IPLOCA Newsletter 50

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THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER

Contents:Letter from the President page 4

News from Geneva page 5

Member News page 8

Evolution of IPLOCA Membership page 10

Istanbul Convention Updatepage 20

MARCH 2012

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 6

IPLOCA Membership Evolution 10

Membership Center 12

Health & Safety Statistics 13

New Technologies 14

Regional Meetings 14

Environmental Statistics 15

Training Committee 16

Huge Tunnelling Drill 16

IPLOCA Collaborates on Research 17

In the Headlines 18

Istanbul Convention Update 20

Upcoming Conferences 21

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.

4 THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER

Letter from the President

The Europe you don’t know, the Asia you will discover…

These words describe the essence of Istanbul, my hometown and the

site of this year’s Convention. No wonder we are very much looking

forward to welcoming all of you in September.

Indeed, meticulous planning is already under way. Executive Secretary

Juan Arzuaga and Membership & Convention Manager, Caroline Green,

were in Istanbul in early February for a thorough inspection of all sites

as well as our base for the event, the legendary Istanbul Hilton, which

throughout more than half a century hosted stars and dignitaries including Brigitte Bardot, Sophia

Loren, Marlon Brando, Mohammed Ali, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Grace of Monaco.

I am pleased to announce that we have selected “Send me to school, Dad” as the recipient of the

lottery funds this year. In 2005 the Dogan Newspaper Group began this initiative in support of the

national Turkish education campaign to encourage girls to continue their education. We will be

making more information available in the next newsletter. You will find more details about the

Convention on page 20 of this Newsletter. We are doing our very best to stage a thrilling event and

encourage you to mark the week of Sunday 9th September on your calendar now and watch for the

opening of registration in May.

Our more immediate focus, however, is the submission of your Health and Safety Statistics and

Environmental Statistics Returns. The submission forms are available at www.iploca.com. Please see

a special note on page 5 regarding the submission of Health & Safety Statistics by Regular Members.

The Environmental Statistics Return was a new initiative introduced in 2011 with the aim to respond to

growing worldwide trends in environmental accountability. The deadline for both returns is 9 March 2012.

Also please do not forget to consider entering this year’s awards. The winners of the IPLOCA Health

& Safety Award, sponsored by Chevron, and the IPLOCA Environmental Award, sponsored by Shell,

will be announced in Istanbul in September. Watch for further details and deadlines in email by the

beginning of April. Award submission forms will also be posted on the website.

Our work in HSE, New Technologies and Training continues, and you will read about it on the coming

pages. We value greatly the dedication of all our participating members.

I look forward to your questions, comments and ideas regarding IPLOCA. Please feel free to contact

me at [email protected]

Sincerely,

Osman Birgili


Board Meeting Update Cape Town

The 2011-2012 IPLOCA Board of Directors met in Cape Town

at the beginning of December. Following are highlights

from that meeting.

HSE CommitteeAt its meeting in Geneva on 11-12 October 2011, Chairman

Adam Wynne Hughes noted that 96 percent of the

required Health & Safety Statistics had been received by

the Secretariat. He considered it extremely important that

we receive 100 percent of these each year, as a condition

of membership in the Association. Information from the

sister associations has also been received. Development

of a new IPLOCA Health & Safety Statistics Report is

scheduled for 2012 and will be considerably more in-

depth and detailed than previous reports, with aggregate

statistics by region, and with further information such as

statistics by category of company. It is felt that this more

detailed report will be of greater benefit to the IPLOCA

membership. A new Health & Safety Statistics form to

collect statistics specifically from the Associate Members

is under consideration.

News from GenevaIn Geneva everyone has been complaining about the cold

weather. The -15°C (5°F) temperatures experienced in

February were made to feel significantly more frigid because

of Geneva’s famous wind, La Bise.

This vigorous north/northeasterly wind whips up the

surface of Lake Geneva and the resulting spray can encase

the shore and any nearby vegetation – or anything else – in

ice. We are looking forward to summer when this dry wind

has a much better connotation – that of being the ideal wind

to dry laundry: “Avec la Bise, lave ta chemise”

(When the Bise blows, wash your shirt.)

Health & Safety StatisticsPlease note that given the paramount importance of these

statistics, the Board of Directors determined at its Beijing

Board Meeting that Regular Members whose company did

not submit the required Health & Safety Statistics would

not be allowed to attend the convention for that year. The

deadline for statistics submission is 9 March 2012.

Membership CertificatesMembership certificates for 2012 have been mailed out. If

you are the designated IPLOCA Key Representative for your

company and you have not received your certificate please

contact [email protected], Accounting Manager.

(Left to right) Board Members Jerrit Coward (Willbros), Pierluigi

Zanin (Goriziane Group), Bruno Maerten (Geocean) and Gerry

Grothe (Pipeline Machinery International) meet in Cape Town.


Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs): A workshop has been

proposed for mid-2012 to share lessons learned and bring

new ideas to try to help reduce RTAs. HSE managers and

some specialists from clients will be invited to contribute

their expertise.

New Guidelines for Awards: Clearer and more detailed

guidelines are being established for 2012, to be used in the

selection of winners for the 2012 Health & Safety Award and

the 2012 Environmental Award.

Environmental Section for Road to Success: Comments and

suggeststions were given to the new Environmental Work

Group and some members of the HSE Committee may

participate in the creation of the new section.

Feedback on Environmental Statistics Form

The wording of the form was discussed and one minor

change suggested.

The next HSE meeting is scheduled for 27-28 March at the

Geneva Secretariat.

Training CommitteeIPLOCA Pipeline Construction Safety Instructors Tool:

Translation will be considered after the English version

is launched. The licensing agreement was signed on 11

October 2011 and we have confirmed timing and costs with

the Construction Safety Council (CSC). The tool is expected

to be delivered by May 2012.

Training for Operators: The Training Committee is evaluating

the program made available by Caterpillar and will consider

translating it. The program will be made vendor neutral, to

be applicable to all equipment manufacturers.

The next Training Committee meeting will be held in

Malaga on 17-18 May 2012 and will include a General Line

Demonstration for pipeline equipment.

The committee plans to seek further information on

companies that offer training applicable to pipeline

construction, including supervisory training, such as that

being discussed with the Construction Safety Council.

New Technologies CommitteeThe Fall Sessions of the Novel Construction Initiative were

held on 19-20 October, in London. Following the publication

of the Second Edition of Onshore Pipelines: The Road to

Success, we have now launched Phase 3, with new working

groups, development of existing and new sections, and

arrangement of meetings to engage with Clients. More

volunteers are needed and very welcome.

Juan Arzuaga held meetings with BP and Chevron in

London on 15 December to enhance their collaboration and

support of IPLOCA’s initiatives.

The spring sessions of Novel Construction are planned for

21-22 March at the Sofitel Heathrow London.

Research Collaboration: IPLOCA is collaborating with

the Australian Pipeline Industry Association (APIA), the

European Pipeline Research Group (EPRG) and the Pipeline

Research Council International (PRCI) on research projects

for 2012. IPLOCA recently attended the EPRG Technical

Sessions in Bergamo, Italy where it was confirmed that

EPRG could not get funds for some of the research projects

proposed by PRCI. Projects of specific interest to IPLOCA

are Onshore Pipeline Route Selection and Associated Data

Gathering and Determination of Pipeline Lowering-In

Stresses and Mitigative Strategies for Construction. These

two projects are being led by PRCI and co-funded by INGAA

and IPLOCA.

The minutes of the Beijing Board Meetings were reviewed

and approved.

Treasurer’s ReportThe annual forecast for 2011 showed total revenues of

CHF 2,367,361 and total costs from operations of CHF

2,063,294. Sponsorship funds received were more than those

in the budget, but more was spent on committee work than

anticipated, particularly New Technologies, with the on-going

development of Onshore Pipelines: The Road to Success.

Budget 2012: The Budget for 2012 was reviewed and

approved.

MembershipApplications for membership were approved by the Board

as follows:

Associate Members - Air Liquide Welding, France

- ChTZ-Ultratrac Ltd., Russia

- JES Pipelines, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles

Regular Members - Comstock Canada Ltd, Canada

- Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading LLC, Sultanate of Oman

Resignations - Computerised Information Technology Ltd (CIT Ltd.), U.K

- Global Industries, Inc., U.S.A. (now part of Technip, a

Regular Member)

- Koop Holding Europe b.v., The Netherlands


- McDermott International Inc., U.S.A.

- SOMICO, France (part of CRC-Evans)

Draft Recommendation Letters: Draft Associate and

Regular Member recommendation letter templates were

reviewed and approved. Minor changes in wording were

made to both the Associate Member and Regular Member

Application Forms.

Suggestions for Academic Members: IPLOCA currently has

four Academic Members but none of them are actively

engaged with any IPLOCA initiatives. The Board discussed

ways in which we might better engage these universities.

ConventionFeedback from Beijing: Convention questionnaire results

were reviewed and discussed.

Arrangements for Istanbul: Arrangements for the Istanbul

Convention are proceeding smoothly. The hotel contract

with the Hilton Istanbul has been signed and a ground

agent, Visitur, has been selected. Juan Arzuaga and Caroline

Green will make a site visit at the beginning of February.

Speakers for Istanbul: Board Members will identify and

propose speakers, along with a summary of the suggested

topic, by the February board meeting in London, where

final decisions will be made on the slate of speakers.

Regional MeetingsThe following Regional Meetings are planned for 2012:

- Latin America - June 2012, Bogota, Colombia

- Italy - 15 May 2012, Milan

- Europe North West - 15 March, Enschede, the Netherlands

- America North - USA and Canada - It was proposed

we consider IPLOCA’s attendance at PLCA and PLCAC

Conventions as alternatives to Regional Meetings.

Analysis of traffic to our website was suggested via Google

Analytics and is under way.

Some members of the Board of Directors took advantage of being in South Africa to spend the following weekend on safari.


Member NewsESAB acquired by Colfax CorporationEffective Friday, January 13, 2012, Charter International plc,

owner of ESAB, has been acquired by Colfax Corporation.

Colfax Corporation, based in Fulton MD, is a diversified

industrial manufacturing company listed on the New

York Stock Exchange. Charter International plc resided

in Ireland and was the parent of two leading businesses:

ESAB, a global leader in the welding products industry,

and Howden, a premier manufacturer of heavy-duty air

and gas handling equipment. ESAB employs over 8,500

people worldwide, and is one of the leading manufacturers

in the global welding industry. ESAB has sales and support

locations in 80 countries, and 26 manufacturing facilities

across 4 continents. Colfax Corporation is a diversified

global manufacturing and engineering company that

provides gas- and fluid-handling and fabrication technology

products and services to commercial and governmental

customers around the world under the Howden, Colfax

Fluid Handling and ESAB brands.

mutares acquires EUPEC mutares AG, Munich, has taken over the EUPEC group of

companies from the Indonesian Korindo group on January

26, 2012. EUPEC is Europe’s leading provider of coatings

for oil, gas and water pipelines. In 2011 the company

generated a turnover of more than EUR 200 million and

currently employs 120 people at four locations in France

and Germany. EUPEC supplies coatings for various on- and

offshore applications. Customers all over the world are

served from the company’s headquarters in Graveline

in northern France and from its German subsidiary in

Muelheim. During the last three years, EUPEC has been

providing all the concrete weight coating for the pipelines

of the Nordstream project.

PLM opens the doors at new World Headquarters PipeLine Machinery International (PLM-Cat) Executive

Vice President and General Manager Tony Fernandez

welcomed local pipeline industry representatives, media

and community to the grand opening of the company’s new

head office facility in Cypress, Texas (northwest Houston

area) on 9 February, 2012. The 8800 ft² service facility

includes a state-of-the-art equipment wash bay designed

to conserve, clarify and reuse water. Paved and gravelled

storage areas can accommodate approximately 150 large

units. The 16,000 ft² office facility includes 4,000 ft² of open

space for future development plus some room on the

The New PLM head office facility in Cypress, Texas

property for building expansion. Office space is available

for 50 with 30 people currently working out of this office.

Meeting and training facilities onsite will accommodate 50

people. PLM-Cat was established in 2005 and is the first

Caterpillar dealership to focus on a particular industry on

a global basis. The company provides purpose-built and

traditional construction equipment to the mainline pipeline

construction industry on projects around the world. PLM-

Cat’s worldwide activities are currently supported through

the corporate offices in: Cypress, Texas, USA; Edmonton,

Alberta, Canada; The Hague, Netherlands; Beijing, China;

Melbourne, Australia; and Singapore.

Spiecapag wins RAF Mildenhall workPipeline specialist Spiecapag UK has been awarded a

GBP 6.5m Ministry of Defence contract to replace the fuel

distribution system at RAF Mildenhall in the UK. Work

involves replacing an existing hydrant main serving the Air

Mobility Command (AMC) Ramp, which is past its usable

life. Spiecapag UK will remove the existing aluminium

main and replace it with a stainless steel main along with

new hydrants, and associate leak detection and cathodic

protection. The pump house will be upgraded and all

pumps and filters replaced. A new product recovery tank

and truck loading area will also be constructed.

STREICHER Appoints Another Managing Director With effect from 1st January 2012 MAX STREICHER GmbH

& Co. KG aA extended its management: In addition

to Dipl.-Ing. Armin Kiendl, Dipl.-Kfm. Hubert Ruderer

and Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Maximilian Hofmann, lawyer Rainer

Leneis has now been appointed as the fourth managing

director of the MAX STREICHER GmbH & Co. KG aA.

He has served as head of the legal department since the

beginning of 2004.


Technip Completes Acquisition of Global IndustriesTechnip has announced that it has completed the

acquisition of Global Industries, Ltd. The shareholders

of Global Industries approved the merger at a special

shareholders meeting held on November 30, 2011

and will receive USD 8.00 per share in cash. Global

Industries has become an indirect, wholly-owned

subsidiary of Technip.The completion of the merger will

allow the integration of Global Industries into Technip to

begin, thus benefiting Technip’s and Global Industries’

employees and clients, who have been very supportive

of the transaction. The initial integration planning carried

out since the announcement has confirmed the rationale

for bringing Technip’s subsea activities and those of

Global Industries together.

Technip Awarded Major Flexible Pipe Frame Agreement by PetrobrasTechnip has been awarded a 5-year frame agreement

contract from Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) for

the supply of around 1,400 kilometers of flexible pipes.

Supply starts in 2013 and orders are guaranteed for at

least 50 percent of the total value, which is currently

estimated to be worth around USD 2.1 billion. The

scope of the contract includes the manufacture of

over 150 types and diameters of risers, flowlines and

associated equipment and accessories. Deliveries under

this frame agreement will be spread over the contract

period and order intake recognition will progress as

specific work orders are confirmed. Flexible pipes

for the contract will be produced both at Technip’s

existing manufacturing site in Vitoria, and also at the

new manufacturing facility under construction in Açu,

Brazil. Accordingly, this award confirms the strong

rationale of the investment announced last year in a

second flexible pipe plant in Brazil capable of delivering

a range of technologically advanced, high-end flexible

pipe products to meet the strong demand growth and

evolving technology requirements we expect in the

Brazilian market.

Tenaris, CRC-Evans in services pactTenaris and CRC-Evans are collaborating further in

their offerings of tubular pipe and welding services. The

joint product between the Argentine manufacturer and

global pipeline specialist will be an “integral package of

technologies for the most complex offshore operations,

reducing time, costs and risk for customers,” the

companies said. “We trust that together we will be able

to provide the best combination of line pipe and welding

services available in the market,” Mariano Armengol,

Tenaris Pipeline Services Director, said in a statement.

Research and development on the technologies will build

off an initial cooperative agreement signed about a year

ago and take place at a Mexico facility, a joint statement

said. “Two market-leading companies are coming

together to drive the future of material and welding

development,” CRC-Evans Offshore Managing Director

Ben Mackay said in a statement.

German Chancellor Visits Herrenknecht Plant in China

Group picture in front of the Herrenknecht EPB Shield for

the Metro in Dongguan. 2nd from left: Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin

Herrenknecht, Chairman of the Board of Management of

Herrenknecht AG, 3rd from left: Dr. Angela Merkel, German

Federal Chancellor, 4th from left: Wen Jiabao, Premier of the

People’s Republic of China

The German Federal Chancellor and Chinese Premier

visited the Herrenknecht plant (HTE) in Guangzhou

on Friday, 3 February, 2012. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Martin

Herrenknecht, Chairman of the Board of Management

of Herrenknecht AG, presented the company to Federal

Chancellor Merkel and Premier Wen, and talked

about important reference projects. In addition, he

introduced a tunnel boring machine, an Earth Pressure

Balance Shield with a diameter of 6.95 meters, which

is being used in the construction of the Metro Line 2 in

Dongguan.


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Minutes of the October 1974 Board of Directors meeting in Venice

Since the association’s formation in 1966, its

membership has evolved considerably, both in number

and in international reach.

The evolution by geographical area is represented

graphically on the facing page and based on data from the

IPLOCA archives. Detailed data prior to the early nineties

is less available, but minutes of the October 1974 Board

of Directors meeting in Venice referred to a total of 75

Regular Members and 150 Associate Members; minutes

from the October 1977 Annual General Meeting in Istanbul

referenced a total of 83 Regular Members, of whom 55

were present at the meeting.

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Membership CentreWe welcome the following new Regular and Associate

Members to IPLOCA. The information below is also posted

at www.iploca.com under the Membership Centre.

New Regular Members

Comstock Canada Ltd. 3455 Landmark Road

Burlington, ON L7M 1T4

Canada

T +1 905 335 3333

F +1 905 335 3169

E [email protected]

I www.comstockcanada.com

Comstock has more than 100 years of presence in the

Canadian Construction Industry, having worked in every

part of Canada and on a wide variety of projects. The

company generally employs 2,000 to 3,000 staff and

tradesmen out of the 9 offices they maintain in Alberta,

Manitoba and Ontario, all of which execute industrial

construction work. Today the company’s focus is on

mechanical, electrical, millwrighting and structural work in

the energy, automotive, water/waste water, industrial and

pipeline facility sectors, with the resources to self-perform

large projects in all these areas.

Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading LLCPost Box 1633, Jibroo

Muscat, 114

Oman

T +968 243 92900

F +968 244 89446

E [email protected]

I www.gpsoman.com

Gulf Petrochemical Services & Trading LLC (GPS) has been

actively involved in various contracting activities within

Oman’s oil, gas, water, wastewater and power sectors since

1983. GPS, a pioneer in pipeline construction in Oman,

owns one of the biggest fleets of plant and equipment

among the oil and gas sector contractors in Oman and

directly employs more than 6,000 multi-disciplinary

personnel. GPS has operations in UAE, Kuwait and India

with its headquarters in the Sultanate of Oman. The

company’s Contract Division undertakes: Engineering,

procurement and construction (EPC) contracts for pipelines

and facilities, Pipeline maintenance, Specialized services

such as hydro testing, blasting & painting, DCVG & CIPS

surveys, Cathodic protection monitoring and maintenance

activities. GPS was one of the first companies in the

Sultanate of Oman to have earned ISO 9000 Quality System

Certification of Compliance for its entire scope of activities.

The company’s health, safety, environmental & waste

management standards are among the most effective in

the Omani contracting community with a number of major

milestone achievements to its credit.

New Associate Members

Air Liquide Welding13 Rue d’Epluches

Saint-Ouen l’Aumône

35315 Cergy Pontoise Cedex

France

T +33 134 21 33 33

F +33 134 21 31 30

I www.airliquidewelding.com

The Air Liquide group, with its headquarters in Paris,

France, is one of Europe’s larger multinational companies.

Founded in 1902 it is present in 80 countries with a

consolidated turnover of EUR 13.5 billion in 2010 and 43.600

employees all over the world. Air Liquide Welding, ALW, an

operating company of the Air Liquide group, is dedicated to

designing, manufacturing and sales of products, processes,

systems, solutions and related services for the welding

and cutting of materials. ALW serves the pipelaying

industry through a wide range of automated installations,

welding consumables and equipment specifically designed

for high productivity applications. It has been supplying

OERLIKON welding products to the pipeline industry for

over 30 years and has a wide range of solutions for manual

welding, consumables and power sources for orbital

welding as well as high deposition rate SAW welding

consumables and equipment for double jointing.

ChTZ-Uraltrac Ltd.Kuznetsky most street, 21/5, office 2033

Moscow, 107996

Russian Federation

T +7 495 626 0884


F +7 495 626 0884

E [email protected] / [email protected]

I www.chtz-uraltrac.com

ChTZ-Ultratrac Company is a leading manufacturer

of construction machinery - part of the state-owned

corporation, which includes over 20 industrial enterprises,

research institutes and design bureaus, manufacturing

products for construction and railway industries.The

product line of ChTZ-URALTRAC includes the industrial

machinery for oil and gas, pipeline, mining, infrastructure

and road-building sectors. Uraltrac pipelaying equipment

has proved itself reliable and highly effective in many local

and global projects. A great number of end-users in the

on-shore pipeline construction industry confirm the high

production capacity and reliability of ChTZ-Uraltrac pipe-

layers and dozers. Since the first machine was produced in

1933 more than 1.2 million units of construction machinery

have been manufactured and used in all parts of the

world. The company demonstrates the highest level of

cooperation with many well-known partners both in Russia

and internationally, making it a leader and a successful

competitor with world brands internationally.

JES Pipelines Ltd. ARA Hill Top, Unit A1

Pletterijweg Oost 1

Willemstad, Curacao

Netherlands Antilles

T +34 649 058 236

F +5999 461 8285

E [email protected]

I www.jespipelines.com

JES Pipelines Ltd. provides AUT inspection to the pipeline

construction industry on- and offshore in a combination

of Phased Array, TOFD and Multi-Probe. JES Pipelines Ltd.

was incorporated on 17 October 2008 and has its head

office in Curacao, the Netherlands Antilles and a workshop

in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from where Phased Array

AUT equipment is mobilised to its projects worldwide.

The Company was founded by Henk van Dijk and Ed van

Huuksloot who have worked in the pipeline inspection

industry since the early 1970s.

Health & Safety StatisticsRequiredAs a condition of membership, Regular Members are

required to submit their annual health & safety statistics to

IPLOCA, such that aggregate statistics for the industry can

be monitored. We welcome this information also from our

Associate Members who have field construction activities.

A form designed specifically for Associate Members is also

currently under consideration.

The returns should cover pipeline construction sites or

offshore operations and all infrastructure related projects.

Please note that main construction and EPC contractors

and EPCM Contractors should report all incidents, including

those related to their subcontractors. In case of integrated

JVs, the Technical Leader should report the totality of the

JV incidents. The accidents, incidents and near misses

taken into account are those that happen within the jobsite

perimeter, or when travelling from camp to jobsite or

during any other transportation. Travel accidents, incidents

and near misses from home or from any other private

location to the worksite must be included. If you already

have ISO, OHSAS or any other accreditations, please

advise us when you submit your return. Your return is a

confidential document and is not shown or passed to any

third party, other than the HSE Committee working within

the IPLOCA Office.

Health & Safety Statistics Return If you have not already done so, please be sure to

complete and submit your 2011 Health & Safety Statistics

Return no later than 9th March 2012, to the attention of

Juan Arzuaga, Executive Secretary. The form itself, and

guidelines to help you complete the form, are available

at www.iploca.com. Submission of the Health & Safety

Statistics Return is a prerequisite to a Regular Member

company being accepted to attend the Convention.


New TechnologiesThe next Novel Construction Plenary Session is fast

approaching. For your convenience this meeting will be

held at London Heathrow Airport, at the Sofitel Hotel.

Novel Construction Plenary SessionWednesday 21 March - Thursday 22 March, 2012

SOFITEL London Heathrow

Terminal 5, London Heathrow Airport, TW6 2GD, U.K.

We encourage all interested Regular Members and Associate

Members to join us in London, and to contribute to one of the

working groups, as we tackle Phase III of the Initiative. We are

looking to create or complete the following chapters within

our publication Onshore Pipelines: The Road to Success:

6. Earthworks (to be further developed)

7. Crossings (to be further developed)

8. Logistics (to be further developed)

9. Welding (new)

11. Pipeline Protection Systems (to be updated)

12. Pipelines and the Environment (new)

13. New Trends & Innovation (to be further developed)

Groups & Group LeadersPlanning and Design

Criss Shipman (G.I.E.), [email protected]

Earthworks & Crossings

Paul Andrews (Fluor), [email protected]

Welding & NDT & Testing

Gustavo Guaytima (Techint), [email protected]

Future Trends & Innovation

Zuhair Haddad (C.C.C.), [email protected]

External Corrosion Protection Systems (ECPS)

Sean Haberer (ShawCor), [email protected]

Environment

Sue Sljivic (RSK Group), [email protected]

Logistics

Bruno Pomare (Spiecapag), [email protected]

Coordination

Juan Arzuaga (IPLOCA), [email protected]

IPLOCA Regular and Associate Members who have further

questions are asked to contact [email protected]

or one of the group leaders directly.

Regional Meetings Europe North-West Meeting 15 March 2012 – Enschede, the Netherlands

Associate Member Maats Pipeline Equipment will host

IPLOCA’s second Regional Meeting for Europe North-

West on 15 March, 2012. The meeting is designed for our

companies in Benelux, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the

Scandinavian countries, Iceland and Finland.

The meeting will be held in Enschede in the beautiful

Twente region in the east of the Netherlands. This area

is close to the German border and famous for its forests

and agriculture. Enno Freese, Director of Projects at N.V.

Nederlandse Gasunie will give a presentation “Is the Dutch

gas roundabout ready? No new work – all projects finished?”

Other presenters include H. Watzka from Open Grid Europe,

Germany; F. Bernaerts, Procurement Manager, Fluxys,

Other Upcoming Regional MeetingsItaly -15 May 2012, Milan

Latin America - June 2012, Bogota, Colombia

wiki.iploca.com

The new Novel Construction

Initiative wiki is now up and

running, to assist members

in working collaboratively

to generate the updates to

Onshore Pipelines: The Road to Success.

If you feel you can contribute to one of the new sections

and would like to receive a password and instructions,

please contact the appropriate group leaders listed

above or email [email protected].


Belgium; Prof. R. Denys, Director of Laboratorium Soete,

University of Ghent; and E. Freese, Director of Projects for

N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie. IPLOCA Director for Europe

North-West Adam Wynne Hughes, IPLOCA Director-at-Large

Wilhelm Maats, and Executive Secretary Juan Arzuaga will

be among the association’s representatives attending the

event. Regular and Associate Members are encouraged

to bring guests or potential members to the meeting to

demonstrate the benefits it can have for doing business in

the pipeline and offshore industry.

A block of rooms has been reserved for the nights of 14

and 15 March at the Wilmersberg Hotel in De Lutte at a

discounted rate of EUR 100 per room, per night, including

breakfast. An added incentive to attend will be a late

afternoon visit to the Grolsch brewery in Enschede. With

its history going back as far as the year 1615, the beer is

currently produced in a state-of-the-art brewery that was

put in operation in 2004.

To register for the event call +31 547 260 000 or email the

organising committee at [email protected]. Information is

also available at the IPLOCA website. Advance registration

is required and space is limited.

Environmental StatisticsStrongly EncouragedIPLOCA has recently established an Environmental

Statistics Return Form. Last year the return response rate

was 53 percent and this year we wish to improve upon this,

so please ensure we receive your fully completed form as

soon as possible but no later than 9th March 2012.

The goal of this form is to respond to growing worldwide

trends in environmental accountability. IPLOCA’s hope is

that this form will serve members who are already active

in the environmental assessment domain, and serve as an

example to those who have yet to undertake any such action.

We strongly encourage all Regular Members to provide

this information so that the entire membership can benefit

from the aggregated information and we welcome this

information also from our Associate Members who have

field construction activities.

The returns should cover pipeline construction sites or

offshore operations and all infrastructure related projects.

Please note that main construction and EPC contractors

and EPCM contractors should report all incidents, including

those related to their subcontractors. In case of integrated

JVs, the technical leader should report the totality of the JV

incidents. Again, your return is a confidential document and

is not shown or passed to any third party, other than the HSE

Committee working within the IPLOCA office. Submissions

will be used to determine IPLOCA’s environmental aggregate

statistics related to onshore and offshore construction.


Training CommitteeRuud Kronenburg, Dean of

Caterpillar University, has

been appointed to IPLOCA’s

Training Committee.

After joining Caterpillar

in 1984 Mr Kronenburg

held marketing and

product management positions in countries around the

world including Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Turkey,

USA, Belgium and the Netherlands. Prior to his tenure at

Caterpillar he was Export Sales Manager for Nedcon bv., in

Doetinchem, The Netherlands, and previous to that role he

served as a captain in the Royal Netherlands Marine Corps.

He has a law degree from the University of Utrecht, The

Netherlands, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in

Business Administration at the University of Grenoble,

France. He joins Erhan Hersek of Tekfen Construction and

Ralf Prior of PPS Pipeline Systems on the committee, under

the leadership of members of the Board of Directors: Karl

Trauner (Committee Chairman) (HABAU), Harald Dresp

(Max Streicher), Gerald T. Grothe (Pipeline Machinery

International), Marco Jannuzzi (Caterpillar), Najib Khoury

(CCC), Andy Lukas (AJ Lucas), Willem Maats (Maats

Pipeline Equipment), Iosif Panchak (Stroygazmontazh) and

Executive Secretary Juan Arzuaga.

Huge Tunnelling Drill Put into Position to Dig Lee Tunnel in LondonMVB, made up of three of the world’s leading civil

engineering contractors - Morgan Sindall, VINCI Construction

Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche - is working with

Thames Water to build the Lee Tunnel in London.

A giant tunnelling machine has been lowered into a gigantic

shaft, deeper than anything else in London, to dig the

four-mile GBP 635m tunnel. The Lee Tunnel will prevent 16

million tonnes of sewage entering the River Lee each year

– a result of the UK capital’s Victorian sewers not being big

enough to cope with heavy rainfall. The machine, named

‘Busy Lizzie’, is 8 metres in diameter (wider than three

double decker buses side-by-side) and 120 metres long.

Constructing the Lee Tunnel will be a huge engineering

challenge, involving tunnelling through high groundwater

pressures and passing through four miles of the most

abrasive ground from the starting point at Beckton to the

destination at Abbey Mills.

According to Martin Baggs, Thames Water’s chief executive,

“This is a major milestone on our way to creating a

cleaner, healthier River Thames and River Lee, by dealing

with the unacceptable problem of sewer discharges into

the river during heavy rainfall. The Lee Tunnel is the first

of two tunnels, which will collectively capture an average

of 39 million tonnes a year of sewage from London’s 35

most polluting combined sewer overflows. The tunnel will

tackle discharges from the largest overflow at Abbey Mills

in Stratford, which accounts for 40 per cent of the total

discharge. That’s why we’re dealing with this, the worst

one, first.”

19th century and present-day sewer flushers. Photos courtesy Thames Water.


The machine will blend more than 100 tonnes of excavated

chalk with water for every one metre of tunnel, forming a

white slurry, similar in consistency to single cream, before

transporting it through a pipe the length of the tunnel,

so it can be processed above ground. Work started in

September 2010 to build the 80-metre-deep entry shaft at

Beckton sewage works, where tunnelling work will start.

Tunnelling is likely to progress at a rate of 17 metres a day,

and is expected to finish in late 2013. In addition to the Lee

Tunnel and proposed Thames Tunnel, Thames Water is also

upgrading London’s five major sewage works so they can

treat more waste, preventing them becoming overloaded

in rainfall, and improving the quality to which sewage is

treated, to further improve river water quality.

IPLOCA Collaborates on Research

IPLOCA has joined forces with the Pipeline Research

Council International (PRCI), the European Pipeline

Research Group (EPRG) and the Australian Pipeline

Industry Association (APIA) regarding its participation in

research which can be of benefit to our membership. The

relationship among these organisations and the Interstate

Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) is represented

in the graphic on the next page.

PRCI’s methods used to identify research needs and

priorities included questionnaires, workshops and

interviews with key pipeline construction specialists.

The project also drew from the requirements identified

by the IPLOCA-led Novel Construction initiative through

the development of its Road to Success document. Two

research projects have been identified that will begin this

year to address immediate needs and have a time frame

of one to three years, depending on progress and renewal

of funding.

Lowering in stresses and mitigation strategiesFunding: PRCI/INGAA, IPLOCA

This project will develop improved industry guidelines

for calculating lowering-in stresses during pipeline

construction. Currently, two dimensional analysis and

methodologies are frequently used to conduct a static

analysis on level ground with the pipe shape as defined

by an S-curve with all side booms equally spaced, taking

Busy Lizzie has been custom-designed to suit London’s ground conditions.


up their portion of the load. At this point in time, there

has been only a very limited amount of three-dimensional

analyses conducted to simulate the actual pipe lowering

operations with varying distances between side booms.

Also, there is no data attained from measured tests and a

comprehensive industry guidance document for this phase

of construction does not currently exist.

Route Selection and DataFunding: PRCI/INGAA, IPLOCA

The second project will focus on the route selection

process. Proper route selection is critical to the successful

management of both cost and schedule of onshore

pipeline construction projects. This project will begin

with a gap study to identify the impact on the success of

construction projects of specific data shortages during the

route selection process and will also include an analysis

of the data requirements. Next, the guidance information

and assessments will be consolidated into a guidance

document for route selection in varying terrains, soil

conditions, and route conditions. This document will

reflect current best practices.

IN THE HEADLINESKenya, South Sudan Sign Oil Pipeline Deal Kenya and South Sudan have signed an agreement for the

construction of an oil pipeline connecting the two countries.

The agreement, signed in Juba and witnessed by Prime

Minister Raila Odinga and the President of South Sudan

Mr Salva Kiir, will allow the development of an oil pipeline

and fibre optic connections between the oil fields in South

Sudan and the Kenyan port town of Lamu. The pipeline will

be developed through Kenyan territory and will be built and

owned by South Sudan.The two countries will negotiate

and agree on transit fees for the oil pipeline.

www.nation.co.ke, 25 January, 2012

Poland Opens New Gas Pipeline, Sees Higher Imports From GermanyA new natural gas pipeline in southwestern Poland will

allow the country to import gas from Germany more

cheaply than from Russia, Poland’s Treasury Minister

Mikolaj Budzanowski has told reporters.The new pipeline,

which expands the local pipeline system, will allow

Poland to import 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas a year

from Germany through a pumping station at the border

point of Lasow. The gas will cost more than 20% less via

the new link than gas from the Yamal-Europe pipeline

from Russia, Budzanowski said. Poland’s PGNiG SA (PGN.

WA) and Russia’s OAO Gazprom (GAZP.RS) jointly own

the Yamal-Europe pipeline.

Dowjones.com, 20 January 2012

Gazprom Plans to Start Building South Stream Pipeline This YearOAO Gazprom, the world’s biggest gas producer, may start

building the South Stream gas pipeline to the European

Union in December 2012. Management will present the

plan to the board for approval in February, the Moscow-

based company said today in an e-mailed statement. Prime

Minister Vladimir Putin ordered Gazprom, Russia’s gas

export monopoly, to move up the start of construction from

2013, according to a transcript of a meeting between the

premier and Chief Executive Officer Alexey Miller published

Dec. 30 on the government website.

www.bloomberg.com, 20 January 2012

UAE to Test Pipeline Bypassing the GulfA pipeline designed to carry the UAE’s oil to an offshore

terminal in Fujairah will begin testing in May. If the tests

are successful, the pipeline will begin operation the

following month. The pipeline is being constructed to

bypass the Strait of Hormuz, thereby cutting the shipping

time by two days and reducing the impact of a possible

IPLOCA Provides Research

TopicsOr Tripartite

Propose Projects

Tripartite to review topics &

propose research plan

IPLOCA may co-fund

research

Results will be available to

IPLOCA membership

M.O.U.

(Pipeline Research Council International)

(European Pipeline Research Group)

(Australian Pipeline Industry Association)

(Interstate Natural Gas Association of America)

Tripartite

Research

Collaboration


blockade by Iran. The pipeline will carry oil from Habshan,

Abu Dhabi’s onshore oil collection point, to an offshore oil

terminal in Fujairah, some 370 km away. When completed,

it will carry 1.4 million bpd, but could increase capacity

in the future to 1.8 million bpd or over 70 percent of Abu

Dhabi’s output. Abu Dhabi contains 90 percent of the UAE’s

crude oil reserves. The $3.29 billion construction project

is being run by the International Petroleum Investment

Company (IPIC), the overseas oil investment arm of the

government of Abu Dhabi.

www.albawaba.com, 15 January 2012

Oman Plans USD 210m Gas Pipe for New TownOman plans to build a 230km long pipeline to carry gas to

the new industrial city of Duqm on the coast of the Gulf

Arab state, a project official said on Monday.

“We are floating a tender for the bids of building the gas

pipeline to Duqm,” Yahya Al Zadjali, head of planning of

the Duqm Special Economic Zone, told delegates at a

conference in the Omani capital Muscat. “We hope the

project to be completed in 2017 to fuel industrial projects in

the new industrial area.” Al Zadjali did not say how much

the pipeline would cost but an official at the Oman Tender

Board told Reuters the pipeline would cost about $200 to

220 million to build. The gas will be supplied by state-run

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) from one of its

largest gas fields in central Oman.

www.tradearabia.com, 30 January 2012

Norway Arctic Gas Pipe Must be Privately Funded - govtA $4.2 billion pipeline into Norway’s Arctic to bring

natural gas to European markets must be funded by

the private sector and the government does not intend

to take a financial role, the oil minister has said. The

commercial viability of the proposed 1,000 km pipeline,

which could cost about 25 billion crowns ($4.2 billion)

according to pipeline operator Gassco, also needs more

thought before any decision can be made, Minister of

Petroleum and Energy Ola Borten Moe told reporters.

“This region will be the next oil and gas province in

Norway... hopefully there is a lot more to be discovered

there,” Borten Moe said. These future discoveries are

a key plank in Norway’s plan to keep the combined oil

and gas output broadly steady “for decades to come”,

Borten Moe added. Before the pipeline plan can go

ahead, questions regarding commercial viability have to

be answered and investors must also examine whether

a pipeline is a better option than liquefied natural gas

(LNG), Borten Moe said.

Reuters.com, 19 January 2012

Greece’s Depa Studies Mediterranean Gas Pipeline, Minister SaysGreek natural-gas supplier Depa has conducted a preliminary

study into building an underwater pipeline between Cyprus

and Greece, Environment and Energy Minister George

Papaconstantinou said. The pipeline, which would carry

natural gas from the eastern Mediterranean, would run from

Cyprus to the southern Greek Peloponnese region via the

island of Crete and is “entirely feasible” from a technical

aspect, Papaconstantinou told a Cypriot newspaper. The

project’s economic viability must be investigated, and Depa

is also looking at building a liquefied natural-gas terminal

as a possible alternative, Papaconstantinou said. As well as

being destined for export markets, Greece has a growing

demand for natural gas, he said.

www.bloomberg.com, 16 January 2012

Turkish Minister: TANAP Gas Pipeline will Reduce Russian Gas ImportsThe Azerbaijani-Turkish gas pipelines Trans Anadolu

(TANAP) will help reduce the volume of gas currently

being purchased from Russia, Turkish Energy and Natural

Resources Minister Taner Yildiz said in an interview with

the Cumhuriyyet newspaper yesterday. “The TANAP

construction project will increase the use of Azerbaijani

gas and reduce dependence on Russian gas,” Mr Yildiz

said. He said Turkey has done everything necessary to

implement the Nabucco project, although the EU has not

made any decisions in this direction. Mr Yildiz also said the

pipeline will contribute to work being carried out on the

Nabucco project by facilitating it. Azerbaijan and Turkey

signed a memorandum of understanding to establish the

consortium that will build a gas pipeline to supply gas from

the Shah Deniz field to Europe over Turkey.

www.turkishweekly.net, 16 January 2012

Caught on a camera phone: A tough choice for attendees at the

last Novel Construction Meeting at the Sofitel Heathrow Airport…


Istanbul Convention UpdatePreparations are under way for the Istanbul Convention,

10-14 September 2012, at the Hilton Istanbul. We expect

the event to sell out quickly when registration opens at the

beginning of May, so be sure to save these important dates.

Registration packets will be mailed out in April, but in the

meantime, the photos below will give you a taste of what you

might expect at this, our 46th Annual IPLOCA Convention.

Upcoming ConferencesCGA Excavation Safety Conference & Expo

6-8 March 2012 - Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.

www.cgaconference.com

Deepwater Production Tech

7-8 March 2012 - London, U.K.

www.wplgroup.com/aci/conferences/eu-ess2.asp

IPLOCA Europe North West Regional Meeting

15 March 2012 - Enschede, The Netherlands

www.iploca.com

Novel Construction Plenary Session

21-22 March, 2012 - SOFITEL London Heathrow, U.K.

www.iploca.com

7th Pipeline Technology Conference

28-30 March 2012 - Hannover, Germany

www.pipeline-conference.com

Russian Arctic Oil and Gas

17-19 April 2012 - Moscow, Russian Federation

www.adamsmithconferences.com

Pipeline Transport – 2012

20 April 2012 - Moscow, Russian Federation

Global Corrosion Management in Oil and Gas 2012

Praxis Interactive Technology Workshop

23-25 April 2012 - Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.

www.praxis-global.com

Hannover Messe

23-27 April 2012 - Hannover, Germany

www.hannovermesse.de

Pipeline Integrity Management

7-9 May 2012 - Doha, Qatar

Emerging Asia Small and Mid-Scale LNG Forum

14-16 May 2012 - Singapore

www.smallandmidscalelngasia.com

IPLOCA Regional Meeting for Italy

15 May 2012 - Milan, Italy

www.iploca.com

Accelerate Oil & Gas 2012

15-16 May, 2012 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

www.accelerateoilandgas.com

Offshore Upstream Development in Russia & CIS 2012

May 17-18 2012 - Moscow, Russian Federation

www.rpi-conferences.com

Deepwater China 2012,

24-25 May 2012 - Guangzhou, China

www.cdmc.org.cn/dc2012

PLCAC 58th Annual Convention

3-7 June 2012 - Whistler, Canada

www.pipeline.ca/convention.html

25th World Gas Conference

4-8 June 2012 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

www.wgc2012.com

No-Dig Moscow

05-08 June 2012 - Moscow, Russian Federation

www.nodig-moscow.ru

CityPipe 2012

5-8 June 2012 - Moscow, Russian Federation

www.citypipe.ru

Caspian Oil & Gas

6-7 June 2012 - Baku, Azerbaijan

www.caspianoilgas.az/2012/

ASCE Pipelines 2012 Conference

19-22 August 2012 - Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.

content.asce.org/conferences/pipelines2012/speakers.html

19th India Oil & Gas Review Summit (IORS 2012)

6-7 September 2012 - Mumbai, India

www.oilasia.com/IORS/about_IORS.html

46th IPLOCA Annual Convention

10-14 September 2012 - Istanbul, Turkey

www.iploca.com

Gastech 2012

8-11 October 2012 - London U.K.

www.gastech.co.uk



Training Committee to Meet in MalagaIPLOCA’s Training Committee will meet at Caterpillar’s

Malaga Demonstration and Learning Center (MDLC) on

17-18 May 2012. The IPLOCA Board of Directors will also be

invited to attend this meeting.

One of the initiatives to be discussed during the meeting is

the development of training specific to sideboom operators

and suitable for training on a wide range of manufacturers’

equipment. Such training already exists but needs to be

customised to IPLOCA’s needs.

An idea under consideration is to make the training available

in a computer-based or internet format. A company called

EKpass has been invited to make a presentation at the

meeting. EKpass is a US and Canadian-based professional

heavy equipment and safety training organization, dedicated

to enhancing performance, productivity, safety in the

workplace, employee morale, and profitability.

Its e-learning programs are developed by in-house subject

matter experts experienced in developing and delivering

training programs worldwide. These experts are supported

by a development team: instructional designers, graphic

designers, multimedia programmers, 3D animators,

professional narrators, and sound engineers. The content

comes in part from the extensive EKpass library of

proprietary electronic, audio visual and print material

and IPLOCA will discuss with them the possibilities for

customising training to our needs.

The Demonstration & Learning Center opened in 1971

and is located just 15 km inland from Malaga, the

capital of the “Costa del Sol”. The mild climate allows

for virtual year-round operation. The area covers over 90

hectares, and offers various sites where product training,

machine operation and demonstration activities can be

conducted in realistic application. The site offers different

soils including clay, shale, and sandstone, and over 5

kilometers of haul roads with various grades making

it ideal for demonstration of equipment in simulated

working conditions.

IPLOCA Media Partners (September 2010 to August 2013)

BENJAMIN MEDIATrenchless Technology International

North American Pipelines

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

Bernard P. KrzysPresident & PublisherE [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 #212F +1 281 558 7029E [email protected] www.pgjonline.com

Oliver KlingerPresident & PublisherE [email protected]

PALLADIAN PUBLICATIONSWorld Pipelines

15 South StreetFARNHAMGU9 7QU SURREYU.K.T +44 1252 718 999F +44 1252 718 992E [email protected] www.worldpipelines.com

Rod HardyDirectorE [email protected] LethbridgeAdvertisement ManagerE [email protected]

PENNWELL PETROLEUM GROUPOffshore Magazine

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

Rich LeddenMarketing ManagerE [email protected] PetersVice-President/Group PublisherE [email protected]


OfficersOsman Birgili (Tekfen), President; Director, Europe Eastern

Doug Evans (Gulf Interstate Engineering), 1st Vice President;

Director, America North; Chairman, New Technologies

Committee

Najib Khoury (CCC), 2nd Vice President; Director, Middle East

& Africa

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

Central

Karl Trauner (HABAU), Immediate Past President; Chairman,

Training Committee

DirectorsIosif Panchak (Stroygazmontazh), Director, Europe Eastern

Bruno Maerten (GEOCEAN), Director, Europe Mediterranean

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

Mediterranean

Adam Wynne Hughes (Pipeline Induction Heat), Director,

Europe North-West; Chairman, HSE Committee

Daniel Fernandez (Techint), Director, Latin America

Nasser Issa (The C.A.T. Group), Director, Middle East &

Africa

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

Rajen Kilachand (Dodsal), Director, East & Far East

Gerry Grothe (Pipeline Machinery Intl.), Director, Associate

Members

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

Members

Directors at LargeRoberto Castelli (Bonatti)

Marco Jannuzzi (Caterpillar)

John Tikkanen (Bredero Shaw)

Jerrit Coward (Willbros)

Wilhelm Maats (Maats Pipeline Equipment)

Executive SecretaryJuan Arzuaga

Left to right, front row: Harald Dresp (Treasurer), Doug Evans (1st Vice President), Osman Birgili (President), Najib Khoury (2nd Vice President),

Karl Trauner (Immediate Past President), Juan Arzuaga (Executive Secretary). 2nd row: Marco Jannuzzi, Leonardo Gravina, Adam Wynne

Hughes, Andy Lukas, Iosif Panchak, Nasser Issa, Gerry Grothe. Back row: Roberto Castelli, Daniel Fernandez, Pierluigi Zanin, Wilhelm Maats,

Jerrit Coward, John Tikkanen, Bruno Maerten Inset: Rajen Kilachand

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