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August 2011 - Russell NDE
Systems Inc. and
RTCo is a member of the BBB Accredited
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Russell NDE Systems Inc. and
RTCo (a Russell
subsidiary) is now a member of the BBB (Better Business Bureau)
Accredited Business. The BBB accreditation is a reflection of
the Russell Group of Family commitment to ethical business
practices, who consistently demonstrate trust in business and
high quality customer service. |
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July 2011 -
Blanket Probe Near
Completion |
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The first P.U. coated
Blanket Probe has been delivered and bench tested.
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July 2011 -
Wachs Water Services
and PICA Form Strategic Alliance |
Wachs Water Services and
Pipeline Inspection & Condition Analysis Corporation (PICA) Form
Strategic Alliance to Accelerate Deployment of Metallic Water
Pipeline Inspection Technologies.
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April 2011 - Frost &
Sullivan has awarded Russell NDE Systems Inc. the "2011 Product Leadership Award
for Remote Field Testing". |
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Russell NDE Systems Inc.
has been honored by Frost & Sullivan with its "2011 Global
Product Leadership Award for Remote Field Testing"
The independent, un-biased analysis performed by Frost &
Sullivan's PDF Report can be viewed by clicking
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Quote from President Dave
Russell: It is great to be recognized by an independent, highly
reputable, firm like Frost & Sullivan for the hard work of the
R&D, manufacturing, Sales and Support teams at Russell. We have
always known that our RFT instruments (FerroScope,
VertiScan,
I-PIT,
E-PIT,
See
Snake, HydraSnake and TT) were "best in class"; but this
award shows that our customers think so too. We are grateful to
Frost & Sullivan and their analyst Nikhil Jain for selecting
Russell for this prestigious award. |
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April 2011 - Russell NDE
purchases See Snakes from PipeScope Inc., and takes over their
business of inspecting oil and gas lines. |
Russell NDE Systems Inc. (RNDE)
is pleased to announce that it has acquired all of the in-line
inspection tool assets of PipeScope Inc.,(former licensee of
RNDE’s for western Canada oil and gas pipeline inspection
services).
RNDE will immediately begin to market in-line inspection
services to oil and gas pipeline owners in Canada and
internationally.
“This is a strategic move for RNDE as we consolidate our
pipeline condition analysis services for the O&G marketplace. We
have added See Snake Tools in 3”, 4” and 6” sizes to our Tool
inventory as well as a large compressor (used to push the Tools
into the pipes) and a Tracked Skid Steer unit, equipped with an
Amsteel Rope winch, (used to retrieve the Tools at constant
speed). We will now have the capability to offer inspection of
unlined oil and gas pipelines which complements the services
that we have been offering for lined pipelines” Company
President, Dave Russell said.
“This move comes at a time when RNDE has just been awarded a
“best in class” award for its equipment that uses RFT technology
by the prestigious Frost and Sullivan Group, and its subsidiary,
PICA Corp. is moving towards dominance of the pipeline condition
analysis business for water and wastewater networks”
www.russelltech.com
and www.picacorp.com. For
more info. Please call Dave Russell at (780) 468-6800 |
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April 2011 - Ankit
Vajpayee of Russell writes an article on "Using a Robotic System
to Inspect Boiler Tubes" on AWS.org. |
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Ankit Vajpayee |
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Ankit Vajpayee of Russell
writes an article on "Using a Robotic System to Inspect Boiler
Tubes" on AWS.org.
Click
here to read the full article. |
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March 2011 - Power
Engineering accepts technical paper from Mynor Celis of RNDE: |
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Mynor Celis |
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Power Engineering, March edition, published a
paper written by Mynor Celis, a sales engineer working for
Russell NDE. The paper discusses common failure mechanisms in
power boilers and how the conditions that led to the failure can
be prevented by careful management and proactive inspection and
maintenance.
Click
here to read article.
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February 2011 - Dacon
signs agreement with Russell |
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Russell NDE president, Dave Russell and Dacon
President Martin Stuvik have inked an agreement to share their
technology within their market areas. The agreement allows
Russell and its sister company PICA to market Dacon’s UT PIG (an
ultrasonic, high precision, in-line inspection tool for pipeline
inspections) within Canada and the USA. It also allows Dacon to
market Russell and/or PICA’s electromagnetic tools for pipeline
inspection in Thailand and surrounding areas.
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October 2010 - 27km of 8"
pipeline inspection for Cenovus Energy |
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Russell NDE Systems has successfully completed
the inspection of 27km of 8”, internally coated, pipe for
Cenovus Energy. The line runs through heavy muskeg for its full
length. |
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September 2010 - Suncor
furnace tube condition assessment |
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Russell NDE Systems is continuing to help Suncor
with their yearly, furnace tube condition assessment,
specifically looking for carburization. Both the E-Pit and TOFD
technologies are used during this evaluation. |
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August 2010 - 30km of HDPE
lined sour gas pipeline inspection |
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Russell completed the inspection of over 30km of
HDPE lined sour gas pipelines over the summer months. This work
was part of a program of scheduled inspections for a major oil
and gas company who pro-actively monitor their pipelines for
degradation caused by the high concentration of sour gas in the
pipeline. The photo shows the See Snake Tool being readied for
launch into the pipeline. |
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August 2010 - Calgary 6"
watermain |
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Russell NDE Systems has successfully completed
another year’s work on a number of Calgary’s 6” water mains. |
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July 2010 - Cameco,
Northern Sask. slick line inspection |
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Russell NDE Systems successfully completed work
on four different Slick Lines used to transmit cement slurry
into the mine to depths over 500 meters. |
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July 2010 - Dr. Johnson
Delibero Angelo visits Russell |
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Dr Jonhson Delibero Angelo
from Sau Paulo, Brasil, visited us today. Jonhson mentioned how
reliable his Ferroscope 308 has been, and how he prefers it for
RFT tube inspections over all the other instruments that he has
seen. He enjoyed some fine Alberta beef and sunny weather during
his two day stay with us. Photo above Johnson on the left with
Hoan Nguyen (probe specialist) on the right. |
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May 2010 - VertiScan
System demonstrated at Weyerhaeuser, Grande Prairie. |
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VertiScan System
demonstrated at Weyerhaeuser, Grande Prairie. The VertiScan
System was demonstrated in Recovery Boiler #2 where both
composite and carbon steel tubes were examined. The
demonstration was very successful on both materials and a scan
height of 75’ was attained. Weyerhaeuser will be considering the
use of the VertiScan System (photo shows Terry Schultz examining
the VertiScan). |
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April 2010 - NRC-IRAP
projects, key to technology success:
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PICA (Russell NDE) would like to
acknowledge the invaluable assistance that the Canadian National Research Centre
and its Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) have provided to the firm.
As early as the late 1980’s Russell NDE Systems (then Russell Technologies)
partnered with NRC to develop the key technologies that underlie the modern
in-line inspection Tools that Russell now makes, and PICA now uses. This
assistance has led to the completion of dozens of small to medium development
projects with almost 100% success rate. Products such as the Radalarm, Radiation
Dosemeter, Ferroscope, I-PIT, E-PIT, WellCAT, HydroScope and See Snake Tools
would not have been possible without NRC’s participation.
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For more information about NRC’s
initiative for sustainable infrastructure developments, visit:
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/ibp/irc/csir/index.html |
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April 2010 - Ferroscope ET
almost ready for delivery |
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Ferroscope ET almost ready for delivery:
The finishing touches are being made to the software for the Ferroscope
Eddy-Current instrument by Brian Thai, senior software designer. The new
instrument will offer RFT and ECT in the same box, with capability to run array
probes on ferrous and non-ferrous tubing applications. The photo shows the new
Ferroscope ET, lap top computer with display of ASME Calibration tube defects
(absolute and differential responses), the detachable head probes and
calibration tubes. |
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April 2010 - News item
regarding inspection of U.S. gas pipelines: |
The US regulator of pipelines, PHMSA, has
finalized the rules relating to gas distribution mains. The link takes you to
the final version of the document 49 CFR part 192
http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/dimp/docs/DIMPFINALRULE.PDF
This should bode well for Russell because many gas distribution mains cannot be
inspected by MFL Tools.
The Russell See Snake™
Tools are ideal for inspection of pipelines with low flow, internal liners and
scale |
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March 2010 - Russell
incorporates a new subsidiary for water and waste water pipeline
inspections
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PICA: Pipeline Inspection and Condition
Analysis Corporation has been incorporated in Canada and the USA.
PICA (pronounced peeka has several meanings, one of which is a very small
measurement … just like the fine resolution measurements made by our See Snake
and Hydroscope Tools).
PICA will have a busy year performing inspections of water and waste water mains
for cities such as Calgary, Milwaukee, Virginia Beach, Ottawa, Quebec and Hong
Kong.
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March 2010 - Russell
awarded inspection of epoxy lined pipeline |
Russell will perform free-swimming
See Snake™
inspection of 27km of epoxy lined pipeline for Cenovus in Central Alberta.
Special centralizers were developed to ensure that the in-line inspection tool
does not scratch or damage the epoxy liner.
Special thanks to Dan Lingnau for this innovation, which was originally
developed for HDPE lined pipe inspection for Shell Canada. |
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March 2010 - Russell
receives visitors from Singapore: |
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Mr. Vijay Das, (Assistant Director) and
Ms. Chong Mien Ling (Executive Engineer) of Singapore P.U.B. visited Russell’s
head office in Edmonton on Saturday, March 27th. Our guests were brought to us
by Mr. Gordon Heinrich of Red Zone Robotics (Pittsburgh office) at the request
of Mr. Wing Chan of the Chun Wo Company (Hong Kong Office).
Singapore PUB is interested in condition assessment of their water and waste
water piping. Singapore has a population of 5 million in an area that is just
710 square km. As a result they have a massive infrastructure of buried assets
and knowing their condition is of high importance to them.
We have promised to meet them again at the Singapore International Water Week
June 28-July 2. (Photo attached shows Vijay in middle, Gordon on right and Ms
Chong on left) |
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March 2010 - New
Russell NDE sign in lobby
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A big
“Thank You” to Greg Stamer, Machine Shop Supervisor, for creating the new
Russell NDE sign for our lobby. Greg created the individual letters of “RUSSELL”
using the NC Mill and polished aluminum plate.
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February 2010 - Russell is
awarded a NRC contract to develop TT technique for piping
inspection from outside the pipe: |
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In 2009 Doctor Yuwu Yu and Hoan Nguyen
worked on prototypes of the new TT probe. This patent pending technique employs
exciter coils on one side of a pipe and a detector array on the other. The
device (photo) is manually scanned down a pipe to detect “Corrosion Under
Insulation” (CUI) on insulated pipes and internal pitting on bare pipes. |
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The device connects to a standard 16
channel Ferroscope and produces colour contour plots of the scanned area,
showing thin spots. The NRC contract is to adapt this technique to allow use of
a Blanket of sensors which will produce a colour plot of the pipe under the
blanket. Blankets are anticipated to come in sizes similar to radiographic film,
and will be a stand-alone system, communicating directly to a remote or
connected lap-top computer. The three photos show the Flat Bottom Holes in the
pipe, the TT probe on the insulated pipe and the Ferroscope data from those
FBH’s. |
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February 2010 - ASM
Technical Dinner Meeting on Advancements in RFT.
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Ankit
will introduce RFT, and explain how it differs from Eddy Current and
Magnetic Flux Leakage testing. Ankit will present conventional RFT probes
and their applications before introducing advanced array probes. Ankit also
will discuss the future of RFT, including the integration of robotics and
recent developments in the field.
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February 2010 -
Ankit presents paper on RFT at AWS.
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At the
2010 American Welding Society (AWS) Dinner, Ankit introduced RFT, and
explain how it differs from Eddy Current and Magnetic Flux Leakage testing.
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January 2010 - Veolia buys
HydraSnake™ Tool for water main inspection in France: |
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The large French water company, Veolia,
became interested in HydroScope inspection techniques and approached Russell to
design/built a hybrid Tool to fit their 8” water mains. The HydraSnake Tool™
contains See Snake™ electronics plus line driver circuits that send a portion of
the data collected up a wireline to a host computer above ground. This allows
the operators to see that the Tool is working properly and to monitor the
quality of the data as it is being gathered. Thickness data from the water main
is also stored on board the Tool and is downloaded immediately after the
inspection. The Tool can inspect 1000m of pipeline in less than 4 hours,
providing exceptional value to Veolia. |
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October 2009 - ASNT Fall
Conference
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Vincent
Shen, Ankit Vajpayee and Ed Brain attended the ASNT fall conference in
October 20-22, 2009. Our booth featured the Sonotron UPA-Scope (Ultrasonic
Phased Array) which drew much attention.
We presented several technical papers and participated in the
Electromagnetics Committee meting.
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Sept 2009 - 24" tool
demo in Louisville, KY.
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In
early September Russell demonstrated our new 24” RFT Tool in Louisville, KY.
The 24” cast iron pipeline was over 2000 feet in length with a wall
thickness of ¾”. Inside the pipe was a cement mortar lining.
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April 2009 - Boiler
Water Wall Inspections
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“Since
February, Russell NDE has performed Boiler Water Wall Inspection for four
customers:
1) TECO Guatemala; We inspected the
San Jose Boiler #1 water wall tubes. Customer TECO were impressed enough to
invite us back again in July for a larger shutdown.
2) Trans Canada Pipelines Ravenswood plant:
We inspected three water walls from swing stages in Unit 20 boiler located
in Long Island City, New York. Ravenswood burns a mixture of coal and Bunker
Coil.
3) Tampa Electric: we inspected Tampa
Electric’s Big Bend Unit #1 (two walls) using swing stages. Big Bend burns
coal and is a unique “Riley-Stoker” design.
4) BC Hydro, Burrard station (4
walls). This is the 5th boiler that we have inspected for BC Hydro, which
burns natural gas.
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February 2009 -
Russell attends IPEIA tradeshow
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Its
February again and like always Russell NDE Systems Inc. participated both as
exhibitors and speakers at the IPEIA 2009, Banff. In the morning session of
conference Ankit Vajpayee conducted a work shop
on the topic
“Use of Material Compensation to enhance the accuracy of RFT Inspections”.
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November 2008 -
Russell NDE employment opportunity
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Russell NDE is seeking an experienced Mechanical Design Engineer to join it's
R&D team and an In-Line Inspection Tool
Operator to its
growing field pipeline inspection business.
View complete listings here
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August 2008 - Russell
appointed Silverwing Service Centre |
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Russell
NDE Systems appointed as Approved Service Centre to service the
needs of Silverwing
customers within North America.
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July 2008 -
Visitors from Chile received |
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Felipe
Eduardo Montecinos Giordano, Preventive Maintenance Manager -
Planta Arauco and Eduardo Eric Cretier Peña, Operations
Manager,ECP Technology.Chile accompanied Isabel Beehoo, ECP
Technologies, Toronto on a visit to Russell’s Edmonton office.
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June 2008 - Ankit
conducts a RFT training course for Syrian Delegates. |
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The
Russell Team was pleased to welcome 3 delegates from Syria.
The objective of their visit was “Training on Remote Field
Technology”.
This training course was conducted by Ankit Vajpayee of Russell
NDE Systems Inc.
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May 2008 - Ankit
conducts a RFT training course for Thermax Limited. |
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A Professional Training Course conducted by Mr.
Ankit Vajpayee on Remote Field Technology at Thermax Limited,
Pune, India.
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April 20, 2008 -
Russell completes three boiler inspection jobs in Sweden! |
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The Russell team of Dave Russell
and Patrick Lake broke all records last week when they inspected
three boilers using the VertiScan System within 10 days in
Sweden. Repeat customer, Claes Goransson of Inspecta AB,
expressed his delight with the way the TubeCAT crawler worked
flawlessly on the jobs.
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