Hammertech AS
The Hammertech team: Prof. Erling Hammer, Chief Executive Officer
Trond Thomassen and Executive Chairman Arnfinn Tveit
Hammertech AS – offers measurement solutions for the oil&gas industry
Demand for energy is in constant growth. In order to maintain high energy demands, oil and gas companies have to look for better production techniques. Many companies are trying to find ways how to increase the extraction productivity. Hammertech offers solutions to some of these issues. Hammertech is supposed to be a niche company that will offer innovative solutions to better utilise the oil and gas extraction process.
Hammertech meets industry demands
Hammertech main focus is to provide oil&gas companies with Flow Measurement solutions topside, subsea and down hole. The products are based on a new technology, the High Magnetic Field Detection System, in order to optimize the separation process and measure pipeflows. Products ready for market:
The Level Profiler
measures the level and gives full real time information of fluids, emulsions, foam and gases in separation tanks with high accuracy. The system can be interfaced with already existing control systems combined.
The Water Fraction Meter
is a metering solution that can be applied on the oil or gas pipes and measures the fraction of the water in oil/gas/water mixture independently. This system can be used both in the oil continuous phases and the water continuous phases. The leading method today is to use two different measurements principles (capacitance, conductivity or microwave) to cover both of these phases. Hammertech will have only one measurement principle that will cover both.
Company expanding
Since its founding December 2009, Hammertech has focused on getting their products ready for market, and to decide the best strategic industrial partners. At the moment the company is in the process of negotiating an agreement with a mayor oil company concerning the industrialization of the Level Profiler and the Water Fraction Meter.
”My ambition is that the company will grow and provide new measurement principles for both production and for environmental issues”. Founder and inventor, Professor Erling Hammer
The Hammetech technology is invented by Professor Erling Hammer from the Institute of Physics and Technology, University of Bergen. Professor Hammer has been involved in several commercialisations throughout the last three decades, and several of these have developed into prosperous companies. He was one of the founders of Fluenta AS, which was later acquired by publicly traded Roxar ASA (acquired by Emerson in 2008). He has developed several successful products for the oil&gas industry.
Read more about the technology here, or visit www.hammertech.no.