Nook Industries’ ball screw assemblies key to patent-pending petroleum corrosion technology.

The 21st century has presented a technological shift in oil field drilling as most of the easily accessible oil is tapped and well producers are forced to go deeper to procure highly corrosive sour crude oil (H2S).

Sour crude oil is a sulfurous mixture that corrodes the iron in the carbon steel pipe that extracts it and due to that fact, the petroleum industry has been determined to develop drilling technology that can overcome these corrosive effects to produce oil.

In an effort to provide protection from pipeline failure and allow for oil production in new deep water sour oil fields, leading custom automated and robotic equipment manufacturer ARC Specialties, Inc. (Houston, TX) has developed a new cladding technology that controls this corrosion to safely extract and process sour crude.

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