PRCI Welcomes Pipeline Community to Tech Development Center

摘要

Research development organization Pipeline Research Council International (PRCI) officially opened its new Technology Development Center at a ribbon-cutting ceremony and tour on July 15 in Houston. "We want you to think of this place as yours," PRCI President Cliff Johnson told attendees, many of whom represented pipeline and service companies. "How would you use this space?" Ground for the 30,000-square-foot facility was broken on July 7, 2014 on a 10-acre campus in northwest Houston with about half of the area earmarked for a state-of-the-art pull-test facility. PRCI, which established a pipeline repository in 2012, has built an inventory of over 600 specimens to support technology development through testing at its previous site, also in Houston. Among the new equipment at the facility is a 23,000-pound forklift and a lifting device dubbed "the million dollar wench," which can pull over 5,000 pounds at a rate of 5 meters per second.