The Oil & Gas power supply industry is a technically challenging market. The effect of downtime, be it through maintenance, safety of otherwise is an inability to deliver the resource. Hazardous area 1, explosion proof solutions, are an indicator of ability. Deployed for many years, the powering in this field of application ensures that the decision to shut off the extraction of the resource is met unconditionally. SCHAEFER GmbH Germany continues to provide the power supplies with robust & reliable solutions for this market. With the expertise of design matched by the control and manufacturing process, compliance to the Client specification is met, tested & seen to be so by the Client‘s engineering staff.

New technology and rich reserves are drawing dramatic investment in deep offshore oil & gas exploration resulting in a large number of offshore installations. As recently as a decade ago, less than 1 percent of oil drilling vessels were incapable of operating at depths of greater than 7,500 feet, with fewer than 10 rigs available. That number has risen quickly to more than 80 rigs as of the year 2012. Exclusively in the oil sector the Western oil majors have invested more than $80 billion so far in 2012 into offshore oil exploration. At present, the demand on standardized as well as customized power supplies for these industry sectors are still rising, exemplifying in this system.