December 2012
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December 2012
NUMBER 53 THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2012 Istanbul Convention Retrospective page 12 - with 6 photo pages Contents: Letter from the President page 4 News from Geneva page 5 Member News page 9 IPLOCA Award Winners page 11 WITH NEWS FROM: THE INDUSTRY, MEMBERSHIP, ALLIED & SISTER ASSOCIATIONS Experience the Progress. AATS global sales organisation Breukersweg 4, NL-7471, ST, Goor, the Netherlands Tel. +31 547 260 000, Fax +31 547 261 000 www.maats.com Liebherr-Werk Telfs GmbH Hans Liebherr-Str. 35 A-6410 Telfs Tel.: +43 50809 6-100 Fax: +43 50809 6-7772 www.liebherr.com The Group IPLOCA Mission To provide value to members through a forum for sharing ideas, engaging the industry and its stakeholders, facilitating business opportunities and promoting the highest standards in the pipeline industry. Contents Letter from the President 4 News from Geneva 5 Board Meeting Update 5 New Faces on the IPLOCA Board of Directors7 Membership Center8 Member News9 IPLOCA Award Winners11 2013 IPLOCA Awards11 Istanbul Convention Retrospective12 Health, Safety & Environment Committee16 New Technologies Committee16 Cranfield University ‘WELP’ Centre 17 Training Committee20 In the Headlines21 Upcoming Conferences23 IPLOCA Secretariat IPLOCA Newsletter Cover Photo International Pipe Line & Offshore Editor Courtesy of ARB inc. & Contractors Association Elizabeth Spalding VOLVO Construction Equipment Chemin des Papillons 4 Lay-out 1216 Cointrin / Geneva Peter Schoonenberg IPLOCA Yearbook Switzerland Advertising Advertising Telephone +41 22 306 02 30 [email protected] [email protected] Fax +41 22 306 02 39 Comments & copy Listing changes E-mail [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Website www.iploca.com IPLOCA © 2012 NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 3 Letter from the President I am delighted to serve as IPLOCA President for 2012-2013 and I look forward to working hand in hand with the new Board of Directors. We have a number of new board members this year, some of whom have previously served IPLOCA, and some who are doing so for the first time; You will find information on these new faces on page 7. At the Annual General Meeting our membership approved a change to the By-Laws which now allows every geographical region, regardless of the number of Regular Members in that region, to be represented by two board members. Similarly, the membership approved a change from two to three board members to represent the Associate Members. You will find further information on page 6 and the photo of the whole board, along with their roles, on page 24. IPLOCA will nourish and promote a culture of safety and environmental responsibility. We will support the dissemination of the INGAA Safety Awareness film and we will work with the World Federation of Pipeline Industry Associations to report the HSE performance indicators. We will continue discussing the development of standard requirements for equipment operators. We will foster initiatives and research through the Novel Construction enterprise in collaboration with INGAA and PRCI. We will, of course, continue to provide the best networking and social engagement opportunities for our members. Indeed, more than 685 of us gathered in September at the Hilton Istanbul for another exceptional convention. Our sponsors continue to be generous in their support of the event. We were similarly fortunate to be able to engage a number of excellent outside speakers who provided valuable industry insights during the Open General Meetings. I am very interested in engaging our customers; the multinational oil & gas companies, the national oil & gas companies, and others, in our association, and I welcome further discussions with our members. The long term outlook promises the greatest support for our industry. The International Energy Agency and other forward-looking assessors calculate that 20 trillion dollars should be invested in energy projects in the next 25 years. Even if we discount this prediction, the investment amount indicates that the need for our services and products will grow substantially. This investment projection will lead to the growth of our association. As new companies form to chase a share of this work, they will seek to distinguish themselves with key oil and gas stakeholders, and they will see membership in IPLOCA as a sure means to obtain and maintain stakeholder recognition. I look forward to hearing from you at any time to discuss these and other ideas at [email protected] Warm Regards, Doug Evans 4 THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER News from Geneva Executive Secretary Juan Arzuaga represented IPLOCA at the annual meeting of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America Foundation (INGAA) in Naples, Florida at the beginning of November. Juan also attended the O&G Pipes Global Conference, held at the Hyatt Regency, the Churchill in London from 27 - 29 November 2012 where he spoke about IPLOCA’s Novel Construction Initiative and the work being done on the association’s publication Onshore Pipelines: The Road to Success. Season’s Greetings The staff and board members of IPLOCA would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the success of the association over the past year. The generous sharing of your time and expertise, the hosting of meetings and, of course, the outstanding sponsorship of the annual convention was greatly appreciated. We look forward to new achievements and collaborations to benefit the pipeline industry in the coming year and we send our very best wishes to all for a safe and prosperous 2013. In Florida Juan Arzuaga won second place in a fishing competition with this catch. He claims a bigger one got away. Board Meeting Update and sent, stating that IPLOCA will need to rescind The final meeting of the 2011-2012 Board of Directors and secure the statistics. the first meeting of the 2012-2013 Board were held in membership if a company fails to begin the process to Istanbul during the convention. The following were the key Safety Instructors Training Tool outcomes from those meetings: Juan Arzuaga, Executive Secretary, explained that the Safety DVD (“IPLOCA Safety Instructors Training Tool”) was Board of Directors complete and available for distribution in Istanbul. One Outgoing president Osman Birgili thanked Nasser Issa and chapter of the training tool is available at www.iploca.com Rajen Kilachand, who had recently resigned from the Board, and was shown to the Board Members. An acknowledgement and Roberto Castelli who had completed his term as a letter, referencing the licensing agreement, would need to be Director-at-Large. signed by anyone who wished to receive a copy of the DVD. Convention Elections Record sponsorship was received this year for the convention in The election process for this year was explained. This Istanbul, with a total commitment of EUR 427,000. For the 2013 would exceptionally be based on the outcome of a vote convention in Washington DC a contract has been signed with at the AGM on some minor By-Law Changes, which, if the Omni Shoreham and arrangements are already underway. passed would allow each geographical region, regardless of size, to be represented by two directors, and the Health & Safety Statistics Associate Members to be represented by three directors. Only six companies had failed to submit statistics. After The directors were asked to explain this in the upcoming followup by the relevant directors a letter will be drafted election meetings. NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 5 Membership meeting in the UAE and will let the Secretariat know. New Regular Members Europe Mediterranean/Central Europe: Bruno Maerten -- Grup Servicii Petroliere S.A. (Romania) suggested Paris as a likely venue. -- NACAP Australia Pty Ltd. (Australia) East & Far East: Shanghai is a possibility, with the support -- Sicilsaldo Srl (Italy) of China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau (CPP) -- Van Oord Offshore bv (The Netherlands) - offshore applicant Name Changes -- Sorrento, 4-8 December 2012 -- Kingland Group Co. Ltd to Zhejiang Kingland Pipeline -- Marrakech or alternative, 26 February - 2 March 2013 & Technologies Co. Ltd. -- Murphy Pipelines Limited to J. Murphy & Sons Limited -- Stockholm, 28 May - 1 June 2013 -- Vacuworx International to Vacuworx Global Appointment of 2012-2013 Officers Resignations The officers for 2012-2013 were appointed as follows: -- Europipe (Germany) President: Doug Evans -- Salzgitter Mannesmann Grossrohr GmbH (Germany) First Vice President: Najib Khoury -- Weldsonix Inc. (U.S.A.) Treasurer: Harald Dresp Novel Construction Appointment of Directors-at-Large It was explained that the one hour meeting scheduled for Following a unanimous vote of approval appointments Thursday afternoon would present the work being done by were made as follows: Jerrit Coward, Marco Jannuzzi, the various novel construction work groups. The concept Wilhelm Maats, Karl Trauner, Jean-Claude Van de Wiele. of the two wikis – a public wiki for the Second Edition of Onshore Pipelines: The Road to Success, and a password- Nominations to the Committees protected wiki for current group work – was explained. Committee Leadership consists of the Chairman, and The next plenary session is scheduled at the Sofitel Directors of the Board, with the working groups made up of Heathrow Airport on 23-24 October 2012. members appointed by each company and/or consultants. Regional Meetings 6 Next Board Meeting Locations and Dates Coordination is carried out by the Geneva Secretariat. Committee leadership nominations were as follows: It was suggested that the Regional Meetings for 2013 be HSE Committee: Bruno Maerten (Chairman), Jerrit Coward, held as follows: Kaan Dogan, Jean-Claude Van de Wiele, Adam Wynne Hughes. North-West Europe: Possibly in collaboration with the Training Committee: Karl Trauner (Chairman), Harald Dresp, Pipeline Industries Guild in the UK on 11 March 2013. Marco Jannuzzi, Najib Khoury, Jan Koop, Wilhelm Maats, Eastern Europe: Iosif Panchak recommended a meeting in Iosif Panchak, Raúl Vilugrón. June in Moscow and the possibility of combining a meeting New Technologies (including Novel Construction): Doug with a meeting of Rogtec. Evans (Chairman), Andy Ball, Osman Birgili, Leonardo Middle East & Africa: Najib Khoury will investigate having a Gravina, Jesus Garcia Pons, Michael Rae, Pierluigi Zanin. Incoming president, Doug Evans, presented Osman Birgili with his And then outgoing president, Osman Birgili, had a surprise gift for Doug presidential pin. Evans to protect him against any evils in his upcoming presidential year. THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER New Faces his spare time he likes to play golf and during winter-time on the IPLOCA Board of Directors and enjoys the company of his children and grandchildren. he skates on Dutch lakes and canals. He is married to Jenny Following the 2012-2013 Board of Directors elections in Istanbul, we welcome to IPLOCA some people who never previously served on the Board: Andy Ball, Director for Europe North-West. Andy is CEO of Daniel Group & Managing Director of Land and Marine. He started his career in 1983 in the water regulated industry in the UK. In 1990 he moved into non-regulated main stream contracting, and subsequently joined Daniel in 1995 where he has held a number of senior management and board positions. During his employment he has been involved in a vast array of utility, energy, marine and major pipeline projects, both internationally and within the UK. Today his main focus is leading Land & Marine in serving the oil, gas and energy industry. He is married to Michelle and has four children, Charlotte, Oliver, Raúl Vilugrón, Director for Latin America Elliott and Sebastien. His hobbies include skiing, rugby and A Chilean citizen, Raúl participated in the foundation of spending as much time as possible with his family. MONTEC Ltd 16 years ago. He now directs the commercial affairs of the company, after spending more than 25 years as a field engineer. As a mechanical and civil engineer educated in Chile and Brazil Raúl contributed to the impressive industrial development of Chile over the last 20 years, mainly in pipeline and offshore services. He and his wife Maria have 6 children, 5 of whom are now independent professionals. During his professional life he served as project and construction manager for major companies such as CBI and Sade in Brazil for 15 years, and for Mendes Jr. and Cosapi in Chile. Among the many great projects that he led are the Collahuasi Concentrator Assembly, El Abra, El Tesoro, RT Codelco Pipeline, and many others. With an in-depth knowledge of the Latin American market he has worked in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Brazil, developing major Jan Koop, Director for Europe Central. and important projects in the mining industry. Raúl enjoys singing in choirs and listening to classical music. Jan is a Dutch citizen and CEO of Bohlen & Doyen GmbH based in Germany. He has nearly 30 years’ experience in management in the pipeline industry. After graduating as a civil engineer he became managing director at a small steel construction company in the Netherlands. A few years later he took over management of the equipment department with Nacap, a pipeline construction company based in the Netherlands. With Nacap International he expanded the business globally including in the Far East and Nigeria. In 1993 he was appointed CEO of Nacap. In 2006 Jan joined Bohlen & Doyen as a member of its board of directors. He was appointed CEO in 2007 and became a shareholder when Bohlen & Doyen merged into SAG, a German-based company. He joined the board of directors of SAG in 2012. In NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 7 Membership Centre We welcome the following companies to IPLOCA. The information below is also posted at www.iploca.com under the Membership Centre. New Regular Members Sicilsaldo is a construction company founded in 1994 that operates in the oil & gas sector. The types of services that the company offers include pipeline construction, construction of industrial plants, construction of pumping & compressor stations and maintenance activities. Sicilsaldo offers technical and management experience, plus advanced technologies and methodologies that can satisfy the most varied industrial Grup Servicii Petroliere S.A. (GSP Offshore), established in demands. Their experience gained in national and international 2004, is an offshore services operating company providing projects ensures construction management in any location, a wide range of integrated services, such as drilling, without organizational, logistics and management problems, well services, shipping, offshore construction, offshore assuring efficiency, timeliness and competitive costing. windmills, subsea services, hydrotechnical construction, engineering and training. The company controls a high Sicilsaldo SRL quality fleet of diversified onshore and offshore assets, Zona Industriale II Strada enabling the group to offer turnkey solutions. Grup Servicii 93012 Gela (CL) Petroliere is the largest Romanian entrepreneurial business Italy and was listed in the 2011 Deloitte CE Top 500. T +39 0933 924448 F +39 0933 912533 Grup Servicii Petroliere S.A. E [email protected] Constanta Port, Berth 34 I www.sicilsaldo.it 900900 Constanta Romania T +40 241 555 255 F +40 241 555 257 E [email protected] I www.gspoffshore.com Van Oord Offshore is an offshore and EPC contractor with more than 100 years of contracting experience that offers high precision subsea rock installation, trenching & backfilling, landfall installation, shallow water pipe lay, pipe pulling and SPM & GBS installation work. With an extensive global 8 Nacap Australia Pty Ltd is a leading pipeline construction track record in the offshore construction industry, Van Oord contractor in the Australian and Asia Pacific region. It has Offshore has proven its expertise in providing clients with a constructed more than 3000 km of pipelines including safe and solid solution for their offshore structures. Van Oord’s gathering/flowlines to large diameter welded steel transmission offshore capabilities include: shore approaches, including with contract values up to in excess of USD 500M. Contract pipe pulls, civil construction of shore approaches and methodologies include EPC and construct-only forms of landfalls, construction of sleepers and embankments, deep- contract. Nacap Australia is active in the water, oil, gas, slurry, sea dredging, seabed intervention and pre-sweeping, trench communication and power sectors with a strategic focus on the dredging and backfilling, hydraulic & geotechnical engineering, delivery of long distance, larger pipelines with diameters up to installation of Gravity Base Structures, installation of CALM 2 meters and lengths approaching 1000 km. buoys, installation of anchor systems, shallow water pipe lay. Nacap Australia Pty Ltd Van Oord Offshore B.V. Level 1, 601 Doncaster Road Jan Blankenweg 2 Doncaster, VIC 3108 4207 HN Gorinchem Australia The Netherlands T +61 3 8848 1888 T +31 88 826 52 00 F +61 3 8848 1899 F +31 88 826 52 10 E [email protected] E [email protected] I www.nacap.com.au I www.vanoord.com THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER Member News Bechtel Breaks Ground on 758MW Combined-Cycle Power Plant Bechtel announced in early November that construction is 2013 Membership Fees Membership fee invoices were emailed and sent by postal mail at the end of November. The payment due date is 2 January. If you have any questions please contact IPLOCA’s Accounting Manager at [email protected] under way on a 758-megawatt natural gas-fueled, combinedcycle power plant in Sherman, Texas. The company, along with Siemens, is designing and building the project for the customer in late September 2012. During the workshop Panda Sherman Power, LLC, an affiliate of Panda Power acceptance Regis Velasco Fichtner Pereira, Secretary of State Funds. Engineering, procurement, and manufacturing of the state of Rio de Janeiro, presented the project to the activities for the project are already under way. The project Brazilian media representatives in attendance. will support up to 800 jobs during peak construction and will use local companies to provide services such as surveying, concrete pumping, and earthwork. Changes in the Executive Board of Bilfinger Berger SE The Supervisory Board of Bilfinger Berger SE has appointed Leighton Offshore Successfully Completes Iraq Operations and Maintenance Project. Leighton Offshore has completed its Iraq Crude Oil Export Expansion Project (ICOEEP) Operations and Maintenance contract for client South Oil Company. Leighton has been successfully operating and maintaining Dr. Jochen Keysberg (46) as Member of the Executive the offshore Single Point Mooring (SPM) systems, which Board with effect from November 1, 2012. Jochen Keysberg were also installed by Leighton, since achieving first oil has been with the company since 1997 and is currently earlier this year. Leighton’s scope of work included SPM Head of Executive Management at Bilfinger Berger Mooring operations, tanker hose connections, scheduled Ingenieurbau GmbH. After many years of commendable maintenance, engineering support, diving services, oil service in various functions within the Group, Klaus Raps pollution emergency response as well as training for South will resign his position in the Executive Board at the end of Oil Company staff. Since March this year, Leighton has 2012 and will leave the company by mutual agreement due successfully loaded 78 tankers with 143,794,899 barrels of to differing views on business policy. oil with no safety or environmental incidents. World’s First Oil Sands Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Project Fluor Corporation has announced that Shell selected the firm as its engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for Shell’s carbon capture facility for its flagship Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Quest project at the Athabasca Oil Sands project in Alberta, Canada. The Quest project is being built on behalf of the Athabasca Oil Sands Project joint venture owners (including Shell, Chevron and Marathon Oil) with support from the Canadian and Alberta governments. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the third quarter. Herrenknecht Supplies First Tunnel Boring Machine for Metro Construction in Rio de Janeiro Lincoln Electric Announces Promotion Lincoln Electric has announced that Bruce Chantry Herrenknecht AG is supplying a tunnel boring machine with has been promoted to Director of Marketing for North a diameter of 11.46 meters for the construction of the new America. Chantry has been with Lincoln Electric for 17 metro line 4 in Rio de Janeiro. It will contribute to relieving years. Prior to assuming his new role, he spent four the traffic routes in the metropolitan area. At the company’s years as a Portfolio Manager for Welding Equipment, headquarters in Schwanau, southern Germany, the first tunnel overseeing the equipment product management team, boring machine to be used in Rio de Janeiro was accepted by strategic planning for the entire welding equipment NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 9 portfolio, new product development, market analysis, include the following facilities: an ethane-based ethylene product positioning and product promotion. Before his cracker, producing 1 million tons per year, using Technip tenure as a Portfolio Manager, he served as a product proprietary technology; two high density polyethylene manager for advanced welding equipment and as a plants using INEOS Innovene™ technology; a low density regional manager for the company’s Sub-Saharan polyethylene plant using BASEL Lupotech technology; Africa region. storage, waste treatment and utility facilities, including a 150 MW combined cycle power and steam co-generation plant; a multimodal logistics platform for shipment of 1 Petrofac JV Wins USD 229 Million Contract in Iraq million tons per year of polyethylene via bulk train, bulk Petrofac has won a further inspection, maintenance and truck or bagged; administrative, maintenance, control repair contract for the Rumaila oil field in Southern Iraq room and ancillary buildings. with its joint venture partner, China Petroleum Engineering & Construction Corporation (CPECC). The USD 229 million Operating Organisation (ROO), following a competitive Technip Awarded Subsea Contract for the Cardamom Field in the Gulf of Mexico tender. The three-year contract, which is worth more than Technip was awarded a lump sum contract for the USD 160 million to Petrofac, will be led by its Offshore development of subsea infrastructure for the Cardamom Projects & Operations (OPO) business. The contract covers field located in the Gulf of Mexico, Garden Banks block the inspection, maintenance and repair of degassing 427. The field is at a water depth of approximately stations, rotating machinery and cluster pumping stations 830 meters. The project consists of a subsea tie-back contract was awarded by BP Iraq NV (BP), via the Rumaila and came into effect on 1 November 2012. to the Auger tension leg platform, wholly owned by Shell Offshore Inc. The contract covers the project management, engineering, fabrication and installation Petrofac Agrees Strategic Alliance With Bowleven of the East and West Loop 12.8 kilometer pipe-in-pipe Petrofac and Bowleven, the Africa-focused oil and flowlines with associated PLETs and steel catenary gas company, have agreed a strategic alliance to risers. Technip’s operating center in Houston, Texas will support the proposed development of the Etinde perform the overall project management. The flowlines Permit, offshore Cameroon. The alliance represents and risers will be welded at Technip’s spoolbase in an opportunity for Petrofac to leverage its extensive Mobile, Alabama. The offshore installation is expected capabilities to support Bowleven’s proposed to be performed in the second semester of 2013 by the development and builds on the company’s presence in Deep Blue, Technip’s deepwater pipelay vessel, and the West Africa. Under the terms of the strategic alliance, Pioneer, recently added to the Technip fleet with the which is subject to Bowleven shareholder approval, acquisition of Global Industries. Petrofac will provide engineering capability to Euroil, Bowleven’s Cameroonian subsidiary, to support the delivery of a Field Development Plan (FDP) for the proposed first phase of the development, pending satisfactory completion of Euroil’s appraisal of its asset. Prior to approval of the FDP, Petrofac will be remunerated by Euroil for the provision of its service capability. Technip in a JV with Odebrecht and ICA Fluor awarded large EPC contract by Braskem Idesa for the Ethylene XXI project Braskem Idesa S.A.P.I. awarded to a joint venture formed by Odebrecht (40%), Technip (40%) and ICA Fluor (20%) a contract worth more than USD 2.7 billion Friese Photography KG (Salzburg) were again hard (around €2.1 billion) for the engineering, procurement at work in Istanbul, represented by Jan, Fredi and and construction (EPC) of a petrochemical complex to Wolfgang. It makes a change to see them in front of be built in the Coatzacoalcos/Nanchital region, in the the camera. Mexican state of Veracruz. The petrochemical complex will 10 THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER Awards Made at Istanbul Convention The IPLOCA Environmental Award sponsored by Shell was presented in recognition of a significant achievement in reducing the impact on the environment for the construction of pipeline projects. Adam Wynne Hughes, IPLOCA HSE Committee Chairman, made a presentation on the Environmental Award sponsored by Shell. Brad MacLean and Jerrit Coward of Willbros received the award The winner was CCC (Consolidated Contractors Company) from Adam Wynne Hughes. for their Creativity in Waste Management program. The project was deemed to show management commitment The IPLOCA Health and Safety Award and the possibility to be extended to all projects. sponsored by Chevron was presented in recognition of an innovative achievement in health and safety. Adam Wynne Hughes, IPLOCA HSE Committee Chairman, made a presentation on HSE Statistics. The recipient of the award was Willbros Group Inc., represented by Brad MacLean and Jerrit Coward, in recognition of their Safety Talisman Program. The judges presented the award based on its simplicity, effectiveness, innovative approach and focus on safety. Two runners-up were also named: CCC (Consolidated Contractors Company), represented by Najib Khoury for Health & Safety Awareness and Communication. Rashid Shuhaiber of CCC receives the trophy and certificate from Loek Max Streicher GmbH & Co. KG aA, represented by Vreenegoor, Shell Projects & Technology, and Adam Wynne Hughes. Harald Dresp, were named for their Pocket Alarm. 2013 IPLOCA Awards with the IPLOCA Environmental Award sponsored by Shell). Information on the 2013 awards will be posted at invited to submit innovative projects which have improved www.iploca.com as soon as it becomes available. Regular Members and Associate Members of IPLOCA are the quality of life of local people impacted by pipeline industry work, including: The IPLOCA Health & Safety Award sponsored by Chevron and the IPLOCA New Technologies Award sponsored by BP will both be presented next year at the IPLOCA Convention in Washington DC. -- Initiatives to address a specific need identified in the local community. -- A program or practice demonstrating corporate social responsibility -- A creative initiative in which a large impact is made with In addition, IPLOCA’s newest award – the IPLOCA Corporate Social Responsibility Award will also be presented. It was a small investment. -- A long term project, intended to be continuously first presented during the annual Convention held in Beijing supported by an IPLOCA member company or another, in September 2011. It is given every second year (alternately once the pipeline activity is complete. NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 11 Istanbul Convention Retrospective Sincere thanks to our Sponsors and Speakers More than 685 people attended the convention in Istanbul Post-Convention Questionnaire and you will find a sampling of photos from the event in We would like to thank all of the Istanbul Convention this newsletter. We were fortunate to have fine weather attendees who kindly took the time to respond to our almost every day. post-event questionnaire. Some key findings are below: The photos on the following pages, along with many others, Networking remains the most important reason are available online at www.iploca.com/photosofistanbul. A CD respondents gave for attending the convention. Ninety- of photographs is being mailed out to all attendees and should three percent of attendees indicated that it is likely that they arrive in your mailbox around the same time as this newsletter. will attend next year’s event in Washington DC. Traffic in Istanbul, while often mentioned as a source of frustration, was generally understood to be unavoidable. Seventy-nine percent would prefer a city location over a resort location. Cities of interest for future conventions were literally all over the map, from Tokyo to Buenos Aires. Locations mentioned more than once included Dubai, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, and London. More general mentions included « India », « somewhere tropical », « any interesting city » and « your choice ». When asked about future speaker presentations, topics were ranked as follows : 1. Future large projects 2. New technologies 3. Market trends. 12 THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER Industry Speakers at the Istanbul Convention Our thanks to our guest speakers who provided presentations at the Open General Meetings as follows: Professor Ilber Ortayli (Head of the Bruce Luberski (Vice President for BP’s Suzanne Minter (Energy Analyst/ Topkapi Museum Ortayli, Istanbul) Global Project Organization, Azerbaijan- Account Executive, BENTEK Energy) Istanbul: History and Population. Georgia-Turkey Developments) The Impact of Shale Gas Worldwide. Shah Deniz Development. Andreas Kohler (Managing Director, Bill Hoff (Director Engineering Group, Edward J. Wiegele (President, ILF Consulting Engineers) Gulf Interstate Engineering Company) Professional Services, Willbros Trans-Asia Gas Pipeline from Rebuilding the World’s Pipeline Engineers (US), LLC) Turkmenistan to China. Infrastructure. Rebuilding the World’s Pipeline Infrastructure. Angus Paterson (Managing Director, Hisham Kawash (Senior Manager, Sales, Daslav Brkic (Vice President E&C Paterson & Cooke) Estimation & Proposals – Pipelines, CCC) Business Development, Saipem) Requirements for the Design and Case History: Constructing a Slurry Nord Stream Offshore Pipeline. Commissioning of Long Distance Pipeline in Madagascar. Slurry Pipeline Systems. NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 13 THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 6 THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER Final Banquet Lottery On the evening of the Final Banquet May Shuhaiber was the lucky winner of a car, courtesy of Volvo Construction Equipment and Renault Trucks. Lottery funds of more than EUR 13,500 were raised for “Send me to school, Dad” (Baba Beni Okula Gönder) an initiative to support continuing education for girls in Turkey. This has been donated to Osman and Nurgul Birgili’s chosen charity “Send Me to School, Dad”. A delighted May Shuhaiber received a certificate for EUR 25,000 from Hervé Maillard of Renault Trucks and Eddy Powell of Volvo Construction Equipment. Arwen Mallet was invited to draw the winning ticket. Hervé Maillard, Arwen Mallet, May Shuhaiber and Eddy Powell. The tournament was a great success and your support was very much appreciated. The course was excellent and the weather couldn’t have been better. Congratulations to all trophy winners: First Place: Team 9 - Peter Nicholson, Michael Simmons and Eduard Van Huuksloot Second Place: Team 12 - Kevin Waschuk, Daniel Gasquet and Rod Hardy Third Place: Team 4 - Pascal Collet, William Solomon, Doug Fabick and Jim Watkins Maats / Liebherr Golf Tournament Nearest the Pin Ladies: Liz Evans Nearest the Pin Men: Jim Shelley Longest Drive Ladies: Patrizia Nicolotti Longest Drive Men: Patricio Alvarez Morphy Wilhelm Maats (above left) and Rudolf Cherdron would like 14 to thank everyone who played in the first Maats BV and Wilhelm and Rudolf very much look forward to seeing you Liebherr-sponsored golf tournament held at Kemer Golf at the 2013 IPLOCA Convention in Washington DC and hope and Country Club in Istanbul. you will join them for another great day on the golf course. THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER Thanks to our Istanbul Convention Sponsors! ”Send Me to School, Dad” Professor Dr. Aysel Çelikel, former Minister of Justice and Chairwoman of the Association for Supporting Contemporary Life, presented Osman Birgili, IPLOCA’s Immediate Past President, a special trophy as a token of her appreciation for the lottery funds upon his courtesy visit to the Association’s headquarters. During the visit, Professor Çelikel expressed the charity’s deep gratitude to IPLOCA and discussed with Mr.Birgili how the precious donation would be used towards the building of a new dormitory for girls. NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 15 Training Committee IPLOCA requests your feedback regarding the DVD Pipeline Construction Safety Instructors Tool Once you have had a In collaboration with the Construction Sector Council of chance to review the DVD, Canada (CSC) and other key stakeholder groups, IPLOCA has we would greatly appreciate prepared a DVD course to address health and safety issues your feedback. Please go to specific to pipeline construction in the oil and gas sectors. www.iploca.com/safetyinstructorstoolquestionnaire where you will find a few short questions regarding IPLOCA adapted this course for international use as a safety your usage of the DVD. We appreciate your help. instructors tool. The material is intended to familiarise workers with how to recognise, assess, and control hazards at the work site and has been designed to act as a complement to other courses that they may be required to take. The DVD content includes: -- Lesson 11: Vehicle Operation -- Lesson 12: Equipment Operation -- Lesson 13: Emergency Response -- Course Introduction -- Lesson 1: Work Preparation The DVD runs using an internet browser alone (Internet -- Lesson 2: PPE and WHMIS Review Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome); an internet -- Lesson 3: Hazard Recognition and Control connection is not required. -- Lesson 4: Front End Operational Hazards and Controls -- Lesson 5: Rigging and Hoisting Hazards and Controls IPLOCA members can order a free copy of the DVD from -- Lesson 6: Pipe Hazards and Controls [email protected]. A signed Acknowledgement -- Lesson 7: Pipe Assembly and Coating Hazards and Controls Letter for Receipt and Use of Licensed Product is required -- Lesson 8: Specialized Work Hazards and Controls before the DVD can be delivered. For more information, -- Lesson 9: Environmental Hazards and Controls and to link to the Acknowledgement Letter, please visit -- Lesson 10: Back End Operational Hazards and Controls www.iploca.com New Technologies Committee being done to understand the effects of multi-pass welds on heat-affected zone toughness, on hybrid laser-arc welding, the application of rollingin modifying weld metal properties and residual stress field, and the application of laser in hyperbaric welding. The October meeting of IPLOCA’s Novel Construction Initiative was held at the Sofitel Heathrow on 23 and 24 of October, with 38 people in attendance. During the meeting a number of important decisions were made, including the realignment of working groups and appointment of some new work group leaders. All groups are now developing their material via a wiki which is proving to be a successful collaborative working tool. A new schedule of group leader teleconferences was defined together with the dates for the next Plenary Sessions at a location to be determined (likely in London, Paris, Rome or Amsterdam). Tour of Cranfield University Following the meeting attendees were invited to tour 16 Cranfield University’s Welding Engineering and Laser Supriyo Ganguly displays a number of components made by the Processing Centre to witness first-hand the research work wire and arc-based additive layer manufacturing method THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER Research Activities and Future Direction in the Welding Engineering and Laser Processing Centre (WELP) of Cranfield University, UK by Supriyo Ganguly and Stewart Williams Figure 2- Welding bug and torch in a dual tandem set up. The Welding Engineering and Laser Processing Centre -- Wire and arc based additive layer manufacturing (WELP) of Cranfield University was established in 1961 -- Laser processing (known at that time as Welding Engineering Research -- Stress Engineering Centre) and is the only specialist welding research organisation in UK academia. Pipeline Welding Welding of structural pipelines for the transportation of In 2006, considerable investment was made by Cranfield fossil fuel has been a research theme for several years. University to maintain the centre’s internationally- In the past, significant contributions towards increasing recognised status for industrially-relevant research. The productivity were made through CAPS (Cranfield centre was recently renamed as Welding Engineering Automated Pipeline Welding Systems) project. In CAPS and Laser Processing Centre (WELP) to reemphasize its it has been shown that the productivity of pipeline commitment towards application of laser in traditional manufacturing could be quadrupled through use of a dual arc-based fusion welding processes. The major research tandem process with a specially designed welding torch, activities of the centre are shown in figure 1, page 17. bug and power sources.   There are four main streams to the research: It was also demonstrated that the improvement in -- Pipeline welding productivity was achieved without any compromise on NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 17 investigation. In this project a simple and effective approach Metallurgy and Properties Systems and Processes was taken whereby the thermal cycles in various welding processes were recorded using thermocouples and their effect on metallurgical phase formation and mechanical Applications properties were experimentally simulated in simple impact toughness specimens using a thermo-mechanical simulator Wire/Powder and Arc Additive Manufacture (Gleeble). The results were supplemented by continuous Linear Friction Welding Systems and Processes cooling transformation data of specimens machined out from plates of identical composition and processing history. Stress Engineering and Modelling Laser Processing Laser / Hybrid Pipeline Welding mechanism of brittle zone formation in the heat affected Metallurgy Dissimilar Welding change response using a dilatometer during continuous cooling. This study revealed the underpinning science and Fundamentals Applications Phase transformation was studied by monitoring volume zone of a multi-pass. Residual stresses in service critical structures needs Hyperbaric accounting to prevent premature failure. Post weld rolling of a weld metal and associated HAZ of a welded structure can be an effective way to relax the internal residual Figure 1 – Research activities at WELP stress field through localised plastic deformation. Rolling and controlled laser processing can be a way not only the metallurgical quality of the welded pipeline and field to remove the residual stress state but also to create trials were taken to increase the technology readiness level. recrystallised strain free set of grains in place of dendritic Significant research effort is now focused on application of grain structure in weld metal. A research programme at laser and arc based hybrid welding processes for pipeline present is investigating the benefits that can be obtained by applications. Laser is a high energy density source which rolling and laser treating the cap of a multi-pass weld. This can be used to improve productivity, but it is very sensitive is a futuristic project that will have very significant impact to weld set up and also the addition of filler wire is difficult on the existing pipeline design procedure and has the in the laser alone process. Figure 3 shows the effect of laser potential to bring step change in the material design aspect. plus arc process on weld bead geometry. It can be seen that application of laser and arc would be beneficial in modifying the weld bead geometry and addition of filler material. +  = The application of laser in deep sea hyperbaric welding is another area of research interest. Arc welding (GMAW) procedures developed at WELP have resulted in the Laser GMAW Hybrid Figure 3 - The complimentary advantages of laser and arc sources. deepest subsea welds, close to a kilometre below the sea level, as demonstrated in the recent trials in the Norwegian fjord involving Isotek Oil and Gas Ltd on behalf of Statoil. Also the first hot tap welding has been performed at a water depth of 265 m in the existing pipelines to increase the life of the Asgard oil field by 30 years (Asgard Gas Compression project). Present research at WELP is now investigating the possibility of application of laser to assist the existing GMAW process to alleviate the problems of hydrogen assisted cracking and to use the state of the art digital power sources to reduce any unwanted spattering in such unmanned remote controlled welding processes. Figure 4 shows the 250 bar chamber available at Cranfield which can simulate water pressure at 2.5 kM under the sea.  18 Understanding the metallurgical response in the heat- Figure 4 - Hyperbaric welding chamber can be pressurised up to affected zone of a multi-pass weld is another area of 250 bar (2.5 kM below the sea) sea. THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) A ALM is a disruptive technology that can bring a transformation in the traditional manufacturing processes. The main advantage of ALM is the fact that it Cross section AA’ - ~40% mass efficient structure possible by ALM manufacture is a tool-less digital technology and a structure built layer by layer using an automated system that derives its data B directly from a computer aided design file. The process path from developing a component to the real structure is shown in figure 5. Additive layer manufacturing has the following broad advantages over traditional manufacturing: -- Simplified logistics resulting in leaner supply chain A A’ -- Very high yield of material (fly to buy ratio in terms of the aviation sector) resulting in lower energy consumption and wastage A a) Example of mass efficiency by producing honeycomb like cross -- Freedom from design constraints due to free form manufacturing. sectional features (section thickness 22 mm) and b) cone section of wall thickness 2.5 mm. It was shown that the process is capable of producing a wide range of sectional dimensions. Arc welding (GMAW) procedures developed at Cranfield’s WELP have resulted in the deepest subsea welds, close to a kilometre below the sea level, as demonstrated in the recent trials in the Norwegian fjord involving Isotek Oil and Gas Ltd on behalf of Statoil. Research Council (EPSRC) of UK at WELP centre has now made the ALM technology viable for standard industrial process through a wire and arc based additive layer manufacturing route. This has dramatically reduced the manufacturing cost through reduction in the cost of input raw material and processing cost, removed issues related to component size (as in powder bed process the component size was severely restricted) and also quality (soundness and metallurgical structure) is much more robust in wire and arc-based processes. Figure 6 The major constraints of this manufacturing process shows how additive built structures can increase mass were cost, capacity and time. Generally as an input raw efficiency and also different wall thicknesses. The more material powder was used in this technology which recent research activities in developing ALM process has causes problems e.g. low deposition rate resulting high been aimed at understanding the effect of deformation manufacturing time, high cost of raw material and lower on residual stress state and refinement in microstructural capacity. Ground breaking research performed with characteristics. Figure 7 shows the microstructural the help of Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre refinement in Ti64 ALM structure when subjected to (IMRC) grant by the Engineering and Physical Sciences intermediate deformation between layer depositions. The response of the microstructure with varying deformation load can be seen in the figure. Programme a robot or machine tool to trace out the layers Laser Processing Laser is an intelligent heat source and if utilised to its full potential should have very significant impact on material processing and manufacturing. Fundamental studies in Slice an object into layers laser processing are performed to understand the laser metal interaction in terms of laser intensity and lasermetal interaction time and how these can be translated to system parameters viz. laser power and welding speed. This is crucial in order to implement the benefits of fundamental scientific studies performed in a laboratory Use a deposition tool to build up part to an industrial set up. This is also important to design the laser power and beam characteristics for specific Figure 5 - Principles and flow diagram of additive layer ranges of application. Benefits of this study has wide manufacturing process. ranged and diversified impacts such as hybrid laser-arc NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 19 Control 50kN 75kN certain safety critical applications. With the development in physical metallurgy of common structural alloys, thinner and thinner gauge materials are preferred which would save the cost of raw material and promote lighter structure which can be handled with ease. However, thinner gauge structures are susceptible to distortion by the compressive residual stress field which resulted to 1 mm balance the weld tensile residual stress field in the weld Figure 7 - Electronic backscatter diffraction pattern (EBSD) showing region. In the area of stress engineering, research at WELP modification of dendritic grain structure produced by ALM into helped in understanding the fundamental underpinning high angle grain boundaries (HAGB) by intermediate rolling and mechanism of residual stress formation and applying re-deposition. Deposition after rolling promotes recrystallisation counteractive measures to mitigate the stress field. of the microstructure resulting HAGB. Rolling load is also vital in Local and global mechanical tensioning by application determining the final grain size. of mechanical or thermal forces was investigated. The application of the appropriate process would based processes, welding of dissimilar alloys, application indeed depend on the component/structure and the of laser under high pressure and joining of metal to manufacturing conditions. A host of stress engineering composite etc. The different laser systems available at techniques, e.g. in-situ and post weld rolling, localised WELP and its access to other laser manufacturers make heating & cooling, were developed keeping in mind the it possible to study the inter-transferability of parameters engineering requirement of specific industries. Research between different lasers. results and understanding of underlying scientific Stress Engineering mechanisms supplement the research activities across the centre. Welding is by far the most popular joining, fabrication and coating process for structural and engineering More information is available from Dr. Supriyo Ganguly components. However, generation of weld residual ([email protected]) or Professor Stewart Williams stress and distortion of welded components are two ([email protected]) or by visiting www.cranfield. issues which can make a welding process nonviable to ac.uk/sas/welding/index.html. Health, Safety and the Environment We welcome Bruno Maerten of GEOCEAN (the new chairman of the HSE Committee) and Alain Gauthiez of Spiecapag. Our sincere thanks to outgoing chairman Adam Wynne Hughes (CRC-Evans) and to Melody Kratsios (SNCLavalin) who has stepped down from the committee following a recent promotion to senior vice president of global security. It was a smaller than usual HSE Committee group that met (Left to right) Bruno Maerten (Committee Chairman), Juan Arzuaga, in Geneva on 30 October 2012. Those who were unable to Brad MacLean, Amir Tajik and Alain Gauthiez meet in the IPLOCA attend the meeting included Kevin Parker, of Mears Group, headquarters in Geneva. who was prevented from making the journey by Hurricane 20 Sandy. The meeting included a review of the Health & A workshop on “How to Prevent Catastrophic Losses” Safety Statistics Return and the associated Health & Safety is being scheduled for 11 July 2013 in Geneva. More Report. A similar report covering environmental statistics is information will be available next year and all IPLOCA being developed for 2013. members are cordially invited. THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER World Federation of Pipeline Industry Associations The World Federation of Pipeline Industry Associations met in Istanbul. (Left to right): Cheryl Burgess (Pipeline Industries Guild), David Kavanaugh (PLCAC), Neil Lane (PLCAC), Rob Darden (DCA), Kevin Michels (DCA), Juan Arzuaga (IPLOCA) and Osman Birgili (now IPLOCA Immediate Past President) In the Headlines RPT-Czech Pipeline Firm to Announce Acquisition where they need to go,” Lidiak said. “The nation’s crude oil and liquid fuels pipelines have an outstanding safety record and operators understand the need for continuous improvement. Between 1999 and 2011, the number of Czech state crude importer Mero will announce a strategic liquid pipeline releases was reduced by about 60 percent acquisition next Tuesday, it said, days after a government and the volume released by a little more than 40 percent. source said it was near to buying a stake in the Transalpine The industry continues to seek the most beneficial, cost- (TAL) oil pipeline from Royal Dutch Shell. Mero, which runs effective improvements to safety.” the IKL pipeline that hooks up to the TAL in Germany, has State Journal.com, 14 November 2012 long been in talks to buy into the pipeline to help ensure an alternative source of oil besides crude from Russia, currently its main supplier. A stake in the pipeline running Siemens Wins 3-year UAE Pipeline Contract from Italy’s Adriatic port of Trieste to Germany would Siemens has been awarded a three-year multi-million grant priority access to its capacity, which has lately been dollar supply contract for the maintenance of the strategic constrained forcing the Czechs to temporarily shut down Habshan-Fujairah crude oil pipeline automation and one refinery due to a lack of crude. telecommunications system. Speaking on the sidelines of Reuters.com, 15 November 2012 ADIPEC 2012, Ali Vezvai, Siemens executive vice president and general manager – oil and gas, said it was a “project of national interest. It’s a critical project for Abu Dhabi Oil, Gas Industry Seeking “Zero Incident” Record on Pipelines and the UAE government.” Taking effect from January The oil and gas industry is seeking the highest possible operational support services. The contract includes various 2013, the terms of the contract span maintenance and standards of safety in regard to pipelines, an industry trade stakeholders such as China’s CPECC, the EPC contractor for group says. The statement from the American Petroleum the supply of the pipeline and ADCO, the pipeline operator. Institute’s Peter Lidiak, director of pipelines, followed www.equities.com, 14 November 2012 the posting of the National Transportation Safety Board’s designation of enhanced pipeline safety and infrastructure in 2013. API represents more than 500 members who are Cyprus Water Pipeline Project Promises Benefits, but not for Negotiations major players in the oil and natural gas industry. “Pipelines A water pipeline project connecting Turkey with northern are the safest way to transport crude oil and products Cyprus could solve the island’s persistent water supply preservation among its top ten “Most Wanted” objectives NUMBER 53 DECEMBER 2012 21 problem, but its impact on stalled negotiations between primary energy sources: oil, gas, coal and renewable energy. the Turkish and Greek parts of the island will be marginal, A companion to the IEA’s authoritative monthly Oil Market experts told SETimes. Cyprus, which receives a modest Report, the MTOMR offers a bridge between that monthly annual rainfall of about 500 milimetres, is not considered snapshot of market conditions and the oil section of the exceptionally arid. But the island’s vulnerability to drought annual World Energy Outlook, which has a longer-term focus. and hot, dry summers make access to water a key concern, www.iea.org, 12 November 2012 especially for industries like agriculture and tourism. Last month, Turkish and Northern Cyprus authorities inaugurated from Mersin to Kyrenia in northern Cyprus through a Factories Under Lens for Buying Oil Stolen from IOC pipeline pipeline suspended 250 metres beneath the Mediterranean Several factories in Jaipur are under the police scanner for Sea. Upon completion, the pipeline is expected to transport buying crude oil that was siphoned off from the Jamnagar- a groundbreaking project to transport water 170 kilometres 75 million cubic metres of water annually. Mathura IOC pipeline passing through Bharatpur district. www.setimes.com, 12 November 2012 Following a raid at a godown in Bhankrota on the Ajmer Road on Saturday, where the thieves were storing the oil, it Global Map of Oil Refining and Trade to be Redrawn over Next 5 Years, IEA Report Says has come up during investigation that those involved in the theft sold crude to factories in Jaipur. www.timesofindia.india.com, 10 November 2012 Profound shifts in the regional distribution of oil demand and supply growth will redefine the refining industry and transform global oil trade over the next five years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says in its annual MediumTerm Oil Market Report (MTOMR) released today. The IEA Russia’s Gazprom and Bulgaria’s Energy Holding EAD have expects the global oil market to become somewhat less taken the final investment decision on the construction of the tight over the medium term than it has been through most South Stream gas pipeline via Bulgaria, finalizing the process of the last decade, as a combination of demand and supply of taking FIDs for all sections of the route. The document was factors will cause OPEC spare capacity to return to more signed by Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and EAD’s executive comfortable levels. But it also highlights elevated supply and director Mihail Andonov in the presence of Bulgarian Prime demand risks. The MTOMR is the last in a series of medium- Minister Boyko Borisov, Gazprom said in a statement. term forecasts that the IEA devotes to each of the four main www.platts.com, 16 November 2012 IPLOCA Yearbook 11 edition th The iploca yearbook ™ The official pipe line & offshore conTracTors yearbook The Yearbook has been distributed worldwide to the desks and in the field of pipeline companies. Do not hesitate to send us the addresses of the persons 11Th ediTion 2012-2013 www.iploca-yearbook.com to whom you wish us to send the IPLOCA Yearbook. Please send any updates to [email protected] and be sure to also send a copy to [email protected]. In this way we will update our newsletter mailing lists and membership database. Additional printed copies can be obtained on request: www.iploca-yearbook.com 22 Russia, Bulgaria Sign Final Investment Decision on South Stream Gas Pipeline THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER Listing changes Please note the following listing changes in the IPLOCA Yearbook for Associate Member: 728 XinHua Road SHANGHAI 200052 CHINA P.R. T+86 21 6294 1881 F+86 21 6294 1880 BETAFENCE N.V. General Office Betafence Middle East (Branch) Betafence N.V. Deerlijkstraat 58A 8550 ZWEVEGEM BELGIUM T +32 56 73 45 00 F +32 56 73 45 98 P.O. Box 293517 Dafza DUBAI U.A.E. T+971 4 204 5028 F+971 4 204 5029 Per Andersen E [email protected] Sales Manager ArmapipeBranch Principal Services/Products Armapipe. 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The “Ottoman dress required” event included 12 March 2013 - Londoon, U.K. a surprise performance from a superb Ukrainian children’s choir. www.pipeguild.com Iosif, seated on cushion, with his wife Irina behind him, is surrounded by a number of family members and friends, some of whom IPLOCA East & Far East Regional Meeting may look familiar. 29 March 2013 - Shanghai, China IPLOCA Media Partners (September 2010 to August 2013) BENJAMIN MEDIA Trenchless Technology International North American Pipelines P.O. Box 190 PENINSULA, OHIO 44264 U.S.A. T+1 330 467 7588 F+1 330 468 2289 [email protected] Iwww.trenchlessonline.com Bernard P. Krzys President & Publisher [email protected] OILDOM PUBLISHING COMPANY OF TEXAS, INC. 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Inset: Andy Lukas Officers Doug Evans (Gulf Interstate Engineering), President; Director, America Jésus Garcia-Pons (Arendal), Director, Latin America North; Chairman of the New Technologies Committee Raúl Vilugrón (Montec), Director, Latin America Najib Khoury (CCC), 1 Vice President; Director, Middle East Ibrahim Zakhem (Zakhem), Director, Middle East & Africa & Africa Andy Lukas (A.J. Lucas), Director, East & Far East Harald Dresp (Max Streicher), Treasurer; Director, Europe Central Sandip Sharma (Kalpataru Power Transmission), Director, Osman Birgili (Tekfen), Immediate Past President; Director, Europe East & Far East Eastern Greg Miller (Pipeline Inspection), Director, Associate Members st Directors Iosif Panchak (Stroygazmontazh), Director, Europe Eastern Pierluigi Zanin (Goriziane Group S.p.A.), Director, Associate Members Kaan Dogan (Attila Dogan), Director, Europe Eastern Directors at Large Jan Koop (Bohlen & Doyen), Director, Europe Central Jerrit Coward (Willbros Group, Inc) Bruno Maerten (GEOCEAN), Director, Europe Mediterranean, Marco Jannuzzi (Caterpillar) Chairman of the HSE Committee Wilhelm Maats (Maats Pipeline Equipment) Leonardo Gravina (Sicim S.p.A.), Director, Europe Mediterranean Karl Trauner (HABAU), Chairman of the Training Committee Andy Ball (Land & Marine), Director, Europe North-West Jean-Claude Van de Wiele (Spiecapag) Adam Wynne Hughes (Pipeline Induction Heat), Director, Europe 24 Michael Rae (Argus Limited), Director, Associate Members North-West Executive Secretary Scott Summers (ARB), Director, America North Juan Arzuaga THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER Global growth through innovation ShawCor has established a strong position in its markets through an unwavering focus on global growth, flawless execution, technological innovation and organizational excellence. 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