IPLOCA Newsletter 42

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THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER MARCH 2010

Venice page 12 Convention update

CONTENTS: Letter from the President page 4 News from Geneva page 5 Member News page 8 New Technologies page 10 WITH NEWS FROM: THE INDUSTRY, MEMBERSHIP, ALLIED & SISTER ASSOCIATIONS

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CONTENTS Letter from the President

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News from Geneva

5

Board Meeting Update

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Membership Centre

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Member News

8

Training

10

New Technologies

10

Health & Safety

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Venice Convention Update

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Planning Ahead

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A Global Crisis

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In the Headlines

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Yearbook

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IPLOCA Secretariat

IPLOCA Newsletter

International Pipeline & Offshore

Editor Elizabeth Spalding

Contractors Association

Lay-out Peter Schoonenberg

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1216 Cointrin / Geneva

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Switzerland

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Letter from the President With IPLOCA now settling into its new headquarters in Geneva, and following a very successful board meeting in Vienna in December, we are moving ahead with our 2010 objectives.

From the standpoint of New Technologies, we have established a relationship with APIA, PRCI and EPRG and you will find some new information regarding this cooperation posted on our website.

We have also made our Novel Construction publication Onshore Pipelines: The Road to Success available as an electronic document. More information is on page 10 of this newsletter.

In Training, based on feedback received from our training questionnaire, we have scheduled our first training seminar specifically designed for Project Managers. Training in “Communication Skills in an Intercultural Technical Environment” will take place in early March at Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam.

Our HSE committee continues to develop, and we welcome additional participants. Please get in touch with me if you have an expert available in your company who can contribute to this valuable work. Two awards will be presented this year at the upcoming Convention; information about these awards will be communicated in future newsletters. We are grateful to Shell which regularly sponsors the IPLOCA Enviromental Award and to Chevron for the ongoing sponsorship of the IPLOCA Health and Safety Award.

Also, please remember to notify the appropriate people in your organization that the deadline for the submission of Health and Safety Statistics is coming up almost as soon as you receive this newsletter. The deadline date is 12 March 2010. The statistics submission form is available at www.iploca.com.

Work is now underway on the 2010 Convention and we will be providing more information as it becomes available. The location chosen for this year, as you may already know, is Venice – logistically challenging when we consider regularly moving more than 500 people by boat to various venues in this wonderful city – but undoubtedly a convention not to be missed.

I always welcome your questions, comments and ideas regarding IPLOCA. Please feel free to contact me at Adam.WynneHughes@landandmarine.com.

Sincerely,

Adam Wynne Hughes

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NEWS FROM GENEVA IPLOCA Installed in New Offices on “Butterfly Road” (Chemin des Papillons) Most of the moving boxes are unpacked and we are now eagerly awaiting the opportunity to welcome our first IPLOCA guests in our new offices. A meeting of the HSE Committee in March will be the first official event scheduled in the new location and in our new meeting space.

First visitor: Preparing to celebrate IPLOCA’s new offices in Geneva with Executive Secretary Juan Arzuaga, Board Member Marco Jannuzzi (left) arrived with the champagne and some excellent Swiss chocolate.

Although our move was completed in mid-January, a large part of the building around us remains under internal construction, being completed and customised for other new tenants. The inconveniences of working in the middle of a building site are far outweighed, however, by our excellent location near the airport and the views from the office windows – in one direction the Alps, dominated

If you have not yet made a note of our new address,

by Mont Blanc, and in the other a birds eye view of a

please do so. Phone and fax numbers remain the same as

spotlessly clean hangar full of equally spotless private jets.

previously:

We counted as many as 20 different aircraft of varying sizes inside the full hangar last week. Their frequent movement is quite amazing to watch, but no doubt the novelty will

IPLOCA’s New Address

wear off eventually!

International Pipeline & Offshore Contractors As mentioned in the last newsletter the building is very

Association (IPLOCA)

easily recognisable by its huge, bright yellow exterior

Chemin des Papillons 4

supports, making it easy to spot from the road. Access into

1216 Cointrin / Geneva

the property is another story, at least the first time around,

Switzerland

as one of the best routes is via a hidden driveway from a

Phone: +41 22 306 02 30

sliproad, avoiding an awkwardly placed “No Left Turn” sign

Fax: +41 22 306 02 39

on the main road.

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BOARD MEETING December The 2009-2010 IPLOCA Board of Directors met in early December in Vienna. This was the first meeting for many new members of the Board since the introductory meeting held in San Francisco.

Key Outcomes from the Board Meeting Convention: Board members were asked to identify speakers for the Venice Convention, such that a strong slate could be established as early as possible and discussed at the Oman meeting in late February.

Foreground: Vladilen Ermolin and Christine Trauner enjoy a chilly

Election Procedure: The election procedure for Directors is

walk through Vienna’s shopping area decorated in typical fashion

to be reviewed prior to the 2010 Convention to ensure early

for Christmas.

communication and identification of the best candidates for nomination. liabilities in the future owing to convention cancellation New Technologies: Additional hard copies of “Onshore

or other unforeseen events. The budget for 2010 was also

Pipelines: The Road to Success” were to be provided to the

approved during this Board meeting.

board members for distribution for feedback within their companies. A final version (2nd Edition) will be developed

Committee Work: Reports were received from the Training

by June 2011 and copies of the 1 Edition would be made

Committee, the HSE Committee and the New Technologies

available online as soon as possible.

Committee. Further information on these topics appears

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separately in this newsletter.

Cooperation with APIA, PRCI and EPRG: IPLOCA has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with APIA, PRCI

Regional Meetings: A series of regional meetings were

and EPRG to propose and actively participate in certain

discussed for 2010. Meetings were proposed in France in

research projects that could be of interest to the industry.

February 2010, the USA, South America, the East/Far East

This cooperation has become an active role of the Novel

and Europe Central.

Construction Initiative working groups.

Thanks especially to First Vice President, Karl Trauner, Finance: President Adam Wynne Hughes asked for and

of HABAU for his generosity and assistance in making

received the Board’s support to set aside a sum of money

the Board members and their guests so welcome in the

for the protection of IPLOCA should the Association incur

beautiful city of Vienna.

MEMBERSHIP CENTRE New to IPLOCA - Members

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The Investment Design &

The company has designed and constructed more than

Construction Company

400 crossings of different lengths and diameters, including

NGS-TEMPOBUR, Ltd has been

objects with coastal areas, valve stations, communication

operating in construction for the oil and gas industry since

lines adjacent to underwater crossings. The geography of

January 2000. The company is one of the pioneer enterprises

constructed objects covers the whole Russian Federation,

that introduced the technology of borehole horizontal

including the Far North, the Far East and southern regions.

directional drilling under natural and artificial barriers for

“NGS- TEMPOBUR” has excellent technical equipment

laying pipelines, cable communications, etc. in a full scale

and personnel capable of constructing crossings with HDD

(design, arrangements, construction) on a turn key basis.

technology up to 2.5 km long and up to 1420 mm in diameter.

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NGS-Tempobur Ltd.

pumping stations, oil treatment plants, offshore platforms,

Office 200, Bld. 5, Block 1

terminals, tank farms, underground storage facilities,

Yauzskaya str.

compressor stations, gas regulating and measurement

109028 Moscow

stations, gas treatment plants, automation and SCADA

Russian Federation

systems, etc. Starting with feasibility studies (incl. CAPEX

Phone +7 495 775 04 84

and OPEX Analysis) across basic and detail design, PSE

Fax +7 495 775 04 85

also manages the construction and commissioning

Email mail@tempobur.ru

phase and, in some cases for various operators, PSE also

Website www.tempobur.ru

handles the operation of the complete installation. Proven management and scheduling tools such as Primavera and SAP Systems are supporting PSE teams with their different tasks to assure proper and on-time project execution.

Shengli Engineering & Consulting Co. Ltd. (SLECC), founded in 1965, is a subsidiary

PSE Engineering GmbH

of SINOPEC, a leading Class-A engineering

Pfaffenstrasse 11

service company in China. The company has

49610 QuakenbrĂźck

been ranked in the Top One Hundred Chinese Engineering/

Germany

Design Companies by the Ministry of Construction of PR

Phone +49 54 31 14 163

China for 11 consecutive years since 1998. SLECC provides

Fax +49 54 31 14 191

engineering / consulting and EPC services mainly in the

Email info@pse-eng.de

upstream oil and gas, pipeline and offshore oil and gas

Website www.pse-eng.de

industries worldwide. SLECC has completed engineering design and EPC services at total lengths of more than 55,000 km oil and gas gathering lines, more than 10,000 km long-distance oil and gas pipelines, and 100 offshore

Erciyas Celik Boru Sanayi

platforms in various sizes.

A.S. was established in 1990 for the production of spirally

Shengli Engineering & Consulting Co. Ltd. (SLECC)

welded (SAW) steel pipes. The company is located in Duzce

49# Jinan Rd

and has 110,000 sqm of open and 25,000 sqm of indoor

Dongying City

space equipped with the latest technology. The company

Shandong Province 257026

has become one of Turkey’s leading spirally welded steel

P.R. China

pipe producers. Its factory has an annual manufacturing

Phone +86 546 855 26 52

capacity of 300,000 tons, creating pipes for drinking water,

Fax +86 546 855 25 33

contaminated water, pilings, natural gas and petroleum

Email slecc@slof.com

pipes sized from 323.9 mm to 3O48 mm in external

Website www.slecc.com.cn

diameter and from 4 mm to 25 mm wall thickness within ST-37- API 5L X-120 material quality intervals.

New to IPLOCA - Associate Members

ERCIYAS also applies all kinds of internal and external isolation in compliance with Turkish and international standards. Additionally, Erciyas has earned certificates such

PSE Engineering GmbH,

as API 5L, APIQR, APIQ1, ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001, OHSAS

based in Germany, is an

18001, CE, ISO-TS 29001.

international plant and pipeline engineering company with decades of experience in the oil and gas industry. Within

Erciyas Celik Boru Sanayi A.S.

its five operating divisions it undertakes engineering and

Degirmen Sokar, No. 18

projects for its national and international clients with

Nida Kule Kat: 20

special attention to the high quality of deliverables and

34742 Kozyatagi, Istanbul

schedule compliance. Within its technical departments,

Turkey

state-of-the-art technologies are used and developed by

Phone +90 216 410 82 30

the discipline engineers, assisted by the latest Engineering

Fax +90 216 410 82 31

Software such as HYSIS, ACAD, PLANT 4D, Caesar II, etc.

Email erciyas@erciyas.com.tr

Work undertaken includes pipelines and installations,

Website www.erciyas.com.tr

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MEMBER NEWS Sale of Bilfinger Berger Australia

J. Ray McDermott - Keppel FELS Joint Venture Awarded Major Offshore Project J. Ray McDermott (“J. Ray”) will undertake fabrication and installation work for the P-61 Tension Leg Wellhead Platform

The Executive Board of Bilfinger Berger AG has initiated

(“TLWP”) in more than 3,871 feet of water, for the Papa

the selling process for its subsidiary, Bilfinger Berger

Terra Joint Venture, consisting of Petrobras (operator) and

Australia, to prepare the initial public offering of the

Chevron.

company. The sale of Bilfinger Berger Australia is an important milestone in the planned reduction of the

The overall P-61 project — comprising design, engineering,

construction business, the volume of which will be reduced

construction, transportation, installation and a three-year

in the medium term from about EUR 6 billion to a level in

limited operations contract — was awarded to FloaTEC

the region of EUR 2 billion. Expected output volume for

Singapore Pte Ltd (FloaTEC Singapore), a joint venture

Bilfinger Berger Australia in the financial year 2009 is about

between Keppel FELS Ltd (Keppel FELS) and J. Ray.

EUR 2.6 billion with an EBIT margin of 3 percent.

Almost all the work will be carried out through the combined resources of Keppel FELS, J. Ray and FloaTEC

Bilfinger Berger: Preliminary result in 2009 better than expected - EBIT and net profit exceed outlook and market expectations

LLC (FloaTEC), the US-based joint venture company that will perform global engineering and basic design work.

“This project combines the proprietary technology, global

Bilfinger Berger’s 2009 earnings have exceeded both the

engineering excellence, project management, construction

company’s own outlook and current market expectations.

resources and broad industry experience of three leading

According to preliminary figures, EBIT reached EUR 250

offshore specialists to provide the right deepwater solution

million and net profit EUR 140 million. Guidance for

for this challenging deepwater environment,” said Stephen

2009 had previously called for EBIT between EUR 210 and

Johnson, President and CEO of J. Ray McDermott.

EUR 230 million and net profit between EUR 110 and EUR 120 million.The preliminary report on the 2009 financial year will be published on February 11, 2010.

Fluor Selected by Petrobras Affiliate for U.S. Refinery Study

Pipeline Machinery (PLM CAT) PipeLine Machinery International (PLM) President Mel Ternan has announced that

Fluor Corporation has announced that Pasadena Refining

Martin Williamson has joined

System, Inc. (PRSI), a subsidiary of Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.

the PLM team operations in

– PETROBRAS, has selected Fluor to provide front-end

Australia, taking on the new role

engineering study services for a prospective U.S. refinery

of Australasia Territory Manager.

project. Fluor booked the undisclosed contract value in the fourth quarter of 2009. Fluor will provide engineering,

He will focus on growing PLM’s

estimating and project management services for the

relationships within the pipeline industry and growing the

conceptual engineering phase of the prospective project

Caterpillar presence within that industry.

that would enhance the performance of the 100,000 barrel-per-day Pasadena, Texas refinery. “This is an

Martin joins the sales and service team already established

important U.S. refining project for Fluor and PRSI,”

in the area and will be working closely with the General

said Peter Oosterveer, President of Fluor’s Energy and

Manager for Asia Pacific, Scott Jenkins, and the Sales &

Chemicals business group. “We have been fortunate

Service Coordinators teams of John Masterton (based in

to be involved in other recent U.S. refining projects

Australia), Jerry Scott (international) and Charles Zheng

having similar project characteristics, and we believe our

and Richie Ma (both based in China).

demonstrated project experience will bring significant value to PRSI. We will work closely with PRSI to make

Martin brings more than 21 years of Caterpillar dealership

this project a success.” The engineering study is currently

experience in Australia in various roles from sales to parts

underway in Fluor’s Sugar Land, Texas, office and will be

and service to international sales management.

completed later this year.

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Technip awarded Augmentation Pipeline contract at the Broom field in UK North Sea Technip has been awarded a lump sum contract, worth approximately EUR 21 million, by Lundin Britain Limited for an augmentation pipeline at the Broom field in the UK North Sea. This field, which is located 320 km north east of Aberdeen, Scotland, is tied back to the Heather Alpha platform. The new augmentation pipeline will extend the existing Broom subsea infrastructure.

The contract covers the design, fabrication and installation of a pipe-in-pipe production flowline which will be trenched and backfilled. The work also includes a subsea structure, spoolpiece tie-ins, repositioning of a flexible riser and rockdumping for upheaval buckling.

Technip’s operating centre in Aberdeen will execute the contract, which is scheduled to be completed in the

GECF The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) was established on 23 December, 2008, when the Energy Ministers of Algeria, Bolivia, Venezuela, Egypt, Iran, Qatar, Libya, Nigeria, the Russian Federation, Trinidad and Tobago and Equatorial Guinea signed the Forum Agreement and adopted the Charter. After the documents were ratified by Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, Libya, Qatar, and Algeria on 1 October, 2009, GECF gained international status.

The main objective of the Forum is to support the member countries sovereignty over natural gas resources, as well as to promote the rational use of gas and sustainable, efficient and environmentally friendly development of the international gas market.

third quarter of 2010. The pipelines will be welded at Technip’s Spoolbase in Evanton, Scotland. Two vessels from the Technip fleet will be used for the offshore

Mr. Bokhanovskiy listed the following activities to promote

installation campaign: the Orelia diving support vessel

GECF in the international arena:

and the Apache II pipelay vessel, which is currently being

-- developing the scientific and research activities of the

modernised.

Forum -- promoting gas exploration, production and transportation technologies worldwide

Former IPLOCA Board Member elected GECF Secretary General During December 2009, Leonid Bokhanovskiy, IPLOCA

-- monitoring and forecasting gas exploration and production trends worldwide -- presenting and anticipating the supply-demand balance for gas -- coordinating transportation projects: pipelines and LNG carriers

board member for Europe

-- studying gas correlation with other energy resources

Eastern (2007-2009) was

-- promoting increase in natural gas utilization

elected General Secretary of the Gas Exporting Countries

Moreover, as Secretary General, he plans to establish and

Forum (GECF) at a regular

promote close cooperation between GECF and various

ministerial meeting.

international organisations, regional and international energy organisations and various trade unions.

A member of the Stroytransgaz Management Board, Leonid Bokhanovskiy, whose name was submitted for the post by Russia in November, was elected unanimously in compliance with the charter.

In his acceptance speech Mr. Bokhanovskiy thanked the Forum participants for their trust and provided information about his top-priority tasks in his new capacity. GECF is a leading advisory body of gas producing and consuming countries, as well as of major industry companies and international organisations. The organisation focuses on developing and promoting principles and mechanisms for

PJSC Stroytransgaz PJSC Stroytransgaz is an integrated engineering company implementing and managing major construction projects in the oil and gas industry and other branches of industrial and civil engineering and is one of the largest major engineering-construction companies in the world. The company performs activities in 17 countries. Stroytransgaz primary markets are Russia, the Near East, North Africa, Europe, Southeast Asia and Central Asia.

the international gas market.

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TRAINING Seminar: Communication Skills in an Intercultural Technical Environment

properly understood? About 90 percent of the respondents expressed interest in these type of training programmes.

IPLOCA therefore decided to go ahead with this first Training Committee initiative.

Three other very interesting pieces of information were

How can a Project Manager help the team collaborate,

received from the respondents:

understand and respect the cultural differences of others

-- Training programmes offered by our Associate Members

on the team? How can the Manager help everyone in the

to our Members are of interest to both parties. These

team – including Clients and Subcontractors – get the job

programmes will soon be offered to you once we

done using everyone’s strengths?

finalise details.

-- Scholarships for young professionals are being offered

Based on the answers received from IPLOCA’s Training

by one third of the respondents. The list of companies

Questionnaire sent out to the membership late last year,

will be published soon.

intercultural communication in the pipeline environment

-- Other training programme topics were suggested. This

continues to be a challenge. In response to the

gives us a lot of material to work with in moving our

demonstrated need for training of this type, IPLOCA offered

Training Committee initiative forward.

its first seminar specifically designed and customised for Pipeline Project Managers. Limited to 18 participants,

Finally, a lot of information was received about various

the seminar took place at the Sheraton Hotel at Schiphol

training organisations and programmes which we will

Airport early in March.

include in the listing at www.iploca.com.

Among the companies sending participants to the training were Denys, HABAU, Max Streicher, Nacap, PPS Pipeline Systems, Techint, Technip, Tekfen and Visser & Smit Hanab.

Feedback received from IPLOCA’s Training Questionnaire

NEW TECHNOLOGIES “The Road to Success” is Online

A total of 31 answers to the Training Questionnaire were received from our members. More than half of these companies have offered external training programmes to their personnel and more than two thirds of them offer internal training programmes.

This shows how important training is to companies in the pipeline business where people have to work in remote areas for long periods of time. While pipeline owners and operators have other opportunities to offer their personnel training, contractors do not always have the time frame necessary to give their most qualified managers the chance to receive additional and important training.

The first edition of IPLOCA’s “Onshore Pipelines: The Road to Success” is now online. The 374-page document

Almost all respondents expressed their interest in offering

was distributed to IPLOCA members in hard copy at the

their employees one-week site visits to projects that would

Association’s annual convention late last year, and is now

be very specific from an experience point of view (i.e.

available at www.iploca.com/roadtosuccess.

remote sites, in permafrost, in swamps, in sand, etc.)

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Communication skills is one of the training topics

The Road to Success aims to provide all parties involved

that has continually been highlighted as a vital tool in

the basic knowledge necessary to improve the execution

management. Who among us can be absolutely sure that

of a project from design to commissioning, i.e. cost and

s/he communicates well? How much information that

schedule, while reducing the environmental footprint and

was intended to be transmitted was in fact received and

achieving the desired safety objectives.

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IPLOCA originally formed the Novel Construction Initiative

deliverable – the recommended practices document to be

to examine pipeline laying efficiency and installation

called “Onshore Pipelines – the Road to Success”.

standards for large diameter onshore pipelines with the aim of improving the installation and providing the pipeline

A wide range of companies and individuals from oil and

stakeholders with cost reductions.

gas investors and owners, design companies, construction contractors, suppliers and specialized subcontractors

As the Initiative evolved it was decided to review in depth

collaborated in a series of technical meetings and

all the phases of an onshore pipeline project, analyse the

discussions over three years to ultimately produce a

elements that lead to successful projects and draw from the

document intended for wide use in the pipeline industry.

significant project experience of the participant companies.

More than 100 persons from 45 companies participated in the preparation of the final document that was finally

The main objective of this exercise was to identify the key

released in September 2009.

drivers in a pipeline project and thus: -- Improve the preparation process of pipeline projects for mitigation of risks -- Improve the relationship between pipeline owners/ investors and construction and specialized contractors

It is hoped that the document will assist all stakeholders in the development and construction of pipeline projects and that it may also be of benefit in training, used by students and teachers in the pipeline industry.

-- Improve the competitiveness of the pipeline industry through sound engineering and construction practices

A second edition is anticipated for release in 2011 and the

and innovative solutions.

Association welcomes comments and suggestions on the first edition via email at roadtosuccess@iploca.com or

Six new working groups were formed to achieve the new

directly via an online feedback form at www.iploca.com/

objectives of this industry project and to prepare the main

roadtosuccess-feedback.

IPLOCA HEALTH & SAFETY AWARD sponsored by Chevron

Health and Safety Statistics are Due

The returns should cover pipeline construction sites or offshore operations and all infrastructure related projects.

Please note that Main Construction and EPC Contractors and EPCM Contractors should report all incidents, including those related to their subcontractors. In case of integrated JVs, the Technical Leader should report the totality of the JV incidents.

The submission form for the 2009 Health & Safety Statistics Return is available at www.iploca.com and

The accidents, incidents and near misses taken into

must be returned no later than 12 March 2010. Submission

account are those that happen within the jobsite perimeter,

Guidelines are also available to help you complete

or when travelling from camp to jobsite or during any

the form.

other transportation. Travel accidents, incidents and near misses from home or from any other private location to the

Please Note

worksite must be included.

The submission of Health & Safety Statistics demonstrates your commitment to your membership in the Association.

If your company has earned ISO, OHSAS or any other

The submission of annual safety statistics to IPLOCA allows

accreditations, please advise us when you submit your

us to present and monitor aggregate statistics for the

return. This information will also be taken into account

industry.

when analysing the input of the 2009 Health and Safety Award. Your return is a confidential document used only for

The statistics include four different categories:

the purposes outlined above and is not shown or passed to

-- Onshore I: for onshore contractors with more than

any third party outside of IPLOCA.

1,500,000 man-hours -- Onshore II: for onshore contractors with less than 1,500,000 man-hours

Information on the upcoming award and submission guidelines will be made available on the IPLOCA website

-- Offshore Contractors

in March. The Award will be presented at the Venice

-- Field Services.

Convention during the Open General Meeting.

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CONVENTION UPDATE Venice

The excitement is already building for September’s Convention in Venice. The hotel will be the Molino Stucky Hilton, a beautifully renovated mill building. As is often the case, it was quite challenging to find a hotel – especially a hotel inside Venice – with sufficient function space and enough rooms to enable us to house all participants in the same hotel.

Two Conventions have already been held in Venice. The last one took place in 1988 at the Excelsior Hotel on the Lido because of the lack of large hotels in Venice.

Because of meeting-room size restraints at the Molino Stucky Hilton the Open General Meetings this year will be held outside the hotel – in the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, a magnificent building, five minutes by boat from the hotel.

The tour programme is under development and you may recognise some of the possible venues in the photos below. We have already received sponsorship enquiries, notably from a company located very close to Venice and some other Italian companies. There is something very special about the Convention coming to your own area and as always we especially appreciate the support of our “local” member companies. Much more information will be available on our website before too long and we will certainly keep you posted as plans are finalised.

Already in the plans are the traditional city tours (Monday & Wednesday morning) including a trip on a gondola complete with singing gondolieri…

PLANNING AHEAD for Venice

Months ago, as newly elected President of IPLOCA, Adam Wynne Hughes was already thinking ahead to the Venice Convention and to the charity that he wanted to support via the annual lottery. Adam’s chosen charity is WaterAid – (www.wateraid.org/uk) – an international nongovernmental organisation whose mission is to transform lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities.

Adam became aware of this organisation’s excellent work about ten years ago, when he supported the personal development of one of his young engineers. The young man was working with a team of other young engineers

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to raise money and do voluntary work for the charity and Adam was impressed with the work being done. “For me, WaterAid was a perfect choice for the Venice Convention,” Adam said, “It often uses such simple engineering technology to support the provision of clean water, a commodity that so many of us take for granted.”

Sanitation – or rather, the lack of it – is not always an easy topic to discuss. Yet the organisation’s website is extremely lively, well presented and definitely worth a visit. The statistics regarding lack of sanitation are alarming. The supporting articles, teaching tools and the way in which the topic is discussed and promoted is informative and engaging.

Malawi: A woman and her children collect unsafe river water (WaterAid/Jon Spaull)

We look forward to offering the organisation our support via the lottery for a car that we expect one of our members

with no toilet are twice as likely to get diarrhea as those

to generously donate. Take a look at WaterAid’s Top Ten

with a toilet (WEDC). Every year, around 60 million children

Toilet Facts, or the article on the 100th anniversary of

in the developing world are born into households without

the death of famous UK plumber Thomas Crapper, not

access to sanitation (UN Water). One gram of human faeces

to mention the charity’s consciousness-raising attempt

can contain 10,000,000 viruses, 1,000,000 bacteria, 1,000

to form the World’s Longest Toilet Queue – and you can’t

parasite cysts, 100 parasite eggs (UNICEF). At any one time

fail to be impressed with their innovative approach to a

half the hospital beds in developing countries are filled

challenging topic.

with people suffering from diarrhea (UNDP).

Water

A GLOBAL CRISIS

The weight of water that women in Africa and Asia carry on their heads is commonly 20 kg, the same as the average UK airport luggage allowance (HDR). The average person

884 million people in the world do not have access to safe

in the developing world uses 10 litres of water every

water. This is roughly one in eight of the world’s population

day for their drinking, washing and cooking (WSSCC) .The

(WHO/UNICEF).

average European uses 200 litres of water every day for

2.5 billion people in the world do not have

access to adequate sanitation, this is almost two fifths of

their drinking, washing and cooking. North Americans

the world’s population (WHO/UNICEF) .

use 400 litres (HDR). On current trends over the next 20 years humans will use 40% more water than they do now

1.4 million children die every year from diarrhea caused

(UNEP). Agriculture

accounts for over 80% of the world’s

by unclean water and poor sanitation - 4,000 child deaths

water consumption (UNEP). 97.5% of the earth’s water is

a day or one child every 20 seconds. This equates to

saltwater. If the world’s water fitted into a bucket, only one

160 infant school classrooms lost every single day to an

teaspoonful would be drinkable (HDR).

entirely preventable public health crisis (WHO/WaterAid).

What has WaterAid done?

Information courtesy of www.wateraid.org

Since WaterAid was established in 1981 it has reached

Abbreviations used

13.44 million people with safe water. Since 2004 it has

DFID – UK Department for International Development

reached 8.16 million people with sanitation. Last year

HDR - UN Human Development Report

WaterAid reached over one million people with safe water

OECD – Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

and over two million people with sanitation. Just GBP 15

UNDP – United Nations Development Programme

can enable one person to access safe water, improved

UNEP – United National Environment Programme

hygiene and sanitation (WaterAid).

UNICEF – United Nations Children’s Fund

Sanitation Diarrhea kills more children every year than AIDS, malaria

WEDC – Water Engineering Department, University of Loughborough WHO – World Health Organization WSSCC – Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council

and measles combined (WHO). Children living in households

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IN THE HEADLINES Power plant explosion under investigation

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Possible gaps in safety protocols at the Kleen Energy power

rates are posted at www.iploca-yearbook.com. Please find

plant, Middletown, Connecticut, USA are at the centre

below the correct information for:

of the investigation into an explosion that killed five and injured 12. The blast occurred during the process of purging an underground, high-pressure natural gas pipeline that runs about 800 to 1,000 feet through the facility. Sources familiar with the purging operation and the construction and maintenance of the pipeline reported several concerns, including welding operations that weren’t entirely halted and other ignition sources that may have been present during the purging Sunday morning. The sources added that the area wasn’t completely cleared of workers and vehicles during the operation and that natural gas was used to purge the pipe, as opposed to nonflammable nitrogen.

LATimes.com, 9 February 2010

China Plans to Increase LNG Imports on Gas Shortage China plans to increase its imports of liquefied natural gas to ease a domestic shortage of the fuel, the official Xinhua News Agency reported today, citing Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration. China’s gas companies should sign more long-term LNG contracts in order to take advantage of a global surplus of the fuel, Zhang was quoted as saying in the Xinhua report. Chinese oil companies including PetroChina Co. and China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., known as Sinopec, are increasing gas output and imports to ease a supply shortfall caused by a cold snap since last month. China imported about 3.5 million metric tons of LNG last year, or about 6 percent of the nation’s total

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demand, Xinhua quoted Zhang as saying.

Bloomberg News, 7 February 2010

new@iploca.com Just added to www.iploca.com: China passes EU in trade with Iran China passed the European Union as the largest trading partner with Iran as economic sanctions and a major gas pipeline loom over Tehran’s global relations. Total trade between China and Iran passed USD 36.5 billion in 2009, compared with USD 35 billion for European states, the Financial Times reports. Iran funnels much of its trade through the United Arab Emirates, making concrete figures

for CalendarYear 2009 -- Onshore Pipelines: The Road to Success – the electronic version of the substantial 374 page printed document -- Information regarding the agreement among EPRG, APIA, PRCI and IPLOCA -- Training Seminar for Pipeline Project Managers

difficult to assess, the Times adds. Significant portions of

4-5 March at Schiphol Airport. (If you have missed

Iranian exports to China come from the energy sector, with

this one and are interested in the next, please email

China relying on Iran to meet 11 percent of its energy needs.

us to indicate your interest.)

UPI.com, 9 February 2010

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THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER

IPLOCA 2009-2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Front row: Bruno de La Roussière (Immediate Past President); Karl Trauner (1st Vice President); Adam Wynne Hughes (President); Osman Birgili (2nd Vice President); Juan Arzuaga (Executive Secretary); Middle row: Harald Dresp, Marco Jannuzzi, Najib Khoury, H. Douglas Evans, Robert Deason, Sandip Sharma; Back row: Jacquelin de La Porte, Ebbo Laenge, Michael Rae, Vladilen Ermolin, Roberto Castelli, Andy Lukas; Not in photo: Phil Bond, Nasser Issa, Zeno Soave

Officers Adam Wynne Hughes (Land & Marine)

Nasser Issa (C.A.T. International Ltd)

President

Director, Middle East & Africa

Karl Trauner (HABAU)

Najib Khoury (CCC)

1st Vice President

Director, Middle East & Africa

Osman Birgili (Tekfen)

Andy Lukas (AJ Lucas)

2nd Vice President

Director, East & Far East

Phil Bond (Pipeline Induction Heat)

Sandip Sharma (Kalpataru Power Transmission Limited)

Treasurer

Director, East & Far East

Bruno de La Roussière (Entrepose Contracting)

Marco Jannuzzi (Caterpillar)

Immediate Past President

Director, Associate Members

Directors Vladilen Ermolin (PTPS JSC)

Michael Rae (Argus Ltd) Director, Associate Members

Director, Europe Eastern

Directors at Large

Jacquelin de La Porte (Spiecapag)

Phil Bond (Pipeline Induction Heat)

Director, Europe Mediterranean

Roberto Castelli (Bonatti)

Zeno Soave (Socotherm)

Harald Dresp (Max Streicher)

Director, Europe Mediterranean

H. Douglas Evans (Gulf Interstate Engineering)

Ebbo Laenge (Conduto)

Nasser Issa (C.A.T. International Ltd)

Director, The Americas Robert Deason (J.Ray McDermott))

Executive Secretary

Director, The Americas

Juan Arzuaga

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