High reliability electronics for deep well tools and intelligent completions.
Welcome to our blog dedicated to high temperature electronics for the Oil & Gas industry. Whether you are designing tools for operating temperatures over 200C or intelligent completions requiring 10 years at 150C, this is the place to ask questions, share opinions and hopefully become more informed. With a pedigree in Aerospace products spanning more [...]
As the countdown to this year’s OTC nears the final stages, I’m looking forward to catching up with all my old friends and colleagues again. If you have any questions about high temperature, high reliability electronics for the Oil & Gas sector, feel free to contact me on michaelwoolsey@cmac.com and perhaps we can arrange to [...]
COTs is a really emotive subject. Commercial Off The Shelf electronics (industrial grade in this instance) become attractive as customers seek to cut costs by using plastic packaged parts for harsh environment applications. We work in a variety of harsh-environment market sectors; while this blog is about high temperature electronics in the Oil & [...]
Interesting to read a couple of news items recently which refer to High Pressure, High Temperature (HPHT) wells in our neck of the woods so to speak The stories in Oil Voice and Your Industry News are well worth a read. Does anyone know of a current resources (e.g. map) of northern Europe showing HPHT wells / exploration?
The notion of Peak Oil appears to have receded recently thanks to some massive discoveries in 2011 – http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=114064 – with our expertise in High Temperature Electronics, we’d like to know how many of those experienced a drilling environment with temperatures higher than 200 degC. High temperatures are naturally influenced by drilling depths but of [...]
Scotty, Chief Engineer on Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise, was often heard saying that “you cannae change the laws of physics”. This is true of all materials of course and in addressing the challenges of high temperature electronics is particularly relevant to even the most advanced printed circuit boards (PCB) of today – no small matter [...]
In our world of multi-chip modules, we’ve long since known that the use of bare silicon semiconductors has many advantages in terms of improved reliability and higher levels of integration through increased packaging density. However, without the benefit of a plastic package (which is great for volume manufacturing but not so great at temperature extremes), [...]
Its been an excellent first day at the conference and exhibition. Its always good to meet new and existing contacts at focused events like this, where mutual challenges and solutions are discussed.
With only 5 days to the start of the conference I am really looking forward to next weeks event. There are numerous interesting papers being presented but for me personally, meeting and discussing solutions with all the like minded interesting people, working to achieve reliable High Temperature electronic systems will be the highlight. The real benefit of events like this is [...]
Has anyone bought this report yet? If you have, I’d be interested to know what you thought. We were pleased to be able to contribute and it would be great to read the opinions of those of you who have read and digested the report. http://www.visiongain.com/Report/676/The-Oil-Gas-Drilling-Technologies-Market-2011-2021
Microcircuit technology featuring thick film interconnect on alumina has been developed over the last 40 years to address the needs of users operating in harsh environments. C-MAC MicroTechnology has extended it's capabilities specifically to address the needs of the Energy sector. Extensive experience in key applications provides the ideal background to assist service companies developing high temperature solutions for energy production. More