With CIUS at IUS

Twenty-nine experts and researchers associated with CIUS participated at IUS, the IEEE International Ultrasound Symposium in Kobe, Japan, in October 2018. Not only the number of attendees, but also the number of presentations from CIUS was impressively high. The overall scientific contribution from the CIUS…

The health of petroleum wells

How do you check that a petroleum well is leak-proof, so that it cannot endanger the environment or the platform staff? To do so, you’d have to investigate a narrow hole with a diameter of maybe 30 cm, kilometers below the ground, where the temperatures can reach well above 100°C and the pressure is crushing. This may sound difficult, and it is! Even so, the petroleum industry has been doing things like these for almost a century, and over the past four decades they have increasingly been using ultrasonic techniques.