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Oilfield activities involve several types of equipment and materials, all of which can pose a threat to the safety of workers. This makes understanding and mitigating hazards very important parts of operating on an oil rig.

Analog pressure gauges were all the rage once. With readings that have been provided through sensor technologies and their measurements of below-atmospheric pressure, they were used across the board before digital pressure gauges became all the rage. Although analog pressure gauges have been known to provide reliable and quick pressure readings, industries are increasingly adopting …

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It wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that energy has played a predominant role in geopolitics over the past few decades. Some might even argue that geopolitical rivalry over oil has been a cause of most conflicts in the 20th century.

Oilfield work is considered to be one of the most dangerous professions in the world. Due to high-pressure and a physically demanding work environment, ensuring workplace safety for the workforce can become extremely difficult.

Analog pressure gauges are compact, simple instruments that are heavily used in the oil drilling industry. As the device is used to measure high pressures, it’s not uncommon for errors to occur. In fact, it’s one of the instruments that are most likely to experience calibration problems.

From planning processes to managing workers, there are many challenges that you will experience on a daily basis when you’re in the oil industry. One of the most difficult challenges that you can encounter is choosing the right instruments for processes. This is especially true when it comes to choosing pressure gauges.

The first tower crane was invented in the late 1940s, and it completely changed the landscape of the construction industry. It’s highly efficient machinery that enables the construction work to be performed at a very high altitude.

Pressure gauges are used all over the globe in industrial environments, particularly in the oil and gas drilling industry. In fact, pressure sensors are among the most heavily used instruments in oil drilling plants.

Oilfields have never been easy places to work in. Whether it was the 1980 capsizing of Alexander L. Kielland, a semi-submersible platform, which resulted in 123 deaths, or the 1988 oil rig disaster that ended the lives of 167 people, history is rife with such incidents.

If the first places that come to your mind when you think oil are the United States and the Middle East, think again. The world’s first integrated oil company was actually established in Canada! Since then, oil production in Ontario has been expanding steadily, and currently, we are the 7th largest crude oil producer in the world.