AUSTRALIA

Prize for Large O-Tube

WHEN a cyclone strikes, what does that do to the seabed and, more importantly from an oil and gas perspective, the pipelines lying on said seabed? That is what engineers at the University of Western Australia set about finding out.

They developed the Large O-Tube facility - a huge closed-loop flume with a base material of natural seabed. The flume contains 60t of water that can be rapidly pumped back and forth to simulate underwater...

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