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OTC Asia 2020 Date: 24-27 March 2020 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The biennial Offshore Technology Conference Asia (OTC Asia) is where energy professionals meet to exchange ideas and opinions to advance scientific and technical knowledge for offshore resources and environmental matters.
Founded in 1969, the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) organises the world’s foremost events for the development of offshore resources in the fields of drilling, exploration, productions, and environmental protection. The flagship OTC is held annually in Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
OTC events are brought to you by organisations that cover all aspects of the offshore energy industry. 2020.otcasia.org
Oil & Gas Digitalisation Summit Sub-Saharan Africa Date: 24-25 March 2020 Location: Johannesburg, South Africa Transforming the operational performance of Sub-Saharan Africa’s oil & gas industry through adopting digital technologies. The Oil & Gas Digitalisation Summit Sub-Saharan Africa will welcome the oil & gas sector to Johannesburg in March 2020 and will place the oil & gas industry at the forefront of a new age.
The conference will help chart a roadmap for developing more resilient and robust producers across the continent, less affected by global price fluctuations and future-proofed to withstand external shocks (which the O&G industry is prone). Over the course of two days, the conference will demonstrate how adopting technology can positively facilitate national content strategies
that build capacity across SSA and enhance development of the SME sector and add value to national economies across the continent. www.oilandgasdigitalisation-ssa.com
Industrial Control Systems Cyber Security Conference Date: 21-23 April 2020 Location: Singapore
each October, and a Singapore/APAC event which takes place each April.
SecurityWeek’s Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cyber Security Conference is the largest and longest-running event series focused on industrial cybersecurity. Since 2002, the conference has gathered ICS cyber security stakeholders across various industries and attracts operations and control engineers, IT, government, vendors and academics.
The events cater to the energy, utility, chemical, transportation, manufacturing, and other industrial and critical infrastructure organisations.
Over the years, the focus of the conference has shifted from raising awareness towards sharing security event histories and discussing solutions and protection strategies. The conference series now includes two editions, the flagship U.S. Event which takes place
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Both events address the myriad cyber threats facing operators of ICS around the world, and will address topics covering ICSs, including protection for SCADA systems, plant control systems, engineering workstations, substation equipment, programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and other field control system devices. The majority of conference attendees are control systems users, working as control engineers, cybersecurity professionals, in operations
management or in IT. Industries represented include defence, power generation, transmission and distribution, water utilities, chemicals, oil and gas, pipelines, transportation, data centres, medical devices etc. Other attendees work for control systems vendors, security products and services companies, associations, universities and various branches of the US and foreign governments. www.icscybersecurityconference.com
Logistics firms to get active on boosting Zone 2 safety
Logistics operations using ATEX lift trucks in Zone 2 should be using active gas detection to improve safety and protect people, warns Pyroban. In Zone 2 it is important that drivers know when a potentially explosive atmosphere is present so that the cause of the flammable atmosphere can be investigated and rectified. Active gas detection systems on lift trucks can play a vital role in this, significantly improving onsite safety. Some 3PLs have been slow to adopt this active approach assuming that it is better to operate ATEX lift trucks that use passive, Ex d protection methods so that
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trucks can work through a gas or vapour release. However, active gas detection ensures that drivers know there is a problem and can act upon it accordingly. Pyroban’s most popular active gas detection solution for Zone 2 areas is system6000™ which involves converting the truck at the Pyroban UK factory in as little as six weeks. system6000 combines gas detection with various explosion protection methods and is suitable for all brands and types of diesel and electric materials handling equipment working in logistics operations, such as VNA, pallet, picking, counterbalance and reach trucks, and more. With system6000, the driver gets visual/audible warnings followed by automatic equipment shutdown at certain levels. www.pyroban.com • +44 1273 456825 • sales@pyroban.com.
