One of CTDUT highlights is how it promotes innovation and encourages Research and Development (R&D) activities. Aimed at accumulating and generating knowledge, CTDUT accompanies technological tendencies and the main lines of global research, exploring and testing new technologies and constructing new knowledge in the pipeline area.

With the objective of accelerating production of new knowledge applied to the oil production chain, the Center works with companies, universities and teaching and research centers, identifying technological demands and possible bottlenecks.

The CTDUT has projects in its portfolio that encompass from construction, maintenance and recovery of pipeline networks to the development of leak detection systems using neural networks, including the research of new materials and development of computer modeling and simulation environments for georeferencing systems.