Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. is pleased to announce the opening of the Global Readiness Center (GRC) in Houston, TX. This facility, strategically located near the George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), is dedicated to providing enhanced subsea well control response capabilities to the global market. Trendsetter’s GRC is located within a designated Free Trade Zone (FTZ) that allows for global response equipment …
Trendsetter Engineering and Add Energy have combined their expertise in well control engineering and equipment design to develop the Relief Well Injection Spool (RWIS). The RWIS is designed to enable pumping of up to 200 barrels per minute of kill mud through a single relief well utilizing multiple vessels as opposed to the conventional method of multiple relief wells. In …
As a global provider of specialized subsea solutions to the oil and gas industry, Trendsetter Engineering has been supplying Subsea Accumulator Modules (SAM) throughout the world, including Arctic environments. Trendsetter’s SAM systems have been deployed in a variety of roles, including as a simple BOP stand-by unit and as a key component to augment subsea pig launch systems. Depending on …
Despite the recent pressures on the oil and gas industry, requirements for equipment capable of operating at higher pressures and temperatures have not subsided. Trendsetter Engineering, Inc. has continued to blaze the trail on technology development through successful qualification of the first high pressure, high temperature flowline connection system for the subsea oil and gas industry. Trendsetter’s TC7/5 clamp connection …
Trendsetter Engineering is proud to announce the successful qualification of our high-temperature, metal-to-metal sealing TEX-5 gasket. The TEX-5 gasket is featured in Trendsetter’s proprietary Trendsetter Connection System (TCS) vertical flowline connection system. Trendsetter’s TEX series gaskets are available in bore sizes from 2 inch and up to 11 inch and have been previously qualified at temperatures of -20°F to 302°F …
Trendsetter Engineering was awarded a contract to design, manufacture and test the industry’s first 20,000 psi valve-based capping stack. This capping stack will be capable of containing high pressure, high temperature subsea oil wells in the event of a subsea well-control incident. The project includes the development and qualification of Trendsetter’s 20,000 psi subsea flowline connection system and various other …
Trendsetter Engineering is pleased to announce the acquisition of Wiltor Machine, a 6,000 square foot precision machine shop in North Houston specializing in complete turnkey, proto-type, and production machining for the oil and gas industry. This machine shop has extensive experience machining stainless steel, Inconel, titanium, beryllium copper, etc. and includes CNC lathes, CNC mills, manual lathes and manual mills. This …
While there have been no Macondo-scale well control incidents since the 2010 disaster, that has not stopped Houston-based Trendsetter Engineering from looking for alternative containment systems, as Jennifer Pallanich reports. Click here to read the article.
Trendsetter Engineering has completed work on a containment toolkit that can be deployed to minimize the environmental impact of a subsea well incident. This follows their delivery of four subsea well capping stacks, designed to shut in an uncontrolled subsea well, during 2013-2014. The new toolkit, designed to work alongside standard industry well test hardware (i.e. vessels, well test equipment, …
Trendsetter Engineering is pleased to announce the Trendsetter Connection System (TCS). The Trendsetter Connection System provides a robust subsea connector solution that exceeds industry demands. The TCS solution is comprised of the newly developed TC7 clamp connector, TC11 clamp connector and hub alignment system. This innovative system features a versatile connector that utilizes common tooling to provide the operator a …