Joint AINDT & SPE Facilities Group Technical Evening – Modular Robotic Technologies for Adaptive Inspection Solutions by Jeff Christopherson

Oil and Gas assets managers are under continuous pressure to maintain a safe and profitable infrastructure in the face of ageing assets, reduced budgets and increased safety demands. NDT technologies provide data to inform decision makers on how best to achieve their goals and further, these technologies hold the potential to provide intelligence from areas that were never before assessable – if you could just GET them there…. but getting a new technology to the target area can present a challenge for robotics integrators.

Inuktun’s Multi Mission Modular (IM3™) technology lends itself well to the challenge of deploying NDT systems into previously inaccessible, confined or hazardous spaces. This presentation will review several case studies where robotic solutions were developed to deploy NDT technologies into these forbidding areas, and touch upon future developments to take data collection even further.

By: Jeff Christopherson is Technical Sales Manager at Inuktun Services Ltd, Nanaimo B.C. Canada. Jeff’s experience as an engineer in the film and television industry has given him an extensive knowledge of electronic, mechanical and optical systems. This knowledge allows Jeff to fulfil his role as technical liaison between Inuktun and its clients. During his 5+years in this role, he has been involved in the analysis of many unique customer requirements, and in the determination of an Inuktun solution to satisfy those requirements.