The industrial gas industry supports and enables energy production from many different sources in a surprising numbers of ways. Tony Wheatley takes us through this range of applications.
Gases supplied by offshore services
Driven by high crude oil prices, the exploration of potential new oil and gas fields is either underway or planned in many parts of the world, including the West African Coast, Indian Ocean, South China Sea and the Arctic Ocean.
These operations depend heavily on supplies of a range of gases that are used aboard a variety of offshore installations and vessels, where conventional delivery services are impossible.
Requirements include Argon/CO2 welding mixtures for equipment and plant maintenance, helium/oxygen blends for breathing gas used by undersea divers, nitrogen for purging and leak detection, speciality and calibration gases plus oxygen and other medical gases.
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