BOSTON & HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), a diversified energy manufacturing and logistics company, Square Robot, Inc. and Veritank, Inc., have collaborated to successfully deploy an ...

A new robot for inspecting ballast water tanks on board ships is being developed. The robot is able to move independently along rails built into the tanks. At the moment, people still carry out such ...

Nuclear power station water storage tanks, located above ground or underground, are constructed of aluminum, stainless steel, or carbon steel. All have naturally occurring electro-chemical processes ...

In order to maintain a consistent buoyancy as their cargo loads change, ocean-going ships pump seawater in and out of their ballast tanks. Needless to say, that salty water isn't exactly the ...

Oil, gas and petrochemicals services provider A.Hak Industrial Services will introduce a robotic online storage tank floor inspection service in South Africa before the end of this year. This new ...

An autonomous robot has completed its first in-service inspection of an above-ground diesel storage tank for Houston-based refiner Phillips 66. The unmanned robot, made by Boston-based robotics ...

BOSTON & HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX), an energy manufacturing and logistics company, and Square Robot, Inc. are advancing into the unmanned robotics inspection market through the ...

Square Robot's autonomous robot in preparation for deployment. PHOTO SOURCE: Business Wire An autonomous robot has successfully performed its first in-service inspection of the interior of an ...

Improved ultrasonic (UT) inspection methods address storage tank integrity monitoring and assessment without removing tanks from service. By acquiring large amounts of high-density UT data and ...

It’s a dirty job but somebody’s got to do it. And when it comes to the expensive, claustrophobic and sometimes dangerous work of inspecting natural gas and oil pipelines, that somebody is a robot. “We ...

SAN ANTONIO -- June 23, 2020 -- Southwest Research Institute has been awarded a $1.3 million project from Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), a contractor to the U.S. Department of Energy ...