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R&D Solutions Host North Metropolitan TAFE Oil & Gas students at its facilities

On Friday the 26th May 2017, thirty students from the North Metropolitan TAFE took part in a field trip to the R&D Solutions Welshpool warehouse. The annual event for the first and final year oil and gas students commenced with HSE inductions and a presentation on equipment and services that R&D Solutions and provide the oil and gas industry here in Australia and overseas.

With a large number of students in the warehouse and safety at the forefront, the group was split in two and spent equal time with R&D Solutions and staff.

showcased the latest Intervention technology providing examples of tools and equipment. Colin Mackie Operations and Sales Support Manager for provided detailed explanations of where equipment is used, the importance of V0 gas tight equipment for barriers and why getting technology right for customers in applications is vitally important. Colin used his field experience to relay to his captive audience the importance of equipment selection for the application and how the students current academic work would benefit them and the industry on completion of their studies. The talks included questions from the students on straddle technology for zonal isolation and the tool suite in general.

R&D's Chris McLoughlin hosting the tour and Russell Furner went into detail on R&D Solution’s industry leading inventory system and covered recent advancements being made in magnetics for metal swarf collection as well as gravel pack production equipment and other technology. Many pieces of equipment only seen in text books or online before were displayed and explained for the enthusiastic students. From 5 kilogram Equalizing Prongs to 8 ton Christmas Trees. The two NM TAFE Trainers (Noufal Shihab and Alvin Saldanha) both drew on field experience to help explain various pieces of equipment and to put them into context for students.

The picture below shows Noufal Shihab explaining a lock mechanism.

North Metropolitan Tafe representative Alvin Saldanha commented: "It was a value-adding learning experience for students and trainers alike. Seeing the latest cutting edge technologies in low friction centralisers, production tubing sand strainers and down hole well intervention and isolation equipment from, as well as the types of well x-mas tree isolation valves, production tubing, hydraulic umbilicals, and drilling tools used in the West Australian oil and gas industry practically complements the classroom and laboratory training programs we deliver at Tafe."