Tracerco, part of the FTSE 100 company Johnson Matthey, is a world-leading industrial technology company providing specialised detection, diagnostic and measurement solutions to the oil and gas and petroleum industries for more than 55 years. Two of its revolutionary innovations will reach the Asia-Pacific market this year.

Discovery, the world's first subsea CT scanner, is Tracerco's breakthrough technology in real-time diagnostics. It is the long-awaited solution to inspecting unpiggable pipelines without costly interventions, shutdowns or system modifications, and without the need to remove any pipeline coatings.

"Tracerco has been innovating for nearly 60 years, giving clients the ability to look into their processes and operations without losing online production," says Ken Pearson, Tracerco's managing director for Asia and Australia. "Demand for such technologies is becoming more focused in the Asia-Pacific region." Renowned for taking on industry challenges in close collaboration with clients, Tracerco developed Discovery to address vast numbers of distribution and gathering lines and transmission pipelines worldwide that are unpiggable. By providing a 360-degree, high-resolution scan of pipeline contents and pipe wall thickness, Discovery helps oil and gas operators ensure the overall integrity and optimisation of their pipeline systems, including pipe-in-pipe and pipe bundles.

With China and Southeast Asia emerging as the subsea hubs of Asia-Pacific, Tracerco has begun the recruitment and training of some engineers ahead of launching Discovery in the region this year.