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THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER

Contents:Letter from the President page 4

News from Geneva page 5

Member News page 7

New Technologies page 14

Washington DC Convention Updatepage 12

JUNE 2013

WITH NEWS FROM: THE INDUSTRY, MEMBERSHIP, ALLIED & SISTER ASSOCIATIONS

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ContentsLetter from the President 4

News from Geneva 5

Board Meeting Update 5

Member News 7

Membership Centre 10

Health, Safety & the Environment 11

Washington DC Convention Update 12

New Technologies 14

Elections to the IPLOCA Board of Directors 18

Training Committee 19

Australia’s Longest Underwater ‘Pipe Pull’ 19

Regional Meetings 20

Upcoming Conferences 21

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.

4 THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER

Letter from the President

The Washington DC Convention Registration Brochure

(23 – 27 September 2013) was mailed out at the end

of April and is also available electronically via the

IPLOCA website.

Every year we urge attendees to plan their travel and

register early and this year is no exception, as we expect

large numbers of delegates and do not want you to be

disappointed.

We will be presenting three industry awards during the Open General Meetings in

Washington. On Thursday and Friday, 26 and 27 September we will be announcing

the winners of the IPLOCA 2013 Health and Safety Award, sponsored by Chevron,

the IPLOCA 2013 New Technologies Award, sponsored by BP, and the IPLOCA Corporate

Social Responsibility Award.

The March Novel Construction meeting in Rome was very well supported, with

31 attendees from 27 companies in attendance and some excellent presentations.

More information is on page 14 of this newsletter.

My thanks to the organisers of the Europe Mediterranean Regional Meeting (Cassis,

25 April 2013) and to Iosif Panchak of Stroygazmontazh, for the meeting to be held in

Moscow (4-5 June 2013), just as this newsletter is being delivered.

I look forward very much to seeing everyone in Washington.

Sincerely,

Doug Evans


Board Meeting Update Marrakech, Morocco

The 2012-2013 IPLOCA Board of Directors met in Marrakech

at the end of February.

Following are highlights from that meeting.

Scholarship CommitteeA Scholarship Committee is being formed to evaluate the

feasibility of offering annual scholarships through IPLOCA

and examine what other similar organisations have done

to encourage new entrants into the pipeline field. Further

discussion will be held at the May meeting in Stockholm

and any resulting plan will be presented to the Board of

Directors in Washington for a decision.

Directors who volunteered to serve on this committee were

Doug Evans, Scott Summers, Ibrahim Zakhem, Jean-Claude

Van de Wiele. Juan Arzuaga will also serve.

Client Engagement CommitteeA Client Engagement Committee is also being formed with

the purpose of bringing the clients closer to the IPLOCA

membership. While clients have expressed interest, the

main impediments are time, and knowing which individuals

in the company to engage.

Greg Miller, Jan Koop, Scott Summers and Doug Evans,

along with Juan Arzuaga, have indicated their willingness

to participate in the committee.

Convention Committee The third committee suggested was the Convention

Committee, whose key role would be to assist the

Secretariat with advance selection of convention locations.

Directors who volunteered to serve on this committee were

Marco Jannuzzi, Adam Wynne Hughes, Bruno Maerten and

Jésus Garcia Pons.

HSE CommitteeSafety Video

Permission has been received from the INGAA Foundation

to upload its safety video to the IPLOCA website. This will

be done as soon as soon as practicable.

Prevention of Catastrophic Losses Workshop

This workshop will be held at the Moevenpick Hotel in

Geneva on 11 July 2013. Information will be communicated

to the membership and posted on the website.

Award Submission Deadlines:

IPLOCA New Technologies Award: 17 May 2013

IPLOCA Health & Safety Award: 24 May 2013

IPLOCA Corporate Social Responsibility Award: 31 May 2013

News from Geneva The Washington DC Convention arrangements are now

well underway.

Online registration opened on 1 May, and we encourage

everyone to go to www.iploca.com to 1) secure a hotel room

and then 2) register for the convention as soon as possible.

This will be the first time the event has been held in

Washington, D.C. and only the 3rd time it has been held in

the USA; in 2009 the convention took place in San Francisco

and in 1987 it was held in Boston.

If you have not already done so, register today at

www.iploca.com.


Training InitiativesThe Training Committee is contacting the IPLOCA Associate

Members to request details of training programs that can

be made available on the IPLOCA website. This will be

further discussed at the next Board of Directors meeting in

Stockholm in May.

Novel Construction AgendaIPLOCA is in the process of adding chapters to Onshore

Pipelines: The Road to Success and work groups are

quite active. This work should be finished and new

chapters printed and on the wiki prior to the convention in

Washington, D.C. The next meeting (Rome, 21-22 March

2013) will review the third edition of Onshore Pipelines: The

Road to Success and moving forward. Part of that meeting

will cover new technologies and training opportunities.

IPLOCA is collaborating in two research projects, funded by

IPLOCA, the INGAA Foundation and PRCI.

Treasurer’s ReportHarald Dresp presented the Treasurer’s Report, noting that

IPLOCA expected a cost underrun this year. It was noted

that the association has a total of CHF 2.9 million in its

accounts, CHF 1.8 million of which is set aside in reserves in

case of unexpected convention cancellation or dissolution

of the association.

To date, approximately seventy percent of membership fee

payments have been received. Board members will follow

up in their region, according to the list provided, and in

communication with Sarah Junod, Accounting Manager.

MembershipApplications

New membership applications were approved by the Board

as follows:

- GOM Resources Sdn. Bhd. Malaysia (Regular Member)

- Perma-Pipe Inc., USA (Associate Member)

Name Changes

Regular Member Sicilsaldo Srl has changed its name to

Sicilsaldo S.p.A.

Resignations

Two resignations had been received:

- Challenger Special Oil Services, France (Associate

Member since 2003)

- TD Williamson, Belgium (Associate Member since 2003)

Honorary MembersThe procedure for candidatures for Honorary Member was

reviewed, along with the list of current Honorary Members.

Washington, D.C. ConventionJuan showed a copy of the tour programme for DC, and the

website for the Omni Shoreham Hotel. Information would

be mailed out in April and registration would open in May.

Sponsorship

The Board discussed the scheduling difficulties often

associated with the Wednesday evening Former Presidents’

Cocktails. It was noted that this event sometimes interfered

with dinner plans outside the hotel for the one free evening of

the convention. Several alternative suggestions were made,

including Monday evening or Tuesday evening (prior to the

President’s Dinner). The schedule will be investigated further.

It was noted that Dodsal will no longer sponsor the Monday

night Welcome Dinner. IPLOCA will plan the Monday event for

Washington D.C. and, if needed, offer several sponsorships

(cocktails, wine, dinner, entertainment). PLM’s sponsorship

support of Friday’s pre-Final Banquet cocktails (previously the

John Fabick Cocktail Party) will now be contributed toward the

Thursday Caterpillar evening, with several Caterpillar dealers

combining their financial support toward this event. Gulf

Interstate Engineering will sponsor the Friday night cocktails

in Washington D.C. Wilhelm Maats noted that Maats Pipeline

Equipment would again sponsor the Golf Outing.

Convention Speakers

The list of potential speakers and a draft schedule for the

OGMs were reviewed. The final slate of speakers will be

approved in Stockholm.

Regional MeetingsMoscow, Russia: The Russian Regional Meeting is being

arranged for Tuesday and Wednesday, 4 and 5 June, at the

Radisson Blue, Moscow, following the Stockholm Board of

Directors Meeting. Gazprom and Rostneft will be present

at the Regional Meeting. Representatives from the branch

office of Gulf Interstate Engineering would also like to

attend. Michael Rae will provide an interpreter.

Marseilles (Cassis), France: The French Regional Meeting

is being arranged for Thursday, 25 April, with expected

attendance from Total, GRT Gaz, and Serimax. The agenda

is on the IPLOCA website.

Central Europe: Harald Dresp and Jan Koop are planning

a meeting for Central Europe, date to be determined.

Wikipedia VisibilityMichael Rae has been working with the Secretariat to try

to establish a new, general Wikipedia page for IPLOCA.

After some difficulties with the current moderator, he has

formally requested that this moderator be replaced, and is

currently awaiting a response.


Member NewsBilfinger Voted Among Most Attractive Employers for Engineers The engineering and services group Bilfinger counts

among the most attractive employers for future

engineers, according to a recent study from the

Trendence Institute in Berlin in cooperation with

Manager Magazin. The company ranked ninth among

the most popular employers for engineers. In the study,

35,000 students nearing their final exams in the fields

of business, engineering and IT were asked about their

preferred employers. About half of these students were

studying engineering. The company offers a wide

variety of entry-level opportunities and development

prospects with a growing and international environment

in a vast array of engineering fields. Bilfinger succeeded

in convincing the current graduating class with

sustainable and responsible corporate values as well as

a secure and dynamic working environment. Other top

rankings highlight the positive perception of Bilfinger

as an employer. The company’s career website has

already been ranked third in the Trendence Study 2012,

and the Universum survey of young professionals puts

Bilfinger in the top 30.

Fluor Awarded FEED Contract for Qatar Petroleum / Shell Al-Karaana Petrochemical Project Fluor Corporation has announced that it has been

awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED)

contract by Qatar Petroleum (QP) and Shell Global

Solutions for a proposed grassroots petrochemical project

located in Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar. Fluor will book

the undisclosed contract value into backlog in the first

quarter of 2013. The potential scope of the Al-Karaana

petrochemical project includes a mix-feed steam cracker,

two train monoethylene glycol units, linear alpha olefins

and oxo alcohol units, and required utilities, infrastructure

and offsites. Fluor will lead the FEED project execution

from its Haarlem, the Netherlands, office with support

from other global Fluor locations.

GSP Offshore to Provide Offshore Drilling and Support Services for Gazprom Neft Operations are scheduled to start at the beginning of June

and will be carried out in the Dolginskoye oil field, located

in the Pechora Sea, in the south eastern part of the Barents

Sea, the continental shelf of the Russian Federation. MODU

GSP Jupiter will perform the drilling, logging, completion

and testing of North-Dolginskaya 3 well. A fleet of four

offshore support vessels including two owned by GSP will

assist the rig during the drilling operations scheduled in the

Pechora Sea. GSP Jupiter is currently being mobilized to

operate offshore Tunisia, to drill Hammamet West-3 within

the Bargou Exploration Permit.

Herrenknecht Gripper TBM Completes Second Tunnel for Limmern Hydropower Plant

On March 13, 2013 a tunnel boring machine from

Herrenknecht successfully completed excavation of the

second headrace tunnel for the new pumped storage

power plant at Limmern (Switzerland). Equipped with a

new safety concept for securing the machine, the Gripper

TBM was able to cope with the 40 degree gradient of the

two tunnels without incident. A Herrenknecht Gripper

TBM (Ø 5,200 mm) bored two 1,030 meter long headrace

tunnels through hard rock, connecting the upper reservoir

to the machine hall cavern. With the breakthrough of the

second tunnel on March 13, 2013 another key milestone

in the major project »Linthal 2015« was reached. Linthal is

expected to commence operations in 2015 as the currently

largest hydroelectric power project in Switzerland. In


cooperation with the construction company, Swiss firm

Marti Tunnelbau AG, the engineers from Herrenknecht AG

developed a solution for safe tunnelling at a gradient of

40 degrees. The immense gradient called for an extremely

reliable safety concept to hold the machine securely in

place during tunnelling. At all costs it had to be ensured

that the TBM could not slip back when the grippers were

moved. For the Linthal project the construction company

Marti Tunnelbau AG and Herrenknecht AG developed a

double anti-reverse lock with full back-up redundancy of

the available bracing levels for the 130 meter long and

800 tonne TBM.

Lincoln Electric PromotionsLincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. has

announced that Michael S. Mintun

has been named Vice President,

Sales and Marketing – North

America. In his new role, Mr. Mintun

will focus on the development

and implementation of strategic

sales and marketing initiatives for

the Company’s North American

business. After he joined Lincoln

Electric as a sales trainee in 1984, Mr. Mintun worked as a

Technical Sales Representative in the company’s New York

City and Pittsburgh district offices, District Manager of the

Southwest Ontario District in Canada, and U.S. National

Accounts Manager. In 2000, he was promoted to Vice

President of Sales, Lincoln Electric Company of Canada,

and was named U.S. National Sales Manager in 2002. He

was promoted to Sales Manager – North America in 2006

and became Vice President, Sales – North America in 2008.

Mr. Mintun earned a bachelor’s degree in metallurgy and

materials engineering at Lehigh University.

In addition, Phil Bouchard has

been named to the position of

U.S. Sales Manager. Mr. Bouchard

will be responsible for driving

the strategy and daily activities

of the Company’s U.S. sales

organization. Mr. Bouchard

joined Lincoln Electric in 1990 as

a Sales Trainee and worked as a

Technical Sales Representative in

the Atlanta and Fort Wayne offices and District Manager

in the Baton Rouge and Chicago offices. In 2006, he was

promoted to his most recent position as North Central

Regional Manager. He earned a bachelor’s degree in

manufacturing engineering at Wentworth Institute of

Technology.

Petrofac Awarded USD 500 Million Offshore Project in Abu DhabiPetrofac has been awarded an engineering, procurement,

installation and commissioning (EPIC) contract by Abu

Dhabi Marine Operating Company (ADMA-OPCO) for

Satah Al Razboot (SARB) package 3 project, offshore Abu

Dhabi. The competitively tendered contract will commence

shortly and will be delivered by April 2016. The SARB

Project is a high priority and new field development

off the northwest coast of Abu Dhabi. Drilling will be

conducted from two artificial islands (SARB1 and SARB2)

with the well fluid sent by subsea pipeline to a facility on

Zirku Island for processing, storage and export. Under

the terms of the contract Petrofac will deliver 200km

of subsea pipelines for well fluid, water injection, gas

injection, flare and export, along with 3km of onshore

pipeline and 55km of subsea power and communication

cables. Further offshore scope of the contract includes

the provision of two riser platforms and four flare

platforms with four interconnecting bridges and one

single point mooring (SPM) buoy located at the north of

Zirku Island. The onshore scope of the contract includes

the following: drilling utilities, foundations on SARB1 and

SARB2, transport, install, hook up and assistance in the

commissioning of the accommodation modules.

Petrofac Consortium Awarded USD 3.7 Billion Abu Dhabi ContractPetrofac Emirates, Petrofac’s joint venture with Mubadala

Petroleum, has been awarded a contract by Zakum

Development Company (ZADCO) for the Upper Zakum,

UZ750 field development in Abu Dhabi. The contract

is worth approximately USD 3.7 billion and has been

secured by Petrofac Emirates in consortium with

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co Ltd

(DSME). Petrofac Emirates’ share of the contract is valued

at USD 2.9 billion. ZADCO is an Abu Dhabi National Oil

Company subsidiary in which ExxonMobil and Japan

Oil Development Company are other Shareholders. The

project comprises engineering, procurement, construction

transportation and commissioning of island surface

facilities (EPC-2) on four artificial islands. Specifically, this

will include wellhead control, manifolds, crude oil process

facilities, water injection and gas lift, oil export pumps,

power generation and associated utilities. These facilities

will commence operations during 2016.

Alain-Pierre Raynaud Named Chief Financial Officer of SNC-LavalinSNC-Lavalin has named Alain-Pierre Raynaud as its

new Chief Financial Officer and member of the Office of


the President effective June 1, 2013, to be based at the

company’s head office in Montreal. Mr. Raynaud is a

graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and

holds a doctorate in Economics. He has spent 32 years

in the energy, automotive and banking sectors, gaining

considerable international experience with major global

corporations specializing in project management in

Europe and Asia. He began his career as a financial analyst

before moving to Renault in 1987, where he later became

Senior Vice-President and Corporate Controller. In 2003,

he moved to Japan as a member of Nissan’s Executive

Committee to oversee the group’s Cost Control and IT

services departments and led its financial operations.

Between 2006 and 2011, Mr. Raynaud was CFO of Areva,

where he successfully oversaw the implementation of the

company’s change management program, which included

organizational restructuring, supply chain optimization

and a new investment plan. He was subsequently named

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Areva UK.

Technip Awarded contract for P-76 FPSO in BrazilTechnip, leader of a 50/50 consortium with Techint, was

awarded by PNBV a substantial contract for the topside

construction and integration, the commissioning and

start up assistance of the P-76 floating production storage

and offloading (FPSO) unit. Located in the Santos Basin

pre-salt area offshore Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this unit

will produce 180,000 barrels of oil and 7 million cubic

meters per day of gas. Technip’s operating center in Rio de

Janeiro will perform the project management, engineering

and procurement. The 24,000-ton modules fabrication,

integration and commissioning will be performed in

Techint’s yard, in the South of Brazil. The project is

scheduled to be completed by mid-2017.

Technip Receives Top Employers 2013 Certification for its Human Resources PracticesTechnip has been certified as a Top Employer Europe 2013,

a prize rewarding companies for the good care they take

of their people. This independent certification, delivered by

the CRF Institute, underlines the quality of Technip’s human

resources (HR) policies as well as its outstanding employee

offerings. This year, 20 organizations received this special

award for excellence in the application of their HR policies

and practices in Europe. To qualify as a Top Employer in

Europe, organizations were required to successfully achieve

the criteria set in at least five European countries. Technip

was certified as a Top Employer in nine European countries:

Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands,

Norway, Spain and the United Kingdom. Moreover, Technip

was selected as one of Canada’s 100 Top Employers for

2013 for its outstanding working conditions and community

involvement.

Valentine Maritime Awarded a Project from Maersk Oil, QatarOn 3 April 2013, Valentine Maritime (Gulf) L.L.C, Abu Dhabi

was awarded by Maersk Oil-Qatar, an EPIC contract for a

24” water injection pipeline in the Al Shaheen field.

The work scope covers detailed engineering, residual

procurement, concrete weight coating, transportation and

the installation of 24” X 7.33 km subsea pipeline and 24”

X 1.0 km of spurline including interconnecting subsea

tie-in spools. In addition the work scope includes the

installation of risers, subsea tie-ins, J-tubes and the pre-

commissioning of the pipeline system. The project is due

for completion by the 4th Quarter of 2013.

Valentine Maritime Awarded Offshore Contract from Dubai PetroleumValentine Maritime (Gulf) LLC has won an EPIC contract

from Dubai Petroleum, for pipeline installation work

in 2013. The scope of work for the project covers

detailed engineering, procurement, installation and pre-

commissioning of 3 pipelines. 30”dia x 6.7 km oil pipeline

including risers, 30”dia x 4 km oil pipeline including risers ,

16”dia x 6km water injection pipeline. The work scope also

includes the pipeline system associated crossings, risers,

subsea tie-ins, spools. The project is due for completion by

September 2013.

Van Oord’s Artemis Commissioned

Van Oord’s newest addition to its fleet – the self-propelled

cutter suction dredger Artemis – was recently moored

in Rotterdam and available for visit before departing to

western France for its first assignment. Under a contract


with the Grand Port Maritime de la Rochelle, Artemis will

be deepening the harbour basin and dredging a trench in

the access channel to the harbour. An exceptional feature

of the ship is its hydraulically buffered spud carriage which

will permit it to continue to work even in poor weather

conditions. Air springs installed under the deck house will

minimize noise and vibration for the employees on board.

Artemis is a sister vessel to Athena, delivered at the end

of 2011, and currently being deployed on the Ichthys LNG

project in Darwin, Australia.

Willbros Names Allcorn as Senior Vice President, Sales

Willbros Group, Inc. has named

John K. Allcorn Senior Vice

President of Sales. Allcorn is not

new to Willbros where he served

for nine years in various executive

positions. While previously with

Willbros he was responsible for

worldwide operations, including

overseeing the group’s engineering

and construction companies. He

rejoins Willbros from Integrated Pipeline Services, Inc. (IPS)

where he served as President and CEO. While with IPS he

established an investment strategy to grow the business

through a mix of organic expansion as well as through

mergers and acquisitions. He has also held positions with

US Pipeline, Inc. and Gregory & Cook. Allcorn has more than

27 years of experience in the pipeline industry, specializing

in pipeline design and construction. Additionally, he has

vast domestic and international experience in operations

and executive management. He earned a Bachelor of

Science degree in accounting from the University of

Houston. He is a past board member of the International

Pipeline and Offshore Contractor’s Association (IPLOCA), the

Pipe Line Contractor’s Association of America (PLCA) and

the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA)

Foundation, where he also served as Chairman.

Membership CentreWe welcome a new Associate Member to IPLOCA.

The information below is also posted at www.iploca.com

under the Membership Centre.

New Associate Member

Perma-Pipe, Inc. is a division of MFRI, a public company

formed in 1961, is headquartered in Chicago and listed on

NASDAQ. Perma-Pipe engineers, designs, manufactures

and applies thermal insulation to pipelines and subsea

equipment for the oil and gas industry from six plants

located throughout the world: New Iberia, Louisiana,

USA; Lebanon, Tennessee, USA; Camrose, Canada; Fujairah,

UAE; Dammam, Saudi Arabia and Gujara State, India.

The company provides: insulation for onshore and offshore

deep and shallow water pipelines and subsea equipment

such as pipeline end terminations (PLETs), pipeline

end manifolds (PLEMs), trees, manifolds, jumpers; pre-

fabricated and pre-insulated district heating and cooling

piping systems for efficient energy distribution to multiple

locations from central energy plants; pre-fabricated

industrial and secondary containment piping systems for

transporting chemicals, hazardous fluids and petroleum

products; prefabricated and pre-insulated piping for

cryogenic applications such as LNG, ammonia, propane

and butane pipelines.

Perma-Pipe, Inc.

7720 North Lehigh Avenue

Niles, Illinois 60714-3491

U.S.A.

T +1 847 966 2235

F +1 847 470 1204

E [email protected]

I www.permapipe.com

Osman Birgili Appointed CEO of Tekfen Group of Companies

Our sincere

congratulations to

Osman Birgili, Immediate

Past President and

a board member of

IPLOCA, formerly

Senior Vice-President of

Tekfen Construction, who has been appointed Chief

Executive Officer of Tekfen Group of Companies

as of May 10, 2013. Mr. Birgili has been working at

Tekfen Construction for 35 years in a number of

positions both in Turkey and abroad, and will continue

representing Tekfen in IPLOCA.

PERMA-PIPE®, INC.


The HSE Committee, under the chairmanship of

Bruno Maerten (Geocean) met at the Geneva Secretariat

on 26 March 2013.

Martin Coleman of Spiecapag has resigned from the

Committee due to a change of position. He is replaced by

Alain Gauthiez. We offer our sincere thanks to Martin for

his commitment over the past years.

Review of the Health & Safety Statistics and Environmental Statistics Returns We are still anticipating receipt of further Health & Safety

statistics returns. Some 60 percent of required returns

have been received so far, although the deadline was

8 March. We urge those Regular Members who have

not yet done so, to submit this required information

immediately. Submission of Environmental Statistics is

also highly encouraged.

HSE Workshop Preventing Catastrophic LossesIPLOCA’s HSE Committee has scheduled a one-day workshop

at the Moevenpick Hotel, Geneva on Thursday, 11 July 2013 to

tackle the topic of preventing catastrophic losses.

The conventional wisdom that “recordables” are a sound

predictor of fatalities is really coming under assault

across the occupational safety and risk management

professions. We now have to re-wire how we approach high

consequence/low probability events (for example, fatalities)

versus low consequence/high probability safety events

(e.g. Total Recordable Injury Frequencies). The committee’s

goal with the workshop is to engage HSE managers and

executives of the IPLOCA membership in these discussions,

invite knowledgeable speakers to address the topic and

provide thought leadership in this area. The agenda is under

development and will include the following:

- Debunking the injury pyramid

- Preventive Systems & Predictive Metrics for

Catastrophic Losses.

Please register by 8 June at www.iploca.com/hseworkshop.

In order to participate, attendees will be required to submit

by Friday, 21 June, a 3-4 slide presentation about their

most instructive experiences resulting from a catastrophic

loss. We look forward to welcoming you to Geneva for a

productive session to discuss ways to continue reducing

the catastrophic losses in our Industry.

Workshop Preventing Catastrophic Losses 11 July 2013

Moevenpick Hotel, Geneva, Switzerland

Hotel booking form and other information can be

found at www.iploca.com/hseworkshop

Registration deadline: Friday, 8 June

Questions? Contact [email protected]

According to a decision made by the Board of Directors

in 2012, member companies will not be allowed to

register for the Annual Convention until their H&S

statistics have been received.

Health, Safety and Environment HSE Committee Meets in Geneva


23 - 27 September 2013

Washington, D.C.

Washington201347th Annual Convention

REGISTRATION BROCHURE

IPLOCAWashington D.C. Convention UpdateConvention registration is well under way. If you have not

already been to www.iploca.com to reserve your hotel

room and register your participation, be sure to do so soon.

Full details regarding the event can be found at

www.iploca.com by clicking on the image of the

Convention Brochure.

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Washington, D.C.Founded on 16 July 1790, Washington, D.C. is unique among American

cities because it was established by the Constitution of the United

States to serve as the nation’s capital. From its beginning it has been

embroiled in political manoeuvring, sectional conflicts and issues of

race, national identity, compromise and, of course, power.George Washington, the first president and namesake of the city,

chose the site. Envisioned by its founders as a commercial centre

as well as the seat of government, its location on the Potomac River

already included two existing port towns of Georgetown, Maryland,

and Alexandria, Virginia, which served as regional shipping centres

for tobacco and wheat. During the War of 1812 most of the city was burned to the ground.

British forces invaded the city and burned public and government

buildings, including the White House, in response to American forces

invading York (now Toronto). However, the British spared the home

of the Commandant of the Marines, located on Marine Barracks, as a

sign of respect. It is now the oldest government building in continuous

use in the nation’s capital. The Patent Office and the Post Office were

also spared because Dr. William Thornton, Superintendent of Patents,

pleaded with British officers that the knowledge lost therein would be

a disservice to mankind.

4Tour 1 - Historic Annapolis

Monday 23 September

09.00 - 17.00 (including lunch)

All aboard for historic Annapolis,

Maryland! This quaint waterfront

community has welcomed travellers for

almost three hundred years. Originally

the colonial capital, and currently

Maryland’s state capital and home of

the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis offers visitors a unique blend of historical

architecture and scenic maritime vistas. Colonial costumed guides will take

participants on a comprehensive tour, viewing the U.S. Naval Academy (the

Chapel, John Paul Jones’ tomb and Bancroft Hall), St. John’s College, and the

Maryland State House, which is the oldest state house still in use in the United

States. We will also pass the many historic homes and gardens which line the

quaint streets of this bustling waterfront town.

Following the tour, participants will enjoy a sandwich lunch at the Drydock

Restaurant. This legendary restaurant is located in Dahlgren Hall on the

campus of the U.S. Naval Academy.

Before departing participants will have time for shopping and browsing through

the many interesting boutiques and shops, or just investigating the many

historical attractions found in Annapolis.

Tour 2 - A Special Look

at Washington

Monday 23 September

08.30 - 12.30

This tour will provide a complete

overview of Washington, D.C.

including Lafayette Park, the White

House, the inaugural parade route,

the FBI Building, the Washington

Monument and the U.S. Capitol

Building. The bus will also make

stops at the Lincoln Memorial, the

Vietnam Veterans Memorial and

the Korean War Memorial. Your

guide will be sure to point out the

Smithsonian Museums and the National Gallery of Art.

Tour 3 - Newseum

Monday 23 September

13.00 - 17.00

Participants will visit the ‘news-iest’

museum in the nation’s capital,

the Newseum. There are over 14

different galleries within the seven-

level interactive museum of news and

journalism. The Newseum’s Berlin Wall

Gallery includes the largest display of

sections of the Berlin Wall outside of

Germany, while the Great Hall of News

allows visitors to be surrounded by a continuous flow of breaking news. Other

galleries include the most comprehensive collection of Pulitzer Prize-winning

photographs ever assembled, the history of the Internet, TV and radio, as well

as the 911 Gallery.

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Tours 4 & 12 - The Udvar Hazy Center of the National Air & Space MuseumMonday 23 September AND Wednesday 25 September13.00 - 17.00

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is the companion facility to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall. The building was built to provide more space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot be exhibited on the National Mall. Together, the two

sites showcase the largest collection of aviation and space artifacts in the world.

Participants will visit the large Boeing Aviation Hangar that houses aircraft such as

the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest jet in the world. The James S. McDonnell

Space Hangar, which opened in November 2004, displays hundreds of famous

spacecraft, rockets, satellites and space-related small artifacts, the newest

centre-piece being the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Tour 5 - National Mall ShuttleTuesday 24 September10.00 - 17.00

The Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex, includes 19 museums and galleries. Participants will welcome the convenience of this private shuttle to the museums that line the National Mall.

On the way to the National Mall a licensed tour guide will provide an overview

of the various museums and their current special exhibits. Participants will be

able to choose which museum they would like to visit and step on and off the

bus throughout the day as it suits them.Stops to include:• The Smithsonian Castle• The Freer & Sackler Galleries (Asian Art)

• The National Gallery of Art• The National Museum of African Art• The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture

Garden

• The National Museum of the American Indian• The National Museum of Natural History

• The National Museum of American History

Tours 6 & 11 - The United States CapitolTuesday 24 September AND Wednesday 25 September08.30 - 12.30

Capitol Hill is the centre of activity in the nation’s capital. This tour provides an in-depth look at the U.S. Capitol Building.The Chief Guide of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society will accompany the group

from the base of Capitol Hill to the entry door, where you will learn about the

architecture of the building. Once inside, you will walk through the ornately painted

Burmidi Corridors to Statuary Hall, which served as the House of Representatives’

Chamber until 1857. Each state was asked to contribute statues of its two most

famous citizens to be on display in the hall.The tour will continue with an in-depth overview of the Rotunda and a closer look

at its magnificent architecture and stunning murals depicting early America and its

growth as a democracy. On leaving the Rotunda, participants will walk through the

Hall of Statues and see the remaining statues of each States’ famous citizens.

When Congress is not in session, guests will have the unique opportunity not only

to view the House of Representatives chamber, but sit in the Members’ chairs on

the “floor” of the House as they learn more fascinating facts from the master guide.

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23 - 27 September 2013

Washington, D.C.

Washington201347th Annual Convention

REGISTRATION BROCHURE

IPLOCA

Special Functions:

The First Time Attendees CocktailsPipeline & Gas Journal and Vacuworx Global

Welcome CocktailsVermeer and Midwestern

Worldwide Machinery Welcome DinnerWorldwide Machinery

Directors & Wives DinnerRitchie Bros. Auctioneers and Tekfen Construction and Installation Co., Inc

The CRC-Evans LuncheonCRC-Evans Pipeline International Inc.

The Caterpillar PartyCaterpillar and Pipeline Machinery International, Mantrac/Unatrac Group, Zeppelin Russia, Compagnia Generale Trattori

Fireworks (to be confirmed)Laurini Officine Meccaniche

The Spy Ladies BrunchPipeline Inspection

IPLOCA Membership CocktailsZakhem International Construction Ltd.

IPLOCA Membership Lunch - BuffetFluor

IPLOCA Membership Lunch - WineMagnatech Group BV

Gulf Interstate Cocktail PartyGulf Interstate

DJ & Lights for Dancing ‘til DawnAmerican Augers

Open Bar for Dancing ‘til DawnSpecialty Polymer Coatings, Inc.

Decoration for Dancing ‘til DawnSpiecapag and Geocean

Maats Golf TournamentMaats Pipeline Equipment

Tour Programme:

Tour 1 - Historic AnnapolisSerimax and Pending Confirmation

Tour 2 - Special Look at WashingtonTechint Engineering & Construction

Tour 3 - NewseumLincoln Electric

Tour 4 - Udvar Hazy CenterWorld Pipelines

Tour 5 - National Mall ShuttleStroygazmontazh LLC

Tour 6 - The United States CapitolErciyas Steel Pipe

Tour 7 - Show me the Money!Jindal Saw Ltd.

Tour 8 - Holocaust MuseumMagnatech Group BV

Tour 9 - Mount Vernon Garden & EstateSpiecapag and Geocean

Tour 10 A & B - Segways in the CityMax Streicher GmbH & Co. KG aA

Tour 10 C - Segways in the CityITW Welding

Tour 11 - The United States Capitol (repeat)ARB Inc.

Tour 12 - Udvar Hazy Center (repeat)Zhejiang Kingland Pipeline & Technologies Co., Ltd.

Convention / IPLOCA Functions:

Registration DeskHerrenknecht

Welcome Drinks at Registration (Sat/Sun)ROSEN Group

Internet CentreConsolidated Contractors Company (CCC)

Audio Visual for Thursday’s Open General MeetingArgus Limited

Audio Visual for Friday’s Open General MeetingArgus Limited

Coffee breaks at Open General MeetingsThe C.A.T. Group

Registration Bags for the GentlemenShawCor

Registration Bags for the LadiesWasco Energy

Bottled Water for ToursErciyas Steel Pipe

Wine at Final BanquetWillbros Group, Inc.

Flowers at Final BanquetLedcor Group of Companies

Band at Final BanquetHABAU and PPS and PSE

Entertainment at Final BanquetHABAU and PPS and PSE

Audio Visual at Final BanquetNuova Patavium Srl

Car for LotteryVolvo Construction Equipment and Renault Trucks

Photographers at the ConventionTECHNIP

Convention Photo CDPTPS

Printing of Pocket ProgrammeGoriziane Group S.p.A.

Printing of Final Banquet MenuGoriziane Group S.p.A.

Printing of Attendance ListPipeline & Gas Journal

Russian Simultaneous TranslationArgus Limited

Shopping ShuttleMax Streicher GmbH & Co. KG aA

Meet & Greet at the AirportApplus RTD

Transfer Back to the AirportUniversalPegasus International, Inc.

Convention Fund ContributionsAvailable

Gifts:

Travel GuideMaats Pipeline Equipment

Liebherr ModelLiebherr

GiftDENSO GmbH

Convention Sponsorship Opportunities

You will see quite a few changes in sponsorship this year.

Available items disappeared very quickly. Any and all

contributions to the Convention Fund are still welcome.

Please contact [email protected] right away if you

are interested in this opportunity.

Washington, D.C.Founded on 16 July 1790, Washington, D.C. is unique among American

cities because it was established by the Constitution of the United

States to serve as the nation’s capital. From its beginning it has been

embroiled in political manoeuvring, sectional conflicts and issues of

race, national identity, compromise and, of course, power.George Washington, the first president and namesake of the city,

chose the site. Envisioned by its founders as a commercial centre

as well as the seat of government, its location on the Potomac River

already included two existing port towns of Georgetown, Maryland,

and Alexandria, Virginia, which served as regional shipping centres

for tobacco and wheat. During the War of 1812 most of the city was burned to the ground.

British forces invaded the city and burned public and government

buildings, including the White House, in response to American forces

invading York (now Toronto). However, the British spared the home

of the Commandant of the Marines, located on Marine Barracks, as a

sign of respect. It is now the oldest government building in continuous

use in the nation’s capital. The Patent Office and the Post Office were

also spared because Dr. William Thornton, Superintendent of Patents,

pleaded with British officers that the knowledge lost therein would be

a disservice to mankind.

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Tours 4 & 12 - The Udvar Hazy Center of the National Air & Space MuseumMonday 23 September AND Wednesday 25 September13.00 - 17.00

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is the companion facility to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall. The building was built to provide more space for the Smithsonian to display the thousands of aviation and space artifacts that cannot be exhibited on the National Mall. Together, the two

sites showcase the largest collection of aviation and space artifacts in the world.

Participants will visit the large Boeing Aviation Hangar that houses aircraft such as

the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest jet in the world. The James S. McDonnell

Space Hangar, which opened in November 2004, displays hundreds of famous

spacecraft, rockets, satellites and space-related small artifacts, the newest

centre-piece being the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Tour 5 - National Mall ShuttleTuesday 24 September10.00 - 17.00

The Smithsonian Institution, the world’s largest museum and research complex, includes 19 museums and galleries. Participants will welcome the convenience of this private shuttle to the museums that line the National Mall.

On the way to the National Mall a licensed tour guide will provide an overview

of the various museums and their current special exhibits. Participants will be

able to choose which museum they would like to visit and step on and off the

bus throughout the day as it suits them.Stops to include:• The Smithsonian Castle• The Freer & Sackler Galleries (Asian Art)

• The National Gallery of Art• The National Museum of African Art• The Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture

Garden

• The National Museum of the American Indian• The National Museum of Natural History

• The National Museum of American History

Tours 6 & 11 - The United States CapitolTuesday 24 September AND Wednesday 25 September08.30 - 12.30

Capitol Hill is the centre of activity in the nation’s capital. This tour provides an in-depth look at the U.S. Capitol Building.The Chief Guide of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society will accompany the group

from the base of Capitol Hill to the entry door, where you will learn about the

architecture of the building. Once inside, you will walk through the ornately painted

Burmidi Corridors to Statuary Hall, which served as the House of Representatives’

Chamber until 1857. Each state was asked to contribute statues of its two most

famous citizens to be on display in the hall.The tour will continue with an in-depth overview of the Rotunda and a closer look

at its magnificent architecture and stunning murals depicting early America and its

growth as a democracy. On leaving the Rotunda, participants will walk through the

Hall of Statues and see the remaining statues of each States’ famous citizens.

When Congress is not in session, guests will have the unique opportunity not only

to view the House of Representatives chamber, but sit in the Members’ chairs on

the “floor” of the House as they learn more fascinating facts from the master guide.

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New Technologies CommitteeOn 21 and 22 March 2013 IPLOCA hosted a Novel

Construction Initiative meeting at the Hilton Fiumicino

Airport Hotel (Rome) with 29 delegates in attendance.

Now that new content for Onshore Pipelines:The Road to

Success is almost finalised and will soon be uploaded to

the wiki, the initiative is beginning to focus more tightly

on additional new technology developments in pipeline

construction, to become more of a forum for exchange and

research on new technologies and training opportunities for

the industry. To this end, several presentations were made

to the delegates in Rome. These included:

- iFalcon – Intelligent Fleet Analysis, Logistics and Control,

and iRisk – Risk Management Solution

Aref Boualwan – CCC Manager Development/BPR

- Securing the Top Layer of Pipes during Transportation

Idsart Van Assema – Dhatec

- Straightening Out all Bending Issues

Geert Dieperink – Maats Pipeline Equipment

- RESON PDS2000: Software that Makes Your Project

Ionnis Mougiakos, JGC

- Operational Data of Equipment

Andreas Clauss, Caterpillar

We thank the presenters for their support and for the

summaries of some of the presentations that were made

available to us and follow below.

iFALCON Fleet Management Solution - CCCThe solution provides the ability to capture the positional,

operational, and diagnostic data of a company’s assets,

including equipment, vehicles, and personnel.

It allows monitoring of assets detection and reporting of

deviations to defined constraints, such as over-speeding,

over-revving, geofence breaches, etc., in both online and

offline modes responding to critical events when needed,

such as alerting operators via buzzers or supervisors via

email using the collected data for analysis of workloads and

performance and for assistance in preventive maintenance

and decision support in any fleet-related strategies. These

features not only serve as a security measure, to keep track

of the whereabouts of every asset at near-real-time, but

can also assist in improving project operations, availability,

productivity rates, resource management, limiting misuse

of equipment, optimizing service and repair requirements

thereby lowering operating and owning costs, as well as

enforcing any health, safety, or environmental regulations

that should be abided by on site.

Components include:A hardware device fitted on the asset to capture the related

data metrics, detect deviations and respond to them,

and transmit all the resulting information to the central

data storage area for processing; a hosting service where

the data storage area resides, and which is accessible to

the various client portals; client portals, consisting of a

Windows-based application for administration purposes,

and a Web-based or Tablet-based application for basic

monitoring purposes; business Intelligence (BI) capabilities

for data analysis and reporting.

In the case of equipment and vehicles, multiple options for

hardware devices can be adopted, depending on the level of

managerial and data acquisition requirements, and provided

their functionality can be incorporated with the iFALCON


back-end system. As for personnel monitoring, a custom-made,

minimal and autonomous device has been designed to cater

for the required functionality. Each device is equipped with

on-board GPS for positioning and on-board GPRS modem for

online connectivity, as well as digital, analogue, and/or CAN

ports to acquire other data metrics, including but not limited to:

ignition status, engine speed (RPM), speed information: wheel-

based speed, clutch switch, cruise control, etc., tachograph

information, vehicle distance, engine hours, total fuel

consumption, axle load.The collected metrics are exposed and

managed by the different client portals, which are used to track

the assets, view immediate and historical itineraries, monitor

for violations and apply control actions when needed, as well

as manage the various entities comprising the full solution.

iRisk, Risk Management Solution - CCC

Developed around best practices and international

standards, iRisk implements the Active Threat Opportunity

Management methodology (ATOM), designed to help with:

- Management Information and decision making can

be significantly improved through a wide range of

consistent reports. These can be used to display

both project performance and also the quality and

completeness of risk management data.

- Ensure that all practitioners follow the same process

- Identify and then deploy process improvements

consistently across all users

- Collect and present risk data in a consistent manner

across all projects and other activities

- Build a database of risk information over time to assist a

company to learn from experience.

Governed by ATOM, iRisk fully supports all phases of

ATOM including: Initiation Phase, First Risk Assessment,

which consists of Risk Identification, Risk Assessment, and

Risk Response Planning, Review and Control, Post-Project

Review and close out.

Initiation PhaseDuring this initial phase a Risk Management Plan (RMP)

will be drafted for the project in consultation with key

stakeholders. The RMP defines how the risk process

will be performed in the project, including defining the

Risk Assessment criteria and the Risk Work Breakdown

Structure to be used. iRisk includes the ability to link to

those aforementioned data to help classify and assess risk

records later in the coming phases.

First Risk Assessment PhaseThe bulk of iRisk data input falls under this phase. Risks

are identified and then assessed, based on their probability

of occurrence and their impact. Once a risk is assessed, a

response strategy can be prepared to manage the likelihood

or effects of having a risk occur. In some cases, contingency

plans can be established to respond to a risk should it occur.

First Risk Assessment is split into the following sub-phases:

- Risk Identification

At this stage, Risk items are identified and stored inside

the system. Starting from this stage and all subsequent

stages, the project risk team can consult a data

completeness report generated by iRisk to check the data

completeness and correct any omissions before moving

on to the next stage.

- Risk Assessment

At this stage, risks have already been identified. A “risk

owner”, nominated for each risk, assesses it in terms of

probability and impact. Risk owners also categorize their

risks using the appropriate Risk Breakdown Structure

(RBS) and project Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). iRisk

offers the Probability Impact Matrix (PIM) to help visually

display the project risk profile in terms of both severe

risks in case of Threats and most beneficial risks in terms

of Opportunities.

- Risk Response Planning

As already discussed, iRisk helps the user to identify the

most significant risks in the system and it then encourages

them to plan appropriate response strategies to help

exploit or to mitigate these risks. Risk owners develop

response strategies, backed up by detailed action plans.

iRisk then encourages them to perform a post-response

assessment of their risks to indicate the expected cost-

effectiveness of the planned actions. It is also possible

to identify and record control measures to maintain or

monitor risks at a given level, as well as contingency plans

to be enacted in the event of a risk occurring.

Post-Project Review PhaseAt the end of the project, or at significant milestones or

phase gateways, the project team will want to review risk

data for a meeting to identify risk-related lessons. iRisk

provides the means to generate a single-risk register for

each and every risk in the system, detailing all related data

to each risk item managed by the system. In a nutshell,

iRisk, helps projects to implement an effective risk

management process. It offers tools to identify, evaluate

and manage both threats and opportunities and thus

improve the chances of project success.


Securing Top Layer of Pipes during Transportation - DhatecDhatec focuses on developing and manufacturing products

that guarantee a flawless delivery of the pipes to the

construction sites. Examples of these products are bevel

protectors, pipe closure solutions, blasting plugs, coating

couplings, pipe storage systems and transport equipment

for line pipes.

The latest development deals with the problem of securing

the top layer of pipes during transportation. Pipe loads are

generally secured with tie-downs. These tie-downs press

the pipe load on the trailer bed which prevents it from

shifting during transport. But when the top layer consists

out of more than two pipes it is difficult to secure the pipes

in the middle because the tie-downs do not exert sufficient

securing force on these pipes. Figure 1 gives a visual

presentation of this problem. The red arrows represent the

vertical load securing force but the pipes in the middle do

not receive this vertical securing force.

Dhatec’s engineers have found a solution for this problem

by designing a load securing bar that grips onto the pipes

in the middle in order to secure the load. The load securing

bar is pre-shaped in a contour that was calculated by the

engineering team. As figure 2 shows the bar is curved

like a banana. When the bar is positioned on the pipes the

ends of the bar will be equipped with tie downs. When the

tie downs are tensioned the curve is pulled out of the bar

which results in a vertical load securing force on all pipes.

In figure 3 the black arrows represent the pulling force of

the tie downs which straightens the bar, resulting in equal

vertical load securing forces on all pipes as represented

by the red arrows. The bar behaves like a spring which

presses down the pipes in the middle with such a force

that the pipes are properly secured. The load securing bar

is equipped with a rubber antiskid layer which presses on

the pipes without damaging the coating. Handles on top

of the bar fit on any fork lift in order to arrange for easy

positioning on the top layer of pipes.

Figure 1: (Problem) Multiple pipes in top layer cannot be secured

with tie-downs only

Figure 2: (Solution) Dhatec designed a curved load securing bar to

secure pipes in the top layer.

Figure 3: (Solution) With tie-downs the bar is tensioned until it has

straightened, resulting in a secured load.

Straightening Out all Bending Issues - Maats Pipeline EquipmentMaats had a vast rental fleet with all kinds of equipment,

including a pool of about fifty pipe bending machines in all

common sizes and from all major brands.

Over the years the company has gathered a lot of

experience with these machines and especially over the

last five years has seen a rapid change in the use of these

bending machines. For this there are a number of reasons:

- Pipelines are designed to cover greater distances

- Owners use higher pressures to increase capacity of

their pipeline

- Pipelines are constructed for “new” fluids / gases like

CO2, LNG, methane, etc.

This change in pipe specifications results in:

- A change in steel quality, where this used to be X52 or

even lower, this nowadays is commonly X70, with X80

and even X100 as viable options

- An increase in wall thickness for used pipes.

But next to the change in pipe specifications is an increasing

variety in pipe specifications, even on the same project. This

is because:

- There is pressure on project pricing and this mostly

means a pressure on quality

- Owners use different pipe suppliers on the same project;

we have seen up to six suppliers on the same jobsite

- With new developments in design possibilities, owners

can exactly calculate the necessary wall thickness

- Stricter requirements for permits, other pipe specifications for

road and rail crossings or environmentally vulnerable areas


This results in:

- A wide variety of pipe specifications, wall thicknesses,

coating thicknesses, ovality

- The possibility that one bending machine cannot cover

all these specifications.

During our rental projects, the above resulted in some

issues that had a direct effect on the quality of services,

such as:

- Poor availability of complete pipe specifications, with

pipes often outside standard specifications, resulting in

problems with bending sets

- Older machines working at the limit of their capacity,

resulting in frequent breakdowns

- Damage to coating due to variation in coating thickness

at a jobsite

- The use of spiral weld pipe which is cheaper but more

difficult to bend because of its easier deformation

(buckling), but sometimes even deforms when stored

- The fact that there are fewer and fewer experienced

bending operators

- Confusion about the use of bending mandrels.

The above made Maats to decide to engineer a complete new

bending machine that would solve most of the above issues

and would be ready for a further development in the pipe

specifications on future projects.

New machine design criteria:

- A technical lifespan of at least 25 years

- Service and repairs easy, everywhere in the world

- Operation of the machine should be simple

- Powerful: suitable for X100 pipe with a wall thickness of 1”

- Safe: assessment of health and safety issues

- State of the art: use of latest technologies

- Universal: suitable for all available pipe specifications

and all conditions, also for -/-40°C.

This resulted in the following solutions:

Quality

- Use of first class and long term suppliers: Liebherr,

Sauer Danfoss

- Where possible use of local suppliers, making QC easier

- Proven quality, field-tested components like a dozer

engine package

- Use of Liebherr’s global service network

Ease of operation

- One control panel, minimum chance for change of settings

- Straightforward design, less parts, less confusion

Powerful

- More powerful but not bigger and only slightly heavier

- Bending test carried out with X80 pipe 914 x 23,4 mm

- The first project was with X70 pipe 762 x 30,8 mm

Health, Safety and Environment

- A safety lever for operators’ platform (CE-certified)

- A beacon during bending operations

- Silent: only 75dB(A) at operators platform (Directive

2000/14/EC)

Fuel saving and cost reduction

The machine is equipped with a variable hydraulic pump,

load sensing control and hyperbolic power regulation,

ensuring low fuel consumption and low emission. In

other words, the engine only delivers power when

needed, achieving the maximum in power, fuel and

economic efficiency.

For more information, or to get involved with the Novel

Construction Initiative, please contact the appropriate

work group leader listed below.

Planning and Design

Criss Shipman (GIE), [email protected]

Earthworks & Crossings

Paul Andrews(Fluor), [email protected]

Welding & NDT & Testing

Jan Van Der Ent (ApplusRTD), [email protected]

Future Trends & Innovation

Zuhair Haddad (CCC), [email protected]

Coatings

Sean Haberer (ShawCor), [email protected]

Environment

Sue Sljivic (RSK Group), [email protected]

Logistics

Bruno Pomare (Spiecapag), [email protected]

An increasing number of projects use heavy wall pipe.


Elections to the 2013-2014 IPLOCA Board of Directors Following the membership approval of a By-Law change at

the Annual General Meeting in Istanbul in September 2012,

all geographical areas with more than 5 members may now

elect two directors; the Associate Members may elect three

directors to the Board.

Elections to the IPLOCA Board of Directors take place

every year at the annual convention as seats become

vacant. Most elected board members serve for two

years. Below is a list of available board seats beginning

September 2013. Elections to the IPLOCA Board take place

every year at the annual convention.

Seats becoming vacant in September include:

1 - Europe Eastern (outgoing director Iosif Panchak)

1 - America North (outgoing director Douglas Evans,

incoming Immediate Past President)

2 - Europe Mediterranean (outgoing directors Leonardo

Gravina and Bruno Maerten)

1 - East & Far East (outgoing director Andy Lukas)

1 - Associate Members (outgoing director Pierluigi Zanin)

If you are a Regular Member or an Associate Member

and you would like to run for one of the vacant seats on

the Board of Directors, please visit www.iploca.com/

elections where you will find the necessary documents

to be completed and returned to the IPLOCA Executive

Secretary no later than Friday, 12 July 2013.

VotingEach Regular Member company is entitled to one vote.

If no-one from your company is able to attend the

convention in order to vote, votes may be made on a

proxy form (also available via a link on the website)

and must be received by the Executive Secretary in the

IPLOCA office at the Omni Shoreham Hotel no later than

Tuesday, 24 September 2013 in order to be counted.

Geographical AreasA list of member companies in each Geographical Area can

be found as follows:

East & Far East: www.iploca.com/eastandfareast

Europe Central: www.iploca.com/europecentral

Europe Eastern: www.iploca.com/europeeastern

Europe Mediterranean: www.iploca.com/europemediterranean

Europe Northwest: www.iploca.com/europenorthwest

Middle East & Africa: www.iploca.com/middleeastandafrica

America North: www.iploca.com/americanorth

Latin America: www.iploca.com/latinamerica

If you have any questions regarding the election process,

please contact [email protected].

IPLOCA Board of Directors

Per the Association’s By-Laws (Istanbul 2012), the

IPLOCA Board of Directors consists of a minimum of

12 and a maximum of 25 directors as follows:

- Three directors, with full voting rights on the Board

of Directors, elected by and representing the

Associate Members of the association

- Sixteen directors representing Regular Members

(two per geographical area), elected by the

Regular Members

- Five Officers of the Board, appointed by the full

Board, form the Executive Committee and include

The President, 1st Vice President, 2nd Vice President,

Treasurer and Immediate Past President.

(The Immediate Past President does not represent

a region; the remaining officers are counted among

the sixteen elected directors who represent the

geographical areas.)

- Up to five Directors-at-Large, appointed each year by

the Board of Directors at its first meeting, make up

the remainder of the Board. The Directors-at-Large

are nominated by the Executive Committee and

appointed following the approval of the full Board.

They are selected based on their active involvement

and engagement in the work of the Association,

including in committee work, to capitalise on their

knowledge and ensure continuity of leadership in

certain areas.


MCJV (a Joint venture between McConnell Dowell (MCD)

and Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC)) has

completed a world-class engineering achievement by

simultaneously laying two 1 m-diameter gas pipelines

(QCLNG and APLNG) underwater across Gladstone Harbour.

The operation was safely completed in five days, winching

the pipelines 2.3 km from the mainland to Curtis Island.

This is Australia’s longest large-diameter underwater “pipe

pull” conducted so far. This engineering feat is significant

on a world scale in terms of scope and complexity and its

completion characterizes MCJV as pioneers in executing

the world’s first project to convert CSG to LNG.

With a workforce of 520 individuals on site, managed by

a dedicated leadership team, every member of the project

team participated in meticulous preparation and planning

over the last 12 months to make this pipe pull a success.

The teamwork among pipelines, heavy civil and marine

divisions and the direct sponsorship offered by the two

joint venture partners’ board of directors culminated in this

achievement. The segments will connect each project’s main

pipelines from the Surat Basin gas fields, about 300 km

inland, to liquefied natural gas plants on Curtis Island.

The pipelines were co-located and installed concurrently to

minimise environmental impact and disruption to boating.

The harbour crossing has involved construction of temporary

facilities including a 2 km-long road, two bridges and a railway

line to move the pipes across two creeks, marshes and mud

flats. 450,000 m3 of dredging was completed in the crossing

between the mainland and Curtis Island to prepare the

sub-sea trench for the pipelines. The harbour crossing used a

temporary 450-tonne capacity winch on Curtis Island to pull

the pipes – which together weigh 13,000 tonnes – through the

sub-sea trench. The trench will now be filled with aggregate

and rock armour to protect the pipelines.

Pipe Pull Key Facts - 450,000 m3 dredging preparation

- Twin pipe pull, both QCLNG and APLNG pipes

- Each pipe 42 inch (1060mm) diameter X70 steel with

concrete weight coating 93mm and 100mm thick

- Each string length 3.9km (covering wet section of

Marshland and Narrows)

- Winch speed – 2 metres per minute

- Winch capacity 450 t

- Total weight of pipe 13,000 t

- Total of 630 welded pipe joints

- Longest continual pull length 2.9 km

- 200,000T of rock protection to be installed after pipe

installation.

Training Committee Creation of Training DatabaseAware of the critical need for employees trained on pipeline

equipment of all types, the IPLOCA Training Committee

has begun an initiative to collect training information

contributed by IPLOCA’s Associate Members.

As a service to our contractors - the Regular Members of

IPLOCA - we are preparing a list of the training opportunities

offered by the OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers) on

their own equipment. This list will be posted on the IPLOCA

website. We are therefore asking our IPLOCA representatives

at these OEM companies - IPLOCA’s Associate Members - to

provide to us information that we can include in an online

training database. The types of training might include: online

courses, DVDs, on-site real-time training, machine simulators,

instructor-led training and a host of other options. At a

minimum, the following information is needed: your company

name; a link to - or list of - the types of training offered by

your company; whom to contact for more information.

For more information or if you have any questions, please

contact [email protected] or [email protected]

to contribute to this important initiative.

Australia’s Longest Underwater ‘Pipe Pull’ Narrows Crossing Project


French Regional Meeting Cassis, 25 April 2013Sixty-six people from 40 companies attended the French

Regional Meeting held in Cassis, close to Marseille,

on 25 April at the Oustau Calendal Conference Center.

The following companies were represented: A Hak,

Action Plus Services, Air Liquide Welding, Axson

Coatings, Bergerat Monnoyeur, Betafence N.V., Denys,

DLE Specialites, Doris, Dunkerque Promotion, Entrepose

Contracting, Eureteq, Euro Anticorrosion, Europipe, Fluxys,

Geocean, Geostock Sagess, Groupe Rosen, GRT Gaz, HDI,

Lastechniek Europa BV, Maats Pipeline Equipment, Masap,

MCO Services, Penspen, Polytec, Renault Trucks, Serimax,

Sicim, Somico-SBD Inc., SPAC, Spiecapag, Spiecapag

Regions Sud, Streicher, Technipipe, Total, Visser & Smit,

Volvo, Vopak/Necotrans.

The meeting was hosted by Bruno Maerten of Geocean,

Jean-Claude Van de Wiele of Spiecapag, and IPLOCA Past

President Bruno de La Roussière of Entrepose. IPLOCA

Executive Secretary Juan Arzuaga was also in attendance

to meet delegates and make a presentation regarding the

association. The programme included presentations in

French on different aspects of the French pipeline industry.

We thank the following guest presenters for their

contributions to the meeting:

- Jean Noël Connangle, Georges Seimandi, GRT Gaz

Programmation GRT Gaz des Grands Projets: Retour

d’expérience des Grand Projets (48”) Accès Plat Bords /

Accès en Sable

- Jean-Michel Hartmann, Serimax: Transfer of Welding

Technologies from Offshore to Onshore Pipeline

Construction

- Pascal Baylocq, Geostock: Les Gaz de Schistes en France

BENJAMIN MEDIATrenchless Technology International

North American Pipelines

P.O. Box 190PENINSULA, OHIO 44264U.S.A.T +1 330 467 7588 F +1 330 468 2289 E [email protected] I www.trenchlessonline.com Bernard P. Krzys President & Publisher E [email protected]

OILDOM PUBLISHING COMPANY OF TEXAS, INC.Pipeline & Gas Journal

Underground Construction

P.O. Box 941669HOUSTON, TEXAS 77094-8669U.S.A.T +1 281 558 6930 #212 F +1 281 558 7029 E [email protected] I www.pgjonline.com Oliver KlingerPresident & PublisherE [email protected]

PALLADIAN PUBLICATIONSWorld Pipelines

15 South StreetFARNHAM, GU9 7QU SURREYU.K.T +44 1252 718 999 F +44 1252 718 992 E [email protected] I www.worldpipelines.com

Rod HardyDirectorE [email protected]

Chris LethbridgeAdvertisement ManagerE [email protected]

PENNWELL PETROLEUM GROUPOffshore Magazine

1455 West Loop South, Suite 400HOUSTON, TEXAS 77027U.S.A.T +1 713 963 6270 F +1 713 963 6228 I www.offshore-mag.com

Mark PetersVice-President/Group PublisherE [email protected]

IPLOCA Media Partners (September 2010 to August 2013)

NUMBER 54 MARCH 2013 21

In MemoriamRolf Kohler By Walter Zimmermann

It is my sad duty to announce the

death of Rolf Köhler, aged 86, in

March this year.

Born in 1927 in Holzminden, Germany, he married

Ursula Köhler in 1953 and had two daughters. He

earned a degree in civil engineering at the University

of Braunschweig, Germany and from 1953 to 1976

served as Site Supervisor and then Managing Director

for Preussag AG. Mr. Kohler served as Treasurer of

IPLOCA in 1966, the year of the association’s founding,

and became President of the association in 1970 at

the Monte Carlo Convention. He had more than 120

publications to his credit and served on many technical

committees including as member of the board and

president of the technical committee of the German

pipeline association (Rohrleitungsbauverband RBV)

from 1964 to 1988. Rolf Köhler last participated in an

IPLOCA Convention in Berlin in 2004.

We will always hold him in the highest regard, as a

much appreciated and honoured founding father of

worldwide cooperation in the pipeline industry.

In MemoriamLeslie “Bill” Unsworth

William Leslie “Bill” Unsworth,

of Ontario, Canada passed away

suddenly on Friday, May 3, 2013 at

his residence at the age of 56.

Bill came to work for PipeLine Machinery International

(PLM) on July 23, 2007 as a Product Support

Coordinator and was promoted to Product Support

Manager in August 2010. Years and countless

experience in the pipeline industry is what he brought

with him and greatly contributed to the success of

PLM’s vision for product support.

The unwavering commitment to excellence, leadership

abilities, and outstanding service Bill displayed will be

remembered by all who came in contact with him.

Bill will be deeply missed not only as a work colleague

but also as a friend.

Upcoming ConferencesIPLOCA Regional Meeting for Europe Eastern

4-5 June 2013 - Moscow, Russian Federation

www.iploca.com

Onshore Pipeline Engineering Course

11-14 June 2013 - London, U.K.

www.ibcenergy.com

European Digital Oilfield Summit

12-13 June 2013 - Vienna, Austria

www.wplgroup.com

Gas Infrastructure - China Summit 2013

26-27 June 2013 - Beijing, China

www.opplandcorp.com/GIC/en/index.asp

IPLOCA Workshop: Preventing Catastrophic Losses

11 July 2013 - Geneva, Switzerland

www.iploca.com

Tulsa Pipeline Expo

26-28 August 2013 - Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.

www.tulsapipelineexpo.com/home

(Complimentary passes available to IPLOCA

members from [email protected])

Offshore Europe 2013

3-6 September 2013 - Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.

www.offshore-europe.co.uk

47th Annual IPLOCA Convention

23-27 September 2013 -

Washington, DC, U.S.A.

www.iploca.com

APIA Convention

12-15 October 2013 - Brisbane, Australia

www.apia.net.au/events/2013-convention-adelaide

OTC Brazil 2013

29-31 October 2013 - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

www.otcbrasil.org/2013/


OfficersDoug Evans (Gulf Interstate Engineering), President; Director, America

North; Chairman of the New Technologies Committee

Najib Khoury (CCC), 1st Vice President; Director, Middle East

& Africa

Harald Dresp (Max Streicher), Treasurer; Director, Europe Central

Osman Birgili (Tekfen), Immediate Past President; Director, Europe

Eastern

DirectorsIosif Panchak (Stroygazmontazh), Director, Europe Eastern

Kaan Dogan (Attila Dogan), Director, Europe Eastern

Jan Koop (Bohlen & Doyen), Director, Europe Central

Bruno Maerten (GEOCEAN), Director, Europe Mediterranean,

Chairman of the HSE Committee

Leonardo Gravina (Sicim S.p.A.), Director, Europe Mediterranean

Andy Ball (Land & Marine), Director, Europe North-West

Adam Wynne Hughes (Pipeline Induction Heat), Director, Europe

North-West

Scott Summers (ARB), Director, America North

Jésus Garcia-Pons (Arendal), Director, Latin America

Raúl Vilugrón (Montec), Director, Latin America

Ibrahim Zakhem (Zakhem), Director, Middle East & Africa

Andy Lukas (A.J. Lucas), Director, East & Far East

Sandip Sharma (Kalpataru Power Transmission), Director,

East & Far East

Greg Miller (Pipeline Inspection), Director, Associate Members

Michael Rae (Argus Limited), Director, Associate Members

Pierluigi Zanin (Goriziane Group S.p.A.), Director, Associate Members

Directors at LargeJerrit Coward (Willbros Group, Inc)

Marco Jannuzzi (Caterpillar)

Wilhelm Maats (Maats Pipeline Equipment)

Karl Trauner (HABAU), Chairman of the Training Committee

Jean-Claude Van de Wiele (Spiecapag)

Executive SecretaryJuan Arzuaga

Left to right, front row: Najib Khoury, Doug Evans, Osman Birgili, Harald Dresp, Juan Arzuaga (IPLOCA Executive Secretary).

Second row: Raúl Vilugrón, Greg Miller. Third row: Iosif Panchak, Karl Trauner, Kaan Dogan, Leonardo Gravina. Fourth row: Jésus Garcia

Pons, Jan Koop, Bruno Maerten, Ibrahim Zakhem, Marco Jannuzzi, Jean-Claude Van de Wiele. Fifth row: Adam Wynne Hughes,

Andy Ball, Pierluigi Zanin, Jerrit Coward. Sixth row: Michael Rae, Sandip Sharma, Scott Summers, Wilhelm Maats. Inset: Andy Lukas

IPLOCA Board of Directors 2012-2013

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