Assistance In Research And Development

Silver and copper brush plated directly onto steel pipe

An oil well service company needed a way to electroplate a "marker strip" onto drill pipe steel, in the field.  The marker strips were detected by a "down-hole" electronic sensor that measured a change in the electromagnetic properties of the surface of the drill pipe.  We worked with their engineers to establish that a 999 silver, electroplated directly onto the prepared surface provided the best results.