New Dräger UK product to save time and money for industry

Major oil and gas safety specialist, Dräger UK, is launching a new product which will help the industry save time and money.

Drager, who employ 400 people at its safety division in Blyth in Northumberland, has introduced the Drager X-dock, an instrument calibration and management system which allows companies to complete testing and calibration in seconds.

This testing uses just a fraction of the test gas traditionally used with many other systems.

Significantly, the X-dock also offers a documentation and reporting function so that users can see the status of their gas detection at a glance.

Kevin Honner at Dräger Safety UK said: “Industries using portable gas detection equipment rely on these instruments to identify potentially fatal hazards and ultimately save lives. It’s critical this equipment works correctly and that companies implement a strict schedule of calibration, maintenance and pre-use bump testing.

“As well as dramatically reducing the amount of time it takes to test and calibrate equipment, our system provides tailored information instantly, such as who tested which device when and what the result was, so that strict fleet controls can be maintained.”

With hundreds of very different and hazardous gases found in the oil and gas industry, the X-dock has the flexibility and range of multiple gas inlets to use different gas mixtures for testing and calibration, making it a highly advanced piece of technology.

Because the system is completely automated, the potential for operator error is significantly lowered helping to boost gas detection safety rates.

Honner said: “We believe these innovations will help to improve the entire safety landscape in gas detection by shifting the emphasis away from individual instruments and onto maintaining and managing the fleet as a whole.

“But it’s not just about the improvements in safety that this system can bring – the financial benefits are equally important. Major users in the Oil and Gas Industries can have 500 or more portable gas detectors in their fleets which need to be tested and calibrated and the financial benefits of the time and gas consumption savings achievable using X-dock are very substantial on an annual basis.”