification of Lifting Devices to AS4991-2004
Practical Engineering caters to the needs of clients across a variety of industries who have one thing in common – their need for certification of lifting equipment. Section 12 of AS4991-2004 Lifting Devices, identifies two appropriate methods to certify/verify Lifting Equipment: • Physical testing to up to two times...
