Engineering & Services

Radoil has a quality staff of engineers with various engineering disciplines and a 32,000 sqft manufacturing facility housing a weld shop, a machine shop and assembly shop located in Northwest Houston

Our goal is to identify challenges, design innovative solutions and manufacture quality products that solve your deepwater problems. Our business is saving you time and money. Everyone encounters delays and with day rates where they are any delay can be very costly to you, your clients and your vendors.

We can’t control the weather but we may be able to help you reduce your weather downtime, or if you have re-occurring equipment problems give us a call and let us help you find the right solution. What you call problems we call challenges and we would like to help you find solid economic solutions to those challenges. We have a large slate of diverse products in the marketplace and we are constantly designing new products to meet new challenges worldwide.

Check out our Deepwater Tools Productsto see what we have to help you.

As there are now over 90 deepwater drilling rigs working around the world with our MUX and Hotline reels on board. We have developed a Service Department made up of a number of certified employees qualified to perform field maintenance on those reels.

The following service operations are recommended on an annual basis to maintain the reliability of Radoil Reels in the field.

The service operations presume that a standard spare kit for the reels is in the field to from which to draw the necessary service parts. If such a kit is not available, it is appropriate to purchase a kit in advance of dispatching the service personnel.

Specific maintenance operations to be accomplished are:

• Check the operation of the reel and reel controls (as is possible in the connected situation).
• Remove main bearing caps and repack with grease.
• Grease all other bearings.
• Replace oil in motor.
• Clean air filters.
• Replace oil in air lubricator.
• Check brakes for proper alignment with brake drum.
• Replace brake pads as required.
• Inventory client’s spare parts kit and provide a listing to Radoil to quote parts to bring it back up to date.
• Clean and grease the Diamond Shaft(s) and the Dummy Shaft.
• Check chain tension.
• Check for leaks and replace seals as required.
• General inspection of reel and written report on status, including photographs.
• Other tasks as appear to be prudent from the inspection of the equipment.

Our Research & Development team is always at work on new products to improve the capabilities of the offshore drilling industry. These improvements range from improvements on our existing product lines to improvements in pipeline laying capabilities to developing and testing new products like our shearable drill collars and WAEF system.

Since the Macondo accident in 2010 we have developed over 11 new improvements for use in offshore drilling. These make emergency BOP operations much quicker and increase the capabilities of existing BOP systems while adding a number of new safety and environmental benefits.