The new 3M Oil and Gas group provides proven and practical products that can be put to work straight away to help make workplaces safer, more productive and more efficient.

More importantly, it can help the industry connect to 3M’s vast technology portfolio in order to find innovative ways to solve today’s most difficult application challenges.

    3M’s portfolio includes:
  • Corrosion protection and sealing materials;
  • Potable water, liquids and gases purification;
  • Buoyancy and insulation;
  • Low density cementing and drilling fluids;
  • Occupational safety and environmental safety;
  • Passive and active fire protection;
  • Electrical and communications installations; and,
  • Maintenance, repair and operations solutions.

3M serves customers through six market-focused businesses, which increase speed and efficiency by sharing technological, manufacturing, marketing and other resources.

    These businesses are:
  • Safety, security and protection services business;
  • Industrial and transportation business;
  • Display and graphics business;
  • Electro and communications business,
  • Consumer and office business; and,
  • Health care business.

Every day, 3M helps make life easier for millions of people around the world, with products ranging from consumer brands, such as Scotch tape and post-it notes, to innovative products serving the specialised needs of industries such as oil and gas.

The 3M Oil and Gas group brings the wide range of 3M products for the oil and gas industry together under one roof. Its purpose is to make it easier for people to access 3M technologies from the company’s many divisions, subsidiaries, departments and laboratories around the world—with locally-based sales, technical and manufacturing resources in the world’s major oil producing centres, including Australia.

3M has been supplying reliable, high performance products to the oil and gas industry for over 60 years. Today, nearly 10,000 3M products and materials are used in every corner of the industry – from exploration, production and refining to transportation and marketing.