AMETEK Chandler Engineering is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year as a major innovator in the global oil and gas production industry. Founded in 1949 to initially provide refinery instruments like deadweight testers and gravitometers, Chandler Engineering is best known today as a pioneer in the development and manufacturing of gas and oilfield cement testing equipment.
Chandler Engineering is using its 70th anniversary year to build on its reputation for providing accurate and innovative high-pressure, high-temperature laboratory instruments and systems. The company has introduced many new products over its history. In 2016, the company launched the Model 5400 Dynamic Scale Deposition Loop system, which measures and evaluates the performance of scale inhibitors under the high-pressure and high-temperature conditions found in oil production.
In 2017, the company created the Model 6500 Friction Flow Loop line before expanding it a year later with the 6500-M Mini-Loop™ system, which is designed to measure the friction pressure created by different slick water fracturing fluids.
Virtually every major oil and gas production and service company owns one or more of Chandler Engineering’s products. These include a wide-range of oil well cement testers; viscometers for drilling and completion fluids; and natural gas pipeline products; instruments used to optimize oil and gas production.