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Oil and gas companies are concerned about ensuring safety, restoring outages, minimizing operating costs and efficiently managing assets-difficult objectives with buried infrastructure. 3M offers innovative solutions to locate, mark and map buried infrastructure.

Many pipeline companies require infrastructure for communications and powering, or they plan to diversify to leverage core assets, namely a large number of customers, their infrastructure and rights-of-way to offer broadband data or video to end customers or to other service providers such as ISPs, LECs, wireless providers and MSOs.

3M offers proven solutions to connect, protect or diagnose optical fiber or copper network features. 3M's reputation and breadth of innovative solutions in communication markets have made it the preferred supplier for many customers, including an increasing number of oil and gas industry companies around the world.

3M™ Dynatel™ Locators 2200M/M-iD Series
For cable path locating, the Dynatel cable/pipe locator and faultfinder M series has a highly accurate multi-antenna design for various user-selected locating modes — Directional Peak, Multi-Directional Null, plus an ultra-sensitive Special Peak mode for extreme depths. Additionally our most advanced locator series, M-iD locators offer ability to locate active and passive electronic markers.
3M™ Dynatel™ Locators 2200 Series
The 2200 series locator is built specifically to find the path and estimated depth of buried cables and pipes.
3M™ Dynatel™ Marker Locator 1420-iD Series
1400 series iD ball markers can be programmed to include customer-specific information such as facility data, application, material type and size or placement date, etc. They are pre-programmed with a unique identification number, which is also attached to the marker on a removable bar-coded tag.
3M™ Dynatel™ Locator Accessories and Replacement Parts
A full complement of accessories and replacement parts for 3M™ Dynatel™ Locators.
3M™ Electronic Marker System (EMS)
3M electronic marker system (EMS) delivers more information to accelerate identification and can help avoid costly mistakes.
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