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How to Join
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Why You Should Join
The annual membership fee for the coming
2005-2006 project year is $17,500. New
members must also pay an information fee
of $40,000 to gain access to past
results. Future years will only require
the annual membership fee. The
information fee is reduced to $25,000 if
you agree to join for 3 full years. The
information fee buys into the results of
all previous years – 5 years of
research, including the 2-year
Surface
Defect and Fatigue Resistance JIP
– which includes more than 4,000 fatigue
tests on coiled tubing samples with a
wide range of surface defects and
repairs. Based on the results of those
tests, a software package has also been
developed that allows you to make life
predictions for tubing with and without
defects, and some repairs, for test
fixture and well-site configurations.
Another
way to join the project is to conduct inspections on coiled tubing
samples and contribute the results of those inspections, including
the raw transducer output data to the consortium. The current
“Letter of Agreement,” covers this “in-kind” participation, in
addition to the normal cash membership.
The
current “Letter of Agreement” is available by e-mail from the
Consortium director,
Dr. Steven M. Tipton.
The
project year runs from September to August.
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