3YOURMIND Partners With RusselSmith to Build AM Hub for Oil & Gas

3YOURMIND is partnering with RusselSmith, an industrial additive manufacturing provider in West Africa, to enhance the identification, digitization, and additive manufacturing of parts for the upstream oil and gas industry. Based in Lagos, Nigeria, RusselSmith is an organization qualified by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) to deploy industrial nonmetallic additive manufacturing solutions in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.

As Africa’s largest economy, Nigeria has one of the region’s energy sectors and hosts many oil and gas supermajors. The industry is working to sustain and maintain equipment on aging assets due to difficulty of procuring legacy parts. Unavailability of these parts, which are no longer manufactured and difficult to remanufacture, can cause disruptions. RusselSmith is aiming to manufacture needed parts locally.

RusselSmith will use 3YOURMIND’s part identification software to identify viable additive manufacturing applications for the oil and gas industry. Once parts have been identified for their technical compatibility and economic feasibility, RusselSmith will use its expertise in design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) to optimize and produce them using additive technology. Optimized parts will then be added to the digital inventory interface that is powered by 3YOURMIND, enabling RusselSmith to streamline pricing, delivery, and order operations for its customers.

“There is significant potential for improving operational efficiency in the oil and gas industry through the additive manufacturing of legacy parts, and it all starts from being able to identify viable parts across the industry and determine the most efficient ways to manufacture such parts additively,” says Kayode Adeleke, CEO of RusselSmith. 

“This partnership with RusselSmith aligns with 3YOURMIND’s vision to serve the needs of the energy sector by making it easier to identify and produce critical components to sustain equipment,” says Jos Burger, executive chairman at 3YOURMIND. “RusselSmith provides astounding expertise in additive manufacturing and oil and gas, and we’re very pleased to enter the region with such a strong local partner.”

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.

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