The Santos drilling and logistics team recently trialled Roborigger in conjunction with the HINGE-LOKTM transportation frame for handling screened casing. The system is attractive because the casing can be run directly from the racks and because it eliminates the need for long transport baskets. The HINGE-LOKTM cradle system components can be hand packed into a […]

TENSA Equipment is now offering Global Offshore’s HINGE-LOKTM Casing & Tubing Transportation Frame product series for offshore transportation and protection of all types of casing, tubing, screen liners, expandable liners, completion assemblies, stabilizers, and drilling jars. The HINGE-LOKTM system dramatically reduces the need for manual handling. Pipe, tally, drifting, and centralizer installation can be handled […]

Roborigger recently achieved a huge new milestone by commencing its first international operation at Shawcor’s pipeline facility in Batam, Indonesia. Shawcor, one of the world’s largest pipe-coating providers in the oil and gas market, identified the use of Roborigger as a means of achieving their safety initiative to remove personnel away from the loads and […]

As part of our continued investment in working with WA university engineering graduates, Roborigger team recently came together to support the student-run club that runs a makerspace for students to make things using digital fabrication equipment such as 3D printers, laser cutters, and CNC mills. The UWA Makers Quiz Night was designed to connect UWA engineering […]

We have continued on our commercialisation path for Roborigger by setting up a new production facility in Wangara. The production facility houses a team of 10 mechanical, mechatronics and industrial automation engineers. It is equipped with the capability and resources to build, assemble and test Roborigger line of products. The first production run of AR10, […]

Roborigger is proving its reliability by entering the fifth month of service on the new WA Museum site.  Our AR10 unit has been deployed since December and has performed above expectations . It is now  attached to the crane for all operations and operating without tag lines has now become standard on the site. Watch […]

Roborigger, TENSA’s new wireless load orienting device commenced its first working day on a Multiplex’s construction site in Perth CBD this week. Multiplex has been supporting TENSA’s Roborigger development as an industry partner since 2017. “At Multiplex we are always seeking to identify safer ways of doing things, so it’s been a great opportunity for […]

TENSA has successfully conducted two live demonstrations of its newly released Roborigger, an automated load controlling device for cranes. The demonstration highlighted Roborigger’s features and showcased its lifting and rotation capabilities with actual crane operations namely, lifting and rotating a 20ft container to 90 and 180 degrees as well as lifting and rotating a tower […]

As a heave compensation specialist, at TENSA, we receive a lot of client’s enquiries on the right product to choose for different lifting applications in offshore operations. The following table outlines the key criteria you can use to decide on the right heave compensation product for your project: Choosing the right system Dynamic load reducer […]

Having to land helicopters in high winds and on heaving and rolling vessels not only poses operational but safety challenges for helicopter transfer. Helicopters are also expensive to operate and maintain, requiring a significant amount of support both on the onshore and offshore facilities. High speed vessels offer a viable alternative to helicopters and can […]

In January this year, the US-headquartered Paragon Offshore completed its purchase of a TENSA Dynamic Load Reducer (DLR) 60L for its offshore operations in India. Instead of renting the DLR on a project basis, Paragon Offshore saw an immediate and long term need to purchase the DLR. The DLR will be used to reduce the […]

Convinced by a demonstration of the TENSA Dynamic Motion System (DMS) motion monitoring sensor and software at the AOG 2018, Cooper Energy decided to hire a TENSA DMS Mini complete with its full monitoring software application for their offshore operations on the Ocean Monarch rig. TENSA DMS is especially useful to monitor heave velocity, pitch […]

TENSA Equipment will be exhibiting at the Australasian Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (AOG) 2018 from Wednesday 14 to Friday 16 March at the Perth Exhibition and Conference Centre (PECC). Join us at Booth J1. To help you make the most of your visit, we give you 3 reasons why you should join us: Reason […]

Tensa ROBORIGGER products are designed to allow the dangerous operations of orienting and landing lifted loads without the need for people to be in the vicinity of the load. There is an average of three fatalities per year in Australia as well as many injuries and near misses from crane accidents. ROBORIGGER solves this problem. […]

Oil Search lightweight drilling module Tensa was awarded in March 2017 the job of designing and delivering a lightweight drilling module to Oil Search to be delivered by July. Tensa’s pitch was a new and innovative idea with 14 modules with a nine tonne limit per module to be lifted by a chin hook that […]

TENSA DMS Started From Modest Grant – May 2016 Following our $20,000 grant courtesy of the WA State Department’s Innovation Vouchers program, we have been published in Energy News Bulletin. TENSA’s founder Derick Markwell has commented on the win and the overall structure of research grants. Read the full article here.

Vessel Motion Monitoring System Launched – April 2016 TENSA Equipment has had an article published in Oil & Gas Australia following the launch of the DMS motion monitoring system. Read the full article here.

TENSA Awarded DLR Contract for Canadian Hydro Power Company – April 2016 TENSA Equipment has had an article published in Business News highlighting the award of a contract from a Canadian Hydro Power company to supply a DLR for use on the Kootenay River. Read the full article here.