Martin Cox, Chairman of IMMa, published an article in the Global Business Magazine promoting the work undertaken by IMMa in support of the resource divisions and the broader IOM3
The youngest division of IOM3 is Petroleum & Drilling Engineering.
Martin Cox, division member and Chair of IMMa discusses the professional
development of this burgeoning industry.
Dr Rod Martin and Dr Morris Roseman from the Materials Engineering Research Laboratory Ltd (MERL),
outline the essential functions being performed by composites in the oil and gas industry.
During the Chilean mining incident late last year, different drilling
survey techniques were employed to locate and free the trapped miners.
Martin Cox, Head of Technical Business Development at Aberdeen Drilling
Management Ltd, UK, talks about directional drilling
and underground guidance systems.
The CEO of Saturn Minerals talks about his
company’s mining developments in Saskatchewan, western Canada, and their
growing importance as a provider of energy now and in the future.
Directional drilling techniques, originally developed in the UK coalfields and extensively used in the drilling of oil and gas wells, were instrumental in the rescue of the Chilean miners.