Apr 29 2013
What’s in a word? Perhaps the toughest challenges facing oilfield equipment engineers today. During the Offshore Technology Conference May 6–9 in Houston, Bal Seal Engineering, Inc. will invite attendees to describe their most pressing engineering challenges “in a word,” with the goal of creating custom components to solve them.
In a format reminiscent of popular online word games, visitors will have the opportunity to present their challenge to Bal Seal and confer with an experienced applications engineer.
Bal Seal, a provider of sealing, connecting, conducting and EMI shielding solutions for oil and gas applications, said it hopes to inspire oil industry engineers to challenge the company to develop solutions that address such problems as downtime, performance and reliability. The hardest part might be boiling those challenges down to a single word: chemical, sealing, connecting, signal and noise.
Attendees will have the opportunity to speak with Bal Seal engineers at booth #1504 about issues ranging from high temperature/high pressure (HTHP) to the sealing and connecting challenges faced in unconventional and arctic drilling.
“This show provides us with the opportunity to meet these challenges head on,” said Bal Seal Global Energy Market Manager Shawn Noh. “We will have several solutions onsite to address critical oilfield issues – including the LKS™ High PV Seal for LWD/MWD equipment. The LKS is ideal for manufacturers who are seeking more service life in harsh oilfield environments.”
The LKS is a multi-component seal consisting of a Bal Seal Canted Coil Spring®-energized, graphite-reinforced PTFE seal jacket, a PEEK anti-extrusion element and a metal locking ring.
The seal is designed to provide increased service life in pump systems, top drives, rotary steerables and LWD/MWD tools. In critical applications such as LWD and MWD, the LKS Seal prevents fluid, mud, sand, rock and H2S gas from entering the mud pulser casing. The seal also helps keep moisture from migrating into the tool’s sensitive electronics.
For more information about the OTC event, visit: www.otcnet.org/2013.
For information about the LKS High PV Seal™, visit www.lks-seal.com, or Bal Seal’s Website at www.balseal.com.