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THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER 46
NUMBER
Letter from the President page 4
News from Geneva page 5
Member News page 7
Health, Safety & Environment page 14
Contents:
WITH NEWS FROM: THE INDUSTRY, MEMBERSHIP, ALLIED & SISTER ASSOCIATIONS
MARCH 2011
Beijing page 19Convention update
Experience the Progress.global sales organisationBreukersweg 4, NL-7471, ST, Goor, the NetherlandsTel. +31 547 260 000, Fax +31 547 261 000www.maats.com
IPLOCA MissionTo 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.
and accessories are featured on the set of the lab run by
the Green Hornet’s clever sidekick, Kato, who invents the
superhero’s automobile and his trademark sleeping gas gun.
Numerous Lincoln products also were featured in both Iron
Man, released in 2008, and Iron Man II, released in 2010.
Commencement of Consideration of Business Integration of Nippon Steel Corporation and Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Nippon Steel Corporation (President: Shoji Muneoka)
and Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd. (President: Hiroshi
Tomono) have jointly announced that they have agreed
to commence consideration of the integration of their
entire businesses (the “Business Integration”), targeted for
October 1, 2012. The Companies will, with the spirit of their
relationship being based on equality, proceed to consider
the Business Integration.
SNC-Lavalin Acquires Engineering Firm in ColombiaSNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce its acquisition of
Itansuca Proyectos de Ingenieria S.A., an engineering firm
of 1,000 professionals and administrative staff in the energy
10 THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER
sector based in Bogota, Colombia. Since 1989, Itansuca
has been offering energy consulting, project management,
electromechanical installation, design and supervision
services from its Bogota head office and 21 other locations
around the country to clients in Colombia and in a number
of other countries around the world. The word itansuca
comes from the indigenous Chibcha language meaning to
make a path. With the addition of Itansuca, SNC-Lavalin
now numbers approximately 1,150 employees in Colombia,
including over 150 working in the infrastructure sector from
its current office in Bogota. It has over 4,000 employees in
Latin America and nearly 24,000 worldwide.
Petrofac Awarded USD 1.2 Billion Project in AlgeriaPetrofac, the international oil & gas facilities service
provider, has been awarded a USD1.2 billion lump-sum
engineering, procurement and construction (EPC)
contract by In Salah Gas (ISG), an association between
Sonatrach, BP and Statoil, to develop southern fields in
the In Salah development. The fields to be developed
are Garet el Befinat, Hassi Moumene, In Salah and Gour
Mohmoud. Petrofac’s scope of work includes a new
central production and gas gathering facility at In Salah
comprising two dehydration trains, with the capacity to
produce approximately 16.8 million cubic metres of gas
per day, associated permanent camps, and approximately
300km of pipelines for gas collection from the in-field wells
and export to the existing Krechba facility. Brownfield
modifications will also be undertaken at the existing
Reg facilities with an additional dehydration train plus
modifications for future operation of the compression
facilities. The existing Teg and Krechba compression
facilities will also be upgraded for future operations. The
50-month project, to be completed in phases, will support
the maintenance of plateau gas production rates of 9 billion
cubic metres per annum beyond 2013.
New Pipelayer Being built in China Beijing, China – PipeLine Machinery (Beijing) Co. Ltd. (PLM-
Cat) recently participated in the launch of the new VP72Gs2
pipelayer in China. Partnering with China Petroleum Pipeline
Bureau (CPP), Vanguard Equipment Inc. and under license
from Caterpillar, this new 40-ton pipelayer is built in China
for the China and Asia markets. The VP72Gs2 pipelayer is
designed to meet most of the specifications of the Cat 572R-II
pipelayer. The new pipelayer is built on the Cat D7G2 chassis.
The D7G2 tractor has been manufactured in China for several
years. PLM-Cat President Mel Ternan attended the ceremony
with officials from CPP, Vanguard Equipment Inc. and
Caterpillar. The manufacturing facility selected for the project
is CPP’s Huabei Petroleum Engineering construction (HPEC)
facility at Renqiu in Huabei province, near Beijing. The Huabei
factory has extensive experience in building pipelayers in
China. Through concerted effort and cooperation from all
of the partners in this project over the past 13 months, the
Huabei factory proudly presented three VP72Gs2 pipelayers
for the ceremony on October 27, 2010. The new pipelayer will
be distributed exclusively by PLM-Cat.
Ternan to retire from PLM The Board of Managers of PipeLine
Machinery International (PLM-Cat)
announced in December that
President Mel Ternan would be retiring
effective December 31, 2010. The
Board offered their sincere thanks
and congratulations to Ternan as
he begins the next facet of his life.
“Mel was instrumental in getting this PLM concept off the
ground in 2005 and we will all miss his leadership and
patient diplomacy,” said PLM-Cat Board Chair Brad Tucker.
“His ability to form a dynamic team that has succeeded
in the unprecedented concept of an industry-focused,
non-geographic Cat dealership is respected throughout
the industry and within the Caterpillar community. We are
happy that Mel is heading into retirement with his health
and plans for further adventures in his and his wife Shirle’s
lives.” Leading the PLM-Cat team in January will be Senior
Vice President Tony Fernandez who will take on the new
role of Executive Vice President and General Manager.
Fernandez was also part of the four-dealer founding group
that helped put the PLM-Cat dealership together. He
has been instrumental in leading PLM operations in the
Americas since the company’s inception in May of 2005. He
will continue to expand his role, leading PLM-Cat towards
increased international growth. Assisting in this transition
will be PLM-Cat Board Chair Brad Tucker who will take
on the additional role of President of PipeLine Machinery
International.
Technip Awarded Major Subsea Contract for the Jack & St-Malo Fields in the Gulf of MexicoTechnip has been awarded a contract by Chevron North
America Exploration and Production for the development of
the Jack & St-Malo fields, located in the Walker Ridge area of
the Gulf of Mexico at a water depth of approximately 7,000
feet (2,100 meters). The contract covers the engineering,
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fabrication and subsea installation of more than 53 miles
(85 kilometers) of 10.75” outer diameter flowlines(1), steel
catenary risers(2), pipeline end terminations, manifolds,
pump stations and tie-in skids. Technip’s operating center in
Houston, Texas will perform the overall project management.
The flowlines and risers will be welded at the Group’s
spoolbase in Mobile, Alabama. Offshore installation is
scheduled to be completed by the Deep Blue, Technip’s
deepwater pipelay vessel, in 2013.
Technip awarded a key engineering contract for a FLNG in MalaysiaTechnip, in a consortium with Daewoo Shipbuilding
& Marine Engineering Co. Ltd., has been awarded by
Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) and MISC Berhad
a front-end engineering and design contract for a floating
liquefied natural gas (FLNG) unit. The FLNG, which will have
a capacity of one million-tonnes per annum, will be located
in Malaysia. Technip’s operating centers in Paris, France and
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will execute the contract, which is
scheduled to be completed by the second half of 2011. This
strategic project combines technologies and know-how
from Technip’s three business segments: Onshore process
of natural gas liquefaction, Offshore floating facilities and
Subsea infrastructures.
Tekfen Construction to build 230 km pipeline for Morocco’s OCPOn January 20th, Tekfen Construction and OCP (Office
Chérifien des Phosphates) top executives met to sign a
contract following Tekfen’s successful tender bid for OCP’s
new Phosphate Slurry Pipeline worth USD 450 million.
The project will be implemented within the scope of OCP’s
USD 5 billion investment wave aiming to increase the
mining and export capacity of the country’s most abundant
natural resource and the largest example of export goods:
phosphate. Among the parties present at the signing
ceremony in OCP headquarters were Erhan Öner, Tekfen
Holding CEO, Osman Birgili, Tekfen Construction Senior Vice
President as well as Mostafa Terrab, OCP CEO, Mohamed
Benabdeljalil OCP Executive Vice President and both
companies large group of executives. The 230 km pipeline
will carry phosphate in the form of slurry from the mining
area of Khourighba to Jorf Lasfar Terminal on the Atlantic
Coast. The project, which consists of a segment of 187 km
of 36” pipeline, the largest diameter to be ever built for
slurry, and a segment of 39 km of 12”-20” pipeline, together
with pump stations and storage facilities, is scheduled for
completion in 28 months.
Willbros to Build a Segment of the Acadian Haynesville extension Project in LouisianaWillbros Group, Inc. has announced that a unit of its Upstream
Oil & Gas segment has been awarded the construction
contract for a portion of the Acadian Haynesville Extension
Project, a natural gas pipeline being developed by Acadian Gas
LLC, a jointly owned subsidiary of Enterprise Products Partners
L.P. and Duncan Energy Partners L.P. The 270-mile project,
which expands the existing Acadian Gas Pipeline System,
will originate in Red River Parish, Louisianna, southeast of
Shreveport, and will terminate near Donaldsonville, Louisiana.
The Acadian Haynesville Extension Project has been divided
into three major segments. Willbros has been awarded the
construction of Segment 1 which includes approximately
106 miles of 42-inch pipeline, 2.5 miles of 36-inch pipeline
and 2.5 miles of 20-inch pipeline. Segment 1 will originate in
the northwest portion of Red River Parish, traverse through
DeSoto and Natchitoches Parishes and terminate near Boyce,
Louisianna. Construction on Segment 1 is expected to begin
in February 2011 with completion in August 2011. Randy Harl,
President and Chief Executive Officer, remarked, “We are
very pleased to have the opportunity to work with Enterprise
as they expand their midstream energy assets. This award is
significant for Willbros as it not only improves visibility for
our U.S. Construction business unit, but it also reinforces our
strategy to leverage our core competencies to perform large
capital projects while expanding our regional capabilities.
We believe the improvements we have made to our systems
and processes over the past few years enable us to deliver
superior execution for our customers at competitive pricing.”
In MemoriamMario Gualandri
Submitted by Matteo Bertolini
on behalf of Sime
On 1 December 2010, our colleague
and friend Mr. Mario Gualandri
passed away at the age of 75.
Mario had more than 40 years of experience in the design,
construction, planning and cost control of chemical and
petrochemical plants, pipelines and related facilities. He
worked for many important companies including Bechtel,
Techint, Saipem, Fluor and ABB Lummus, and in the last
two years worked for Sime as General Superintendent
and support to the business development and commercial
activities. Mario was endowed with a great sense of humor
and both his enthusiasm and his serenity were infectious.
He was a guide and a model for younger colleagues. His
sudden passing shocked everyone and his bright intelligence
and his cheerfulness will be greatly missed by all.
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Changes at CRC-Evans IPLOCA Associate MemberDouglas McIntyre, the new CEO of CRC-Evans, took up his
position on 1st January 2011, when Tim Carey, a long-time
friend and supporter of IPLOCA, stepped down. That is not
the only change within the organisation. Past President of
IPLOCA, Adam Wynne Hughes, has also joined the company
as Managing Director of CRC-Evans Inspection Group.
Adam, well known to many following his 2009-2010
Presidency of IPLOCA, joins CRC-Evans at a time when the
PIH Field Joint Coating Division and Inspection Group form
one of the business units within CRC under the leadership
of Phil Bond, the current IPLOCA Director for North West
Europe. Adam will work closely with Carl Vincent, the
Senior Vice President at Pipeline Induction Heat Ltd, to
develop the wider range of services offered to clients whilst
maintaining the individual market area disciplines.
After almost 8 years at the helm, Alan Everett will retire
from the post of Managing Director later on in the year, and
will work closely with Adam over the next few months to
effect a smooth transition. Phil Bond, Managing Director
of PIH and President of the FJC and Inspection Group said
that he was delighted to be able to welcome someone of
Adam’s calibre to the Company. “I am looking forward to the
challenges of leading the Inspection group, particularly the
existing business in South Africa and the Middle East and the
development of UK-based UNISPEC which is supporting CRC-
Evans Offshore in some very exciting projects”, said Adam.
Bacteria Added to Gravel? Visser & Smit Hanab’s BioGrout Aids Stability
Gravel treated with BioGrout
The gas transporting pipeline network in the Netherlands
is currently expanding, strengthening the supply of natural
gas in Europe.
The crossing of the river Waal is a part of this network,
accomplished by means of two horizontal directional
drillings executed by Visser & Smit Hanab’s new 450 ton
drilling rig. This specific project was exceptional because of
the large amount of gravel in the subsurface near the river
to be crossed.
When drilling in loose gravel it often proves difficult to
create a stable borehole, and so Visser & Smit Hanab,
together with Volker Staal & Funderingen (a sister company
of Visser & Smit Hanab within the Volker Wessels Group),
Deltares and Delft University of Technology investigated
means to stabilize such large gravel layers for HDD.
Alternative methods, such as steel casing or concrete
jet grouting are expensive and not always successful.
Therefore it was decided to stabilize the gravel layer with a
sustainable ground improvement method called BioGrout.
BioGrout is an in-situ ground improvement in which a
cementation process is stimulated by injecting a liquid
containing special bacteria. This cementation is a natural
process which normally takes several hundreds of years.
However, by injecting the appropriate bacteria, this process
can be accelerated into a period of several days. The first
Gus Meijer (left) and Tim Carey (right) present Adam Wynne
Hughes with the traditional “presidential painting” at the CRC-
Evans Luncheon during the 2010 IPLOCA Convention in Venice. The
gift was made in recognition of the completion of Adam’s year as
IPLOCA President.
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application of BioGrout for an HDD in gravel was in June
2010 in The Netherlands. This concerned a 48 inch steel gas
pipeline with a length of 600 meters, underneath a dyke
near the river Waal. The second application of BioGrout,
in July 2010, concerned a 48 inch steel gas pipeline with a
length of 900 meters, underneath the river Waal itself. The
maximum thickness of the gravel layer was 13m, containing
coarse gravel.
The special bacteria used in this process produce Calcium
Carbonate, which cements the grains together until a
strength is obtained between 0.2 to 30 MPa (Unconfined
Compressive Strength). Using only a low injection pressure
(1 to 2 bar), a very large injection distance can be obtained
(up to 10 m). The fluid has a water-like viscosity and can be
injected in both sand and gravel. The speed of the process
is controllable, it does not cause any ground disturbance
and the permeability of the ground does not alter. Having
finished the cementation process and the HDD, both 48
inch steel gas pipelines were successfully installed with no
problems during the pull-in. This was a challenging project
in the Dutch gas transporting pipeline network and with this
project Visser & Smit Hanab provided innovation in an ever
technically-growing market.
Visser & Smit Hanab is active in the field of cable and
pipeline infrastructures, developing, building and
maintaining connections, networks and installations for
water and energy. The company’s goal is to be the best in
its professional field of HDD, land and outfalls for cable and
pipeline systems and offshore cable installations.
Visser & Smit Hanab is part of the VolkerWessels Group:
an international construction group.
Training CommitteeTraining Seminar to be offered in DubaiFollowing another highly successful training seminar held
at Schiphol Airport during November, we again propose
to offer Pipeline Project Manager Training: Communication
Skills in an Intercultural Environment in the coming
months. The tentative date is the middle of May, in Dubai.
A major challenge for a group of professionals from an
extremely technical background is their lack of opportunity
in their normal work experience to take time to reflect on
their communications and the impact of their behaviour
on others. Add to that the international and multicultural
aspects, and the challenges are multiplied many times
over. “These days a mono-cultural group on a technical
project is a rare thing,” said S&N International instructor,
Sylla Pahladsingh, who along with her colleague Steffi
Wiesmann led the two day seminar. “One of the major
advantages of a training session like this is the chance
to spend time away from usual work-day pressures to
understand and analyse our interactions. How do we
perceive each other?”
Cementation process in sand and gravel Stable borehole
In order to maximize the benefit for all participants, we
hope to register a wide range of participants to ensure
the broadest range of cultural backgrounds. We were
fortunate that participants came from all around the world
to the seminars held in Amsterdam. We hope to see the
same in Dubai. For more information on past seminars,
please visit the Training section at www.iploca.com.
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Regional MeetingsOur schedule of Regional Meetings continues to provide
an opportunity for members and potential members
around the world to meet face to face to gain a better
understanding of the work of the Association and to
discuss topics of local concern and interest.
Byblos, Lebanon
Beirut, LebanonOur Member C.A.T. International Ltd. generously offered to
organise the first Middle East and Africa Regional Meeting
which was held on 17 and 18 February, 2011 at the Hotel
Al Bustan, a mountainous resort with a rich heritage of
Phoenician and Roman ruins in Beirut, Lebanon. Nasser
Issa, IPLOCA Director for Middle East and Africa, Najib
Khoury, IPLOCA Director-at-Large, and Juan Arzuaga, IPLOCA
Executive Secretary, were on hand to greet attendees and to
answer their questions. Several potential member companies
attended, in addition to existing members. A roundtable
discussion was moderated by Nasser Issa, IPLOCA Board
Member and CEO of C.A.T. International Ltd.The formal
schedule of the meeting was followed the next day by
excursions to the Jeita Grotto and a visit to Byblos.
Saint Denis (Paris), FranceJacquelin de La Porte, IPLOCA Regional Director for Europe
Brad TuckerPresident & Chairman of the BoardTony FernandezExecutive Vice President & General ManagerJohn Fabick IVVice President - InternationalTed HillChief Financial OfficerScot JenkinsVice President - Asia Pacific RegionLindley ImesonVice President - Product Support
BRANCH OFFICESPipeLine Machinery (Beijing) Co., Ltd.Room 18101# Building of Kunsha Center Office Building16 XinyuanliChaoyang DistrictBeijing 100027CHINAT +86 10 84683519F +86 10 84683522
Michael Rae (Argus Ltd), Director, Associate Members
Directors at LargeRoberto Castelli (Bonatti)
Harald Dresp (Max Streicher)
Marco Jannuzzi (Caterpillar)
Najib Khoury (CCC)
Andy Lukas (AJ Lucas)
Executive SecretaryJuan Arzuaga
Front row (left to right): Harald Dresp (Treasurer), Osman Birgili (1st Vice President), Karl Trauner (President), Doug Evans (2nd Vice President),
Adam Wynne Hughes (Immediate Past President), Juan Arzuaga (Executive Secretary). 2nd row from front: Marco Jannuzzi, Phil Bond,
Gerry Grothe. 2nd row from back: Vladilen Ermolin, Ebbo Laenge, Najib Khoury, Zeno Soave, Nasser Issa. Back row: Sandip Sharma,
Andy Lukas, Michael Rae, Jacquelin de La Porte, Roberto Castelli. Inset picture: Zhao Yujian
IPLOCA Board of Directors2010-2011
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