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.