Practical Engineering Australia was recently engaged by Crane Maintain to complete the detailed design of a freestanding crane runway to Australian Standards, suited for a 5t single girder overhead type [...]
Practical Engineering Australia (PEA) recently had the opportunity to work with Matthew Dunbabin and his research team at QUT. They had been engaged by Seqwater to design and manufacture a floating pontoon robot. Seqwater’s Autonomous [...]
Has it landed on Mars? The ‘Hobbit’ Scout Drilling Rig is the brainchild of Nautilus Minerals. The seafloor drill can effectively land and recover a core sample from many meters [...]
Gas pressure vessels are generally designed to stir, mix and hold gas at a substantially different pressure than that of the surrounding atmosphere. As a result of this pressure, [...]
Testing and certification is a key part of keeping work sites, staff members and contractors safe whilst operating on Australia’s oil and gas fields. The ‘golden rule’ of testing [...]
Practical Engineering has developed a range of flaring systems to cater to the drilling and mining industries. The systems range from mud-gas separating Flare Tanks to gas venting Blooie [...]
Practical Engineering prides itself on having a qualified engineering workforce that is unafraid of getting their hands dirty. However, a recent boiler stack assessment required the attending team to [...]
Practical Engineering provides ongoing equipment certification for a wide range of industries. Do you import equipment from overseas? Equipment importers, designers and fabricators may not be aware that under [...]
Practical Engineering has a proud history of operating within the drilling industry not only in Australia, but also in Papua New Guinea’s vast oil and gas fields. PNG poses [...]
Practical Engineering have recently returned from a successful mission to PNG assisting Western Drilling (WDL) with a permanent repair to a mast segment on their Rig 1. To provide [...]
