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THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER 41

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Letter from the President page 4

News from Geneva page 5

New IPLOCA Board page 6

Carbon Footprints page 16

CONTENTS:

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

DECEMBER 2009

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NUMBER 41 DECEMBER 2009 3

CONTENTSLetter from the President 4

News from Geneva 5

New IPLOCA Board of Directors takes office 6

Board Meeting Update 8

Member News 9

Convention Retrospective 10

IPLOCA’s Newest Honorary Member: Mike Thiele 14

IPLOCA Health & Safety Award 16

Carbon Footprints 16

IPLOCA New Technologies Award 18

Novel Construction Meeting 18

In the Headlines 20

Upcoming Conferences 21

The following is the new IPLOCA Mission for 2009 and beyond: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.

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Contractors Association

(effective 15 January 2009)

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1216 Cointrin / Geneva

Switzerland

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4 THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER

Letter from the President

As I begin my year as IPLOCA’s president I am very pleased to be

working with the members of our new Board of Directors. I’m

sure many of the faces will be familiar to you, but in case they

are not, you will find more information about them on page 6 of

this newsletter.

We are all looking forward to a busy year. In particular, we plan

to continue to expand our Regional Meetings, both to promote

participation of our regional clients and to attract potential new

members.

Another area of emphasis for this year is New Technologies, where we plan to cooperate

on some specific research projects with other groups and to continue to seek feedback and

further develop our publication “Onshore Pipelines: The Road to Success.”

In Training, our committee is developing a questionnaire and working with our sister

associations under the umbrella of the World Federation. We will be fostering the active

participation of our Academic Members in this area.

I will continue to serve as committee Chairman for the HSE initiatives. These include further

expansion of our website and revision and updating of our Environmental Guidelines.

We also commit to continue to offer a world-class convention, working with our

membership and our generous sponsors to ensure that it meets your needs and

expectations.

Finally, I would like to offer my hearty congratulations to Mike Thiele, elected by unanimous

Board vote as IPLOCA’s newest Honorary Member. Mike was presented to the Membership

at the San Francisco Convention.

By the time this newsletter is in your hands we will just have completed our December

Board Meeting and the IPLOCA Secretariat staff will be preparing to move the offices within

Geneva. We will not go far; in fact the new location is even closer to the Geneva Airport. You

will find more information on the next page.

It just remains for me to wish you an excellent 2010. I look forward to working with each

and every one of you. Please do not hesitate to contact me at Adam.WynneHughes@

landandmarine.com should you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Adam Wynne Hughes


NEWS FROM GENEVA New Headquarters for IPLOCAIt’s official: IPLOCA is moving

During the summer we were informed that the current

lease on the IPLOCA office space would not be renewed,

since the principal tenants required the space for their

own use. We subsequently began a search for new

offices located in a convenient spot close to Geneva

International Airport.

During October, after extensive negotiations, Executive

Secretary Juan Arzuaga signed a five-year lease for space

in a brand new (currently still being finalised) building that

is even closer to the airport than our current facilities. We

plan to move the offices early in the New Year. If all goes

according to plan, and assuming our doors and dividing

walls are in place on schedule, we should be up and

running for business by 15 January.

Not only is the new Geneva Airpark an easy walk from

the airport and next to the new tram line, it is also almost

directly opposite the Holiday Inn Express and just steps

from the Moevenpick Hotel – a real advantage for those

needing accommodation when flying in to attend meetings

at IPLOCA (or anyone particularly fond of that famous

Swiss ice cream brand).

The new building is definitely a landmark. Its huge external

yellow metal supports are visible from quite a distance.

The front part of the building is office space, and the

rear – under the same roof – is an aircraft hangar, should

you be fortunate enough to arrive at IPLOCA by private

jet. The airport control tower is clearly visible from the

new building. Internal work is continuing. Ultimately the

space will include a meeting room for up to 14 people.

One of the more interesting challenges in preparing for the

move was finding out the correct new address and postal

code for the building (and in time to get them listed in the

new IPLOCA Yearbook). Opinions seemed to vary on this

point. Was the building in Cointrin or Meyrin? What was the

correct post code? After various exchanges with the Swiss

Post Office there finally seemed to be agreement.

IPLOCA’s New Address effective 15 January 2010

International Pipeline & Offshore Contractors

Association (IPLOCA)

Chemin des Papillons 4

1216 Cointrin / Geneva

Switzerland

Phone: +41 22 306 02 30

Fax: +41 22 306 02 39

Phone and Fax numbers remain the same

The new building is definitely a landmark. Its huge external

rear – under the same roof – is an aircraft hangar, should

new building. Internal work is continuing. Ultimately the


Front row: Bruno de La Roussière (Immediate Past President); Karl Trauner (1st Vice President); Adam Wynne Hughes (President);

Osman Birgili (2nd Vice President); Juan Arzuaga (Executive Secretary); Middle row: Harald Dresp, Marco Jannuzzi, Najib Khoury,

H. Douglas Evans, Robert Deason, Sandip Sharma; Back row: Jacquelin de La Porte, Ebbo Laenge, Michael Rae, Vladilen Ermolin,

Roberto Castelli, Andy Lukas; Not in photo: Phil Bond, Nasser Issa, Zeno Soave

The officers for the coming year were appointed as follows:

President - Adam Wynne Hughes

First Vice President - Karl Trauner

Second Vice President - Osman Birgili

Treasurer - Phil Bond

Immediate Past President - Bruno de La Roussière

Directors-at-Large - Phil Bond (to serve as Treasurer),

Roberto Castelli, Harald Dresp, Doug Evans, Nasser Issa

Each director-at-large is appointed for a period of one year,

and must be re-appointed each year, to a maximum of

twice two years.

New Board MembersOsman Birgili, Senior Vice President, Tekfen, began working

as a Site Engineer at Molin Construction Company and

joined Tekfen six months later in August 1978 as a Project

Engineer. He worked for

different departments and

at different levels within

Tekfen. Between 1993

and 1998 he worked as

Director with executive

authority at HMB (Hallesche

Mitteldeutsche Bau A.G.), a subsidiary of Tekfen Group

in Germany. In 1998 he was appointed Vice President in

charge of Business Development at the head office in

Istanbul, Turkey. In May 2005 he was nominated as Senior

Vice President in charge of Sales. Presently he is also the

Deputy Chairman on the Board of Directors of Tekfen

Engineering and Board Member of two Tekfen Group

Companies, HMB (Germany) and Geotek (Georgia). He is

fluent in English and can also communicate in German.

He is married and has two sons. Osman graduated

from Robert College and METU (Middle East Technical

University), Civil Engineering Faculty (B.Sc. 1978).

2009-2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS TAKE OFFICE Following Elections in San Francisco


Harald Dresp, Senior

Vice President for

international business

within the STREICHER

Group, Germany began his

career in the international

power plant construction

business for Deutsche Babcock, Germany. He has

almost 20 years’ experience in the oil and gas business

beginning with his first employment with Mannesmann

Anlagenbau, Germany in 1990. He was responsible for

the pipeline business of Mannesmann worldwide and

worked for and together with most of the international

engineering and oil & gas companies. In 2000 he joined

the Netherlands-based company NACAP where he was

first responsible for the Middle East region and later also

Managing Director of NACAP GmbH in Germany. From

2007 until the present time he has been responsible

for international business development at the MAX

STREICHER Group, Germany. Harald previously served

on the IPLOCA Board of Directors in 2005 and 2006.

His interests include sports – playing golf with his wife

Gudrun or friends and colleagues – and taking every

opportunity to spend time with his family, including three

children.

Vladilen Ermolin was born

in January 1965 in the

USSR and graduated from

the Moscow University of

Transport Engineers in 1987

as an electrical engineer. In

1995 he also graduated in

Economics from the Russian Academy of Foreign Trade.

He is experienced in underwater main pipeline

construction, strategic development and planning and

general management. Since 1989 he has worked in the

oil and gas pipeline construction industry in Russia and

abroad (Iraq, Yemen) and since 2002 has headed and

managed PTPS JSC, one of the leading Russian companies

in underwater pipeline construction. Vladilen is married

and has an 11 year old daughter. His interests include

tennis, golf and skiing.

Jacquelin de La Porte Jacquelin de

La Porte, Executive Vice President,

Spiecapag is in charge of Business

Development. After seven years in

the Thermal Power Plants business,

he discovered (at last) that his life

had to involve pipelines. After 10

years’ experience in the offshore

pipeline industry, serving mainly

as Project Director (originally for Coflexip since acquired

by Technip), he joined Spiecapag in 2007. Asked about

the evolution of his career, he answered: “I started as

Engineering Manager, designing things that were almost

impossible to sell, and progressed to my current position

of Business Development Director where I sell things

that are almost impossible to design.” He is married to

Caroline and has one daughter, Clementine. He plays

guitar but, he says, only for his own entertainment. His

favourite holiday location is Corsica.

Ebbo Laenge, a German

citizen, is a mechanical

engineer who began his

professional career as a

water engineer on several

aid projects in Africa. He

later became involved

with Preussag in Germany as a field engineer on pipeline

projects. In 1987 he was sent to the daughter company

CONDUTO in Brazil, where he continued working as an

engineer. In1990 he began working for the company as

project manager on pipelines and facility projects in all

parts of Brazil. In 1992 he was named Project Manager

for a large project in Ecuador and in 1995 he became

General Manager of Conduto Ecuador before moving

on to the same position in Bolivia from 1999 to 2001. In

2001 he returned to Ecuador and then in 2006 to Brazil

as CEO of the Conduto Group, which operates today

serving the energy industries from oil to gas and power

generation and transmission in five South American

countries. He has three children and is currently living in

Rio de Janeiro. His hobbies include diving, paragliding

and biking.

Michael Rae has lived in Germany,

France and the former Soviet

Union at various points in his life.

He received his bachelor’s degree

from the George Washington

University Columbian College in

the United States in 1970. Shortly

thereafter he began working with

companies supplying industrial

products to the former Soviet Union. In 1981, he

became president and founder of Argus Ltd, a company

specializing in the supply of equipment and materials

for the construction and rehabilitation of oil and gas

pipelines in that part of the world, as well as in Algeria,

Greece, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and other countries where

Russian pipeline construction companies are at work. In

addition to IPLOCA, Argus is a member of the Russian Oil

and Gas Contractors Association, the American Welding


Society and has been IPO registered since 2006. Argus

is a factory authorized distributor for a number of IPLOCA

Associate Members. The company maintains offices in

Moscow and six other cities in the Russian Federation, as

well as in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, the

United States and Great Britain. Michael Rae is a director of

several companies and charitable foundations.

Sandip Sharma, Director

of Kalpataru Power

Transmission Limited,

has worked in energy for

the last 27 years, with 19

of those years dedicated

to the oil & gas sector

including experience in project management and project

execution. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical

Engineering and an MBA in Oil & Gas. Representing

the East/Far East region on the Board, he would like

to promote exchange of experience and ideas to

enhance quality and to encourage pooling of resources

for effective training. One of his major interests is

photography – from wildlife to pipeline projects.

Zeno Soave was born in

Venice in July 1943. After

receiving a degree in

Civil Engineering, from

the University of Bologna

in 1969, he started work

for his family’s company

Zenone Soave & Figli, founded in 1859. He established

Socotherm in 1973 as a subsidiary of Zenone Soave &

Figli and expanded the coating application activity from

the civil industry to the oil & gas industry and held the

position of Chairman and CEO. During the 1980s he

began an international development programme with the

aim of becoming a worldwide global player in the pipe

coating industry, establishing joint ventures with local

partners on the five continents. Due to its Research &

Development activities, the Group has grown to become

a leader, “deep water” anticorrosion and insulation for

sub-sea oil exploration. In December 2002 Zeno Soave

listed Socotherm on the Italian Stock Exchange and

in 2006 listed the Argentinian subsidiary Socotherm

Americas on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange. As

Chairman and CEO of both Socotherm S.p.a (Italy) and

Socotherm Americas S.A. (Argentina) he represents the

fourth generation of the Soave family in the business.

Serving on the IPLOCA Board Zeno hopes to bring his

support and significant experience in the oil & gas

industry to all members of the association with particular

reference to contracting.

BOARD MEETINGS San FranciscoThe 2008-2009 Board of Directors held its final meeting in

San Francisco and then met briefly with the new board

following the elections. The 2009-2010 board then held its

first meeting.

ElectionsWith the 2009-2010 elections completed, the Board of

Directors determined that the election procedure would

be reviewed by the Secretariat in the coming year such

that the procedure would be clearer and would better

engage the participation of all members. It was pointed

out that securing potential Directors can be difficult since

some of the largest companies, while they are active and

enthusiastic supporters of the association, are unable to

spare their executives to serve on the board of IPLOCA.

Adam Wynne Hughes reminded the board that the

rotation of Presidents by region is important and must be

communicated via our website.

Status of MembershipNew Members: Stroynovatsya (Member) and Vacuworks

(Associate Member) were approved by email vote since the

previous board meeting.

Resignations: Trench-Tech International, Inc. USA;

Ukrnaftogazbud, Ukraine; Yuzhtruboprovodstroy JSC,

Russia; Zangas JSC, Russia

Venice Convention The hotel contract has been signed and proposals are

pending from ground agents.

Yearbook ContractThe Yearbook Contract through 2015 has been awarded to

Pedemex following receipt of several proposals.

Geneva HeadquartersExecutive Secretary Juan Arzuaga informed the board that

he was in the process of securing new offices for IPLOCA,

following the loss of the association’s current lease. (More

information is on page 5 of this newsletter).

Committee RepresentationPresident Adam Wynne Hughes noted that the committees

are now made up of experts provided from member

Members 106

Associate Members 115

Academic Members 4

Honorary Members 3 (see page 20)


companies in addition to board members. Member

companies able to provide their expertise to the

committees are asked to contact Juan Arzuaga.

Regional MeetingsAdam Wynne Hughes is encouraging more Regional

Meetings this year. Member companies willing to host

a meeting in their region should get in touch with the

Secretariat as soon as possible.

MEMBER NEWS Fluor Reaches 10 Million Safe Work Hours at Luminant’s Oak Grove Project Fluor Corporation has announced that Luminant’s Oak

Grove Power Plant project in Franklin, Texas, for which the

firm is the engineering, procurement and construction

contractor, recently achieved a significant safety milestone

of 10 million safe work hours. “The health and safety of

our employees is one of Fluor’s core values. We strive to

deliver quality and schedule proficiency while accentuating

focus on health, safety and environmental excellence in all

phases of project execution,” said Dave Dunning, Fluor’s

Power Group president. “For the Oak Grove project, this

exceptional safety performance began with initial project

construction in July 2006 and has fostered a new standard

of HSE expectations.”

Nacap awarded EUR 235 million contract from Saudi AramcoNacap-Suedrohrbau, the Saudi-Arabian subsidiary of the

Dutch Pipeline Contractor Nacap has signed a EUR 235

million contract with Saudi Aramco for the engineering,

procurement and construction of a multi-product pipeline

from Ras Tanura Refinery on the east coast of Saudi

Arabia via Dhahran to Riyadh in the central region of the

Kingdom. The scope consists of 506 km 30” pipeline, three

pump stations, metering systems, substation buildings

and maintenance. The pipelines are planned to transport

diesel and kerosene from the refineries in Ras Tanura to

Riyadh and also to Dhahran and Al-Hasa along the way.

The project must be completed by December 2011. Victor

Aquina, CEO of NACAP commented: “The cooperation with

Saudi Aramco in this project phase has been excellent.

We have been able to create mutual understanding and

reach agreement about all aspects of the project. Our

organisations are well aligned to make this a success.

Converting our initial unit pricing to a Lump Sum Turn Key

project is an innovative approach and we are proud to be

the preferred partner to Saudi Aramco for this project. This

is an important step of Nacap’s continuing expansion in

the Middle East and emphasises our capabilities as an EPC

contractor.”

Tony Fernandez Takes on Global Responsibilities at PLMPipeLine Machinery International (PLM) President Mel

Ternan has announced that Anthony J. (Tony) Fernandez

has taken on the new position of Senior Vice President

with PLM. Tony will expand his current Americas role and

will take on all global sales and operations responsibility

for the company. “Tony has done an excellent job working

closely with our customers and has led our Americas team

through the challenges presented by the extraordinary

level of growth since our formation in 2005,” said Ternan.

“With Tony taking responsibility for daily operational

and sales issues, we will have more opportunity at the

president level to concentrate on strategic and PLM

expansion plans.” Tony Fernandez has been with PLM since

its inception in May 2005. He was previously with Ring

Power Corporation for 17 years in the roles of international

accounts manager and later, pipeline division manager.

Tony participated in the early discussions that resulted

in a four-dealer partnership to form PLM and provide

global focus from Caterpillar to the pipeline industry. He

will continue his valued contributions as a member of the

executive advisory team.

Technip Awarded Subsea Contract for the Appaloosa Development in the Gulf of MexicoTechnip has been awarded a lump sum contract by ENI US

Operating for the Appaloosa development project in the

Gulf of Mexico. This project consists of the tie-back of the

Appaloosa well located in Mississippi Canyon, 145 nautical

miles (268 kilometers) offshore Mobile, Alabama at a water

depth of approximately 2,825 feet (860 meters), to the

Corral platform. The contract covers:

- Project Management and surveys,

- Engineering, fabrication and installation of a 21-mile long

- (34-kilometer) production flowline, a riser and subsea

equipment,

- Installation of free issued umbilical and flying leads,

- Pre-commissioning and dewatering of the flowline.

Technip’s operating center in Houston, Texas will execute

this contract. The flowline and riser will be welded at the

Group’s spoolbase located in Mobile. Offshore installation

is scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2009

using the Deep Blue, Technip’s deepwater pipelay vessel.

Extensive saturation diving work will be executed using the

Skandi Achiever, one of the Group’s diving support vessels,

and umbilical installation using the Deep Pioneer, one of

Technip’s deepwater construction vessel. Technip’s scope of

work is expected to be completed by 15th April 2010.


What a week it was! Judging by the faces in the

photographs on the folowing pages – and the feedback

received from our questionnaire – the San Francisco event

was a huge success.

Six hundred people converged on the Fairmont Hotel during

the week and spent time with friends and colleagues from

all over the world, taking advantage of many opportunities

to tour, network and do business.

Post-Convention QuestionnaireThis year we sent the questionnaire to more than 300

people and received 80 responses. We greatly appreciate

the time these attendees spent in providing their feedback.

Some key findings follow.

Reasons to attend the convention: 74% of respondents

ranked networking as high on their list of reasons to attend

the convention. 66% ranked seeing friends as high, 45%

ranked the meetings as high, and 50% ranked marketing

as high.

Choice of Location: 67% ranked the choice of San Francisco

as good or excellent, 25% as outstanding.

Hotel services : 76% ranked hotel services as good or

excellent, 7.5% as outstanding.

Tours: 65% ranked tours as good or excellent, 25% as

outstanding.

Programme: 79% ranked the programme as good or

excellent, 12% as outstanding.

Speakers: 81% ranked the speakers as good or excellent,

11% as outstanding.

Novel Construction: We also solicited initial feedback

from those who attended the Novel Construction session

on the new publication: “Onshore Pipelines - The Road to

Success”. Please see pages 18-19 for more information.

Every year we find the individual comments received

particularly revealing. Obviously we look for patterns. Was

there significant concern expressed over some specific aspect?

Something that we need to make sure does – or does not –

happen again? Which topics were raised consistently?

In fact, as so often happens, many of the individual

comments directly contradicted each other:

“For me, this was the best IPLOCA convention yet.

Very impressed”

versus

“Poorly organised”.

SAN FRANCISCO RETROSPECTIVE Sincere Thanks to our Sponsors, Speakers, and Special Supporters

Speakers

Leslie Link, Manager, IPA Refining,

Petrochemicals, Pipelines & Terminals

In Search of Excellence in Pipeline Projects

Richard B. Spears, Managing Director,

Spears & Associates, Inc.

The Bust of ’09 and the Boom of ‘11

Donald (Don) Wishart, Executive

Vice-President, Operations & Engineering,

TransCanada

Perspectives on North America Pipeline

Projects in Coming Years

Rebecca Roberts, President, Chevron

Pipe Line Company

The Importance of Visible Leadership

Daslav Brkic, Vice President Business &

Technology Dev. BU Onshore, Saipem

Lucio Linassi, Russia Area Manager &

Sakhalin2 Project Director, Saipem

Lands of Sakhalin

Dr. Bernard Amadei, Engineers without

Borders-International

The Role of Engineers in Poverty

Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities

Michael D. King, Discipline Lead for

BP America Inc. in the E & P Projects and

Engineering Group’s Pipeline and

Civil Team

IPLOCA New Technologies Award,

sponsored by BP


“Magnificent location. Good choice of hotel”

versus

“IPLOCA could have picked a better, more convenient place

in the suburbs than the Fairmont.”

“The tours were all very informative and very nicely

conducted”

versus

“The tour guides were as usual very formal and

quite boring.”

Conclusion: It is not always easy to please everyone all

the time.

Finally, to the gentleman who complained that he “wished [his]

wife could have stayed longer”, we can only offer our sympathy.

That was definitely not something within our control!

Sincere Thanks to our San Francisco

SPEAKERS

Our San Francisco attendees were very appreciative of

the speaker presentations during the Thursday and Friday

Open General Meetings and made that quite clear in their

responses to the questionnaire.

We asked this year’s attendees which topics were likely to

be of greatest interest to them for next year. Topic choices

for the future came back as follows:

- 1st choice: Projects

- 2nd choice: Market Trends

- 3rd choice: Technologies

We encourage your recommendations of speakers and

topics for next year. Please contact the Secretariat or email

[email protected] with your recommendations.

THE IPLOCA NEWSLETTER

NUMBER 41 DECEMBER 2009

Worldwide Machinery

TENNIS TOURNAMENT by Alan Greenberg

On the Wednesday of convention week, the Worldwide

Machinery tennis tournament took place at the beautiful

Meadowood Country Club in the heart of the Napa Valley.

In the midst of six tennis courts set off by lawns and

gardens, the participants were served a full breakfast

buffet set out on the lawn.

Following breakfast, it was time to play tennis. After five

rounds of doubles, the top four in each of the two brackets

played off for the championship. The winners in the Blue

Division were Marta Santander and Frans Groos, narrowly

edging out Debbie Greenberg and Dmitry Ermolin. In the

Red Division the pair of Mark Roerink and Peter Borgards

edged out Daniel Santander and Vladelin Ermolin. They

were each presented with a bottle of wine engraved with

the details of the event. Then the group got back on the bus

for a short ride to the famous Auberge du Soleil, one of

the top country inns and restaurants in the Napa Valley. On

their outside deck with a panoramic view of the vineyards,

everyone enjoyed a gourmet four course lunch.

Everyone had a great time and expressed their intention to

play together again next year in Venice.

Our illustrious host winners (Team 10) (Left to right): Vimal

Kaushik, Phil Bond, Adam Wynne Hughes and Patrick Michels

Pipeline Induction Heat

GOLF TOURNAMENT by Phil Bond

The PIH Golf Tournament was held this year at the

famous Harding Park Golf Course, site of the 2009

President’s Cup, which followed shortly after the

IPLOCA Convention.

Needless to say, the course was in superb condition and

the location was highly appreciated by the participants.

This year, PIH introduced a new competition – “Beat the

Pro”. Ten players did indeed beat the professional supplied

by the course, and each received a small prize at the end of

the event. The added competition was judged a great

success and is likely to be repeated next year in Venice.

Apparently the infamous Rod Hardy behaved perfectly this

year, to everyone’s great surprise. What has happened

previously involving Rod? The stories abound, but last year

he succeeded in breaking a brand new club and rumour

has it that in the 2007 tournament he managed to put such

a huge hole in the course while teeing off that an excavator

had to be brought in to repair the damage…

Careful, Rod!

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Thanks to our San Francisco 2009

SPONSORS We are extremely grateful to our valued sponsors for their

support of the San Francisco Convention.


Special Functions:

The First Time Attendees Cocktails

Pipeline & Gas Journal and Ozzie’s

Pipeline Padder, Inc. (co-sponsorship)

The Welcome Party

Dodsal Group

President’s Dinner

Entrepose Contracting and IPLOCA

(co-sponsorship)

Directors & Wives Dinner

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers

Former Presidents’ Cocktails

Zakhem International Construction Ltd

The CRC-Evans Luncheon

CRC-Evans Pipeline International and

co-sponsored by Applus RTD Group

The Caterpillar Evening

Caterpillar

Fireworks

Laurini Officine Meccaniche

The Spy Ladies Brunch

Pipeline Inspection

Members & Associate Members

Cocktails

Volvo Construction Equipment

Members & Associate

Members Lunch

Bechtel and Herrenknecht AG

(co-sponsorship)

The John Fabick Cocktail Party

Pipeline Machinery International

Music for “Dancing ‘til Dawn”

Trencor/Astec Underground and

American Augers

Open Bar for “Dancing ‘til Dawn”

Jindal Saw Ltd.

PIH Golf Tournament

Pipeline Induction Heat

WWM Tennis Tournament

Worldwide Machinery

Tour Programme:

1. Journey through Wine Country

ARB Inc. and Gulf Interstate Engineering

(co-sponsorship)

2. Alcatraz

The Lincoln Electric Company

3. San Francisco by

Motorized Cable Car

Spiecapag


Welspun Global Trade LLC and

RMS Welding Systems (co-sponsorship)

5. Alcatraz

ShawCor Ltd

6. Museums of San Francisco

Serimax

7. Muir Woods & Sausalito

CPP China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau and

Taishan Construction Machinery Co. Ltd

(co-sponsorship)

8. Alcatraz

Borusan Mannesmann

9. San Francisco by Motorized

Cable Car (for latecomers)

Salzgitter Mannesmann International GmbH

Convention / IPLOCA Functions:

Registration Desk

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers

Welcome Drinks at Registration

J. Ray McDermott, Inc.

Internet Centre

Consolidated Contractors Company (C.C.C.)

Coffee breaks at Open General

Meetings

C.A.T. International Ltd.

Audio Visual at Open General

Meetings

Land and Marine Project Engineering Ltd

Registration Bags for the Gentlemen

ShawCor Ltd.

Registration Bags for the Ladies

Spiecapag

Wine at Final Banquet

Willbros Group, Inc.

Flowers at Final Banquet

Fluor

Band at Final Banquet

Koop Holding Europe b.v.

Entertainment at Final Banquet

HABAU Hoch- und Tiefbaugesellschaft

and PPS Pipeline Systems

(co-sponsorship)

Audiovisual at Final Banquet

Vacuworx International and

IPLOCA (co-sponsorship)

Car for Lottery

Ledcor Pipeline Limited

Photographers at the Convention

PTPS and Tefken Construction and

Installation Co., Inc. (co-sponsorship)

Convention Photo CD

ROSEN Group

Printing of Pocket Programme

Goriziane S.p.A.

Printing of Final Banquet Menu

Goriziane S.p.A.

Printing of Attendance List

Pipeline & Gas Journal

Russian Simultaneous Translation

Argus Limited

Coaches to the Airport

Max Streicher GmbH & Co

Convention Fund Contributions

Fluor

Gifts:

Denso GmbH

Petro-Force

Welspun Global Trade LLC

Insight Guide to California

Maats Pipeline Equipment

Liebherr model

Liebherr

Champagne at Final Banquet

Socotherm

The Lincoln Electric Company


Welspun Global Trade LLC and Entertainment at Final Banquet


Michael L. Thiele

Date of Birth: July 1940

Education: BSME Purdue University

Registered Professional Engineer Texas

Married 40 years with one son born in 1974

IPLOCA Board Member 1989–1991

IPLOCA President 1990-1991

Participant in 33 of 37 conventions

Elaine &

Mike Thiele

President Bruno de la

Roussière (left) offers

his congratulations.

This

photo from the 1991 Cannes Convention, shows

then President Mike Thiele (left) with Bob Todd, the 2nd President

of IPLOCA. They represented the oldest and the newest Presidents

present in Cannes.

IPLOCA’s Newest Honorary Member:

MIKE THIELE

IPLOCA Former President (1991), Mike

Thiele was introduced in San Francisco as

the association’s newest Honorary Member,

following a unanimous vote by the Board of

Directors. The most recent previous recipient of

the special honour was John Phillips in 2005.

Mike worked with Bechtel Group, Inc

for 41 years before retiring in 2005.

He progressed through this huge

company from international direct hire

construction, engineering, project

& business development, project

management to corporate general

operations management. He was

elected Senior Vice President of the

company in 1990, Director in 1997

and Executive Vice President in

2000.

Residing outside of the USA for 20

years, he was directly responsible

for the execution of major international

fixed price engineering, procurement and construction

projects in Libya, Abu Dhabi, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia,

Egypt, Algeria, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Australia,

Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Portugal, Russia and the

United States.

He served as President of Bechtel’s Pipeline Business Line

for 18 years, Executive Sponsor of Bechtel’s Civil and

Mining & Metals Business Lines and Bechtel’s Construction

Equipment Company. For ten years he served as Chairman

of Bechtel’s Project Risk Assessment Committee which

reviewed deal structure, execution plans, joint ventures, win

plans and risk mitigation plans for major high risk business

development opportunities across all eight Bechtel Business

Lines in all regions.

Participant in 33 of 37 conventions

Elaine &

Mike Thiele

the association’s newest Honorary Member,

following a unanimous vote by the Board of

Directors. The most recent previous recipient of

the special honour was John Phillips in 2005.

Mike worked with Bechtel Group, Inc

for 41 years before retiring in 2005.

He progressed through this huge

company from international direct hire

construction, engineering, project

& business development, project

management to corporate general

operations management. He was

elected Senior Vice President of the

company in 1990, Director in 1997

and Executive Vice President in

for the execution of major international

fixed price engineering, procurement and construction

This

photo from the 1991 Cannes Convention, shows

Michael L. Thiele

Date of Birth: July 1940


“I played golf with Mike for 40 years, and I could never

understand how he got off a plane after spending two

or three weeks overseas on various projects and shot

in the 70’s.”

Paul Evans

Chairman & CEO, CRC-Evans Pipeline International, Inc.

“IPLOCA is a great organization today because of the

unselfish roles that people like Mike Thiele have played

during some difficult times and I am proud to see that

he has been recognized for his efforts with an Honorary

Membership.”

Scott Summers

President, ARB, Inc.

“Mike Thiele is absolutely deserving of this honor and his

selection enhances the prestige of Honorary Member of

IPLOCA. His career could well serve as a fine example for

our younger members.”

Larry Bump

former IPLOCA President

“One of the highest honors that IPLOCA is able to bestow

on one of our members is that of Honorary Member.

The individual must have performed distinguished service

to the pipeline or offshore oil and gas industry.”

Greg Miller

Managing Director & CEO of Pipeline Inspection Co., Ltd.

THANKS TO YOU…Generosity of IPLOCA Convention Attendees Raises USD 24,000 for Caritas Internationalis

The Ledcor-sponsored Final Banquet lottery in San

Francisco raised a whopping USD 24,000 for Caritas

and netted a new car for lucky winner Fred Hutchings

(right) of Shawcor. Bernadine and Tom Lassu (Ledcor)

presented the certificate.

Post-convention, Caritas

Internationalis Climate

Change Officers Floriana

Polito (2nd from left)and

Christine Campeau were guests at lunch during

IPLOCA’s Novel Construction Meeting held in Geneva in

October. IPLOCA Past President Bruno de La Roussière

(right) and current President Adam Wynne Hughes (left)

presented the Caritas representatives with a cheque.

Floriana and Christine are to attend the UN Climate

Change Conference and gratefully accepted the Caritas

banner to take with them to help with their Caritas

advocacy work in Copenhagen.

More Accolades for Mike Thiele

“a formidable competitor but always an honorable

one”

“absolutely deserving of this honour”

“provided IPLOCA with very strong leadership during

the critical time when the Offshore Division was being

integrated into our Association”

“always quick to sing the praises of the Association to

all prospective regular or associate members”

“well known and highly respected by the international

pipeline community”

“never afraid to make a tough decision and always

willing to shoulder the criticism as long as it was in the

best interest of IPLOCA”


IPLOCA HEALTH & SAFETY AWARD

The IPLOCA Health and Safety Award sponsored by

Chevron was presented during the San Francisco

Convention in recognition of a significant achievement

in promoting Health & Safety.

Adam Wynne Hughes spoke about the IPLOCA

membership’s Health & Safety Satistics, submitted each

year to the Secretariat as a condition of membership,

following which the Awards were presented by Becky

Roberts of Chevron Pipe Line.

The winner was Ledcor Pipeline Limited, represented by

Tom Lassu, Kevin Cater and Bill Partington, in recognition

for their work on the Roll Over Protection Structure.

Runners Up - J. Ray McDermott, represented by Bob Deason, for

their Accident / Incident Investigation Program.

- Nippon Steel Engineering Co., Ltd, represented by

Motohiro Washimi, Osamu Kitazawa, Satoshi Nishimura

and Ram Ahgir, for their Alert-Response

2 Step initiative.

- National Petroleum Construction Company (NPCC)

for their Inspection, Testing & Tagging - Portable

Electrical Apparatus Program.

- TL Offshore Sdn. Bhd., represented by Shahrul Faiz

Modh Aziz, for their programme Together Toward

HSE Excellence.

The HSE Committee judged the entries by means of

individual scores from a Balanced Score Card especially

developed for this purpose by the committee to guarantee

a transparent selection process. We congratulate all those

who participated this year in the IPLOCA Health and Safety

Award sponsored by Chevron for their commitment

to raising the bar on Health & Safety. We encourage

continuing efforts and applications for the next Health and

Safety Award which will be awarded at the 2010 Convention

in Venice. The application form will be made available on

the IPLOCA website.

CARBON FOOTPRINTS By Martin Coleman, IPLOCA HSE Committee

We have all heard of the Copenhagen Summit/Forum

which follows on from other Climate Change meetings. No

doubt there will be lots of promises, disagreements and

many toys will be thrown out of the presidential prams,

but even Heads of State now recognise that we have to do

something to reduce our carbon emissions.

We have had a number of key indicators in this industry

over the past 5 to 10 years that we have had to measure

depending on which country you are working in and for

which client: reuse of materials/waste, recycling waste,

incineration of waste, landfill of waste, total fuel used, km

driven, electricity used, gas used, water used.

To date, IPLOCA has not developed a database of statistics

concerning environmental data. Why? Well, what were

we going to do with the statistics if we had any? If we

were going to spend more energy and money measuring

our performance then we need to measure something

meaningful that will hopefully save money and reduce our

carbon footprint. In the last few years we have all tried

to jump on the bandwagon to try and save the planet.

Although it was mostly with good intentions there are many

instances where those intentions were misguided.

We all have stories to tell: - The obligation to transport waste 800 km by road

for recycling or destruction. Did we know that after

transporting waste over 800 km by road it was then

land-filled, burnt or shipped to India or China for

recycling? Did we ever calculate the carbon emissions

from transporting such waste?

- The obligation to transport oil-polluted soil from the

place of the incident to a waste treatment area 350 km

away and then transport it back to the original location.

The contractor was not allowed to treat the waste in situ.

It had to be transported to the waste area, spread out in


the sun for a few weeks and then transported back.

Did we calculate the carbon emissions?

- The imposition of EU environmental standards on

countries that do not have the existing infrastructure

or legal framework to manage the environment to EU

legislation. In the end waste had to be transported

nearly 1,500 km to be treated as the project was unable

to use an incinerator already purchased for the project

and the project was not issued an operating license for

the land-fill.

What can we do that is effective to reduce our carbon footprint and not cost the earth?Perhaps in the near term we should look at reducing

the amount of fuel we use on our construction projects.

Although we train plant operators before they are allowed

to start on a project, this training concentrates on the safety

aspect. Studies have been carried out by various road

transport organisations with the objective of reducing their

fuel costs.

The studies show that by training drivers to conserve

fuel by driving efficiently they can reduce fuel costs by

15 percent. Why not apply this to reducing our carbon

footprint and save money? We have all seen cranes and

side-booms sitting for hours with the engine ticking over

waiting to start work. We see and hear generators running

during the day when there is no need. Do we have the

correct traffic management systems in place? Who decides

the route a driver will take? Is it via his favourite café,

20 km off the most direct route?

We would like our members to participate in forwarding

ideas on saving fuel and also what criteria we should use

to measure our carbon emissions.

Please send your comments to [email protected].

Willbros joins IPLOCA HSE Committee

Adam Wynne Hughes, IPLOCA

President and Chairman of

the IPLOCA HSE Committee

recently announced

that Brad MacLean, Vice

President of Health, Safety

and Environment at Willbros has committed to add his

expertise to the committee.

“We are delighted that Willbros is lending its support to

the committee in the person of Brad, as we move forward

with our committee objectives in 2010“ he said.

“We look forward to a busy and productive year.”

Committee Members

- Adam Wynne Hughes (Chairman)

Land & Marine Project Engineering Ltd, Managing

Director

- Juan Arzuaga

IPLOCA Executive Secretary

- Martin Coleman

SPIECAPAG, Corporate Environmental Manager

- Paul Conway

C.A.T. Group

- Helen Dornan

Serimax, Group HSE Manager, Q.H.S.E. Manager

- Frank Green

Pipeline Induction Heat, Health Safety &

Environmental Manager

- Brad MacLean

Willbros USA, Inc., VP, Health, Safety and Environment

- Knud Petersen

Shell Global Solutions International BV, Global

Manager Pipelines & Offshore Technology

- Dinç Senlier

Tekfen Insaat Ve Tesisat, Total Quality and HSE

Management Representative

- Amir Tajik

Max Streicher GmbH & Co KG aA, Senior Safety

Engineer

- John Truhe

Chevron Pipe Line Co., Manager of Construction,

Environmental & Technical Services


IPLOCA NEW TECHNOLOGIES AWARD

The 2009 IPLOCA New Technologies Award sponsored

by BP was presented during the annual Convention held

in San Francisco. The Award is given in recognition of

a significant achievement in the development of new

pipeline technologies.

Members of the Adjudication Committee were Bruno

de La Roussière (Entrepose Contracting), Doug Evans

(Gulf Interstate Engineering), Bob Deason (J. Ray

McDermott, S.A.) and Roberto Castelli (Bonatti).

Judging ProcessUsing a balanced score card method to determine

the winners, the committee looked at such questions

as whether the entry represented a technological

breakthrough, a new or revised construction practice, or

a new piece of equipment or tool. Additional data was

gathered to support the application, including whether or

not it had been successfully used on a major project, or

whether its development was at a significant stage such as

to warrant an award.

Finally, a set of questions were asked to determine if

indeed the entry represented a significant contribution

to the industry and whether it addressed some of the

challenges currently faced. Mike King of BP and Roberto

Castelli, Chairman of the IPLOCA New Technologies

Committee, made the presentation and addressed the

members of the audience about New Technologies.

The Award was presented by Mike King (BP) and Roberto

Castelli (Bonatti) to Herrenknecht AG, represented by

Werner Suhm, in recognition for their excellent work on

Direct Pipe.

Runners Up - Caterpillar Inc., represented by Daniel Macholan and

Marco Jannuzzi, for the D7E Track-type Tractor.

- Laurini Officine Meccaniche, represented by Marco

Laurini, for their new Pipe Layer PL105.

- Ludescher Cablecrane Systems GmbH, represented by

Joachim Seyr and Christoph Ludescher, for their new

carriage GSK 160 for cable crane systems

- Volvo Construction Equipment, represented by Eddy

Powell and Bernard Quereillahc, for their Pipelayer

PL4608.

IPLOCA congratulates all those who participated in the

2009 New Technologies Award sponsored by BP for

their commitment to furthering the progress of pipeline

construction. We encourage continuing efforts and

applications for the next New Technologies Award which

will be made in 2011.

NEW TECHNOLOGIESNovel Construction Plenary Session “Onshore Pipelines - The Road to Success”

At the end of October in Geneva, 27 people from 21

companies attended the Novel Construction Plenary

Session, focused on the further development of the

document “Onshore Pipelines – The Road to Success”.

The objectives of the meeting included identifying those

parts of the book that need to be expanded, identifying

new topics that need to be covered, defining work groups

and their composition and discussion of possible research


topics for cooperation with EPRG, PRCI and APIA. Some

initial comments were reported at the meeting and

subsequently some further feedback was received as part

of the San Francisco Convention Questionnaire. However

the most substantial feedback will be gleaned from a

Road-to-Success-specific questionnaire that will be sent to

all recipients for response by early 2010. The cover letter

sent with the document asked that recipients circulate the

document widely within their organisations and make it

available for review by as many people on the managerial

staff as possible while the questionnaire is in preparation.

We particularly asked reviewers to look at the document

with the following in mind:

- Their level of interest in the document

- Feedback by chapter

- Sections that need expanding

- Likelihood of using the document as a working guide

Each delegate at the San Francisco Convention received

a copy of the book and response so far has been very

positive. We are gratified that so many of our member

companies provided their expertise and manpower in

developing the content. In all, some 110 people and more

than 50 companies contributed to this edition.

If you received a review copy, please watch your email for

the link to the questionnaire.

A SPECIAL MISSION for Taishan’s Daifeng Pipelayer in India

All in a day’s work…

One morning in mid September, a call for help went out

on the Barmer-Salaya Pipeline (Rajasthan State in western

India to Gujarat State) at Sanchor3.

A camel had fallen into the ditch of the pipeline under

construction. It seemed that it was injured and could not

rise to its feet. It let out indignant low grunts whenever it

was approached by people. The pipelayer operators decided

to attempt to rescue the unfortunate animal with two

hoisting belts.

First they dug two shallow ditches below the camel’s belly,

and then slowly pulled through two hoisting belts. With the

lift hook slowly and carefully raised, the camel was gently

hoisted up, its legs kicking randomly as the assembled crew

looked on with apprehension.

The pipelayer finally landed the camel lightly on safe

ground to instant and enthusiastic applause.

“Onshore Pipelines - The Road to Success”

A limited number

of copies of this

373 page document

were printed and

distributed to each

of the delegates at

the San Francisco

Convention. Those Member companies unable to send

a delegate to San Francisco were mailed one copy of

the document.

An obvious question is the possibility of IPLOCA making

an electronic version of this large (1.8 kg) document

available. This is definitely an option for the future, but

only after we receive the necessary feedback on this

first edition.

If you have any questions, please email

[email protected].


IN THE HEADLINESAlaska should cut risk of natgas-pipeline sponsorANCHORAGE, Alaska - The head of the BP-ConocoPhillips

joint venture seeking to build a huge Alaska natural

gas pipeline said on Thursday he worries that the state

government is doing too little to reduce the project’s

economic risks. Uncertainties over long-term state tax

rates, the fate of disputed leases at the Point Thomson oil

and gas field on the North Slope and other matters should

be addressed by the state of Alaska, said Bud Fackrell,

president of Denali, the BP-ConocoPhillips company

promoting the massive natural gas project.

Reuters, 19 November 2009

Turkmenistan seen as top gas supplier for NabuccoASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Energy-rich Turkmenistan could

become a top supplier to fill a Western-backed natural

gas pipeline aimed at reducing Europe’s dependency on

Russian gas, a top executive on the project said Thursday.

The planned EUR 7.9 billion (USD11.7 billion) Nabucco

pipeline would run 3,300 kilometers from to Turkey

through Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and end in Austria,

circumventing Russia.

Associated Press, 19 November 2009

Bredero Shaw to provide pipe coating services for the QSN3 pipeline projectBredero Shaw has received a contract with a value in

excess of US$40 million from Marubeni-Itochu to provide

pipeline coatings for Epic Energy’s QSN3 Pipeline Project.

The QSN3 Project incorporates the looping construction of

the South West Queensland Pipeline, SWQP and the QSN

Link Pipeline. QSN3 will be installed from Wallumbilla in

South East Queensland to Moomba in South Australia. The

contract has been awarded to Bredero Shaw (Australia).

The QSN3 project will be executed at the Bredero Shaw

pipe coating facilities in Kembla Grange, Australia and in

Kuantan, Malaysia.

Earthtimes.org, November 2009

Door open for India on gas pipeline: Iran ministerNEW DELHI: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki

on Tuesday said that the door would remain open for India

to join the Iran-India-Pakistan friendship pipeline project

but indicated that the state of affairs could not continue

for an indefinite period. `I think India is desirous to join the

project. The road is open for the joining of Indian friends,’’

said the Iranian Foreign Minister at the Indian Council for

World Affairs. India, which is far from convinced about the

viability of the project, has conveyed to the Iranian side

that New Delhi continues to have serious issues on security

with the gas project in the backdrop of the deteriorating

security situation in Pakistan.

The Economic Times, India, 18 November 2009

Fico: No Obstacles to Setting Up Joint Company with GazpromMoscow - No obstacles stand in the way of establishing

a joint enterprise of the Russian gas concern Gazprom

and Slovakia, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said after

a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin

in Moscow on Monday. According to Fico, the company

would distribute natural gas for Slovak households and

firms, and would also store it. The main issue of the

meeting was ensuring supplies of Russian gas and oil

to Slovakia. “The Slovak Government views the Russian

Federation as a reliable supplier for the territory of

Slovakia. So I listened with great interest to reports about

problems that could arise in the future with respect to

Ukraine’s inability to pay for gas supplies. We’ve agreed

on a system of very early and intense communication on

this topic,” said Fico.

www.tasr.sk, 16 November 2009

IPLOCA YEARBOOKThe Yearbook is once

again in members’

hands and has been

distributed worldwide

to the desks and in

the field of pipeline

companies.

Do not hesitate to send

us the addresses of the

persons to whom you

wish us to send the

IPLOCA YEARBOOK.

Please send any updates to listing@iploca-yearbook.

com and be sure to also send a copy to sarah.junod@

iploca.com. In this way we will update our newsletter

mailing lists and membership database. Additional

printed copies can be obtained on request:

www.iploca-yearbook.com

NUMBER 41 DECEMBER 2009 21NUMBER 41 DECEMBER 2009 21

UPCOMING CONFERENCESOGMT Connecting with Solutions 2010

Oil & Gas Maintemance Technology Conference &

Exhibition & Pipeline Rehabilitation & Maintenance

Conference & Exhibition

18-20 January 2010

Manama, Bahrain

www.oilandgasmaintenance.com/index.html

Pipeline Coating 2010

1-3 February 2010

Vienna, Austria

Deep Offshore Technology

2-4 February 2010

Houston, Texas, USA

www.dotinternational.net

PLCA 62nd Annual Conference

17-21 February 2010

Scottsdale AZ, USA

www.plca.org

DCA 49th Annual Convention

23-28 February 2010

Los Cabos, Mexico

www.dca-online.org

OCEANTEX 2010

including: Offshore Technology 2010, Gastech 2010,

Refining 2010, Transport & Logistics 2010

3-6 March 2010

Mumbai, India

www.chemtech-online.com/oceantex

Subsea Tieback Forum & Exhibition

16-18 March 2010

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

www.subseatiebackforum.com

Offshore Asia Conference & Exhibition

16-18 March 2010

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

www.offshoreasiaevent.com

Offshore West Africa

Offshore West Africa Conference & Exhibition

23-25 March 2010

Ghana, Accra

www.offshorewestafrica.com

Hannover Messe

19-23 April 2010

Hannover, Germany

www.hannovermesse.de

Kuwait Pipeline 2010

1st International Pipeline Exhibition and Conference

26-28 April 2010

Kuwait

No-Dig Moscow

The Leading trade Fair and Conference for Trenchless

Technologies in Russia, CIS and Baltic States

1-4 June 2010

Moscow, Russian Federation

www.nodig-moscow.ru

Pipe Line Contractors Association of

Canada56th Annual Convention

6-10 June 2010

St John’s Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

www.pipeline.ca

Pipe Tech World Summit 2010

14-16 June 2010

Cyprus

Oil Sands and Heavy Oil Technologies

Conference & Exhibition

20-22 July 2010

Calgary, AB, Canada

www.oilsandstechnologies.com

World Energy Congress

12-16 September 2010

Montréal, Canada

www.wecmontreal2010.ca

IPLOCA Annual Convention

27 September to 1 October 2010

Venice, Italy

www.iploca.com

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