Aqua-Terra Oilfield Equipment & Services bags Made in Singapore Award for Oil & Gas

The company's mission critical API 7K-certified drilling hose can withstand severe and harsh conditions.

With over 30 years of experience in the supply and assembly of high-pressure hoses, Aqua-Terra Oilfield Equipment and Services Pte Ltd (AquaTerra) is pleased to have won the Made in Singapore 2019 Award under the oil and gas category for “Aquaflex”, a mission critical API 7K-certified drilling hose. 

Aquaflex is specially designed, engineered and assembled to withstand the severe and harsh conditions both off and onshore. It is also designed with customisation and flexibility in mind.

Severe and harsh conditions
To be API 7K-certified, Aquaflex must meet the strenuous demands of directional drilling and significantly reduce the occurrence of operational hazards like leakages.

AquaTerra is one of only two companies in Southeast Asia to be given the API 7K certification by the American Petroleum Institute.

Customisation
AquaTerra’s line of API 7K-certified hoses features: Rotary Drilling Hoses; Rotary Vibrator Hoses; and Cement Hoses.

The Rotary Drilling Hose has a flexible line between the standpipe and top drive or rotary swivel, which conveys drilling fluids at pressures as high as 7,500 pounds per square inch as it moves up and down with the traveling block.

The Rotary Vibrator Hose boasts a flexible line between the mud pump and standpipe, which pumps mud at pressures as high as 7,500 pounds per square inch for oil drilling and exploration works.

The Cement Hose is equipped with a flexible line between the cementing pump manifold and cementing head and is used for the conveyance of cement slurries at extremely high pressures that can reach 15,000 pounds per square inch during oil drilling and exploration works.

Flexibility
Aquaflex uses swage-attached coupling without seals, which greatly reduces the lead time required to assemble hoses, including customised hoses. In only five to seven working days, AquaTerra is able to modify the length of their hoses, assemble the entire hosing system and complete pressure testing, all according to API 7K standards.

Business class solution
While Aquaflex is a product, it is also a solution for AquaTerra’s clients.

“In Aquaflex, we hope to deliver to our clients and the world, a product, a certification as well as a price-point that meets physical, insurance and financial requirements. We like to think of Aquaflex as the ‘business class’ option sandwiched between high-priced European and US products and basement-priced Chinese products,” said Christopher Chong Meng Tak, Chairman & CEO of AquaTerra.

Others
Besides providing testing, certification, and fitting services of industrial and hydraulic hoses, AquaTerra is also the authorised service centre for Ridgid hand tools and the authorised refurbishment centre for Billy Pugh offshore safety equipment.

AquaTerra is a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&S Pte Ltd, a prominent distributor, VMI and supply chain manager for the oil & gas, energy, mining, data centre and China nuclear industries.

The Made in Singapore and Designed in Singapore Awards, presented by Singapore Business Review, was held on 28 November 2019 at Shangri-La Hotel Singapore.

This year’s winners were judged by Richard Loi, Partner and SEA Consumer & Industrial Products Industry Audit & Assurance Leader at Deloitte & Touche LLP; Toh Kim Teck, Assurance Partner at Foo Kon Tan LLP; Henry Tan, Managing Director at NEXIA TS; and Joshua Ong, Managing Partner at Baker Tilly.

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