Michael Monica, director global sales, marketing and customer care, GPT Industries with Shubhankar Mishra, regional sales manager, GPT Industries at ADIPEC 2025. (Image source: Alain Charles Publishing)

GPT Industries’ Iso-Smart remote pipeline monitoring device has attracted a high level of interest from operators in the Middle East since it was introduced to the region around a year ago

Iso-Smart is an all-in-one solution for checking Cathodic Protection (on and instant off potentials), Isolation, Bond currents, AC vs. DC on the line, and more from remote locations. The device can be mounted at any current test station along a pipeline, and incorporates True RMS technology to provide reliable real-time data, helping pipeline owners make informed decisions, address any issues or anomalies before they become critical and comply with pipeline integrity regulations. Combining GPT Industries’ decades of corrosion prevention expertise with the latest remote monitoring technology, it sets a new standard for a versatile, user-friendly remote asset integrity monitoring.

Iso-Smart communicates readings instantly to a secure dashboard, giving operators real-time visibility into asset performance. The platform also supports customisable alerts, automated reporting, and over-the-air firmware updates.

Speaking to Oil Review Middle East at ADIPEC, Michael Monica, director global sales, marketing and customer care at GPT Industries says that the company has successfully piloted Iso-Smart with end users in the region. The pilot is now validated and approved, the next step being to reach out to more end-users.

“The biggest differentiator with this device is that it is able to determine AC density on pipelines, something that is unique to Iso-Smart,” Monica points out. Pipelines exposed to alternating current (AC) from nearby power lines or railways face serious risks, including accelerated corrosion, compromised cathodic protection and safety hazards.

“Iso-Smart can distinguish direct current from alternating current, which is something operators need to be able to determine, and ensures your CP system is at the right level to protect the asset. The big advantage is that it allows you to remotely monitor the asset in real time from a dashboard, eliminating the need to take physical readings at the site. You can tell it you want it to measure, and how often.”

Monica emphasises the importance of Iso-Smart for compliance, noting its real-time monitoring capabilities and the ease of generating reports.

The latest version of Iso-Smart, launched a few months ago, incorporates significant new enhancements, based on end-user feedback, notably a more compact housing designed to fit seamlessly within standard three-inch test stations, making installation simpler, faster, and more practical for new and existing field operations.

Monica goes on to discuss the company’s takeover of Integrated Rectifier Technologies( IRT), a Canada-based manufacturer of transformer rectifiers and related products for the cathodic protection (CP) industry with a strong and established presence in the Middle East and globally.

This strategic acquisition unites GPT’s expertise in flange isolation technology and remote asset monitoring with IRT’s long-standing reputation for reliable rectifier systems, further strengthening GPT’s role in helping operators mitigate corrosion and maintain asset integrity across energy and infrastructure sectors.

Integrating IRT’s rectifier technology with GPT’s Iso-Smart remote monitoring platform will accelerate the development of advanced remote asset integrity systems, providing operators with deeper visibility into CP performance, streamlined data collection and faster response to field issues.

“We’re really excited to be working with IRT,” says Monica. “This acquisition expands our strategy of protecting our customers’ assets in the area of cathodic protection.”

The Kingdom 4 award marks the 45th order for the LeTourneau Super 116 series.

A prominent shipyard in the MENA region, International Maritime Industries has booked Seatrium Offshore Technology's services by a repeat contract 

This binds Seatrium to supply IMI with equipment and license for a LeTourneau Super 116E Class Self-Elevating Drilling Unit (SE-MODU), Kingdom 4.

The Kingdom 4 project comes after the Kingdom 3 contract that was delivered earlier this year, both approached in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030 objectives of technology leadership, sustainability and local content development.

The project design will follow the Kingdom 3 style -- the LeTourneau Super 116E Class next-generation jack-up that is tailored for operational requirements in the MENA region. The rigs are equipped with 343-foot legs 1.5-million-pound hook load capacity, and advanced cyber systems for challenging offshore situations. 

The rig yards have scope for vessel-building, and Seatrium offers rig kits to meet local content requirements. The company's legacy in jack-up rig designing and construction can be traced back to 1955, when it established the world’s first independent leg jack-up drilling rig.

The Kingdom 4 award marks the 45th order for the LeTourneau Super 116 series, reaffirming its position as one of the most trusted and widely deployed jack-up designs globally. Seatrium has designed and contributed to the construction of more than half of all jack-up rigs in service worldwide, including 65% of those operating in the Middle East.

The 6700-M is ideal for quality control testing and other services. (Image source: Chandler Engineering)

Oil well services provider, Chandler Engineering, has upgraded its 6700 Friction Flow Loop range with the advanced testing features of 6700-M Mini Loop

A compact bench system, the latest model delivers precise measurement of friction pressure in slick water fracturing fluids. As operators are often required to navigate a wide range of pressure and pipe diametres in fracturing fluids, this compact system simplifies the process by performance evaluation. The company's proprietary software, the system provides comprehensive data acquisition and analysis, which give operators full control over test parameters including duration and temperature. Throughout each test cycle, the system continuously captures and calculates critical data for accurate, repeatable results.

With its low-volume fluid requirements, the 6700-M is ideal for quality control testing, enabling fast, repeatable assessments of fluid performance. Engineers can use it as a strong research and development tool to validate friction-reducing systems before scaling up to full-size loop testing. Additionally, its compact footprint and portability make it well-suited for use in field test laboratories, including on-site well locations where rapid fluid evaluation is essential.

Chandler's services range from oil well cementing, viscosity and reservoir analysis to pipeline transmission and high-pressure high-temperature instrumentation. It is a business of AMETEK, Inc., a global provider of industrial technology solutions serving a diverse set of attractive niche markets. 

DUG Nomad is designed tomake HPC and AI inference accessible wherever data is needed. (Image source: DUG)

Across the Middle East, oil and gas operators are acquiring larger seismic surveys, using more advanced imaging algorithms and streaming more field data than ever before

Yet as these workflows intensify, it is becoming increasingly difficult to rely solely on distant, centralised data centres. Moving any amount of big data to the cloud, be it terabytes or petabytes, introduces latency risk and bandwidth bottlenecks, while off-premise storage of subsurface data raises security and sovereign vulnerabilities. Operators now face a critical challenge: how to get powerful compute where the data resides, not hundreds or thousands of kilometres away.

That is where DUG Nomad comes in – a deploy-anywhere, ultra-dense edge-computing solution designed to make high performance computing (HPC) and AI inference accessible wherever data is generated.

Available in 10-foot and 40-foot containerised models, DUG Nomad brings the power of a full-scale data centre directly to the field. The compact Nomad 10 delivers 80 kW of cooling and supports more than 100 NVIDIA H200 GPUs, with self-contained cooling that requires no external chillers, plumbing or site preparation. It goes from delivery to operation in just hours.

The recently introduced Nomad 40 takes this further, providing up to 1 megawatt of IT heat rejection and supporting more than 1,000 NVIDIA H200 GPUs or 92,000 CPU cores in a mobile, modular form. Both systems are engineered to operate in any environment – including the hot, arid conditions common across the Middle East – thanks to the integrated immersion-cooling system that shields hardware from dust and oxidation. This makes Nomad uniquely capable of delivering scalable compute power on demand in places where traditional air-cooled systems often struggle with efficiency and reliability.

“Organisations increasingly need the power of a data centre without being bolted down to one location,” said Harry McHugh, DUG chief information officer. “Nomad gives them that flexibility – the ability to deploy serious computing capability at the edge, in days rather than months, with exceptional energy efficiency.”

For operators across the region, DUG Nomad offers more than mobility. By processing data on-site, it optimises data sovereignty, confidentiality and speed, ensuring that critical and sensitive information never leaves the operational perimeter while reducing latency for real-time analysis.

With its new Abu Dhabi office supporting large-scale projects across the region, DUG is uniquely positioned to help clients harness the benefits of edge computing – bringing HPC and AI inference closer to where insights begin.