New TSS calibration facility
Teledyne TSS has opened a new laboratory standard calibration facility at its Watford premises, enabling widely operated user TSS 440 pipe and cable trackers to be precisely calibrated for specific targets.
Samples of pipe or cable provided by customers can now be analysed in the facility so that an error matrix can be created for a user’s own TSS 440. This will make it possible for burial depths of a particular pipe or cable to be measured to an accuracy of five centimetres or five per cent of range, so that compliance with installation contracts can be verified.
First tests have already been carried out for DeepOcean, the subsea division of Trico Marine with offices in Aberdeen and Norwich. The company had supplied samples of armoured three-core cable that is being installed on a wind farm project in the German sector of the North Sea for which TSS 440 trackers are to complete as-laid surveys.
