The Story of Sentech AS
How it All Began

Eight years ago a small leisure boat fitted with a diesel engine crashed into a ponton because the engine stopped at the very moment the skipper put the gear in reverse. The crash caused limited but very annoying damages to the front section of the boat. When investigating the incident the skipper found that the engine had stopped because of water in the fuel system. The skipper asked his good friend and colleague Bjørn Engebretsen to come up with an alarm system to warn him if and when water was to re-enter into the fuel system.

Bjørn came back to the skipper with a single, small sensor that was mounted into the fuel filter. The sensor sounded an acoustic alarm when water was detected in the fuel.

Sentech AS backtracks its unique, patent protected SeCaP™ technology to that incident, although the product portfolio today has little to do with the alarm system for the unfortunate skipper.

The company was built to exploit the innovative principles of capacitance measurement. From the start we have worked to develop the technology further and to develop applications where information on the subject “water in oil” is vital. Most of this development has been done in close co-operation with the Norsk Hydro Reaserch Centre in Norway. Today we are proud to present a range of products for the Oil and Gas industry. These have been well received by the industry and have already become a commercial success.