Nanotech sensors connected to the internet are dispersed in the painting of hulls and pipes, measuring thickness and corrosion rates in real-time and practically eliminating risks of offshore operations. It’s cool, but it will take a little longer. So far, it’s only science fiction. But if the painting nano gadget is still a dream, the […]
PhDC4D is going through its final adjusts to be launched in App form, for Windows Mobile, Android and IOS. The App will allow user to do everything he does in the site, managing inspections and defects in hulls, pipes and other structures. Although PhDsoft expects it to be much more used to register anomalies than to […]
The use of hull life-cycle maintenance software since 1995 on 26 major Brazilian oil company tankers has reduced inaccuracies in the evaluation of ship renewal costs during dry-docking. Due to its success, the software has been redeveloped and extended for the whole floating fleet, including FPSOs and jackups, replacing regular drawings by the 3D models. […]
The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) has just appointed the members of its Scientific-Technical Committee (Comtec), which was created by the end of last year among the new regulation for implementation, by the oil companies, of the mandatory investments in Research, Development and Innovation (R&D). According to this contractual obligation, […]
“If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. The most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity”, concluded in 1972 […]
World’s foremost authority on corrosion, Nace International has just published the study “International Measurements of Prevention, Application and Economics of corrosion Technology”, Impact. In it, the association estimated at $ 2.5 trillion per year the overall cost of corrosion today, equivalent to 3.4% of world GDP. Prepared for two years and presented in Canada, the […]
This is a Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) integrated with PhDC4D. It was a project financed by a private company, like the oil ones obliged to invest part of its revenue in R&D, in Brazil. Last year, this obligation resulted in more than R$ 1 billion invested in projects like this. PhDsoft is looking for new partnerships. There […]