QCLNG nears completion - The Australian Pipeliner

No 154 APRIL 2013

Land access policy | Profile: Richard RobinsonAPA Group on Epic | Safety innovations

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10 President’s message12 Chief Executive’s Report14 Members & Memos175 APIA Meetings 2013175 Exhibitions & Conferences175 APIA new membership approvals176 APIA Membership List178 APIA Membership Application Form180 Advertisers’ Index

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18 Brisbane keeps getting bigger for APIA20 AS 2885.5 seminars attract big numbers22 APIA Adelaide learns of longest composite pipeline project 24 Swinging in the heat at APIA’s WA Golf DayyoUnG PIPELInERS foRUm

28 VIC lawn bowls continues its success28 Sylvia Low joins VIC YPF committee29 SA YPF bowl with the ‘oldies’

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30 The latest industry news32 World Wrap

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34 Worker on the line: Craig Gladman

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36 From Kenya to thermo mechanical pipeline research: Rahim Kurji

40 Extend a hand to an Energy Pipelines CRC researcher44 A manufacturing success: Richmond Wheel

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52 An Epic journey56 Great benefits from the APIA Pipeline

Engineer Competency Standards62 LNG 17 scholarship recipients announced64 A renewed focus on pipelines: Wood Group Kenny

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96 An update on APIA’s strategic activities

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evaluation of buried pipelines122 A study in long-term durability of the Clock Spring124 Ferret continues success in Australian pipelines

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126 Pipelines – set to have an enduring impact for PNG130 Reflecting on a career in PNG: Richard Robinson

LAnd ISSUES

134 Land policy shake-up – what’s next for your state?138 Securatrak – helping protect your assets and your people140 Navigating land access as regulation changes143 Real-time hydrocarbon readings with RemScan

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144 Learning across generations for safe outcomes148 Building safety momentum with continuity: three things you

should do this year to start a cycle of injury prevention152 TMS Consulting: working to ensure a safer

drive-in/drive-out workforce

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156 Pulling off a world-class pipeline engineering feat162 On the upstream side: WDS’ work on APLNG168 Murphy Pipe and Civil is keeping it green!

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170 Unlocking the unpiggable puzzle170 PPIM sees continued success on its silver anniversary172 ASCOPE: promoting petroleum industry co-operation

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174 The road ahead for unconventional oil and gas in SA174 Cora the Tunnel Borer is released Down Under174 Operating the Trans-Sakhalin pipeline system

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There is never a dull moment in the pipeline industry – nor is there in APIA Board meetings! The new

Board was settling in nicely – then we again faced the challenge of replacing a Director who decided to step down.

As many APIA members will now know, Mark Twycross has left McConnell Dowell, but in doing so he also resigned his Board position. As APIA directorships are linked to a person (who is a member’s APIA representative), Mark could have chosen to join APIA as a corporate member, therefore maintaining his director’s role. However, he was very much aware of the need for appropriate representation on the Board.

With his resignation, there would be only one Director from the construction contractor sector. Under the Constitution, the Board can appoint a new Director and, in doing so, the Board considered Mark’s advice and has appointed Jim Frith, the Director/General Manager, Pipelines for McConnell Dowell for the remainder of Mark’s term, which expires in October this year. It is worth noting that at the last Annual General Meeting, the number of Board vacancies was the same as the number of nominees, so there was no vote and there was therefore no remaining nominee for the Board to consider.

I am pleased that Mark will remain in the pipeline industry and, importantly, continue his valuable contribution to APIA. He served as a director for 13 years, three of those as Vice President and two as President. We hope he will return to the Board at some time in the future.

I also look forward to welcoming Jim Frith to the Board.

At the Board’s February meeting, we usually get together for the morning to discuss strategy and planning for the Association. Last year, we conducted a full day of strategic planning over an afternoon, evening and morning before the official Board meeting. This was undertaken because our Strategic Plan had been in place, with

minor adjustments, since 2005. While it had served us well, the Board felt it was an appropriate time to bring in a facilitator to help us consider deeply APIA’s mission and goals. This was very successful, culminating in the Strategic Plan provided to all members and now on the website. It is very much in line with the original Strategic Plan, but streamlined and targeted. So, we thought the Planning Day this February would be brief…not so! Each of the four main objectives was debated in detail, providing many follow-up actions for the secretariat.

A change you might notice that has come from a Board direction to the secretariat is the safety moment at events in Australia. We now begin each Board meeting with a ‘safety moment’, where one Director provides a topical safety matter for discussion and consideration. We are also very aware of our obligations to members, highlighting the safety requirements at venues at the beginning of events and functions. Of course, the management at the venues where our events are held are ultimately responsible for safety of their customers, but it’s also up to APIA to ensure awareness. I’m sure our safety-conscious members will agree with this change.

A major safety moment occurred at the first event of the year – the WA Golf Day! As usual, heat was a major problem, so Business Manager Steve Dobbie’s main role on that day was ensuring all players received sufficient water. Nevertheless, I must say, this was an excellent start to the year of APIA events. The WA Chapter has established an excellent day and evening, with novel ways to highlight the many sponsors of both events.

I didn’t win any of the many prizes handed out, but I certainly had a great day – along with all the participants who travelled from near and far for the year’s opening event. My congratulations to the WA Chapter on their excellent organisational skills.

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An industry association is successful when its members are active in their support. All money that comes to an

industry association is invested in running the association, or in events and projects that benefit the industry and the members.

It also seems that an industry association’s members are active, participating in the association’s activities, when that association is responsive to member needs. We at the APIA secretariat enjoy our contact with the members, whether it is at events or on committees, and we appreciate the input and guidance provided. On the other hand, I trust that the members agree that the staff at the secretariat are keen to assist. Of course APIA can’t provide all the answers, but we do strive to find ways to help members achieve industry-wide goals.

The Health Safety and Environment committee came about when the members indicated the common-sense approach of combining the two committees covering safety and environment. The HSE Committee has continued to monitor the major study on fatigue management being undertaken by TMS Consulting and it instigated a review of the Code of Environmental Practice. Both these reports are expected to be released in the next few months.

When the participants in the CSG industry indicated their concern about gathering lines and the need for guidelines, APIA helped to co-ordinate an expert committee, which was managed by former regulator John Fleming, to develop the official APIA PE gathering lines Code of Practice. The latest version of this will, by the time April Pipeliner is released, be referenced in legislation.

When the Economic Policy Committee indicated they needed to expand their work on broader gas policy, APIA’s policy adviser Steve Davies, worked with the committee to develop a report and to raise extra funds from the Owner Members to engage a consultant to assist with the Committee’s work. When the Owners Committee agrees on this report, it will be released in its final form, but the work being undertaken has been of benefit already in helping to argue the case for natural gas and highlighting the need for improved access to gas supply. Even before it has been finalised the report has helped to raise APIA’s profile in the broader gas debate.

And that brings me to the Owners Committee. This group disbanded sometime around 2004. But, in 2007 the Owners indicated renewed interest. This committee provides broad policy direction to the secretariat and the Economic Policy Committee. From time to time the secretariat also arranges for the Owners Committee to spend a day in Canberra to meet relevant politicians and senior bureaucrats. While APIA is most successful in influencing government policy by effective liaison with the bureaucracy (our issues don’t directly impact on voters – and therefore votes – and therefore politicians!), the meetings with politicians and their political advisers means they hear the message from senior business people and this helps to reinforce our policy work.

Of course the Pipeline Operators Group, which has been operating successfully for many years and very capably led by James Smith of DBP, is at the forefront of sharing knowledge and experience about operations and maintenance. We are now looking at possibly expanding the POG influence to also include offshore pipelines and the distribution networks. We are in the process of taking our message to relevant companies.

Of course, I can’t leave this edition without mention of one of the major contributors to APIA – both in time and effort. Mark Twycross was President when I was appointed Chief Executive; in fact, he was one-third of the panel who interviewed me. As President, he helped me to settle in to my role, which was a very new experience after more than two decades in and around politics. As he has stepped down from the Board, it gives me an opportunity to thank him for the opportunity to work in this fabulous industry, with its very enthusiastic members. I’m pleased Mark will maintain his interest in APIA. In fact, he is very closely involved in organising the May Brisbane seminar this year, to the point that you will see me hand over the reins of seminar chair to him – maybe just this once, but let’s see...

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jan hayes reappointed to noPSEmA board

drJanHayes, a Senior Research Fellow at the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and researcher at the Energy Pipelines Co-operative Research Centre, has been reappointed by former Federal Minister for Resources and Energy Martin Ferguson for a further three-year term to the Board of the nationaloffshorePetroleumsafetyandEnvironmentalManagementAuthority(noPsEMA).

NOPSEMA is a Commonwealth Statutory Agency regulating the health and safety, structural integrity and environmental management of all offshore petroleum facilities in Commonwealth waters, and in coastal waters where state powers have been conferred.

new manager for diamantina Power Station

MarkMagnowskihas been appointed Manager of diamantinaPowerstation(dPs), located in Mount Isa, Queensland. DPS is being jointly developed by APA Group and AGL Energy.

Mr Magnowski was the first official employee of the Diamantina Power Station commencing in mid-January. Three other DPS employees have also commenced in various roles.

Mr Magnowski has over 25 years’ experience in power generation and process plants. He has worked in senior roles in various energy operations, including as Operations Manager and Power Station Manager at the Cockburn Power Station in Western Australia.

Construction of the 242 MW combined-cycle gas-fired power station is in progress and is on schedule for partial commissioning in mid-2013. Full commissioning of both the 242 MW DPS site as well as the adjacent 60 MW back-up open-cycle Leichhardt Power Station is expected mid-2014.

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APIA officially open for business in new Zealand

After a Pipeline Operators Group meeting and an AS2885 seminar in the land of the long white cloud, APIA held its first “official” function, the APIA NZ Dinner, on 28 February in New Plymouth.

chiefExecutivecherylcartwright and BusinessManagerstevedobbie flew over for the event and both reported that it was a great success, with a solid turnout and an interesting and entertaining speaker.

The speaker, WayneVernon, chiefinspectorPetroleum&geothermalHighHazardunitin the NZ Government, provided a detailed and well-argued case about the need for safety and the background to the management of regulation in NZ. Mr Vernon had recently been appointed to this role after working for Australia’s offshore regulatory body, NOPSEMA, and in the United Kingdom’s health and safety regulatory regime.

Ms Cartwright and Mr Dobbie thanked Graham Alexander of Core Group, for his assistance in organising the event. With such a positive response – and the tremendous turnout at the Young Pipeliners Forum pre-dinner drinks – it seems NZ will now be on the official APIA calendar of events.

Industry farewells martin ferguson

APIA bids farewell toFederalresourcesandEnergyMinisterMartinFerguson who resigned after a tumultuous week of politics, which saw a non-challenge to the Prime Minister, and the departure of several senior Labor figures.

“Martin Ferguson was not pushed. He resigned from Cabinet on a matter of principle. This is true to character,” APIA Chief Executive Cheryl Cartwright said.

“As the Minister for our industry since Labor came to office in 2007, he has demonstrated a commitment to industry and to good policy. He has welcomed APIA to his office and sought information and advice.

“As a Minister, Mr Ferguson officially receives the title “Honourable”; as an honest and fair human being, he genuinely has earned the right to remain the Honourable Martin Ferguson.

“APIA also welcomes the newFederalresourcesandEnergyMinistergarygray. Mr Gray has experience in the private sector – in the resources industry – and brings to the role an understanding of the challenges faced by the private sector. We look forward to working with him.”

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Ted Jestin was visiting Australia from England where he made his way to the Murphy Pipe and Civil QGC Trunklines Project where his son Trevor is the company’s Construction Manager. Coincidentally, Mr Ashton is working as the Camp Manager for Murphy Pipe and Civil.

Mr Jestin is a Director of leading UK contractor J. Murphy and Sons, a 50 per cent owner of Murphy Pipe and Civil.

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PLm receives new President

The Board of Directors of PipelineMachineryinternational(PlM) has approved the appointment of TonyFernandez as the President of PLM effective 1 January 2013.

BradTuckerwill remain Chairman of the Board for PLM. Mr Fernandez was instrumental in the early discussions that resulted in a four-dealer partnership to form PLM,

the first Cat® dealer to focus on a particular industry on a global basis. His pipeline experience was built during his 17-year history with Cat dealer (and PLM partner) Ring Power Corporation as International Accounts Manager and Pipeline Division Manager.

Mr Fernandez began his PLM career at its inception in 2005 as Vice President – Americas and, in this role, took responsibility for all sales and equipment. He was promoted to Executive Vice President and General Manager in December 2010 where he continued to expand his role, leading PLM towards increased international growth.

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mark twycross appointed as President of mears Group Australia

Quantaservices, owner of North America’s largest pipeline construction contractor Pricegregoryinternational and worldwide horizontal directional drilling and pipeline integrity contractor Mearsgroup, has signed Australian pipeline industry executive MarkTwycross as President of Mears Group Australia to expand existing operations and create new opportunities in the Australian market.

Quanta Services is a member of the S&P 500 index and, in 2012, had revenue of approximately $US6 billion. Mears Group was established in Australia in mid-2011 with the acquisition of Coe Drilling.

Mr Twycross has 40 years’ experience in the pipeline industry having worked in South East Asia, Africa, Central Asia, Middle East, United Kingdom and Australasia. A well-known face in the Australian pipeline industry, Mr Twycross is a former President and Director of APIA and was integral in winning contracting work for Australian companies from the three current CSG to LNG projects under construction in Queensland, as well as Papua New Guinea.

Specialising in electric power, telecommunications and pipeline infrastructure, the Australian market presents opportunities for Mears in the Australasian region. The company’s head office will be established in Brisbane, Australia, with focus for the first year on the Queensland and northern New South Wales market.

Mears Group USA President Scot Fluharty said the move would enhance competition in the Australian market. “Mears is eager to show the Australian market a new and different offering to what they currently have,” Mr Fluharty says.

Mr Twycross said the expansion of Mears Group, Inc. was game-changing. “Mears has the expertise and experience to enhance the pipeline industry in Australia as we currently know it,” Mr Twycross says. “This opportunity doesn’t present itself very often not just for me, but for our industry. I’ve always been passionate about pipelines in

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“I look forward to catching up with my peers, clients and colleagues to discuss with them this fresh approach,” he says.For more information visit www.mears.net or www.quantaservices.com

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Ms France spoke on the newly elected Queensland Government’s plans for the oil and gas industry,

and spoke of the pipeline industry’s pivotal role in growing the state’s infrastructure to maximise its potential.

The Assistant Minister also spoke about the state’s booming LNG industry and how the three major Queensland pipelines currently under construction – the Australia Pacific LNG Project pipeline, the Queensland Curtis LNG Project pipeline and the Gladstone LNG Project pipeline – are keeping the state’s employment levels healthy and local industry and contractors positive.

The Brisbane dinner also heard from APIA Chief Executive Cheryl Cartwright who spoke on APIA’s plans for the year ahead and encouraged all members to speak to the APIA Secretariat on any upcoming events, strategies or plans that they may wish to participate in.

The Brisbane dinner was sponsored by GHD and Wasco.

A massive crowd came together on 21 february in brisbane for APIA’s first Queensland state dinner of 2013, which included an enlightening presentation from Queensland Assistant minister for natural Resources and mines Lisa france.


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50-plus participants at each seminar. There are several other Australian and New Zealand-based seminars to be undertaken throughout the year, and details on these dates are available on the APIA events page.

The scope of the seminar’s review of AS 2885.5 includes a study of pressurisation endpoints, pressure test design and materials, instruments and pressure test planning, measurement uncertainty, as well as an introduction to PIPESTRAIN software from Dr Michael Law, a research scientist at the Australian National Nuclear Research and Development Organisation (ANSTO).

The software, which has been developed by Michael Law (ANSTO), Garry Heaven (CloudGeoTech), John Piper (John Piper & Associates), and Phillip Venton (Venton & Associates), was covered in an article in the October 2012 edition of The Australian

Pipeliner and holds significant benefits to the field of pressure testing for the industry.

The seminars have been proudly supported by the KT–OSD Joint Venture, EPC Solutions for Pipelines.

APIA is currently undertaking a seminar series on the Australian Standard AS 2885.5 module, which deals with field pressure testing on gas, liquid and petroleum pipelines. these seminars have attracted many interested members of the industry.

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Mr Nugent explained that the installation of composite pipelines has been growing

dramatically within the Australian pipeline industry over recent years, and recounted a recent pipeline project Lean Field Developments had been involved with which used pipe imported from Canada.

Mr Nugent outlined the project’s challenges and success to an attentive audience of approximately 95 attendees, providing a fascinating account of the Australian record-breaking installation.

The Adelaide dinner was sponsored by Maloney Field Services and GPA Engineering.

South Australian APIA members gathered at the hilton Adelaide on 14 march 2013 to hear from Lean field developments Engineering manager Ian nugent on Australia’s longest composite pipeline installation.

APIA Adelaide learns of longest composite pipeline project


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Despite the extremely hot weather, a great day of golf was enjoyed by all on 13 February at the picturesque

Maylands Peninsula Golf Course, overlooking the beautiful Swan River with views to the city of Perth.

This popular annual event saw 128 players take advantage of the social and networking opportunity. This year, the players included approximately a dozen interstate as well as a number of international visitors, who were combining their golf trip with business in Perth.

The teams-teed-off at noon to play an ‘Ambrose’ 18-hole tournament in teams of four, enduring the sweltering 36°C heat for the majority of the day.

Maintaining their onsite health, safety and environment-conscious attitudes, the pipeliners kept plenty of water in their golf carts, and the ‘course steward’ Steve Dobbie was also on hand driving the ‘pipe-mobile’ with a couple of big ice-filled eskies, delivering not only refreshments but also plenty of social banter. The Fremantle Doctor eventually kicked in later in the afternoon, bringing some cool relief to the determined players. Despite the hot weather, experienced golfers and amateurs alike could be heard enthusiastically cheering their team’s long putts and chip-ins.

Once again a $10,000 cash prize was also offered for a hole-in-one, however, despite numerous predictions to the contrary, there was no winner on this occasion.

After finishing the course, 125 pipeliners gathered at the clubhouse to freshen up for dinner and to prepare for the prizes to be awarded. This year, the prizes – including – the winning team, the nearest to the pin, and the longest drive – had a total value of $3,800, an impressive budget that was reflected in the quality of the prizes.

Competition was tight on the

leaderboard, with the Lucas Construction and Engineering team – consisting of Chris Allen, Pradip Desia, Jon Pattingil, and Brian Briscoe – winning the tournament and the coveted Bredero Shaw Perpetual Trophy. In close second, the APA team edged out the third-placed Lean Field Developments team.

Other winners included Mike King (Chevron Gorgon) who won nearest to the pin on the second shot on hole number 2; Progressive Global Energy’s Ryan Way won the nearest to the pin for hole 5; and Gregor Black took out the longest drive with a hit of nearly 300 m.

This hugely successful day is only made possible by the enormous generosity of the sponsors and the APIA Western Australia Chapter committee would like to thank the following: Canusa CPS, as drinks sponsor and closest to the pin second shot; Thistle Fabrication, also as a drinks sponsor; ISA Group Immigration and Recruitment as the dinner sponsor; Mitubulars, sponsor of

the 2013 round of APIA’s events kicked off in style once again with the Annual APIA western Australia chapter Golf day.

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oSd was one of the many companies who sponsored the Golf day.

kynan Smith, Synergy; Aidan trend, APA Group; matthew chisnall, APA Group; and Athol titren, APA Group.

the post-golf drinks; APA Group, sponsor of the ‘Winning Team of Four’; Monadelphous KT Pty Ltd, sponsor of the second team of four; KD1 Pty Ltd, sponsor of the NAGA; Bredero Shaw, sponsor of the putting competition; Denso Corrosion Prevention, sponsoring ‘nearest the pin’; Enerflex, sponsor of the longest drive; Lean Field Developments, sponsor of the straightest drive; and APIA, for offering the as-yet unclaimed $10,000 hole-in-one prize.

Hole sponsors also comprised APTS, Enerpac, Century West Transport, McConnell Dowell, OSD, SVT Engineering Consultants, Plexal Group, TD Williamson, Nacap, PLM-Cat, Flexpipe, Lucas Engineering and Construction, Dial Before you Dig, MSI and Atteris.

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this year, the prizes – including for the winning team, the nearest to the pin, and the longest drive – had a total value of $3,800, an impressive budget that was reflected in the quality of the prizes.


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vIc lawn bowls continues its success

Over 40 young pipeliners congregated at the Richmond Union Bowls Club for an evening of bowls and industry discussion. With two rinks booked at the historic bowls club, the pipeliners dominated the

evening with some impressive (and not so impressive) bowling techniques.The lawn bowls event was the first for new YPF event attendants.The lawn bowls was once again supported by Denso.

SA yPf bowl with the ‘oldies’

This year the event was a bit different, with YPFers asked to ‘bring an oldie’ to help guide the youngsters through the intricacies of the game and pass down interesting tidbits of knowledge – such as the importance of surface roughness,

wind factors, route selection, correct weight and mass balances – to the next generation. Also thrown in was the occasional pipeline story of years gone past.

SEA Gas’ Pat O’Dea took the lead by taking the group through the regulatory framework of the competition, and after a barbeque buffet and a few beverages to lubricate the joints, the event was underway.

The 26 attendees were grouped in random herds of three to four, with a couple of purposeful selections to ensure the experience and patience of the senior pipeliners was well combined with the youthful YPFers’ enthusiasm.

While many were quick to pick up the deft touch required for the quick greens, others struggled to keep bowls in play and a few focused on obliterating well-positioned bowls of competitors and teammates alike.

The tight competition resulted in the occasional appearance of a measuring tape – or calibrated scarf – to resolve decisions deemed too close to call by visual examination alone.

Later in the evening, the cream was rising, with the final match for pride and glory pitting Alex Wickham of the SA Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy (DMITRE), Adam Langman of URS and Damian Penneck of SEA Gas against Eddie Sandrini of Beach Energy, Pat O’Dea of SEA Gas and Michael Jarosz of DMITRE. Perhaps unsurprisingly to some, Captain Pat’s knowledge and experience helped steer his crew to victory and claim the coveted title.

All in all, the event was a roaring success, and although the miniature porcelain trophy was cracked in the exuberant celebrations, the SA YPF vouch to return to the green in the years to come with a superior engineered trophy.

The SA YPF committee would like to thank all who participated, both ‘oldies’ and YPFers alike, as well as SEA Gas and Maloney Field Services for making this event possible.

for more information on the yPf, or to be involved, contact APIA on (02) 6273 0577.

the annual victorian young Pipeliners forum lawn bowls event has been another success for the group, with the biggest numbers yet seen at the event. the South Australian young Pipeliners forum 2013 calendar kicked off on 1 february 2013 with

a crackerjack lawns bowls competition, thanks to the sponsorship of maloney field Services and SEA Gas.

by joSh wIckhAm, chAIR, yPf SoUth AUStRALIA commIttEE

Ms Low fills a vacancy in the VIC YPF committee which became available

following previous committee member APA Group’s Jayne Arthur’s departure to

pursue a career in Queensland.

Ms Low joined SP AusNet in 2009 as part of the SP AusNet Gas Graduate

Engineering Program and then, upon completion, joined the Asset Development team.

Her qualification and accreditations include Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours)

in the field of Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science with Astrophysics and

Biochemistry majors, and Member of Engineers Australia.

Ms Low has joined the Victorian YPF committee with a view to ensuring there is true

value in the learning opportunities provided by these events. She would also like to see

that the transfer of knowledge is not only between young pipeliners, but extends to the

wider community.Ms Low joins her fellow committee members, which include Chair CNC Project

Management’s Tim Vesey, Peter Norman Personnel’s Tony Meechan, Tenix’s Ben Gliwa,

OSD's Douglas Woods and Great Southern Press’s Sally Commins.

SP Ausnet Gas Asset management Engineer Sylvia Low has joined the committee of the

victorian young Pipeliner’s forum.

Sylvia Low joins vIc yPf committee

the SA yPf Lawn bowls finalists.Pat o’dea of SEA Gas teaches the ‘art of bowling’.

Peta mantzarapis of maloney’s pulls out the measuring scarf.

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field Services and Liz brierly of SEA Gas.

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GLnG pipeline delivered to site

Pipe for the 420 km, 910 mm diameter GLNG Pipeline has been manufactured and delivered to site, and construction is now underway.

In the upstream gas fields, site preparations and foundations are well progressed at the three gas hub sites at Fairview and Roma. On the Curtis Island LNG plant site, construction of LNG trains, tanks and supporting infrastructure is progressing well.

The GLNG Pipeline is a component of Santos’ GLNG Project, located in Queensland. The project includes a two-train 7.8 MMt/a LNG facility at Curtis Island, Gladstone, which will be linked to a compressor station at Santos’ Fairview and Roma coal seam gas fields in the Surat Basin via the pipeline.

Replacement installed on the wide bay Pipeline

A replacement pipeline has been installed beneath the Burnett River and is currently being reconnected to the existing pipeline and pressure tested, following flood damage to the Wide Bay Pipeline.

Commissioning of a 180 km section of the 114 mm, 274 km Wide Bay transmission pipeline has been impacted by the weather and is now scheduled to commence on 19 February 2013. This will involve injecting natural gas at the Miriam Vale LNG facility and gradually building pressure to normal operating levels in Bundaberg, Maryborough and Hervey Bay.

The forecast timeline for completion of repairs and commissioning is subject to no further adverse weather conditions over the, next few days.

With further injection of LNG, it has been possible for all essential services and domestic consumers across the region to re-commence using natural gas before the permanent repairs are completed. In addition, approximately 100 industrial and commercial consumers have also been reconnected, and are using gas via the LNG facility.

APA Group, who has been undertaking the repairs, expects to commence reconnecting the remaining customers on 20 February 2013.

big steps required for 600 km Gove pipeline to go ahead: Rio

The Pacific Aluminium alumina refinery in Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, will continue operating as planning, approvals and delivery of the Gove project progresses, including the potential construction of a 600 km pipeline from Katherine to Nhulunbuy, according to Rio Tinto.

Rio Tinto’s decision follows a commitment from the Northern Territory Government to release a portion of its contracted gas for on-sale to Gove refinery.

Pacific Aluminium is advancing plans for conversion from heavy fuel oil to gas but notes there are still a number of important steps remaining to deliver gas to Gove.

“Pacific Aluminium will now work closely with the Northern Territory Government to put all final agreements and approvals in place to secure the gas supply. Pacific Aluminium will also progress its commercial discussions with gas suppliers,” according to Rio Tinto.

“Discussions are also being held with the Federal Government regarding the construction of a 600 km pipeline from Katherine to Nhulunbuy.”

Rio Tinto Chief Executive Sam Walsh says “Rio Tinto and Pacific Aluminium acknowledge the leadership and commitment of Northern Territory Chief Minister Terry Mills and his Cabinet to get gas to Gove and keep the refinery operating.

“We recognise that the Chief Minister needed to follow a rigorous process to consider the short and long-term issues for the Territory. We appreciate that an outcome balancing the needs of all stakeholders has been reached. It has been a complex issue to resolve but everyone involved has worked tirelessly to find a solution.

“Gas to Gove is not only important for the refinery and the community of Nhulunbuy, it is important to the entire Northern Territory. This project will double the size of the domestic gas market, drive further investment in gas exploration, increase long-term gas supply, attract new industries and create jobs for Territorians.”

Pacific Aluminium Chief Executive Officer Sandeep Biswas says “There is still a great deal of work needed to deliver gas to Gove. “Our next steps include finalising commercial arrangements for gas supply, securing gas pipeline financing support with the Federal

Government, obtaining environmental and land access approvals, and developing detailed refinery conversion plans.”

PnG LnG offshore pipeline complete

The PNG LNG Project’s offshore pipeline is now complete following the final tie-in to the onshore pipeline in December 2012.

The final tie-in took place at the Omati landfall in the Omati River where the pipeline from the land (onshore) meets with the offshore (undersea) pipeline. The offshore pipeline is approximately 407 km long and connects to the 292 km long onshore pipeline, which begins at Hides (PNG).

Welding of the offshore pipeline began in October 2011. The PNG LNG Project involves a two-train, 6.6 MMt/a LNG

processing facility, envisaging the integrated development of the Hides, Angore and Juha gas fields, as well as associated gas from the Kutubu, Agogo, Gobe and Moran oil fields. Gas will be transported to the LNG plant near Port Moresby through approximately 850 km of large diameter pipeline. First LNG shipments are scheduled for 2014.

APLnG pipeline 84 per cent complete

Origin Energy has reported that 365 km of the Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG) Pipeline easements have been secured and 142 km of pipeline welded.

The main pipeline (including Narrow’s Crossing) is on track for completion in early 2014.

The upstream project is 29 per cent complete and on track with 141 Phase-1 operated wells drilled during the first half of the financial year, totalling 209 wells drilled to date.

Fabrication of well head separators is also 35 per cent complete and will be delivered to site on schedule.

In terms of facilities, five of fifteen gas plant units have been fabricated and shipped and six of fifteen compressor sets have been shipped. The Condabri Central Gas Plant has progressed and is currently 60 per cent complete.

A recent review of the project confirms that the first LNG train is on track for start-up in the second quarter in 2015. The second train is approximately three months ahead of the financial investment decision schedule, with start-up in the four quarter of 2015.

On Curtis Island, site works are currently 95 per cent complete. The progress includes the completion of the material offloading facility, roll-on-roll ramp, causeway and the ferry terminal. The first train methane compressor foundation has been poured while Train 2 foundation work has been initiated. LNG tanks are ahead of schedule.

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Esso to inspect Longford pipelines

Esso Australia is installing a new bridge over currently buried crude oil and LPG pipelines in Gippsland, Victoria, in order to facilitate their inspection.

The bridge installation work is being undertaken to allow for routine inspection of the pipelines and to provide Esso with permanent access for future inspection and service.

Longford Plants Manager Monte Olson says that Esso continually monitors and assesses the integrity of its pipelines to ensure the highest standards of safety, as with all other assets.

The Gas Conditioning Plant is being developed by Esso Australia as part of the Gippsland Basin joint venture in which Esso Australia Resources and BHP Billiton Petroleum (Bass Strait) each have a 50 per cent interest.

Longford, with its three gas plants and one crude oil stabilisation plant, is one of the most important industrial facilities in Australia. Situated 20 km from Sale in South Gippsland, Victoria, Longford is the onshore receiving point for oil and gas output from Bass Strait.


Pipeline expansion and investment performance bring big profits for APA

The Roma Brisbane Pipeline expansion and increased investment performance, particularly from major subcontractor to Envestra, have been important factors contributing to an increase in profits for the six months to 31 December 2012, according to APA Group.

APA reported that segment growth was underpinned by the three months’ contribution from the increased Roma Brisbane Pipeline capacity and enhanced by the three months contribution from Epic Energy pipeline assets, which contributed half of the segment’s increase in the period.


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Statoil awards offshore contractsStatoil has awarded Marubeni Itochu/JFE the fabrication contract for linepipe, Wasco the coating contract, and Allseas the pipe-laying contract for the 482 km Polarled Pipeline Project. The Polarled Pipeline will export gas from the Aasta Hansteen field in the Norwegian Sea to the country’s Nyhamna gas plant. Pipe-laying is planned for 2015 with the 36 inch diameter pipeline being laid to a maximum depth of 1,265 m, which will be the world’s deepest laying operation for this size of pipe.

gas to flow to mexicoNET Midstream announced that NET Mexico Pipeline, a wholly-owned subsidiary of NET, will build an approximately 200 km, 42 inch diameter natural gas pipeline system to the Texas/Mexico border with associated compression. NET Mexico will be anchored by a long-term firm gas transportation agreement, for up to 2.1 Bcf/d, with MGI Supply Ltd, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Pemex Gas y Petroquímica Básica (Pemex Gas), the Mexican state-owned gas company.

Keystone xl re-route approvedNebraska Governor Dave Heineman has approved the re-route of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline through the state. The approved re-route will now become part of the project’s Presidential Permit application with the United States Department of State, which was filed on 4 May 2012. TransCanada Keystone Pipeline has proposed to construct, operate, and maintain a 1,408 km long, 36 inch diameter crude oil pipeline from the United States-Canadian border to Steele City, Nebraska, referred to as the Keystone XL Pipeline Project. The projected in-service date for Keystone XL is late 2014 or early 2015, subject to approval of TransCanada’s Presidential Permit application.

Saipem wins FeeD contract for NabuccoNabucco Gas Pipeline International has signed a contract with Saipem to perform front-end engineering and design services for the Nabucco West Project. The contract includes all front-end engineering and design (FEED) activities for the 48 inch diameter, 1,326 km pipeline system, including strategic analysis of data and information to conduct appropriate risk assessments and allocation of resources across the pipeline to ensure the continued successful development of the project.

intergovernmental agreement for TAPThe governments of Greece, Italy and Albania have cemented their full support for, and commitment to, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) Project by signing a tri-lateral intergovernmental agreement. The approximately 800 km long TAP Project is one of the pipeline projects being developed to transport Shah Deniz gas to Europe and is the only pipeline option that will cross Greece. The Shah Deniz Consortium will make their final selection of the Southern Gas Corridor project to transport Shah Deniz gas by June 2013.

cNPc signs agreement for gas pipelineCNPC has signed a co-operation framework agreement in Beijing with Shenergy Group and Yangkou Port Company Ltd, on construction of the 89.5 km Rudong-Haimen-Chongming Gas Pipeline. Under the agreement, the three parties will establish a joint venture to invest, build and operate the pipeline. The pipeline will run from Rudong County, Jiangsu Province, to Chongming Island in Shanghai, with an annual deliverable of 2.4 Bcm/a. It is expected to be completed and operational in 2014.

gas flows from DabholThe gas supply to the city of Bengaluru in India has commenced with the completion of GAIL’s 1,000 km Dabhol – Bengaluru gas pipeline. The pipeline, which has a design capacity of 565 Mcf/d, will bring natural gas to the people of Karnataka for the first time. The pipeline traverses 18 national highways, 382 other road crossings, 20 railway crossings, 83 cased crossings, and 276 water crossings, including Asia’s largest river crossing in rocky terrain at Ghatprabha.


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Howlonghaveyoubeenworkinginthepipelineindustryfor?

I’ve been working in the pipeline industry off and on since 1984. With the industry getting busier in the last decade or so, it̓ʼs been easier to stay in the business full time.

Whatindustrywereyouworkinginpriortopipelines,andwhatledyouintothepipelinesindustry?

I spent quite a bit of time working in the offshore drilling industry before moving to pipelines permanently. Iʼm a plumber by trade. My father was a pipeliner and he introduced me into the industry as a young fella.

Whatisyourfavouriteaspectofworkinginthepipelineindustry?

I love that everything changes and yet everything remains the same. It’s pretty much the same guys that you meet on different projects. It’s good to catch up at the end of a productive day and talk about ‘the old days’.

Also, I love starting new projects and meeting new people - getting to know the different crews and establishing a productive and good working relationship with them to take on to the next project.

Whathasbeenyourfavouriteprojecttoworkonandwhy?

They all have their good and bad aspects so itʼs hard to choose one, but the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) Export Project for QGC has probably been the most interesting to date. But no matter what the project, as long as the job is done well and completed safely, I get to have a laugh with

the boys and everybody goes home happy and healthy at the end of it. So for me, the project has been a success.

canyououtlineatypicaldayinthefield?

As a pipeline spreadboss with Monadelphous KT, my job is to co-ordinate the different crews and activities across the different work fronts each day. It also involves trying to look into the future to plan the works for the coming days, weeks and months.

Every morning I attend the supervisors’ pre-start meeting at 05:45am to discuss the scope of work to be done for the day, address any issues from the previous day and answer any questions the supervisors/crews may have.

As the interface between the coal face and the office, it’s also important that I ensure the office staff are ahead of the game with the requirements and schedule out in the field. It’s also part of my job to help maintain good customer relationships. I find the best way to do this is by accompanying the customer out in the field and discussing issues at the work front.

Whodoyoulookuptointheindustryandwhy?or,whohaveyoufoundtobearolemodelandwhy?

In the past, I have had the privilege of working with John Bristow, Roger Vogues, Russell Tebb, Vince Garde, Jimmy Gibb, Geoff Rogers and Mark Twycross. Each of these men have influenced me and my career in a variety of ways over the years and helped guide me into having the great work ethic I follow today.

doyouhaveanyadviceforyoungpipeliners?

Listen to experience and remember that nothing in life comes easy.

As a new entrant to the Australian pipeline industry, monadelphous Pipeline Superintendent craig Gladman has already gained some interesting experience on some of the country’s biggest pipeline projects, including the Queensland curtis LnG Project’s gas pipeline. he speaks to The Australian Pipeliner about his experiences so far.

worker on the line: craig Gladman


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craig Gladman.

In the past, I have had the privilege of working with john bristow, Roger vogues, Russell tebb, vince Garde, jimmy Gibb, Geoff Rogers and mark twycross. Each of these men have influenced me and my career in a variety of ways over the years and helped guide me into having the great work ethic I follow today.

– cRAIG GLAdmAn

Here, Mr Kurji speaks to The Australian Pipeliner about his research and its positive outcomes

for the Australian pipeline industry, and how he is keen to get out into the field and experience the industry hands-on.

HowdidyoucometobeinvolvedinresearchintheAustralianpipelineindustry?

I completed a Bachelor Degree in Aerospace Engineering and a Bachelor Degree in Economics at the University of Adelaide.

During my undergraduate years I completed my work experience at an aircraft engineering firm – ALS – in Nairobi, Kenya, which handled a fleet of aircraft for a United Nations development program and the Red Cross.

For my undergraduate thesis, I worked on the development of an autonomous hovercraft for mine detection, for which

I was responsible for the design and manufacture of the hull of the craft.

Upon completion of my bachelor degrees, I completed a six-month internship as a research assistant with the University of Adelaide, where I worked with Dr Nicolas Coniglio on the effects of boron on weld metal hydrogen-assisted cold cracking and Dr Erwin Gamboa on simulating stress corrosion cracking in pipeline steel.

I spent the next eight months working with the University of Adelaide’s Centre for Energy Technology on developing a method for assessing the economic feasibility of wind turbines in urban environments. I was then offered a PhD position under the supervision of Professor Reza Ghomashchi.

WhatdoesyourPhdfocuson,andwillithaveanypositiverecommendationsforthebroaderpipelineindustry?

In Australia, as well as globally, there is

Rahim kurji, a student researcher at the Energy Pipelines co-operative Research centre, has had a diverse career so far – originally being involved in a kenyan-based United nations development program, mr kurji now focuses his attention on thermo mechanical properties in high strength steel in Australia’s pipeline industry.

from kenya to thermo mechanical pipeline research: Rahim kurji


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a trend to use higher strength steels not only to improve infrastructural capacity but to reduce costs associated with a reduction in the tonnage of steel being used.

This, in conjunction with the use of the traditional shielded metal arc welding process and the use of high hydrogen yielding cellulosic electrodes, is expected to increase prevalence of hydrogen-assisted cold cracking in the weld metal and not the traditionally observed heat-affected zone (HAZ).

Unlike cracking in the HAZ, little is known about the phenomena as observed in the weld metal and no mitigating strategies exist. My work focuses on identifying the thermo mechanical properties influencing weld metal hydrogen-assisted cold cracking as observed in the root pass of a girth weld.

Hopefully, my PhD should be finished by mid-2014.

WhatareyourareasofexpertisethathavebeendevelopedfromthisPhd?

I have had a chance to work with welding, acoustic emission, metallurgical analysis

techniques, automation and instrumentation techniques to extract thermo mechanical data.

I hope to extend my work and be part of the development of a user friendly tool, which would give welders, contractors, asset managers, etc., the capacity to determine whether or not they are welding with conditions that may be detrimental to the structural integrity or longevity of the weld they are depositing.

Haveyoubeeninvolvedinanypracticalapplicationsofyourresearch,withrelevancetothepipelineindustry?

My research is experimental-based and all work carried out is being done in conformance to current standards and practices with the aim of producing results that can be directly assimilated by industry.

Whyisthissortofexpertisenecessaryinthepipelineindustry?

I believe that building up the capacity of the industry in terms of technical expertise in the area of optimising production (of oil and gas pipelines) will not only make

Australia a global competitor, but is essential in ensuring the safety and security of critical national infrastructure.

WhatisyourplannowthatyouhavecompletedyourPhd?

I am excited about working in industry and taking the skills and expertise I am developing and applying it in a hands-on role out in the field.

AreyouinvolvedinanyassociationswithintheAustralianpipelineindustry?

My PhD is sponsored by the Energy Pipeline Co-operative Research Centre and, as such, I am in very close collaboration with our industry partners. Our partners are not only available to give us regular feedback on our work, but have facilitated site visits and collaboration with experts embedded in industry.

Whatareyourinterestsoutsideofresearchanddevelopmentintheindustry?

I love to rock climb and I also enjoy photography.

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over its three years of operations, the Energy Pipelines co-operative Research centre has put in place a strong research partnership between the four participating universities and the member companies of the APIA Research and Standards committee.

Currently, the Energy Pipelines Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) works with 15 research students, 15 research fellows and more than 20 academic staff. The researchers are aided

and supported by dozens of enthusiastic industry advisors who give their time and resources to help progress the Energy Pipelines CRC’s research.

The Energy Pipelines CRC education activities help current members of the pipeline industry by addressing topical issues for the industry and providing usable information from leading edge research. The education activities also aim to help with the development of the next generation of pipeline professional through the development of research students and undergraduate students.

One way of ensuring that the researchers understand the requirements of the industry is to give them direct experience of pipeline operations in the field. We are fortunate to work with

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organisations that are happy to take the researchers to their offices and onsite and show them what happens routinely.

We are keen to get more of the researchers out working in the offices and onsite within the pipeline industry. This can be in design offices; on suppliers or pipeline owner sites; witnessing construction, hydrotesting coating or cathodic protection inspections; or taking part in maintenance programs.

If you can offer one or more researchers the opportunity to see something of the industry, I would be delighted to hear from you. Experience shows that both the researcher and the organisation benefit from the visit and you would be helping with the development of rounded, future pipeline industry employees.

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the Australian pipeline industry was showcased on the world stage in September 2012, with members of the Energy Pipelines co-operative Research Group awarded runner-up for best Paper at the International Pipeline conference (IPc) held in calgary, canada.

held every two years, the IPc is internationally renowned as one of the world’s premier pipeline conferences. the 2012 event featured a conference program including 13 technical tracks and 361 presented papers.

the IPc conference program attracts some of the most experienced and respected members in the pipeline community, and covers a wide range of topics. to recognise this expertise, a competition for the best paper is organised and awarded at each IPc event. In 2012, 38 papers were shortlisted for the best Paper award.

the Australian industry, and in particular members of the Energy Pipeline co-operative Research centre (EPcRc), were bestowed with the respected position of runner-up for the award.

Australian authors cheng Lu, Guillaume michal, Alhoush Elshahomi and Ajit Godbole of the University of wollongong, along with Phil venton and Leigh fletcher, teamed with international expertise in kamal botros of novA chemicals and brian Rothwell, to produce the runner-up paper.

Entitled Investigation of the effects of pipe wall roughness and pipe diameter on the decompression wave speed in natural gas pipelines, the paper discusses shock tube experiment results that demonstrate that decompression waves in pipe with a rough inner surface slow down relative to that in a smooth pipe under comparable conditions.

As the paper abstract states: “A one-dimensional dynamic simulation model, named EPdEcom, was developed to investigate the effects of pipe wall roughness and pipe diameter on the decompression wave speed. comparison with experimental results showed that the inclusion of frictional effects led to a better prediction than that of the widely used model implemented in GASdEcom.

“EPdEcom simulation results showed that the effect of roughness on the decompression wave speed is significant for pipe diameters less than 250 mm. however, the decompression wave speed is nearly independent of the roughness for diameters above 250 mm as the frictional effect becomes negligible at such diameters.”

the results discussed in the paper have been responsible for the avoidance of the need to conduct expensive full-scale fracture arrest tests. Instead, the research undertaken has led to a mathematical model that will enable a practical spectrum of designs to be validated.

the runner-up award recognises the trajectory of success for the EPcRc to achieve this recognition on a world-scale so early in its operating life, and marks an amazing achievement for the EPcRc researchers who, only a few years ago had no previous involvement in the paper subject.

Richmond wheel and castor co, a family-owned, multiple-generation Australian company, has recently celebrated its 55th year of operations, making it one of the longest standing materials manufacturers in the Australian pipeline industry.

The company, which began as a steel trading company and progressed into a manufacturer of hydraulic

materials handling equipment, was originally distributed under the trading name LiftnMove.

Richmond designed and manufactured the wheels, castors and rollers used in these machines which, by the 1980s, became the major element of the business.

This focus continues today and sees Richmond as one of the leading castor companies in Australia and New Zealand. According to the company, this has been achieved by offering a complete range of wheel and castor products to the market and a commitment to improve, innovate and offer only the best products.

In-house manufacturing is a critical part of the company’s supply chain, and continues to be a major investment focus by the

company. In 2009, Richmond installed a new polyurethane processing machine, capable of dispensing up to 15 kg per minute. This expansion has increased the company’s manufacturing capacity for its pipeline work,

as well as increase stock holding to shorten lead times for its customers.

In addition, the company added a twin pallet machining centre to the plant for a specialisation in mould making.


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In-house manufacturing is a critical part of the company’s supply chain, and continues to be a major investment focus by the company.

According to the company, its long-term success in the manufacturing industry can be attributed to three generations of the same family working in the company for over 55 years.

Ray Winslow, Chairman of the Richmond Group of Companies, has been with company for 50 years – an impressive feat that would not be common in many companies in the pipeline industry, let alone the broader labour market in Australia.

Mr Winslow says that one of his first tasks at Richmond was to dismantle the superstructure supporting the old furnace chimney at the company’s current headquarters in Clayton, Victoria. The company moved to the site in 1960.

“An oxy torch, sledgehammer and axe, together with a learn-as-you go approach, was how [the development] happened,” recalls Mr Winslow.

“During this time, we have become the major wheel and castor company in Australia with a formidable reputation as a wheel-maker for industry. Our vast experience, design and manufacturing capability have proved a real asset to those in the pipeline industry who need rollers and bogies to lay out their pipelines.

“The pipeline industry has certainly been great for us as the flow of work over recent years has honed our engineering skills and made it much easier to justify Richmond’s commitment to manufacturing and design in such a difficult environment,” concludes Mr Winslow.

Breon Winslow-Moore, the third-generation member of the family in Richmond, is proud to be working in such a unique, family-driven company and recalls his grandfather’s entrepreneurial spirit as a key underlying factor of Richmond’s success.

“My grandfather began the company as a steel trading company and established us in the material handling industry. My father has grown the company from a small Victorian manufacturer into a multi-national retailer of material handling products, and wheel-making solutions for all industries including the pipeline industry,” he says.

“During the early days when steel was scarce, my grandfather would purchase decommissioned structures such as radio towers or buildings, dismantle the structure and sell the steel to fabricators. Once he had enough money, he moved into manufacturing handling equipment and our history as wheel makers began.

“I have worked up in the company from labouring, drafting, engineering now to production management. I am working through each department to gain the experience required for my future role as Chairman. Ultimately, my chapter has just begun,” says Mr Winslow-Moore.

National Sales Manager for Richmond Ian Brown has been working at the company 16 years. Before beginning at Richmond, Mr Brown sold wheel and roller products and solutions as a reseller, and so has been familiar with the Richmond brand for over 20 years.

Mr Brown says that the Australian pipeline industry is a key part of his job and one that

Richmond, as a company, has thoroughly enjoyed. “Keeping in touch and remaining a member of APIA allows Richmond to keep in contact with new projects that are in the pipeline, but also what changes are happening within this industry.

“There are many reasons why Richmond is successful, but from a sales point of view, we sell a very good product at a reasonable price and, coupled with our engineering team, we are hungry for success.

“We love the challenges that are put in front of us and we thrive to give our customers the right solution. At the end of the day, if you have the solution with a quality product, reasonable price and back it with good service, then you will be around for many years to come, as Richmond will be,” says Mr Brown.

Recently, Richmond has continued its involvement in the Australian pipeline industry through its contract for the design and manufacture of Chevron’s massive Gorgon Project, located on Barrow Island, Western Australia, which involved the supply of a stackable rollers system to roll 203.2–254 mm pipe, as well as 1,066.8 mm rollers for towers that rolled concrete pipe up to 20 t per metre.

With contracts like this still rolling in for Richmond, the future looks strong for this home-grown manufacturing success.


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Ray winslow, chairman of the Richmond Group of companies, has been with company for 50 years – an impressive feat that would not be common in many companies in the pipeline industry, let alone the broader labour market in Australia.

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David says “The Australian Pipeline Contractors Association (APCA) had contacted BHP inviting a senior management team to meet with the APCA President prior to the APCA

Terrigal Convention. This invitation was accepted and Sir Ian McClelland, then Chairman of BHP, Des Wittwer, General Manager of BHP Petroleum and I attended. We met with Stuart McDonald and Corbet Gore, amongst other APCA committee members present.

“The purpose of the meeting was to discuss a proposal from APCA to form a joint association of pipeline owners and pipeline contractors. The successful launch of such an association would, APCA believed, require a major Australian company to support it and become a member. The meeting ended with Sir Ian McClelland agreeing that BHP would join the association and become actively involved. When asked who BHP’s representative would be, Sir Ian McClelland turned around, looked at me and said “David Curry!” That was my introduction to APCA and the about-to-be-formed Australian Pipeline Industry Association (APIA).”

David notes that the APCA General Meeting was held on that same day and officially approved the new association structure – the APIA.

“I stayed in Terrigal for the remainder of the conference, which I have to admit was a bit of an eye opener, and returned to Melbourne wondering just what I had got myself into!”

David says “As an owner representative, I was elected to the Committee in 1977. There were a number of agenda items that we thought required immediate attention and the first was to review existing pipeline contract conditions from both the owner and the contractor perspectives.

“Jack Shaw, Victoria’s Gas & Fuel Corporation General Manager, played a major role in the development of a recommended Contract Conditions Document and immediately introduced these conditions

into Gas & Fuel contracts. Gas & Fuel’s acceptance of the APIA’s recommended conditions was a major step forward for APIA and a credit to the people who worked on the sub-committee.”

David recalls the beginnings of the APIA, remarking that “As I had no hands-on experience in pipelining and there was still some disquiet about owners being involved in what some members still regarded as a ‘contractors association’, it was with some trepidation that I accepted the President’s nomination in 1979.

“Stuart McDonald had been President for three years. His work in getting the new association bedded down and his popularity with members made him a hard act to follow. Stuart agreed that he would stay on the Committee and give any support I might need,” says David.

“I was very fortunate to have an excellent committee nominated which included Garry Howes as Vice-President, known for his support for the new association and very popular with the members.”

David says “On a lighter note, and probably unknown to those around at the time, my strongest ally and confidant was an older and very smart pipeliner, named Tom Hoffman. Tom would always let me know of any rumblings in the ranks: who they were, what they wanted and suggestions for handling any problems. He would also let me know in no uncertain terms if he thought I was heading down the wrong track.”

Apart from bedding down the association, attracting new members (membership numbers were 71 in 1978) and lifting the standards, David reflects that finances were sometimes challenging for the association. “Budgets were always tight and surpluses difficult to achieve. A number of times, financial assistance from a dedicated member provided cash to keep us going. Stuart McDonald, and in particular Gary Howes, dedicated a great deal of time and effort to get us through some very difficult situations,” says David.

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David’s introduction to the Australian Pipeline Contractors Association occurred in 1976 just after he had been appointed Superintendent Engineering BHP

Petroleum (Oil and Gas).

David CurryAs most who are involved in the Australian pipeline industry are well aware, the pipeline community is dominated by great names who, through hard work, guts, determination and humour, have forged the great industry as we know it today.

These ‘Legends’ are well-known and referenced throughout the industry, but their great stories are not so readily available, and it has been Great Southern Press’ pleasure in bringing these stories to print.

Great Southern Press is proud of its heritage and ongoing role within the great Australian pipeline industry, which has stemmed from the tireless work of our very own Legend, Barry Wood.

May the industry continue as strongly as it has done thus far, and keep producing further Legends for the rest of the community to aspire to.

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David recalls that during this period, membership finally began to increase (membership numbers were 130 in 1980) as the Association moved to develop membership interest in areas outside Sydney and Melbourne, and to embrace Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

After six years, of which two were served as President, David did not re-nominate for Committee. “I look back on those years with a great deal of satisfaction, our achievements, the characters I met along the way and the friendships made.”

“Any discussion or memories associated with APIA will always return to the annual conventions. I recall setting myself a task to increase the technical value and standard for our conventions and rein in, without diminishing the emphasis on social activities. The latter was probably one of the more difficult tasks of my presidency, and thankfully in hindsight, one of my more spectacular failures. I suspect today’s President is still struggling with that same issue. Pipeliners love to party!”

Of all the conventions he attended, David says that he shall never forget the 1980 Perth Convention. “As President and Perth-based, I was heavily involved in organising the technical papers, social programs, overseas speakers, etc. Three days before the international speakers had arrived, we had confirmed final bookings, VIP guests, etc., when without warning the entire Australian airline industry went on an indefinite strike.

“Approximately 90 per cent of our delegates were from the eastern states, making this strike a serious conundrum for the convention. I spoke to the committee members and they left the decision to the President as to whether the convention should go ahead or be cancelled. Either way, I thought we were going to take a severe financial loss, which at that time we could ill-afford.

“As always, I was assured of the members’ full support whatever the call. I decided to test their loyalty and called the conference on. A

number of members had anticipated this call and already had buses booked to transport delegates and partners to Perth.

“Within hours of the decision being taken, buses started to leave Sydney and Melbourne arriving two days later in Perth within hours of the convention getting underway. I was so relieved and grateful for the efforts made that I met the buses on arrival and thanked each passenger as they left the bus and handed them a glass of champagne to celebrate the occasion.”

David remarks that there are many, many stories associated with the bus journeys to that convention.

“I always remember receiving a phone call from one group, still three hours away from Perth, to request that their tee-off times for the Golf tournament be put back half an hour and they would take the bus straight to the course! I am not sure whether it was their dedication to golf, or their determination not to let the airline strike interfere with any of the convention’s programs.

“In one of the final day summaries, international guest Fred McCullar (Bredero Price – Houston) congratulated APIA on presenting such an excellent convention under very difficult circumstances. He said he had thoroughly enjoyed the convention, but was pleased it was over as he was ‘sick and tired of waking up tired and sick’!”

David says “In 1986, I was honoured to receive an Honorary Life Membership for my contributions to the Association. At that time and again now, I give credit for our achievements to the committees that worked with me and to Gary Howes in particular.

“I am sure it gives a great deal of satisfaction to all of us who have been involved over the years to see APIA with the status it has today. I believe the move to Canberra was a great step forward and congratulate those who worked to achieve it. I would like to think the part we played 36 years ago, laid at least some of the foundations for the success the association enjoys today.”

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David Curry was born in Wollongong in 1936 and in 1951 commenced work as an apprentice fitter and turner.

In 1957, he commenced work on construction at the BHP Steelworks and graduated from a BHP Approved Student Engineering Program in 1961.

In 1967, David was seconded to Melbourne and then Barry Beach as Project Engineer for the onshore fabrication of the “Barracouta” platform. The following year he was appointed Project Manager for the ongoing construction of Marlin, Halibut and Kingfish A and B platforms.

The onshore construction of these platforms was co-ordinated with the offshore program, managed by Ingram Offshore Construction, which was headed up by Dick Plake, who was one of the driving forces in setting up the original Australian Pipeline Association.

On completion of the initial Bass Strait program, David returned to Melbourne for the fabrication of all steelwork required for BHP House, built to promote the use of steel in high rise buildings. BHP House (better known as the Black Stump) is situated on the corner of Bourke and William Street in Melbourne and is heritage-listed.

David’s tenure at BHP in Melbourne was followed by short stints in Perth and Paraburdoo, fabricating mining equipment.

In 1980, David was seconded to Woodside Petroleum for four years, based in Perth. On completion of the Woodside secondment, he returned to Melbourne and in 1989 was appointed General Manager, BHP Petroleum Operations, Bass Strait and North West Shelf. David held this position until his retirement from BHP in 1996.

Carpentaria and the Moomba to Sydney pipelines. Combined with APA’s other existing pipeline assets, these pipelines meet the needs for gas supply for everyone on the Australian east coast from Victoria to Queensland.

APA Group Managing Director Mick McCormack highlights the strategic benefits of the acquisition. “When you look at where the SWQP is, we now have an interconnected gas grid that gives us the opportunity to offer a one-stop gas service and a much broader range of services to our customers that are more flexible and more tailored.

“That has significant implications in terms of the value we can bring to the market. And obviously on the way through, as we create value for our customers, we’re expecting that we’ll get some benefit as well,” Mr McCormack says.

AlongprocessAcquiring Epic’s assets has been a

long-term strategy for APA. Since 2010, APA had been progressively increasing its ownership in HDUF to build to a 20 per cent stake prior to launching its bid in December 2011.

APA’s initial offer for HDUF (a mix of cash and scrip) was rejected by the independent directors of the HDUF board. The progress of the bid was marked with a counter bid from a competing consortium of Canadian and Australian investors, and further bids by APA. It was also marked by progressive monitoring by ACCC and the imposition of a number of binding conditions. During the bid period, Epic was

signing up new customer contracts and announcing new expansion plans on the SWQP which kept adding to the value of the business.

In March 2012 the ACCC released its Statement of Issues, which outlined an extensive list of competition concerns with the acquisition which caused some scepticism in the media about APA’s chances of the deal being realised.

APA’s response was to provide a new undertakings package to the ACCC to address the substantive competition issues raised, which comprised an undertaking to divest the MAPS, once it had acquired the Epic assets. It took another two months for the ACCC to complete its market inquiries, finally announcing in mid-July that it would not oppose the proposed acquisition, which effectively cleared the way for the bid to proceed.

With the ACCC hurdle cleared, APA was able to make two revised offers in August, the second of which the independent directors of HDUF recommended to its securityholders. APA finally assumed effective control almost a year to the day on the 17 December 2012.

On 17 December 2012, APA officially assumed full control of Epic Energy pipeline assets and operations. Epic

Energy was owned by Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund (HDUF), on which APA launched its bid for control in December 2011. It concludes what has been a very long process for everyone – including the APA team that launched and drove the bid and the employees of Epic Energy, who had watched as events unfolded.

As a result of the takeover, APA has

acquired Epic’s South West Queensland Pipeline (SWQP) and the Pilbara Pipeline System. The result was not without disappointment for APA, however; a binding Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) condition required that APA sell Epic’s Moomba to Adelaide Pipeline (MAPS) following the acquisition.

AchievingtheEastcoastgridSo why did APA want the Epic pipelines?

First off, the acquisition is clearly in line with a core plank of APA’s strategy of enhancing the company’s portfolio of gas infrastructure assets. Epic owns approximately 2,450 km of pipelines (including MAPS), ownership of which would significantly enhance APA’s existing gas transmission.

Second, the ownership delivers what is informally known in APA as the East Coast Grid. Epic’s SWQP connects to three APA assets; the Roma to Brisbane,

After almost 12 months to the day since launching its takeover bid in december 2011, APA Group became the new owner of Epic Energy. The Australian Pipeliner talks to APA about its epic journey to achieve the East coast Grid.


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this map says it all – the addition of the SwQP to APA’s assets will allow APA to take gas from victoria to Queensland, all via APA pipelines.


integratingEpicWith the acquisition now completed,

focus has now turned to the important task of integrating the Epic assets and operations into APA, and to preparing MAPS as a stand-alone business for sale. Epic’s SWQP employees have joined APA’s Transmission business, and those employees in Epic’s Melbourne-based Projects team are now part of Infrastructure Development.

Most Epic employees who currently work on the MAPS business in Adelaide will be integrated into the stand-alone MAPS business. Other Epic employees in the corporate and operational support, and control room groups will be with APA until at least May and December 2013 respectively, with longer term futures with either APA or MAPS yet to be determined.

APA Group Executive – Transmission Rob Wheals paid tribute to everyone at Epic for their patience and support to date, and says that the integration and separation processes were key priorities. “We have been really impressed with the very deep technical and operational experience of the Epic people, and we’re

very excited about what their expertise will bring to APA. We’ve also been very appreciative of the support we’ve had from everyone at Epic since we started the integration and separation processes.

“We realise it’s been a very long road for everyone at Epic, with some more work still to do. But we’re very confident that between us all, with the spirit of co-operation that’s already in place, we’ll get a good outcome,” says Mr Wheals.


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when APIA’s Pipeline Engineer competency Standards were developed by the Reference Group led by chris harvey, APIA Project manager for the Pipeline Engineer training Project, they identified at least eight ways that members can use the competency Standards.

Since the Competency Standards were published in 2010, members have gradually been applying the

Competency Standards and receiving the benefits. In this issue we showcase three APIA members that have applied the Competency Standards.

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Nacap has recognised the need to develop its engineers who are new to pipeline construction, and those who just might need a refresher. Construction engineers need to get up the learning curve quickly and become productive as soon as possible.

Nacap’s first foray into developing its engineers was to design a three-day course tailored to its needs. It used the APIA Competency Standards to establish the

curriculum content and commissioned PIPEd (an educational initiative by OSD Pty Ltd) to design a course that was run in-house for 25 attendees in 2012. The course covered knowledge elements of APIA Competency Standards IB002 – Introduction to AS 2885, CC001 – Corrosion Control Fundamentals, HC001 – hydrotesting, commissioning and preparation for operations fundamentals.

The success of such courses is not always easy to measure. However, one young engineer who was then sent out on a construction spread reported the difference it made to him: because he had heard and learned about some of the terms and concepts during the course, it equipped him with awareness of the issues that he would face with his role on the construction team.

2013 has seen Nacap building on its 2012 experiences with the senior management team, including Managing Director Mark Bumpstead taking the

lead in developing training modules in nine key areas for training of its pipeline engineers. Each module has a sponsor from within the senior team responsible for its delivery, having identified relevant APIA Competency Standards to assist in designing the training arrangements for it.

One example module is the knowledge area of welding, where Nacap has combined the knowledge elements of APIA’s Competency Standards W001 – Welding Fundamentals and W002 – AS 2885.2 Key Concepts, in order to present a full introductory picture of welding to the trainees.

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demonstratinganddevelopingengineeringteamcapability

Another undisclosed company is undergoing rapid expansion of its pipeline networks, with increased demands on


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their pipeline engineering teams. In addition to engineering associated with design and construction of the new pipelines, it is establishing engineering teams that will be responsible for the pipelines once they are built.

The pipeline engineering subject matter experts within the company have been applying the APIA Competency Standards to assessing the capability of their engineering team members and developing plans to ensure they have the full level of capability

required to provide engineering and asset management services for the new pipelines.

They have begun the process by adapting the Group Competency Assessment Tool from the APIA website. The adaptation process involved adding in the competencies from Engineers Australia for Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) and the requirements for RPEQ (Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland). They then undertook a preliminary assessment of the level of competency using both the

progressive ratings and the ‘competent/not-yet-competent’ ratings for each of the engineers in their teams.

The Group Competency Assessment Tool provided them with a summary of the makeup of their teams in terms of competencies held, allowing them to identify gaps in competency that need to be filled. They will investigate options for filling them such as training of the current team members, and recruiting and contracting new engineers.

They will also now begin the process of reviewing the accuracy of the group assessments by adapting and applying the APIA Individual Competency Assessment Tool to each team member and the Competency Portfolio Template to ensure that their assessments of team members are supported by verifiable evidence. They are expecting the full application of the Competency Standards and the Assessment Tools will take at least a year – time which is necessary to make sure the assessments and the supporting evidence are robust.

The key senior engineers have also found the Competency Standards very helpful in assisting engineers that do not have a pipelines background in gaining an appreciation of the breadth and depth of the competencies required by pipeline engineers.

Whatever stages pipeline engineers are at in their career, from graduates to seasoned professionals, the company has found the APIA Group Competency Assessment Tool ideal for tracking development by identifying existing competencies and gaps to their existing skill set.


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Competency Standards to the design of its engineering teams for its Jemena Gas Pipelines and its Jemena Gas Networks businesses.

Jemena’s managers of Asset Management Sean Ward (Pipelines) and Phil Colvin (Gas Networks) have begun the process by identifying 15 standard engineering roles within its engineering groups with four tiers for each of these roles – graduate engineer, engineer, senior engineer and specialist engineer. It has then taken the Group Competency Assessment matrix and modified it to identify which competencies are required and at what rating (ratings are from 0–5, where 0 means unskilled, 3 means fully competent and 5 means expert). This has produced a three-dimensional matrix with dimensions of competency, role and tier.

Having performed this initial specification for each role and tier, Jemena will ‘stress test’ the matrix against a range of engineers from its current teams. This matrix can then be used to produce standard job descriptions based around the Competency Standards for each role and tier. These would then be adjusted for the realities of particular teams and situations.

Next, Jemena plans to apply APIA’s Individual Assessment Tools, and Group Assessment Tools and the Competency Portfolio Template to assess its engineering teams’ capabilities and identify a ‘heat map’ of competency strengths and weaknesses that includes consultants and contractors.

This ̒ heat map ̓can be used to develop plans to strengthen the weak areas through developing its training and development planning, recruitment of people with missing competencies and identifying appropriately skilled consultants. It also helps Jemena capitalise on its strengths through sharing capability across business units.

The overall outcome for Jemena will be a disciplined approach to maintaining the engineering capability it needs to manage its pipelines and gas networks based on its use of APIA Competency Standards and adaptation of the Assessment Tools.

summaryIt is exciting to see that the investment

made by APIA on behalf of its members is now beginning to reap rewards in helping members grow the capability of their engineers. There are probably more stories like this out there that APIA’s members would benefit from hearing about.

As a result of these good news stories about application of the APIA Competency standards other members may be seeing the possibilities for the first time and be interested to capture some of the benefits of applying the Competency Standards.


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If your company has a story about applying the competency Standards or would like assistance with applying them you should feel free to contact chris harvey via the APIA office in canberra.

the success of such courses is not always easy to measure. however, one young engineer who was then sent out on a construction spread reported the difference it made to him: because he had heard and learned about some of the terms and concepts during the course, it equipped him with awareness of the issues that he would face with his role on the construction team.

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The four-day conference will build on the event’s 44-year history, and includes a unique blend of extensive

technical, commercial and strategic sessions covering all aspects of the LNG value chain.

The Australian-based scholars include: » Ms Phaedra Deckart, South

Australia – Manager, Group Commercial, Santos Limited;

» Mr Andrew Macky, Western Australia – Mondarra Project Engineering Manager, APA Group;

» Mr Andrew Macphillamy, Queensland – Senior Commercial Advisor, Australia Pacific LNG Pty Limited; and,

» Mr Dean Manifis, Western Australia – Engineering and Project Economist, Apache Corporation.

According to the Australian Gas Industry Trust (AGIT), there were 26 applicants for the original three scholarships being offered and the calibre and qualifications of those applying made it difficult to select a shortlist. An additional scholarship was added due to the difficulty in distinguishing the best qualified and to get the most benefit from attending.

The delegation will be led by AGIT Chairman and Envestra Managing Director Ian Little and will include AGIT Directors Graeme Bethune, CEO of EnergyQuest, and Cheryl Cartwright, Chief Executive of APIA.

There will also be representatives from the LNG 18 National Organising Committee and a large contingent of Australian gas industry representatives (at last count, this is 8 per cent of the total numbers attending).

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The LNG 17 Conference is widely expected to be a landmark strategic and technical event for the worldwide LNG industry. The four-day program will include plenary

sessions, workshops, an exhibition, poster sessions, technical tours of world-leading LNG facilities, city tours, plus opening and closing ceremonies and receptions.

The LNG series began in 1968, and its events are held every three years, alternating between producer and consumer nations. This year, a record crowd of over 5,000 attendees is expected from 80 countries, and over 200 exhibitors will be showcased in an exhibition of over 15,000 m2.

The international sponsoring industry organisations are the International Gas Union, the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and the International Institute of Refrigeration (IIR). The American Gas Association (AGA) is serving as the host association for this event.

The conference program and delegates’ guide can be viewed and downloaded from the LNG 17 Conference website at www.lng17.org

four Australian scholars have been selected by the Australian Gas Industry trust to attend the LnG 17 conference, which is being held from 16–19 April 2013 in houston, texas.


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following several years of keeping a relatively low profile in the onshore pipeline industry, wood Group kenny – encompassing jP kenny, mSI kenny, wGIm and mcS kenny – has returned to the APIA fold as part of its renewed onshore pipeline focus.

Phil Brown, who is based in Perth, is the company’s Operations Director for Australia. Reporting to Mr Brown

is the recently appointed, Melbourne-based Operations Manager Wacek Lipski.

Mr Lipski is leading Wood Group Kenny (WGK) Melbourne’s onshore and offshore activities across eastern Australia as well as providing project support to South East Asia and Africa. He has many years of international and local project management and business development experience, and has recently returned from several years working in Europe and Asia.

Assisting Mr Lipski in the onshore pipeline segment of WGK’s business is Brian Humphries – who is well-known within the industry, particularly for his pipeline

integrity work – and Young Pipeliners Forum stalwart Kristy Brincat. Rob Dickie, Nathan Baranello and Martin Wettenhall complement the WGK onshore team.

WGK specialises in ̒ whole-of-life ̓pipeline design, from high-level concept evaluation to detailed design, integrity management and operations support, and life extension. The constituent businesses makes WGK a one-stop-shop for all aspects of pipeline engineering including mechanical design, flow assurance, materials selection in addition to permitting, land access and routeing. WGK also has a strong relationship with sister company Wood Group PSN. Between them, the two companies are able to provide a full service that includes facilities such as pumping stations.

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for more information visit www.woodgroupkenny.com or contact mr Lipski at the wGk melbourne office on (03) 9211 6400.

wood Group kenny melbourne operations manager wacek Lipski.

The Hard Metal Industries (HMI) team includes Director Andrew Dry, who has 25 years’ experience in civil

engineering, and Technical Sales Specialist Greg Ivanovic, who previously worked at a leading trenching equipment sales and manufacturing company for 18 years.

The company specialises in the supply of quality tungsten-tipped wear parts. HMI not only provides teeth and holders – it can also supply tungsten wear protection for chains and plates, tungstuds for end idlers, and boom side plates.

HMI has a workshop facility that allows it to design, modify and create custom items for its clients. It also offers a full refurbishment facility for rebuilding and repairing PDC drill bits for the directional and vertical drilling markets, and a large range of PDC drilling tools are either stocked or can be provided with relatively short lead times.

HMI’s latest innovation in trenching technology is the Mag Wheel Feature on the BETEK round shank cutter picks.

“The tooth has indentations at the skirt which aids in tooth rotation resulting in

better productivity and value for money,” says Mr Ivanovic. “We have had great feedback from customers about the performance of these products.”

HMI’s products have been used on numerous major pipeline projects – including the Bonaparte Gas Pipeline, QGC trunklines, and the Spring Gully to Wallumbilla Gas Pipeline for the Australia Pacific LNG Project – and Mr Ivanovic says that HMI’s goal is for its products to be used on all future pipeline projects.

“My job is not just selling products – a big part is service and onsite support,” he says. “I travel to most Queensland pipeline sites every 2–3 weeks assisting clients with their needs.”

Mr Ivanovic added that he hopes HMI’s excellent service will build on the company’s existing reputation, opening the door to other projects.

In the meantime, the company remains committed to providing quality products while focusing on combating abrasive wear and extending the life of ground-engaging tools as it serves Australia’s pipeline industry.

Established in 1999, hard metal Industries continues to grow within the trenching sector of Australia’s pipeline industry, providing great service and quality products at a cost-effective price.


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hmI technical Sales Specialist Greg Ivanovic.

hmI not only provides teeth and holders – it can also supply tungsten wear protection for chains and plates, tungstuds for end idlers, and boom side plates.

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are keen to take advantage of its low-impact seismic line construction services.

Low-impact seismic refers to approaches that reduce the footprint and effect of seismic exploration activity, including losses of bushland and forest. The approach reduces the need for clearing and creation of long line of sight corridors by utilising combinations of satellite technology, meandering lines and smaller equipment.

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Lean Field Mulching uses mobile broad-acre mulching equipment to cut, grind and spread vegetation in a single pass with minimal impact.

The technology offers a number of significant advantages over heavy equipment like bulldozers.

Narrower, fully utilised linesMobile broad-acre mulching facilitates

narrowed seismic line widths. Only the trees that need to be removed are taken down, which means mature trees, animal habitats and sites of cultural significance can be avoided. The removal of fewer trees means a reduced effect on the environment, a reduced footprint on the land, and faster regrowth.

With no windrow of debris left over, all available space on the line can be utilised to move equipment. Wood chips from mulched trees are evenly distributed on the ground, creating a path that enables safe, easy movement of equipment and personnel onsite.

Burning is not necessaryWith mulching there is no window to

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access to areas through mulched lines because the root system is left intact and wood chips form a smooth path on which these smaller drills can move more easily.

EfficiencyMulchers clear land more effectively than

conventional methods such as bulldozing and hand–cutting, enabling projects to be completed up to five times more quickly. Reduced chainsaw activity also reduces the risk of injury and improves industry operational safety performance.

Mulching Operations Manager Greg Hillman says “Our clients have been very impressed with the results the corridor has produced for the vibes and recorders, not to mention the speed of production, which is very cost-effective for the overall seismic project. The low ground pressure of our mulchers means that in a few months you would never know we had been there.”

following the successful completion of clearing projects for the oil and gas, power and defence industries in 2012, Lean field mulching has launched into 2013 with a new seismic project in the Surat basin that allows for efficient and environmentally friendly seismic line clearing.


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many onsite pipe handling tasks are straightforward; others open additional doors for additional advanced improvements. keeping in touch with customer input, Schoenbeck has introduced a further product to improve lifting problems that can occur onsite.

The majority of bended pipe are difficult, if not impossible to lift with straight suction pads/cups. In

such cases, portable cranes can be viewed as the sole solution. This allows for the costs of additional heavy lifting equipment, such as cranes and the highly trained operators, to be reduced. With input from practical onsite pipeline construction, the company created this technical lifting improvement.

The objective was very straightforward. The ELiTE 12TD vacuum pipe lifter was assigned for pipe handling on a German pipeline in 2012, and as such, cost and payback of the lifter had already been assessed in the initial planning phase of the project.

It became apparent to the customer that costs initially planned for the ‘cold pipe bending’ application could be reduced significantly, without any risk towards safety and handling efficiency. Schoenbeck was confronted with the question of feasibility and assisted in the upgrade and the mobile crane was deployed elsewhere for other tasks on the job.

Thanks to valid customer input, all heavier ELiTE models are now available with the option of a hook package. The

hooks are situated two on each side of the sturdy main body and all new models are fitted with pre-welded base plates which allow for hook retrofitting later if and when required.

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Apart from handling standard pipe, Schoenbeck also manufactures accessories for all of its units. In some countries, high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe handled in 24 m lengths. This can be difficult pending wall thickness and regional weather conditions. Schoenbeck has an additional adaptor tool to aide in the handling of pipe, the V-SB 4/5 spreader bar: » V meaning vacuum; » SB meaning spreader bar; and, » 4/5 indicating the SWL options.

The V-SB-4/5 spreader bar is an all-round accessory which easily fits to all of Schoenbeck’s vacuum pipe lifters

via various fixed and clearly marked connecting points.

HdPEclimates/handlingDirect sun heat on high density

polyethylene (HDPE) pipe surfaces can result in the pipe surface bending or evening taking on a ‘snake’ type form. To assist with such a situation, mini suction pad lengths are required with single central oval cardin connecting points. This allows both suction pads to rotate a certain degree clockwise and anti-clock wise.

AdAP/3tFor those customers who have short

mini suction pads in stock, Schoenbeck has developed the ADAP/3t which allows customers to utilise the mini pads directly below the standard lifters. This permits max payback and project flexibility when purchasing Schoenbeck vacuum pipe lifters with the brand name, ‘ELiTE’.


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Ikon Engineered Solutions, in partnership with wrap Resources Australia, is assisting the Australian pipeline industry with cutting-edge turnkey coldworks solutions through the use of (neptune Research Inc.) nRI Advance composite Solutions. in Australia.

Based in Caloundra, Queensland, Ikon is a specialist supplier of process and mechanical engineering products that

helps its customers protect their human and capital assets. With over 25 years’ mining experience coupled with over 10 years of oil and gas application experience, the company has the expertise to fulfill a wide range of application requirements.

“Plant, personnel and machine safety is the core of our business,” said Brendan Sheppard, Managing Director of Ikon Engineered Solutions. “Now having access to the NRI product line, combined with Wrap Resources range of coldworks solutions and experience in pipeline repair; it gives us a complete

portfolio of safety solutions.” “The key advantage in using our pipeline

rehabilitation systems is that we are able to perform all works under a coldwork permit. Having rehabilitations works done under a hotwork permit in the Petrochemical industries allows projects to be completed more efficiently and more importantly, is in line with all workplace health and safety policies. Also, preventive maintenance utilising NRI Composites allows our clients to eliminate leaks altogether,” said Mr Sheppard.

Besides pipeline repair solutions, NRI also offers solutions for effective field joint protection wraps for horizontal directional drilling (HDD) works, allowing operators to

bury, bore or drill in less than an hour; wraps for pipe support areas, and live leak repair kits that can effective seal leaks.

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Richmond wheel and castor co. recently applied its specialist knowledge and expertise in pipe roller design in a subcontract to support Leighton contractors with Leighton’s civil and underground services contract on the chevron-operated Gorgon Project located in western Australia.

The Chevron-operated Gorgon Project is one of the world’s largest natural gas projects and

the largest single resource development in Australia’s history. The project involves the development of the Gorgon and Jansz-Io gas fields, located approximately 130 km off the northwest coast of WA, and includes the construction of a nominal 15 MMt/a LNG plant on Barrow Island and a domestic gas plant with the capacity to supply 300 TJ/d of gas to WA.

The Gorgon Project is operated by an Australian subsidiary of Chevron (47.3 per cent interest), in joint venture with the Australian subsidiaries of ExxonMobil (25 per cent), Shell (25 per cent), Osaka Gas (1.25 per cent), Tokyo Gas (1 per cent) and Chubu Electric Power (0.417 per cent).

The sheer scale of the Gorgon Project

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Leighton Contractors is one of Australia’s most recognised, diverse and established industry leaders, employing more than 10,000 people and providing services to the infrastructure, mining, civil construction and resource industries.

Likewise, Richmond is a specialist engineering company that prides itself on its ‘WheelMakers for Industry’ philosophy towards design and manufacturing from an in-house computerised numeral controlled facility to state-of-the-art polyurethane plant.

The company is an Australian and worldwide leader in design and construction of pipeline rollers and pipeline support systems, and trusted by

many of the country’s largest contractors to complete the most complex and challenging pipeline and resource projects.

Richmond fabricated specially designed low-profile pipeline rollers for Leighton Contractors to handle high density polyethylene pipe up to 2 m in diameter. The pipe rollers allowed Leighton Contractors to spool complete lengths – in some instances up to 80 m spools – with the 2 m welder stationed in one position.

The expertise provided by Leighton Contractors and the pipeline transport solution from Richmond improved productivity and eliminated costly handling and potential obstacles that may have arisen.

Richmond Managing Director Ray Winslow said “If it needs to move, we can build wheels for it.”

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“These services are vital to all companies involved in the oil and gas and resources boom,” says Commercial Leader of Hydratight in Australia Neil Ferguson. “Our world class in situ heat treating team, being introduced to Australia in April 2013,

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resistanceheattreatmentHydratight’s resistance heat treatment

includes nine-way power supplies, recording and monitoring systems and all related primary and secondary cables. Mr Ferguson says that Hydratight has a wide range of high quality receptacles and connectors available and also manufactures heating pads to exacting standards.

“Special pads can be manufactured to meet customers’ exact requirements,” Mr Ferguson explains. “These pads are

highly durable and able to withstand high temperatures over long durations.”

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PII Pipeline Solutions, a leading provider of pipeline inspection and integrity management solutions for

operators worldwide, has provided integrity services to the global oil and gas industry for 35 years.

“I am excited to help lead PII’s local efforts to meet the integrity management requirements and priorities of Australia and NZ’s pipeline sector,” says Mr Collis. “At PII we are dedicated to identifying pipeline issues before they become real problems for operators. Together with our customers, our goal is zero pipeline failures.”

Mr Collis first worked for PII in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, as a field operations supervisor prior to GE’s acquisition of the pipeline integrity services business. After a period of pursuing other opportunities, he returned to PII under the new management of GE, working again in the field before becoming a project manager. Mr Collis subsequently transferred to GE’s subsea and drilling business in Perth where he served as Services Operations Manager before becoming the Services Sales Manager for that business in the region.

PII says that Mr Collis’ experience, both with PII and in the broader Australian oil and gas industry, will help the company grow its business in a key growth area and better serve its customers in the region.

PII Pipeline Solutions General Manager Michael Bellamy said “This is the first time PII has had a dedicated local sales manager for the Australia/NZ market. John’s appointment will allow us to enhance PII’s local presence, allowing us to more fully understand the needs of our customers in the region and tailor solutions that best meet those needs.

“We will use this greater knowledge to continue developing our long-term growth strategy in the region, allowing us to invest

wisely in the infrastructure and resources needed to serve the segment.”

The combination of Mr Collis’ technical background in pipeline integrity, local market knowledge and business relationships will only strengthen PII’s presence in this important region, Mr Bellamy noted.

Mr Collis is based at GE’s Parramatta offices in New South Wales and his appointment is one of several recent actions GE Oil & Gas has taken to bolster its local presence in Australia.

In November 2012, GE celebrated the official opening of its Skills Development Centre in Jandakot, a suburb of Perth in Western Australia, to help address Australia’s need for skilled local workers to support a booming oil and gas industry. The centre is part of GE’s technology and learning facility, the largest complex of its kind in Australia and a cornerstone of GE’s commitment to support the growth of the country’s resources industry, including the dynamic LNG production sector.

Seeking to more effectively support Australia and new Zealand’s goals to develop efficient and safer energy pipeline systems, PII Pipeline Solutions has appointed john collis as the new sales manager for the region.

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“this is the first time PII has had a dedicated local sales manager for the Australia/nZ market. john’s appointment will allow us to enhance PII’s local presence, allowing us to more fully understand the needs of our customers in the region and tailor solutions that best meet those needs. ”

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This technology can also be used for older pipelines to confirm its exact location. This is particularly useful where pipelines may have moved due to flooding, ground subsidence or earthquakes or to prevent disturbance to the pipeline by new activities. This survey tool offers a convenient and inexpensive manner of reducing future risks.

The company sees no reason why HDD should be considered high risk any more as the industry has moved away from a stage of development and trial and error.

Stockton Drilling Services engineers and oversees the construction of projects ensuring industry best practices are employed. The company’s clients are able to accurately quantify risk by ensuring the design is done by experts who not only understand the growing possibilities, but also the limitations. Construction is then being proactively managed and performance measured by the company’s experienced field service personnel who ensure a quality end-product is delivered.


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Stockton Drilling Services was recently involved with the Western Australian Gorgon Project from the

front-end engineering and design (FEED) through to the successful completion. The challenges that were met during FEED were substantial, including: remote island location, stringent quarantine and environmental requirements, no availability of fresh water, potentially cavernous karst formation, and high energy and exposed marine environment. Together, these sorts of challenges demanded innovative and well planned-out engineering solutions.

Over the six-year involvement with the project, Stockton Drilling Services met these

challenges head on. This was recognised late 2012 when the nine shore crossings on Barrow Island were awarded the Environmental Award at the 2012 Engineers Australia Awards.

Stockton Drilling Services Director Charles Stockton was in Canberra to receive the award, along with Upstream Project Manager David Equid and Upstream Execution Manager Milton Bruce. Mr Stockton also recently gave a joint presentation on the project challenges with Cees VanOrd from Lucas Engineering and Construction at the 2012 APIA conference in Brisbane.

Since then, Stockton Drilling Services has continued to provide expert advice

to major clients, who not only see the value in ensuring a fit-for-purpose design is developed but also require horizontal directional drilling (HDD) quality assurance/quality control field inspection services.

surveyingwithgyroThe company is the first in Australia

to have pipeline gyro survey tools. This means that clients are now able to have the pipeline position independently verified after installation. The tools take an accurate X,Y,Z positional reading every 10 mm along the route. This data is then used to not only confirm the position, but also the grade and radius of the installed pipeline.

Stockton drilling Services is providing a benchmark in Australia through its involvement in innovative projects, including the first pipeline shore approaches to be installed by thrusting alone in western Australia; the first horizontal directional drilling under a live operating gas processing plant in victoria; and the country’s largest large diameter crossings in Queensland.

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Empire is taking the opportunity to contribute to Western Australia’s domestic gas demand via its Red

Gully development project and ongoing exploration in the onshore Perth Basin following successful back-to-back discoveries 18 km north of Gingin.

Discoveries at Gingin West-1 and Red Gully-1 in the permit EP 389 resulted in gas that flowed naturally at rates up to 12 MMcf/d and up to 832 bbl/d of condensate from the Jurassic-aged Upper Cattamarra Coal Measures. The Red Gully-1 well is the closest gas discovery to Perth in recent history.

Momentum Engineering designed the Red Gully Facility specifically for the condensate-rich gas featured in these two discovery wells, and to meet the specification

for entry into the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline (DBNGP), for which Empire has established a 20-year agreement.

The initial facility design by Momentum Engineering will treat up to 10 MMcf/d of gas and up to 500 bbl/d of condensate, and there is provision for future expansion of the facility to process up to 20 MMcf/d of gas and 1,000 bbl/d of condensate by installing a second processing train. A 3.2 km, 102 mm diameter ‘yellow jacket’ steel pipeline has been hot-tapped into the DBNGP, with this pipeline having the capacity to transport up to 30 MMcf/d of sales gas with the possibility for future expansion.

Momentum Engineering’s facility design is also equipped to store and transport large volumes of condensate that will be trucked to BP’s Kwinana Refinery.

The Red Gully Facility will initially treat the condensate and gas from the Gingin West-1 and Red Gully-1 discovery wells and will potentially be utilised in the future to treat other conventional and unconventional oil and gas discoveries near the Red Gully Facility. This includes opportunities in the nearby Gingin Gas Field initially discovered by WAPET in the mid-1960s.

The infrastructure that is already in place within the region will make future discoveries more accessible, with the facility is less than two hours drive from Perth, three hours drive from the BP Refinery in Kwinana, and 3 km from the DBNGP.

momentum Engineering is nearing completion on its contract for the Red Gully facility, which includes engineering and design as part of Empire oil & Gas nL’s development project in western Australia.


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recovery strategies. Summer cyclones are a way of life in these parts and in Yasi’s aftermath the Queensland Government announced that it would build permanent evacuation centres in the region, all installed with Olympian generator sets.

Olympian generator sets are designed, engineered and manufactured for optimal performance at an ISO 9001 Caterpillar facility for both prime power and standby service. They deliver dependable, clean and economical power, even in the most

demanding conditions, all benchmarked to the highest safety standards.

Many of the residents of the area who were assisted by Mr Copelin and the team at KAC Generation and Mechanical in the lead up to and the aftermath of Yasi are testament to this. Craig Teitzel, from Cardwell IGA, says that having an Olympian generator set pre-installed by KAC was the best money he ever spent.

Mr Teitzel believes that it is imperative that every services business in North

Queensland has a generator on stand-by. “As soon as we lost power on the night of Yasi our generator kicked in. [Mr Copelin] had already had it installed and it kept us fully operational for the next three weeks.” Mr Teitzel’s business was not only able to continue to service a community in isolation, but also assist locals with refrigeration and other essential power needs thanks to the company’s Olympian generator and the support of KAC.

In fact they had been ready from the moment that then-Queensland Premier Anna Bligh issued her stark warning

about Yasi having the potential to be the biggest cyclone the state had ever seen. Communities that don’t have power means chaos, and Mr Copelin knew well enough that being prepared was the best line of defence.

Queenslanders are a tough breed, but Cyclone Larry, which left its own path of destruction on the region in March 2006, had taught everyone a lesson, says Mr Copelin. “Many people up north are used to cyclones. They know what to do and how to prepare for an imminent cyclone, but Yasi was different. It was much stronger and more widespread. So many people were affected.”

ThelegacyofYasiWind gusts near the centre of the

cyclone reached around 285 km per hour and its havoc extended 400 km along the

coast and inland to Mount Isa. The worst affected areas were around Mission Beach, Tully, Silkwood, Innisfail and Cardwell. The paradise that normally enveloped the towns was now a mess of destroyed homes, shredded banana and sugarcane crops and smashed marinas and resorts. In addition to personal suffering, the agriculture, mining and tourism industries also bore the brunt of Yasi’s devastation.

ThelessonsfromlarryDisaster prevention, relief and recovery

are tasks of enormous magnitude, and one that takes the hard work and commitment of an entire community. Mr Copelin and his team were an essential part of this effort. Because of its great size, and the lessons learnt from Larry, the thousands of residents in the path of Yasi were urged to evacuate, including thirty thousand people from Cairns alone. Mr Copelin and his team

worked around the clock to set up Olympian generator sets at the evacuation centres to ensure power was available for essential services in these extraordinary conditions.

The storm cut power to more than 200,000 properties and, a month after Yasi hit, there were still approximately 700 properties without power because they had not been deemed safe for reconnection. Mr Copelin and his team normally field one order per week for Olympian generator sets, but the phone rang off the hook with enquiries, from those who weren’t prepared to farmers whose existing generators had either failed or couldn’t supply enough power.

olympiangeneratorsNatural disasters cannot be prevented,

and electrical safety is one of the biggest concerns at these times, but good planning, with the assistance of professionals like Mr Copelin, can assist in speedy and safe

As tropical cyclone yasi made landfall in the early hours of 3 february 2011, near mission beach in far north Queensland, kerry copelin and the team from his family-owned business, kAc Generation and mechanical, were ready.


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EPSA also has a national fleet of rental generators, air compressors and temperature control units. Rent the latest technology and products with no maintenance and storage costs. Rent for a day or however long you need with a quick response anywhere in Australia.

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Following an extensive search for a strong Australian dealer for its leading in-field vacuum lifting

equipment, Vacuworx Australia, a division of Vacuworx Global, has appointed Sargent Rental and Maintenance as an authorised Vacuworx dealer.

Vacuworx says that with Sargent’s 40 years of experience in fleet services and its extensive network of 17 offices around Australia, the Brisbane-based national fleet services provider will be able to offer enhanced service to all Vacuworx customers on the continent.

Sargent’s existing customer base already includes many current Vacuworx customers, and Sargent is quickly moving to set up support networks within the company for fast delivery and quick answers to questions from the Australian market.

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Vacuworx says that rental options for vacuum lifting equipment have been extremely limited in Australia and that in most cases, if rental was an option, the equipment had to be shipped in from overseas, delaying delivery for several months. Local service was also not available if a problem arose.

Sargent’s expertise in rentals will greatly improve options for the industry, and Australian customers will be able to rent Vacuworx products immediately with the new dealer.

“With Sargent’s current business of flexible rental fleet solutions and their high level of commitment to customer service, Sargent was an ideal solution for a Vacuworx dealership in Australia,” says Vacuworx Director of International Sales Steve Smith.

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Vacuworx and Sargent boast one of the largest inventories of vacuum lifting equipment in Australia, and Sargent already

stocks a very large number of service parts for both current and older Vacuworx models. Nevertheless, the two companies are working together to further expand the range of vacuum lifters, pads and service parts stocked in Brisbane.

“This will greatly reduce the need to airfreight equipment from other parts of the world and keep costs down for our customers,” says Mr Smith. “We are planning multiple ocean shipments to Brisbane this year to greatly increase the number of lifters in stock. We’re also adding additional sizes of pads available for our customers to quickly serve their local requirements.”

The companies are working to add more of their special ‘RPP’-style pads that are specifically built to handle the lighter plastic, fibreglass, and high-density polyethylene pipes.

As vacuum lifting technology takes off in other parts of the world, Vacuworx is also increasing inventories of its RC and MC lines of material handling machines across the globe. The company has committed more product to warehouses in Australia, Europe, South America and the Middle East in order to ensure immediate availability to meet those regions’ growing demands, as new generations of users hit the marketplace.

The Vacuworx Research and Development Department is also working on two specific new products that Mr Smith says is hoping to introduce to the Australian market in 2013.

Highsafetystandardsremainthefocus

Even though Vacuworx is growing rapidly around the world with more inventory and new products, the company still manufactures and designs their products with the highest safety standards in mind.

All Vacuworx products are manufactured to meet or exceed numerous global engineering and safety standards. The company’s products are compliant to ASME BTH-1 for design and engineering and ASME B30.20 for construction, build

and implementation. They also meet the AUS 4991 standards for Australia. Additionally, Vacuworx products are European CE-compliant to the Machinery Directive, the Low Voltage Directive and the Electromagnetic Interference Directive.

Well-preparedforgrowthVacuworx has prepared and organised

the company to handle the current rapid growth, taking care of its customers with the highest standards of quality and service. The company continues to add personnel, logistical measures, and plant capacity to handle the worldwide demand.

Mr Smith says “Our global reach will work to benefit our Australian customers, as we can share experiences and successful applications of our technology from other countries with them.”


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As it manages worldwide demand for its in-field vacuum lifting equipment, vacuworx has enhanced its presence in Australia with the appointment of a new dealer, an expanded inventory and the addition of new rental options.

vacuworx expands in Australia

for more information visit www.vacuworx.com

vacuworx lifters can be attached to excavators, wheel or track loaders, cranes, pipelayers, forklifts and telehandlers.

vacuworx’s vacuum lifting systems handle all forms of pipe, plate and slabs.

Following the proven principle of the established ELGEF Plus modular system, Georg Fischer has developed

the new ELGEF Plus branch saddle system and customised top load peeling tool for polyethylene (PE) piping systems.

The system is available in dimensions ranging from 315–2,000 mm in diameter and outlets ranging from 160–500 mm in diameter, and boasts an outstanding degree of modularity and flexibility. A functional design provides ease of connection between all of the ELGEF topload system components. This flexible solution, which easily adapts to the changing demands of site works, offers continued cost-effective advantages to all pipeline projects.

The advantages of this unique modular system guarantees secure assembly of components, straight-forward setup for ease of handling by a single operator, and lightweight construction of components

for ease of installation under the most demanding of conditions.

The new system allows flexibility for saddle positioning along the length and around the circumference of the pipe. In addition, the unique modular design allows for precise fitting to new or existing pipeline systems, and the branch outlet is unencumbered by bracketing or mechanical stress during the full process.

The dedicated window scraper guarantees a repeatable, continuous chip thickness for optimum fusion surface preparation when comparing it to unsafe hand scraping, which now becomes unnecessary.

The controlled assembly of components ensures installation reliability and promotes operator safety.

Finally, the full pressure rating of the saddle, combined with the precision of the tooling, maintains total pipeline integrity.

In response to the increasing trend of larger diameter pipe installations utilised for gas, water and industrial applications, Georg fischer Piping Systems has introduced an innovative branch offtake solution.


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Presentation of the branch saddle d315–1,000mm (SdR11) and outlets of d160 and d225mm (SdR11).

the Georg fischer feeding tool which promotes precision. Easy positioning of the clamping tool.


A number of fisher products, which have successfully enhanced the performance of an LnG plant in malaysia, are now available for use in Australian projects via Emerson Process management.

Emerson Process Management helps process industries better manage plants through intelligent control

systems and software, measurement instruments, valves and industry expertise. So when a Malaysian LNG plant sought to address its inefficient acid gas removal process, the plant’s operator turned to Transwater – the Emerson Process Management local business partner in Malaysia – for the solution.

Normally, this process is achieved by feeding the natural gas containing hydrogen sulfide into the bottom of an absorption tower. The gases come in contact with a lean solvent such as a Sulfinol solution, which is fed from the top of the tower. After the amine contacts the gas stream and absorbs the acid gases, it leaves the absorption tower through a level control valve before going to the flash tank.

“This is a severe application because a great portion of the physically absorbed gases separate from the amine solution via out-gassing when pressure differential occurs across the valve,” said Ryan McIntosh, Senior Sales Engineer for Fisher Australia

of Emerson Process Management. “The turbulent two-phase flow system resulted in severe vibration and erosion due to the high velocity impingement of the liquid phase on the valve and trim.”

After engineers at Transwater and Emerson Process Management had evaluated the application and studied the root cause of the valve failure, an improvement valve solution was recommended with a Fisher 203 mm x 152 mm EWT body with Whisper Trim III to replace two existing problematic competitor’s valves.

Whisper Trim III, which has specifically designed drilled-hole passages, was selected to control the rapid fluid expansion experienced in this type of service. Potential vibration was further controlled by a valve body designed to limit high velocity flow at the valve outlet.

“The carefully selected trim material combination provides necessary corrosion resistance and protection in the presence of corrosive entrained gases,” explained Mr McIntosh. “These specific trim and valve body technologies together allow the valve to control the level in the amine contactor,

without the system vibration and valve erosion damage typically generated by a standard valve.”

To further enhance valve reliability and extend its service life, Emerson also installed the Fisher FIELDVUE™ DVC6200 digital valve controller, which uses high-performance, linkage-less, non-contact valve travel feedback technology. The performance diagnostics capabilities of the DVC6200 were also included to enable condition and performance monitoring of the entire valve assembly to improve asset management decision making.

The newly installed Fisher EWT globe valves with Whisper Trim III successfully solved the vibration and valve damage problem that the LNG plant was previously experiencing in the acid gas removal unit. As a result, frequent valve maintenance and plant operation disruptions were eliminated due to the enhanced performance.

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The HOBAS GRP jacking pipe was supplied to Queensland Urban Utilities (QUU) in 2 m lengths with

over 1,500 of the tunnelling pipelines being delivered over four months as part of QUU’s $80.6 million Woolloongabba Sewer Upgrade Project.

The project involves the installation of 5.2 km of trunk sewer main that will increase the capacity of the Woolloongabba sewerage system to cater for development and population growth in the area. The upgrade project will ensure the long-term sustainability of sewerage services for approximately 50,000 properties in the Woolloongabba catchment.

The project will be carried out by approximately 100 personnel and will involve the construction of six new sewer lines and 37 access shafts. QUU says that current sewer pipelines in Woolloongabba are approximately 80 years old.

QUU Chief Executive Officer Louise Dudley says “This trenchless method was chosen as it limits the impact on the community, making it ideal for use in heavily urbanised areas, such as Woolloongabba.

“As part of the Woolloongabba upgrade project, Herrenknecht tunnel boring machines will install pipes as large as 1.5 m in diameter up to 17 m underground.”

HOBAS Pipe is supplied in Australia by Global Pipe in Melbourne. Global Pipe Executive Director Andrew Holman comments “The use of HOBAS jacking pipe will enable longer drives with relatively low jacking loads, which will minimise the surface disruption by way of cutting down the number of working shafts required and reducing the number of times the equipment will need to be moved.

“Given the constricted project working area around Stanley Street, one of Brisbane’s busiest streets, and being located directly

in front of the iconic ‘Gabba’ during cricket season, having a small project footprint is an absolute must.

“Using relatively lightweight GRP jacking pipe enabled the project to proceed without the use of heavy cranes and all of the associated traffic management of the larger machinery,” Mr Holman says.

“It is a challenging project given the ground conditions and urban environment. Pipe selection, as always, is an important part of any project. Through our close work with long-term client John Holland, we believe the pipe material adopted by John Holland addresses all the challenges, and we look forward to supporting them through to project completion.”

Ms Dudley saw the project as an ideal opportunity to engage East Brisbane State School students in a large-scale project.

“On the surface it might seem like nothing is happening, but under the ground, boring machines will be making their way through Woolloongabba,” Ms Dudley says.

Approximately 90 children in grades one, two and three (aged 6–9) at East

Brisbane State School took part in a competition to name and choose the colours of the first tunnel boring machine to be used in the project.

Ms Dudley says “We had our contractor, John Holland, paint newly named ‘Cora the Tunnel Borer’ in the colours that reflected the winning entry. This was a novel way of involving children in the project and introducing them to the concept of how pipes are installed underground.”

Mr Holman says the design was circulated throughout Herrenknecht headquarters in Germany and the feedback had been postiive.

“However,” he joked, “I’m not sure we would consider making it a standard across our range.”

The first part of the project will take place in stages along Stanley Street and is expected to take approximately 14 months.

In Australia, the largest capital works project, which was undertaken by Queensland’s water authority has reached a major milestone with the delivery of over 3 km of 1.5 m jacking pipe.


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An update on APIA’s strategic activities

by StEvE dAvIES, PoLIcy AdvISER, APIA

regulatoryandEconomicPolicycommittee

Economic RegulationA working group of the Regulatory and

Economic Policy Committee continues to actively participate in the ongoing economic regulatory reforms commenced in 2011.

In November last year, the Australian Energy Market Commission delivered a rule change that altered the framework for economic determinations for energy service providers. The new framework is structured to require the consideration of as many pieces of evidence as possible in rate of return determinations – a position strongly advocated by the APIA during the rule change process. This is a substantial departure from the previous framework, which largely allowed regulators to focus on a single financial model.

The Australian Energy Regulator (AER), the APIA, the Energy Networks Association (ENA) and consumer/user groups are now engaged in a 12-month process to develop a guideline on the detail of the new framework. The new framework is highly flexible and there are many steps that must

be discussed, agreed and finalised. There is still the potential for the reforms to not be pursued as strongly as APIA would like.

Currently, ENA and APIA are working on an agreed ‘multi-model methodology’ for rate of return determinations and working with the AER to establish the workability of such an approach.

gasPolicyThe Committee also continues to grapple

with gas policy, looking for useful messages and policy positions APIA can advocate. It can be a surprisingly complex task to identify key policy messages that meet APIA’s goals, advocate increased gas usage in the economy and make economic and political sense. We hope to have a set of public documents in the second quarter that effectively set out the importance and benefits of increasing Australia’s gas supply to enable the low emission and economic advantages of natural gas to be utilised.

HS&E CommitteeA major project underway in the HS&E

Committee is the review of the APIA Code of Environmental Practice (CoEP). The APIA

Board selected CNC Project Management to undertake this project in October last year and the review is well progressed, with the launch of the new CoEP planned for the Brisbane seminar on May 16. There are several formatting changes being implemented and a range of new information and detail being covered. Two areas identified for specific consideration are problem soils and trenchless technologies. The APIA is working with relevant experts in both areas to ensure the CoEP continues to set the standard in environment management, not just for the pipeline industry but the wider resource industry.

Keep an eye out in April for the final consultation draft of the revised CoEP.

Pipeline Corridor CommitteeThe Pipeline Corridor Committee

considers the interface between planners, developers, the public and pipelines and how we as an industry can work to ensure public safety and that the requirements of pipelines are understood by stakeholders.

There are increasing incidents of development on the fringes of urban centres that are affecting the risk profiles of pipelines. Unfortunately, there are no easy solutions to these issues. Whilst pipelines are required to consider potential impacts to the public well beyond the easement, the broader community is usually only aware of the easement itself at best. Implementation of systems to change this requires consideration of public concern about pipelines and the potential for compensation.

the focus of the last couple of articles has been on energy policy and some of the bigger policy issues the industry is contending with. this edition, I thought I’d provide some information about other important activities APIA has been managing.


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If you’d like any more information about any of these activities please get in touch on (02) 6273 0577 or email [email protected]

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The agreement solidifies market presence for both companies in the rich resources region of Western

Australia. Sargent has built a strong network in the

Pilbara in recent years establishing branches in Newman, Port Hedland and Karratha.

Sargent provides rental and maintenance of commercial vehicles to a wide range of customers throughout Australia. Its Pilbara maintenance and workshop facilities include the latest Ford-approved diagnostic equipment and staff are trained to meet Ford’s technical requirements.

Sargent Interim Chief Executive Officer Zach Zahner said that the company was pleased to be awarded this contract for passenger and commercial vehicles which showed the strength of its network and servicing capability.

“This new arrangement with Ford will provide convenience and peace of mind for Ford customers throughout this vast region,” Mr Zahner said.

“It’s great for Sargent in increasing our commitment to the Pilbara and our growing number of clients across Australia.

“We’ve had a long association with Ford in Australia and look forward to working more closely with the company through this new arrangement.”

Sargent carries the five-star ANCAP-rated Ford PX Ranger in its diverse fleet which services clients in a range of industries.

Sargent also has a similar arrangement with Ford in Queensland’s Bowen Basin region.

Sargent has made major acquisitions in the Pilbara over the past year including the opening of a new vehicle rental and maintenance branch at Hedland Diesel and Exhaust.

The company acquired a Bridgestone tyre centre in Newman, adding a vehicle rental and extended maintenance service to the existing 30-year-old Newman Tyre and Battery operation.

It also acquired Karratha-based North West Mechanical, a locally owned and operated mechanical workshop.

Sargent’s fleet of approaching 3,800 vehicles comprises 4WDs, 2WDs, trucks, buses and specialised vehicles which are provided over a national network of company-owned branches and agencies.

ford Australia has authorised the appointment of leading Australian fleet services company Sargent as a ford Authorised Repairer in the Pilbara.


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services and vehicle processing centres and 11 ocean terminals globally, and is responsible for handling over 10 million units per annum.

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WWL specialises in rolling and static equipment such as trucks, cranes and mining equipment, including trenchers and excavators. Understanding the market is of prime importance in establishing operations at key locations globally and within Australia. The company offers critical supply chain benefit of providing a close link between ocean and inland networks.

There are four WWL equipment processing centres (EPCs) located in Australia, which are based in Port Kembla, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth. The Port Kembla EPC is located 8 km from the port of Port Kembla; the Melbourne EPC is located 15 km from the port of Melbourne; the Brisbane EPC is located 43 km from the port of Brisbane; and, the Perth EPC is located 24 km from the port of Fremantle.

Each of the Australian EPCs can assist companies working within the pipeline industry with the following services: » Post-production quality inspection,

to ensure that all equipment meets Australian design rule compliance

» Fault diagnosis and repairs, for both paint and mechanical jobs

» Storage and inventory management. Storage includes a range of undercover and outdoor storage options, from hardstand bitumen to concrete pads. WWL also offers a preservation service for units, which ensures protection from the elements during extended storage periods

» Wash and detail services, including full interior and exterior detailing and preparation for sales dispatch

» Paint facility services. Each EPC incorporates paint facilities (prepare, spray and bake) capable of handling high, heavy and unique equipment. WWL uses high-quality automotive grade paints as well as quick-dry enamels, and

» Superior protection of site and product. Each site has CCTV cameras at the entry and exit gates and full perimeter electric fencing at all sites. There are security patrols on each of the sites seven days a week, with alarm systems in place with back-to-base remote monitoring.

Other services offered by the WWL EPCs include: » Distribution services; » Build planning; » Production visibility; » Fleet build-up; » Container unpack services; and, » Accessorising services.

WWL’s sophisticated supply chain management services ensure an efficient integration of ocean transportation, inland distribution and a comprehensive range of specialised technical services.

As a global company, wallenius wilhelmsen Logistics understands the unique logistic requirements of the pipeline industry.


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wwL specialises in rolling and static equipment such as trucks, cranes and mining equipment, including trenchers and excavators.

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An aerial shot of the melbourne EPc.

An aerial shot of the brisbane EPc.

the thrifty master franchise, which operates in South East Queensland and northern new South wales, has made a significant investment in infrastructure and a new specialised fleet to meet the needs of the growing Surat basin cSG and pipeline industry head on.

Thrifty is developing a one-stop-shop philosophy to ensure that its customers in the CSG industry can

hire a complete and varied range of vehicles – from passenger cars and 4WDs to large 4WD trucks and buses built to specification for the pipeline and CSG industries.

Thrifty has developed a new state-of-the-art commercial facility in Brisbane to fit out and maintain a wide range of specialty vehicles that can be purpose built to the exact specification of a particular project or to site requirements.

“The facility contains specialised vehicle accessory fitting bays as well as a dedicated 4WD service facility,” explained a Thrifty spokesperson. “This facility, through the existing Surat Basin branch network, will ensure that we can deliver large amounts of professionally prepared vehicles quickly to meet the delivery schedules of the largest projects in the CSG industry.”

At present, Thrifty has approximately 15,000 vehicles within its fleet across Australia, with over 2,000 vehicles based permanently in the Surat Basin region. Thrifty South East Queensland Sales Manager Jason McLennan recently took delivery of a fleet of 4WD twelve-seat commuter buses and 4WD 20-seat Coaster buses presented by Steve Hargreaves from Bus 4X4.

“We have committed to a complete fleet of 4WD trucks and buses, including crane trucks, service trucks, water trucks and prime movers with trailers to ensure we can service the needs of customers working in the tough western and central Queensland regions

“As a corporate customer with Thrifty you will be aligned with a relationship manager who will co-ordinate the overall delivery of service to you as a corporate client. This includes establishment of the account and setting the agreed rates and

special conditions in our system; managing the implementation process; notifying key staff within Thrifty on the specific details of the contract; logging, resolving and reviewing any issue where appropriate; keeping you informed of all new products and services; and advising on any future requirements to ensure continual supply,” concludes the spokesperson.


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thrifty has approximately 15,000 vehicles within its fleet across Australia.

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Boddingtons commands an enviable reputation for offering quality and affordable products as well as

tailor-made solutions for its customers’ requirements. The company has achieved ISO9001:2008 quality accreditation throughout the group, indicating its commitment to providing quality products and services.

The company’s standard product range is manufactured to stock, allowing short lead times for supply to its customers. The standard stock range covers all major underground pipeline and cable applications.

Boddingtons’ range of plastic warning tapes and extruded meshes covers the protection, detection and warning of underground cable and pipelines for gas, fuel, electricity, water and optic fibre communication lines. These products give pipeline owners the peace of mind that their assets are safe and protected from third-party damage.

Boddingtons is proud of its efficient and low-cost manufacturing operations in Melbourne. Boddingtons employees pride themselves on providing their customers with the best quality products backed by outstanding customer service. The company has a small but dedicated team of employees led by National Sales Manager Michelle Moreira and Financial Controller Kylie Morris. The company’s customer service team is managed by Harika Mengato and Jane Goodier-Hill who pride themselves on providing customers with exceptional customer service.

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three-dimensional bi-planar extruded diamond-structured plastic mesh. It is wrapped around underground pipe as protection of the coating systems on the

boddingtons Australasia Pty Ltd is a privately-owned manufacturing and distribution business based in melbourne. Established over 30 years ago, boddingtons sells its products to over 60 countries worldwide.

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boddingtons’ range of plastic warning tapes and extruded meshes covers the protection, detection and warning of underground cable and pipelines for gas, fuel, electricity, water and optic fibre communication lines.


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pipe when they are buried underground. It offers a consistent thickness throughout the width of each roll or pad to provide full width protection to your pipeline during backfill operations. Rockshield HD™ also offers protection from abrasive objects after installation, prohibiting geologic movements from damaging your pipeline. Rockshield HD™ may be installed in pad or roll form, depending on pipe diameter. Boddingtons also manufactures another version of ROCKSHIELD™. This product is available ex-stock directly from Boddingtons and in 1.5 m wide x 30 m rolls. The weight per square metre is 950 grams.

WAVELAY® and DETECTAMESH® underground marker and warning

tapes and meshes are manufactured from rot-resistant virgin polyethylene and polypropylene plastics. They have a stainless steel tracer wire embedded within the plastic product to ensure long life, strength and optimum detectability. Boddingtons can also supply these products custom made to the customer’s specifications with special custom messages widths and thicknesses.

PROTECTAMESH™ pipe protection mesh is unique as it offers the dual functionality of protection and warning of

your underground pipeline in one product. With its high impact resistance properties you can be ensured the cable or pipe can remain unharmed by rogue excavators. PROTECTAMESH™ combines a high impact extruded high density polyethylene mesh in bright colours such as yellow and orange with a warning tape laminated to the surface of the mesh. PROTECTAMESH™ is high strength and easy to install in roll form. The product is also available in a heavier and thicker version called PROTECTAMESH™ MaxiGrid™.



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boddingtons is proud of its efficient and low-cost manufacturing operations in melbourne.

Since the company’s inception, PLIDCO® has been an innovative manufacturer of quality pipeline

repair and maintenance fittings designed to avoid or minimise costly shutdowns.

Tremco Pipeline Equipment distributes PLIDCO® products throughout Australia, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific islands.

PLIDCO® fittings can be used onshore and offshore and in hazardous non-weld areas. The fittings are a bolt-on style that completely stop any leaks. Once the fitting is no longer required, it can be removed from the line and returned to Tremco Pipeline Equipment for reconditioning. It can then be placed back in the customer’s stock for future use. Where required, PLIDCO® fittings are able to be welded in place while line is in service.

The company’s factory in Cleveland,Ohio is equipped to manufacture

standard and custom fittings designed by the in-house engineering department. PLIDCO® is ISO 14001-certified and committed to the continuous improvement of the environmental impact of manufacturing.

Each PLIDCO® fitting is designed and manufactured following a strict quality control program as well as applicable industrial codes. The company is also ISO 9001-certified, based on the company’s quality administration system.

Many standard size fittings are stocked at the facility in Ohio and can be rushed to a customer for emergency repairs. Custom fittings can be designed based on the needs of customers, including high temperature and high pressure fittings. A wide range of seal materials are available, as well as different protective coatings for the company’s fittings, studs and nuts. NACE-compliant materials and standards can be used for fitting manufacture at additional charge upon request.

The company also offers hinges for ease of installation especially on bigger fittings,

vents, sacrificial anodes, and a variety of high-pressure injectable sealants for various applications.

The PLIDCO® product line includes, but is not limited to, the following items: » Split + Sleeves™ » Split + Repair Ell’s or Tee’s » Smith clamps™ » Weld + Caps » Flange + Repair Rings » Weld + Ends Couplings » Clamp + Rings » PLIDCO® + Flanges » Riser Type Weld + End » Hot + Tapping Saddles » Line + Stop Saddles with

extended clamp ends » Sole + Mates » Shear + Plugs.

PLIDCO® has sold hundreds of thousands of fittings worldwide that have been installed and used successfully since 1949. Some have even been in place for over 40 years.

PLIdco® is a family-owned business in the United States that was founded in 1949 by joseph and berneice Smith, and its products are distributed by Australia’s tremco Pipeline Equipment.

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A wide range of seal materials are available, as well as different protective coatings for the company’s fittings, studs and nuts.

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the next inspection, and when they must remove a line, seamlessly switching to a strategically installed reserve line to avoid interrupting production.”

The next challenge was that the pipeline is open to the sea at the end, with the exit of the pipe approximately 130 m below the surface. A system had to be devised to safely retrieve the pigs, so Dacon added pressure resistant buoyancy foam to the external bodies of the tools to allow them to float to the surface and be retrieved by a support vessel and divers.

The system has now been developed for smaller diameter HDPE pipe, and HDPE internally lined steel pipe where both the liner and the steel can be measured using advanced algorithms and analysis tools.

“All data is downloaded immediately and scanned for major defects, and a site report can be issued within a few hours highlighting any major anomalies in the pipeline, although full analysis takes longer and can normally be completed within two weeks of demobilisation,” says the Dacon spokesperson.

Whilst diversifying into HDPE inspections, Dacon also maintains its focus on the core steel pipeline business. Advances in technology, reliability, and resolution have seen Dacon become a trusted partner of some of the world’s largest pipeline operators.

There is a constant thirst for new technology amongst our clientele, and we are constantly being asked

to produce solutions for unpiggable pipelines, internally lined pipelines, and non-metallic pipelines,” says a Dacon spokesperson.

One such request came from PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (PT NNT), the Indonesian subsidiary of mining giant Newmont.

“The company had been given permission to offload its treated tailings to a deep sea trench approximately 3.5 km offshore, but as the tailings pipeline would traverse protected fisheries, the Indonesian Government insisted they use non-metallic pipelines to reduce the operation’s environmental impact,” explains the Dacon spokesperson.

PT NNT opted to use with high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipelines, but this meant there would be a high erosion rate from the abrasive tailings mixed with water. The Government stated that PT NNT should inspect these lines on a regular basis, and that once they reached a minimum threshold, they must be replaced. This directive prompted PT NNT to approach Dacon to develop a system capable of inspecting these pipelines.

“There were many challenges in developing such a system,” says the Dacon spokesperson. “Firstly the pipelines were 1,219 mm in diameter, with a nominal wall thickness of 110 mm. High density polyethylene (HDPE) has a very high attenuation of ultrasonic signals, and it is very hard to get a signal from the outside diameter of a normal thickness HDPE pipe, so this wall thickness was on the boundaries of possibility.

“Dacon developed a highly sensitive, low frequency system, which experienced less signal attenuation and was able to get reliable signals from the outside diameter of the pipe. Specialist software was also developed to apply complex algorithms to the data, to be able to visualise the erosion in the pipe, and give accurate remaining thickness measurements.”

HDPE pipelines fall outside of the normal codes and standards such as ASME B31.4 and B31G, but these standards were applied to calculate wear rates and remaining life of each pipeline, allowing PT NNT to accurately estimate when they would need a new pipeline.

“Each pipeline lasts generally between 1–2 years depending on the ore and production output,” says the Dacon spokesperson. “Working with Dacon, PT NNT was able to establish a system of when to install reserve lines, when to plan

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Pt nnt opted to use with high-density polyethylene (hdPE) pipelines, but this meant there would be a high erosion rate from the abrasive tailings mixed with water.

whilst diversifying into hdPE inspections, dacon also maintains its focus on the core steel pipeline business.

software, and rugged field pack with eight hours battery autonomy, the Creaform Pipecheck system is ready to go anywhere.

Pipecheck provides depth measurements for corrosion and mechanical denting with a resolution of ±50 microns. Additionally, the Creaform system can measure pipe for ovality to ensure optimum welding matching.

The Handyscan 3D laser system has been used for other measuring applications for over ten years in areas such as metrology, reverse engineering, body scanning and more.

The Pipecheck system has been developed around ASME B31G to give direct correlation to the standard. Data

can be collected up to ten times faster than traditional methods and this data is recorded for future reference.

With the latest addition of mechanical damage measurement to the Creaform 3D laser scanner’s corrosion analysis capabilites, Pipecheck is fast becoming the new benchmark for external pipeline analysis. creaform’s Pipecheck 3d laser scanning system offers an innovative, intuitive and highly effective

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engineering services, and is represented in the corrosion, non-destructive testing and pipeline markets by Russell Fraser Sales.

According to Creaform, 3D laser scanning is emerging as the most efficient alternative to manual measurements. Not only is the system fast, but results are recordable and ready for easy email transmission from the field to other locations.

Around the world, the Creaform Pipecheck solution is becoming the new industry standard for denting and corrosion inspection. It offers a user-friendly interface with full analysis and reporting generated automatically in the field.

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Insulation is a necessary component and there to function in three ways: save energy, control process temperatures,

and protect workers from high wall temperatures. The environment under insulation, the corrosion under insulation (CUI) environment, can be hot, wet, and promotes aggressive corrosion.

The American Petroleum Institute has directives that address the CUI problem and detail a program of identification, maintenance, and remediation. These directives, as well as efforts by professional societies (NACE and ASTM), promote the development of new solutions. The issue in achieving a good end result is that no clear solution exists for new installed piping as well as maintenance and remediation of existing installations.

NACE Standard RP0198-98 is an excellent source of information for preventing corrosion under insulation, but many corrosion engineers would agree that electrolytes will eventually find their way into even the best system. Selecting the right coating is extremely important. The coating is the last line of defence for keeping the electrolyte from the metal surface and preventing corrosion.

corrosion of steel operating equipment and piping under insulation has been recognised as an important problem in the ammonia refrigeration, chilled water, chemical and petroleum industry.


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The RD-6 pipeline coating system has been proven in the market for over 25 years, and used on thousands of applications worldwide with exceptional results. As a superior and differentiated tape system, the RD-6 offers excellent soil stress resistance, installs faster than most other coatings, is proven to be non-shielding to cathodic protection currents in case of disbondment, and requires no cure.

Polyguard has also developed the RG-2400 gels with mineralization technology as a solution to CUI (Corrosion Under Insulation). Ideally suited for crevice environments, nearly completely independent of surface preparation for performance and outperforming most other traditional technologies in a crevice the RG gels enjoy a rapidly expanding customer base in the energy, military, food & beverage and pharmaceutical sector.

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Recent coating innovations include a hydrophobic anti-corrosion gel that is tolerant of less than optimal surface preparation, is designed to keep the electrolyte away from the surface of the substrate, and also has the ability to neutralise the electrolyte if it breeches the vapour barrier and insulation.

TechnologyThe reactive anti-corrosion gel utilises

mineralisation technology. Mineralisation is the ability to grow very thin minerals on metal surfaces for useful purposes.

The minerals are formed when reactants are delivered to the surface of the substrate, as shown in Figure 1.

How the reactive gel corrosion treatment works:

When the ferrous (steel) surface (1) is covered with a layer of reactive gel (2), the metal surface reacts with components in the gel to form a mineral layer (3). This thin glasslike layer (3) acts as a barrier between chlorides and the metal surface, thus providing corrosion resistance.

The mineral layer (3) has a thickness of 50–200 angstroms, only 0.01 per cent, or as thick as a piece of paper.

Although the thin mineral layer can be damaged by mechanical abuse, there is extra protection built into the system.

The presence and uniqueness of the mineralised layer can be confirmed by conventional analytical surface methods such as x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy or atomic force microscope (Figure 2 and Figure 3).

The anti-corrosion gel works in three basic ways:1. Barrier system – the specially

formulated products have great adhesion characteristics and are hydrophobic to help keep moisture away from the substrate.

2. Buffering system – if moisture migrates through the gel, it is buffered to a high pH which is protective to steel piping.

3. Mineralisation – growing an engineered surface, or surface conversion – creating a surface which resists corrosion even if moisture gets to it.

The anti-corrosion gel has a maximum service temperature of 350°F (177°C).

The mineralisation technology in the anti-corrosion gel has a history of solving unique corrosion problems. The first application of the mineralisation technology was by a major automotive supplier in a crevice corrosion application on strand of brake cables. The strand in sleeve design of the brake cable combined with the cyclical environment of heat and moisture creates a severe crevice corrosion environment. The technology has been used for over 30 years in this application, which has resulted in an increased service life and greater reliability.

The first non-automotive industrial application was with the United States Navy. Following successful laboratory, pier side, and shipboard demonstrations of the effectiveness of the gel in preventing crevice corrosion in anchor chain detachable link cavities, the US Navy in 1999 changed the Planned Maintenance System (PMS) to specify the use of a mineralising gel as the

replacement for white lead and tallow in all surface ship anchor chain detachable links. Also in 1999, following extensive testing, the Navy issued MACHALT 526 which changed the design of the internals of weather deck watertight and airtight door dogging mechanisms. The basis for the change is the use of a mineralising lubricant inside the spindle sleeve in the door frame to stop the corrosion that had been the cause of dogging mechanism failure. The watertight door dogging mechanism corrosion problem was one of the top maintenance issues for the fleet. In May 2002 a second MACHALT, 544, was approved to apply the same technology to ballistic type dogs in three watertight doors in DDG-51 Class ships. These solutions represented a significant saving for the fleet.

The gel has years of history on CUI applications in the food and beverage industry. It has also been used as an anti-corrosion coating in well head casings, on pig doors, structural steel, tank chimes, ammonia systems, vessels, and as flange filler. Field trials are currently underway to further evaluate this technology in areas where it is cost prohibitive to achieve optimal surface preparation.

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step2:indirectinspectionThe objective of this step is to identify

locations on the pipeline that are most likely to have external corrosion. This is accomplished by performing different electrical measurements above the pipeline

to identify areas of coating failure and levels of pipe polarisation (pipe-to-soil voltages).

Typical tools that are used in this step are interrupted close interval potential surveys, direct current voltage gradients (DCVG) and pipeline current mapping. This data is integrated and analysed to identify areas that may have external corrosion.

step3:directexaminationDirect examination (DE) refers to

exposing approximately 5–10 m of pipe to examine it for external corrosion. The objective of this step is to calibrate and validate the indications of corrosion identified in Step 2. During the DE, numerous tests are performed to

determine coating condition, the level of cathodic protection and environmental factors that may influence the corrosion rate of the pipeline.

step4:Post-assessmentIn Step 4, all of the data that is collected

in the previous three steps is integrated and evaluated to determine: the root cause of corrosion that was found, estimate the remaining life of the area with corrosion, determine the reassessment interval for the pipe, and the overall effectiveness of the ECDA project.

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The program extended over a decade and considered long-term degradation. Special sections of the

program specifically investigated cathodic disbondment and cathodic shielding effects, as these were considered to be potentially deleterious to the integrity of the repair and, by extension, to pipeline safety.

An extensive field validation program was required by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT). This requirement was added to verify the laboratory results and to validate real-world behaviour on actual pipelines. The results were published in the public report GRI 1998-0032. This peer-reviewed report was relied upon by the industry and regulators as the basis of documentation to suggest amended code language for both liquid and natural gas pipeline which was subsequently proposed and adopted in DOT CFR 192 and 195.

The various Gas Research Institute (GRI) reports and specifically this field validation study report have often been cited in technical literature discussing various aspects of the composite repair of pipelines. While this body of technical information is widely considered to be extraordinarily valuable to the industry, these reports covered only one potential composite architecture (a continuous strand e-glass fibre in a polyester resin matrix, cured and sized in terms of circumference and number of layers – a composite ‘sleeve’) and one set of constituent components (adhesive and filler within the repair).

Not all potential technologies will produce similar results. In fact, several composite architectures and components were examined and excluded during the initial GRI program, as unlikely to be able to provide the durability required to be regarded as permanent.

Various components and architectures are commercially offered as composite wraps. Comprehensive field validation studies of

these various wraps are not readily identified. Current language within ASME B31-8S and other similar codes does recognise a ‘composite sleeve’ as a permanent repair for various types of defects – ‘composite wraps’ do not currently share this recognition. Recently, reports of poor performance of several ‘composite wrap’ variations has led some industry practitioners to question the technologies involved.

Over two decades have passed since the GRI established the first steering committee of industry experts to design the scope and methods of the investigations. Several hundred thousand Clock Spring repairs have now been made. Units have been installed in scores of countries and in almost all conceivable environmental conditions, including onshore, offshore, subsea, tropical, desert and tundra.

casestudy1In 1999, subsequent to an in-line

inspection (ILI) run, five Clock Spring coils were installed on a 457 mm diameter North American liquid pipeline on one joint of pipe. In 2003, the line was selected for an ILI investigation which utilised newer technology and promised a higher level of resolution than that which was utilised prior to 1999. The operator decided to remove the joint of pipe and investigate.

The investigation found that the repairs were effective in all regards. There was no active corrosion, all repairs were well bonded to the pipe, and the repairs were fully functional and effective.

casestudy2A corrosion investigation on a 457 mm

diameter Middle Eastern offshore oil production riser located an area of extensive metal loss which was externally measured as 56 per cent of the wall thickness at the time of repair installation in 1997.

In 2006, the riser was selected for a shutdown. In connection with this, the repair was selected to be removed to verify all prior information regarding the permanent nature of Clock Spring repairs.

The repair was well bonded to the pipe, so a grinder had to be utilised to completely remove the coil and the filler material for the carrier pipe, which was very difficult and time consuming.

After nine years of offshore marine service, in a hot and humid environment, the metal loss measured the precise same 56 per cent identified at the time of the original repair. The repair was sound, and no concerns were identified.

conclusionThe US DOT required the GRI to conduct

a field validation study to verify the laboratory findings that a Clock Spring was a permanent repair and was at least no less safe than traditional repair methods. This field validation study considered units which had been in service for periods of 2–7 years, while the cases reported above considered units that had been in service for periods as long as 15 years.

The findings were consistent – a properly designed and installed Clock Spring is a repair which permanently restores the serviceability of the pipe, a fact that has been proven and validated by reliable engineering data and analysis.

The architecture utilised and the constituent components selected provide the durability required to achieve permanent and safe pipeline riser and pipework repairs in a multitude of service conditions and environments.

the clock Spring repair system was the subject of a recent rigorous research and development program conducted under the management and auspices of the Gas Research Institute. A number of case studies are presented that demonstrate that a clock Spring repair can permanently restore the serviceability of a pipe.

A study in long-term durability of the clock Spring



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The Australia Pacific LNG Project is one of Australia’s leading energy resource projects and involves development of Queensland gas fields in the Surat and Bowen basins, construction of a 530 km high pressure gas transmission pipeline, and gas processing and wharf terminal facilities on Curtis Island, near Gladstone.

It is exciting times for the pipeline industry in Australia and FPK will continue to provide its clients with great customer service in the coming years.

Ferret Industries (FPK) started out distributing an innovative hand-held hose, tube and pipe cleaning system

for small diameter lines (6.35–50.8 mm) for the growing hydraulic machinery industry. According to the company, 20 years ago some companies were still flushing out hydraulic lines with substances like trichloroethylene, which has been banned for some time.

The hand-held system proved to be a very successful product, so when the opportunity arose, FPK started to manufacture the system in 1999. FPK’s cleaning system has now become an industry standard for cleaning small lines and is still the backbone of its business today.

As FPK grew, the company has seen the need for cleaning larger diameter water, oil and gas pipelines. Most of the larger pigs (up to 1,524 mm) came from overseas and, being a bulky and relatively light product, they are very expensive to ship or air freight into Australia. While FPK does not make the high density and hard poly-coated or disc-type pigs, the company has developed its PolyFerrets® that are made from open-cell polyurethane foam. They are cut from a solid block of polyurethane using a computerised dust-free oscillating blade-cutting machine. Because they are cut and not molded, this gives FPK an advantage

to make any size PolyFerret® to ±2 mm diameter with varying lengths depending on customers’ requirements.

FPK makes three densities for larger pipelines – light (15 kg; M3), low (27–29 kg; M3) and medium (36–42 kg; M3). As the gas industry is expanding rapidly in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Papua New Guinea, FPK’s Poly Ferrets® are now used extensively in the hydrostatic

testing process. The company can also add scourer wrapping or spiral scourer and/or pull ropes and washers.

Recently, the company secured a supply contract with the MCJV in relation to its contracted coal seam gas pipeline projects with Australia Pacific LNG and Queensland Curtis LNG. Other new customers include Murphy Pipe and Civil and Leighton Contractors.

ferret Industries is currently celebrating its 20th year in business this year, and says that has seen many changes in the pipeline industry and in its own business as well.

ferret continues success in Australian pipelines

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A truck laden with supply en route to the QcLnG Project.

A long-life pull rope spiral scourer Polyferret, used for large diameter water pipelines.

A light density pull-through polyferret.

Recently, the company secured a supply contract with the mcjv in relation to its contracted coal seam gas pipeline projects with Australia Pacific LnG and Queensland curtis LnG.

fPk’s cleaning system has now become an industry standard for cleaning small lines and is still the backbone of its business today.

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The project involves 470 km of offshore pipeline, which completed all pre-commissioning activities in November 2012. The 900 mm diameter offshore pipeline commences at the Omati River landfall and follows the river for approximately 24 km past Goaribari Island to the open sea. The pipeline then crosses the Gulf of Papua to the Caution Bay landfall at the LNG plant site near Port Moresby.

The PNG LNG Project also includes an onshore pipeline component which consists of over 300 km of pipelines from the PNG Highlands to the landfall at the Omati River. The onshore pipeline was two-thirds welded by the end of 2012.

While the PNG LNG Project is the only LNG project under construction in the region, there are plans for another LNG facility to be built on the coast in the Gulf Province of PNG.

Interoil’s Gulf LNG Project is proposed to take gas from InterOil and Mitsui’s proposed condensate stripping plant, as well as from the Elk and Antelope fields in PPLs 237 and 238 in south-central PNG.

The project will be developed in two phases, using modular 500,000 t/a LNG trains. Phase One will have a total capacity

of 2 MMt/a of LNG, and Phase Two of the project is set to involve a further 1 MMt/a expansion to follow one year after.

Additional infrastructure expected to be built for the project includes wells, gas gathering pipelines, condensate stripping facilities, condensate storage, a condensate pipeline and export handling facilities, a dry gas pipeline from the Elk and Antelope fields and LNG storage and marine export terminal.

Insofar, the FEED and design, construction and commissioning contracts for the Gulf LNG Project have been awarded to Bechtel and Energy World Corporation, respectively.

In addition to this, Gulf FLNG Project proponent Liquid Niugini is also exploring employment of a floating LNG (FLNG) vessel, which would integrate with and augment the land-based modules of the Gulf LNG Project.

following on from the PnG LnG Project update provided in the february edition, The Australian Pipeliner speaks with worleyParsons about its extensive involvement in several of the country’s major pipeline projects which are set to develop Papua new Guinea’s gas potential.


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WorleyParsons Principal Pipeline Consultant Bruce Andrews, a long-time member of both

the international and Australian pipeline industry, begins his conversation on Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) pipeline industry by saying that WorleyParsons’ history with the country dates back over 30 years.

“In the 1980s we undertook construction management of the first Ok Tedi copper concentrate slurry pipeline for BHP. In the 1990s we began work, and continue to provide, engineering evaluations and pipeline designs relative to multiple production fields for Oil Search. In the 2000s we performed the front-end engineering and design (FEED) phase of the PNG Gas export pipelines to Queensland for ExxonMobil, and the front-end design

and environmental assessment of the Elk/Antelope gas gathering and export pipelines for InterOil,” says Mr Andrews.

In 2010, WorleyParsons also performed concept engineering for the Papuan Foreland to the Gulf of Papua pipelines for Petromin PNG, which involved up to 500 km of onshore and offshore pipelines crossing lowlands, swamps and rivers.

Png’scurrentpipelinegrowthMost recently WorleyParsons and its EOS

partners have undertaken FEED services for the PNG LNG Project, which is currently under construction.

The PNG LNG Project is a 6.9 MMt/a integrated LNG project operated by ExxonMobil subsidiary Esso Highlands. Gas for the project will be sourced from the

Hides, Angore and Juha gas fields and from associated gas in the Kutubu, Agogo, Moran and Gobe Main oil fields.

All of the contributing fields are located in the Southern Highlands and Western provinces of PNG. Over 9 Tcf of gas and 200 MMbbl of associated liquids are expected to be produced over the project’s life.

Gas will be conditioned in the PNG Highlands and then transported via over 770 km of large diameter pipeline to a two-train LNG plant located approximately 20 km northwest of Port Moresby. The gas will then be liquefied at the LNG plant prior to being loaded onto ocean-going tankers to be shipped to international gas markets. Delivery of LNG is scheduled to commence in 2014.

An aerial view of the PnG LnG pipeline right-of-way.

welded pipe for the onshore PnG LnG pipeline.

welded pipe ready to be lowered in.

worleyParsons Principal Pipeline consultantbruce Andrews


In January 2012, FLEX LNG and Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) completed the FEED for the FLNG vessel, but the timing of a potential final investment decision on the project is yet to be determined.

Shareholders in Liquid Niugini Gas, the proponent of the project, include InterOil, Pacific LNG Operations and the PNG Government-owned Petromin PNG Holdings.

Finally, WorleyParsons is currently working with ExxonMobil on Select Studies (front-end engineering assessments) for a potential new project in the Western Provence of PNG, with its Houston team leading the project and sharing work with specialists from Melbourne, suggesting that further opportunities for Australian companies to be involved in PNG pipeline projects may be on the horizon.

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Mr Andrews says WorleyParsons creates value for its customers by getting involved in projects early.

“For example, with options assessments, we use the WorleyParsons trademark EcoNomics MCDA (multi-criteria decision assessment) tools to facilitate a weighted selection,” he says. “This advanced tool assists project risk management and improves sustainability assessment relative to a pipeline corridor under consideration. Sophisticated geographic information

systems containing multi-layered site feature data permits realistic quantification of attributes.

“Working in triple-canopy rainforests in PNG requires innovative tools to ensure proper evaluation in the early phases of a project. We use light detection and ranging applications to provide contours along pipeline routes which are essential in challenging terrain and previously untried environments.

“Our experience with the PNG Gas and PNG LNG projects involved FEED services for a new field development – including processing plants, pipelines and supporting infrastructure, and the management of field survey programs – using advanced technological applications.”

ThechallengesofworkinginPngMr Andrews says that, similar to

other developing economies which are rich in natural resources, PNG’s unique geographic, socioeconomic, environmental and cultural factors have a decisive influence in resource projects.

“Linear projects such as pipelines trigger a range of impacts from extremely positive economic outcomes to negative community perceptions,” says Mr Andrews.

“The construction of a pipeline across the country can connect groups and provide tangible benefits such as teaching and training locals, but also can increase

environmental concerns and tribal tensions with security implications.

“There have been a number of environmental and social challenges associated with projects in PNG in the past and using this experience results in the risks being well understood and proficiently managed.

“When operating in PNG, WorleyParsons places extremely high importance on community, health and safety, security planning and implementation. Our customers have the same awareness and concerns hence their specifications reflect such emphasis and compliance.”

AnenduringfutureforPngpipelines

When asked what future PNG pipeline projects WorleyParsons is looking to be involved in, Mr Andrews says “In PNG, pipelines are primarily required to link to an export facility, as domestic demand is relatively small. In the Western Provence, several hydrocarbon exploration groups have been active and a number have published plans to develop their resource. Initially natural gas liquid resources will be developed and pipelined to the Fly River for barging, via the inland Kiunga Port.

“Petromin PNG Holdings, wholly-owned by the State of PNG, has been proactive in evaluating the potential for a major joint user pipeline system to start at various hydrocarbon discovery sites in the Papuan Foreland and shipping gas and liquids to either a land-based or a floating LNG processing facility in the Gulf of Papua. With unparalleled in-country knowledge and a highly skilled pipeline team, these projects strongly resonate with WorleyParsons’ experience.”

Despite these challenges, Mr Andrews believes that pipelines in PNG, predominantly designed to Australian standards, will always have a future in the ongoing development of hydrocarbon resource projects. “This seems to be particularly relevant to the exploration and production industry as it pursues resources in our energy-hungry world,” he says.

“Unconventional oil and gas is well underway in Australia, but is yet another frontier for PNG. Pipelines are the most cost-effective and proven mass transportation method to deliver energy as a fluid, and this applies in the jungle or the desert. Pipeliners can take heart that the industry will endure in the future in PNG.”


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Mr Robinson also refers to PNG’s developing gas infrastructure, which, being led by the ExxonMobil-operated PNG LNG Project, is developing a strong export market and investment opportunity for the country.

“The financial capacity that this export market will bring to the economy, coupled with the availability of this infrastructure,

could also see gas become a larger part of the PNG domestic energy mix,” Mr Robinson says.

As for the ‘next frontier’ for Oil Search in both PNG and Australia, Mr Robinson says that Oil Search does not currently have any plans for investing in Australia but “remains strongly committed to PNG.”

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When asked as to how, as a country, PNG can harness its nascent oil and gas industries, Mr Robinson says that the key is to get the right balance between entrepreneurship and capability.

“It is a very challenging country in which to do business, but also very rewarding,” says Mr Robinson. “However, it is not a place where companies or individuals who are not fully committed and fully resourced are likely to be successful. Its history is littered with investors who thought they

Mr Robinson’s first foray into the PNG pipeline industry was in 1989–92 where he acted as the

Design Manager of the original Kutubu Export Pipeline, as well as having an involvement in numerous studies for major gas pipelines and upstream developments in and from PNG to service possible LNG and pipeline gas export projects. From this initial role, he has continued to work with many other projects and in several operational management roles in the PNG upstream sector over the last 25 years.

Mr Robinson’s most recent role involved responsibility for all of Oil Search’s production and drilling operations in PNG, as well as all associated offsite works, comprising technical, commercial, legal and accounting support required for these operations.

According to Mr Robinson, his career has always been in the hydrocarbon industry in some way, shape or form. “This has been primarily upstream and pipelines but has also included some downstream (refinery) projects. I have spent about 40 per cent of my career with contractors and 60 per cent with operators.”

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Firstly, Mr Robinson provides a background on Oil Search’s strong history in PNG.

“Oil Search is a Papua New Guinean company, having been incorporated there in the ‘Territory of Papua’ as it was then known on 16 January 1929.

“We have operated continuously in PNG ever since. The company was originally established to explore for oil in the

Territory of Papua with the first commercial discovery being Iagifu in the 1980s and first commercial production being Hides in 1991. First production from Iagifu (Kutubu) was in June 1992.

“Our shareholders were very patient over the period from 1929 until then!”

Mr Robinson says that it is natural for Oil Search, as a Papua New Guinean company where over 90 per cent of its activities are based and which has been a stellar commercial success over the past 20 years, to regards the country as its ‘core asset’. “We are confident that our current asset base in PNG will continue to generate substantial future growth for our shareholders. However, we have also some exploration interests outside Papua New Guinea, which provide diversification, and

will continue to look, in a measured way, for opportunities that can add value for us,” says Mr Robinson.

“As an operator, the biggest pipeline project Oil Search has developed was the SE Mananda Project, which involved approximately 17 km of multiple pipelines, ranging from 1–8 inches, all being constructed by hand and helicopter.

“This also included a 470 m long pipe suspension bridge which remains the highest bridge in the world in terms of its height above the terrain it is spanning.”

Mr Robinson also points out that there are no other home-grown Papua New Guinean companies with significant involvement in the pipeline industry, albeit Curtin Bros, which has been involved in some pipeline construction work in PNG at times. However, Mr Robinson notes, many of APIA’s members are involved in PNG on a project basis from time to time.

Png–thenewgasfrontier?As far as recent major gas developments

that Oil Search has been involved in, Mr Robinson mentions that the PNG P’nyang gas field, which was discovered in the early 1980s, has recently had a significant resource upgrade following an Oil Search-managed seismic and drilling appraisal program in 2011–12, undertaken on behalf of the operator, ExxonMobil. “We are working very closely with the operator, ExxonMobil, to review commercialisation options for the P’nyang gas field.

“In addition, a major offshore exploration drilling program, operated by Oil Search in joint venture with Total and others, is about to commence in the PNG Gulf.”

Richard Robinson, a former APIA director and recently retired Executive General manager - operations at oil Search Ltd, has been involved with the Papua new Guinean hydrocarbon industry since his first visit to the country in january 1988. In this interview with The Australian Pipeliner, mr Robinson reflects on his career in the highly prospective yet potentially volatile country and provides an informed perspective as to the future development of its oil and gas industry.


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oil Search currently operates six producing fields plus two onshore drilling rigs and a workover rig in PnG.

the company is also currently mobilising an offshore drilling rig into PnG and has onshore rigs currently drilling in both kurdistan and tunisia.

“[the State] needs to ensure that it maintains the confidence of investors by keeping a predictable and consistent fiscal and regulatory environment and ensuring that the appropriate licencees in place have the capacity and commitment to deliver developments that are beneficial to the nation.”

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could do it smarter and cheaper than conventional wisdom suggested and who came out poorer and wiser.

“The State also has a critical role to play here. It needs to ensure that it maintains the confidence of investors by keeping a predictable and consistent fiscal and regulatory environment and ensuring that the licencees in place have the capacity and commitment to deliver developments that are beneficial to the nation.

“Ongoing progressive collaboration between the State, the community and developers is fundamental to [the country’s] success,” Mr Robinson concludes.

strikingabalanceoutsideofPngMr Robinson has been a key figure in

the APIA, and held the position as a Board Member of the Association for four years before retiring as Treasurer in 2012.

However, despite his ubiquitous presence at APIA events and involvement in industry through heavyweight industry groups such as the APIA’s Research and Standards Committee, Mr Robinson holds strong passions outside of pipelines.

“I think that there are many APIA members who are well aware of my passion for, and commitment to, navigation-based sports and particularly endurance events.

“My top passion is the Australian-developed sport of rogaining where I have just taken over as President of the International Rogaining Federation after 12 years on the Executive of the Australian Rogaining Association, five as President. I also compete regularly in the sport and have been fortunate enough to claim 12 Australian Veteran (40-plus) titles

plus two New Zealand and one World Veteran title.

“Beyond that I compete regularly in orienteering, mountain bike orienteering, adventure racing, mountain bike racing and trail ultra-marathons, with the occasional dabble in other similar things such as cross-country running, road cycling and triathlons,” says Mr Robinson.

When asked as to what the next ten years holds for him, Mr Robinson says that the question is “one that I am unable to provide a definitive answer to”.

“I will be retiring from Oil Search in May 2013 and currently have no fixed plans beyond that apart from ramping up my training load and, hopefully, shedding a good proportion of the 10 kg that has amassed around my middle in the three years I have been in my current job!

“I certainly have neither desire nor intent to take another full-time job ever again but do hope to be able to do something that will allow me to continue to contribute to the pipeline industry and/or PNG for many years into the future. My past would suggest that my future will be busy!”


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1 Moonie to Brisbane Moonie Pipeline Company Pty Ltd Oil 307 273

1963

2 Wallumbilla (Roma) to Brisbane APT Petroleum Pipelines Ltd Gas 437 273-400 1967

3 Kincora to Wallumbilla Oil Investments Pty Ltd Gas 53 219

1977

4 Silver Springs to Wallumbilla Santos (BOL) Pty Ltd Gas 102 2191978

6 Jackson to Moonie Santos Ltd

Oil 797 324

1983

7 ML1A to Wallumbilla ELGAS Ltd Propane/

Butane 12 601984

8 Tickalara to Cooroo Santos Ltd

Oil 121 114

1989

9 Kenmore to Eromanga IOR Energy Pty Ltd Oil

17 891989

10 Arcturus Separation Plant to PPL30 Australia Pacific LNG Pty Ltd Gas 68 1681990

11 Central Treatment Plant to PPL32 Australia Pacific LNG Pty Ltd Gas 41 1681989

12 Epsilon to SA Border Santos Ltd

Gas 18 2761992

13 Ballera to SA Border (see PL5 South Australia)Santos Ltd

Gas90 400

1993

14 Patroclus to Tickalara/ Cooroo Line (PPL 8)Santos Ltd

Oil 15 80

1993

15 The Ballera to Wallumbilla Pipeline (PPL 24) to Gilmore to BarcaldineErgon Energy Queensland Pty Ltd Gas 420 168

1994

16 Judga to Munkah Santos Ltd

Gas 13.5 2191993

17 Munkah to BalleraSantos Ltd

Gas 13.5 3561993

18 Yanda to BalleraSantos Ltd

Gas 8324

1993

19 Dinmore to Ipswich Gas Corporation of Queensland Ltd Gas 1.2 1681993

20 Namarah to Yarrabend Oil Investments Pty Ltd Gas 45 168

1994

21 Moomba - Sydney (QLD Section) East Australian Pipeline Limited Gas 56.2 8641974

22 Major to Boxleigh Angari Pty Ltd

Gas 102 891994

23 Moomba to Sydney Ethane Pipeline (QLD Section) Gorodok Pty LtdEthane 800 219

1996

24 Ballera to Wallumbilla (South West Queensland Pipeline) Epic Energy Queensland Pty Ltd Gas 756 4061996

25 Wallumbilla/Gladstone/Rockhampton (PPL 30) to Boyne Island Smelter Boyne Smelters Ltd CSG11.5 168

1996

26 Dawson River to Wallumbilla/Gladstone/Rockhampton (PPL 30) Anglo Coal (Dawson) Limited CSG

18 1681996

30 Wallumbilla to Gladstone to Rockhampton Jemena Queensland Gas Pipeline Pty Ltd Gas 630 219-324198919901991

31 Roti to Judga Santos Ltd

Gas 16 1501997

34 Stokes to SA Border Santos Ltd

Gas 7.3 3001997

35 Challum to Ballera Gas Centre Santos Ltd Gas 15 400

1997

36 Karmona to Ballera Gas Centre Santos Ltd Gas 15 300

1997

37 Wackett to Ballera Gas Centre Santos Ltd Gas 15 200

1997

38 Okotoko to KarmonaSantos Ltd

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industry, but recognises the balance between the interests of industry, rural landholders, regional communities and our environment,” Mr Cripps says.

“This is not an industry that will be established at any cost. We will continue to expect high standards and work towards the continuous improvement of Queensland’s CSG industry.

“The engagement and compliance plan is a key part of the Newman Government’s overall strategy for the responsible oversight and regulation of the CSG industry.”

These activities will be co-ordinated by the new CSG Compliance Unit, which replaces the former LNG Enforcement Unit with a renewed focus to implement the plan.

“The unit will work closely with other key government agencies such as the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection and the GasFields Commission to regulate the CSG activities and build community confidence in the management of the industry,” Mr Cripps says.

“One key feature of the plan for 2013 will be a more proactive approach to inspecting, checking and auditing the CSG industry.

“This year, for example, we randomly will inspect 250 CSG wells, audit 45 per cent of all CSG drilling activities and inspect 80 per cent of CSG seismic

activities to ensure industry conducts activities in a safe manner and in compliance with Australian standards and codes.

Queensland and New South Wales are the states that have seen the biggest changes in this policy

area, with some huge changes coming on the back of already highly developed land access policies.

QueenslandWith the election of the Campbell

Newman-led Liberal National Party (LNP) in March 2012, there have been several new policies enacted to heighten regulation of the coal seam gas (CSG) industry, which have had direct implications on pipelines and other gas exploration and existing infrastructure operations in the state.

In February 2013, in response to recommendations of the 2011 Independent Review of the Land Access Framework, Queensland Minister for Natural Resources and Mines Andrew Cripps announced a committee that will oversee the implementation of the Government’s Six-Point Action Plan to reform Queensland’s land access laws.

Mr Cripps says the independent seven-member panel, to be chaired by Dr David Watson, will provide a forum for peak resource and rural industry bodies to collectively resolve outstanding issues relating to resource sector development on private land.

“The Six-Point Action Plan is the government’s response to the recommendations of the 2011 Independent Review of the Land Access Framework to be applied to access and compensation agreements between landholders and resource companies,” Mr Cripps says.

“We have asked the Implementation Committee to advise on the following important changes to bring equity and certainty to land access and compensation arrangements for both landowners and resource companies.”

The Six-Point Action Plan includes:1. (a) A review of the heads of

compensation to ensure no cost or erosion of landholder rights (b) The expansion of Land Court jurisdiction to include matters of conduct;

2. The introduction of an alternative dispute resolution process, independent of government, to be integrated into the Land Court;

3. The existence of a Conduct and Compensation Agreement (CCA) to be noted on land title;

4. An option for parties to ‘opt out’ of a formal land access agreement at the election of the landholder;

5. The development of standard CCAs for mineral, coal and CSG industries in partnership with the resource and agricultural sectors; and,

6. A review and rationalisation of information sources into a single resource for landholders and resource companies.

These changes have been the most significant land access reforms since the original 2010 implementation of the Bligh Government’s Land Access Policy Framework, which included the integration of a single Land Access Code and allowed extended enforcement powers for government agencies where breaches of the Code occurred.

The Government’s current rhetoric of increased management of the state’s CSG industry may well be seen as a preview for further policy developments in this area. The most recent development by the State Government was, at the time of writing, the Coal Seam Gas Engagement and Compliance Plan 2013, which stressed that for the year ahead “better community engagement, more field inspections and audits and a firm approach to industry non-compliance are features of a new Newman Government plan to manage the CSG industry in Queensland”.

“The Newman Government supports the development of Queensland’s CSG

there have been some big developments in the field of land access and management over the past year, with several state governments bowing to pressure from public concerns about coal seam gas exploration and implementing stringent new policies to further regulate the industry.


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Land policy shake-up – what’s next for your state?

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Queensland’ssix-PointActionPlan

AcTioN Source reSPoNSiBiliTy AND TimiNg

1. compensation and conducta) Review heads of compensation to ensure no cost or erosion of landholder rights; andb) Expand Land court jurisdiction to hear matters concerning conduct and compensation

Government commitment and supports panel recommendations 5 and 6

Government – to be delivered by mid-2013

2. A single accredited form of alternative dispute resolution (AdR), Independent of government, that is recognised by, and can be integrated into the Land court process

Supports intent of panel recommendation 3 and government commitment


3. ccA to be noted on title by resource companies

Government commitment and supports panel recommendations 7


4. Parties can agree to opt out of making a ccA, at the election of the Landholder, save for entering into an agreement to be noted on title1

Supports intent of panel recommendation 8 Government – to be delivered by mid-2013

5. development of template ccAs for mineral, coal and coal seam gas industries in partnership with the resource and agricultural sectors

Supports panel recommendation 6 Government/industry partnership – to be delivered by mid-2013

6. Review of stakeholder information sources with the purpose of combining into a single, comprehensive and plain language resource for landholders and resource companies

Government commitment and supports panel recommendations 2, 4 and 10 and government commitment

Government/industry partnership – to be delivered by mid-2013.

1. Note that this mechanism would not allow a company to ‘sign away’ obligations to comply with the Land Access Code, or to accumulate for compensation for impact.

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“We intend to take a firm approach to non-compliance and to deter further nonconformity,” Mr Cripps concludes.

These developments, combined with the recently established GasFields Commission, have increased the level of bureaucracy in the state, however, they have been mostly lauded by pipeline operators and oil and gas exploration companies.

newsouthWalesThe biggest piece of land access policy

passed through the New South Wales parliament in 2012 was the Strategic Regional Land Use Policy (SRLUP).

The Policy, which was released in October 2012 by the state’s Barry O’Farrell-led government, has direct implications on the pipeline industry and includes 27 new measures that are set to identify, map and protect the state’s agricultural land and its underground water resources.

The policy gives certainty to companies wanting to invest in NSW to develop mining and CSG projects. This policy provides the platform to resolve conflicts over competing land use. Farmers and miners now know where they stand.

So far, the policy has implemented the following measures in the state: » The mapping of two million

hectares of strategic agricultural land across the Upper Hunter and New England North West Regions;

» The requirement for Agricultural Impact Statements at exploration stage;

» The establishment of a Land and Water Commissioner to oversee regulation of exploration activity before it occurs, and oversee land access agreements between land holders and miners;

» An Aquifer Interference Policy that codifies assessment and protection of underground water.

» The new gateway assessment by an independent panel of experts to scientifically assess impacts on agricultural land and water before any mining proposal on Strategic Agricultural Land can proceed to a DA stage; and,

» New Codes of Practice for the CSG industry covering well integrity and hydraulic fracturing.

As a result of this policy, all significant mining and CSG proposals within NSW that extend beyond an existing lease area on strategic agricultural land must go

through an independent, scientific and upfront assessment of their agricultural land and water impacts before a development application can be lodged.

The policy has been further developed in 2013, with the State Government in March announcing a two km buffer zone for CSG activities across existing residential zones throughout the state of NSW, including lands identified for future residential growth. The move has compromised several pieces of gas infrastructure, including AGL Energy’s Hunter and Camden North CSG projects and major exploration programs planned by Santos and Metgasco.

In response to the policy’s implementation, Santos Vice President Eastern Australia James Baulderstone comments “Combined with the already extensive state and Federal regulations, [the] announcement makes the approvals process in NSW the most rigorous in the country.”

APPEA Chief Executive David Byers has also weighed in on the policy, saying that it is a regulatory regime aimed at ensuring a safe and secure gas industry for NSW but one that will ultimately delay approval processes for projects by up to three months.

Mr Byers says “We are now without question one of the most heavily regulated industries in Australia. There is an enormous obligation placed on energy companies through this policy.

“This package of new regulations contains 27 elements that will lead to drawn-out assessment processes with increased security deposits and fees.

“While industry can now finally start investing in exploration, job creation and investment for NSW regional communities, we need to recognise that these regulations will force up costs and delay projects.

“Industry has effectively been stalled in NSW for the best part of two years. Our latest quarterly data shows employment positions in the NSW CSG industry increased by just 39 positions to 332 in the first half of this year and exploration has been brought to a standstill.

“That’s in stark contrast to Queensland where 18,500 people are now working on CSG-to-LNG projects worth $50 billion. Almost 7,000 jobs were added to the Queensland gas sector in the first half of 2012.”

Mr Byers did, however, describe the appointment of a Land and Gas Commissioner as an important link between all stakeholders, particularly between landholders and gas companies.

With such major pieces of land access and management policy occurring in two of Australia’s biggest gas-producing states over just eighteen months, industry is left wondering whether these changes will indeed be final or if state and Federal politicking will continue to produce further prohibitive policies.

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navigating land access as regulation changes

by jAmAhL wAddInGton, dIREctoR, mALonEy fIELd SERvIcES

In New South Wales, at the time of writing, industry players are evaluating new coal seam gas (CSG) regulation

announced by the New South Wales Government. Many have expressed deep concern over these changes.

In Queensland, the industry is digesting their State Government’s review of the Land Access Framework in that state.

These initiatives are likely to have a significant impact on how energy companies undertake infrastructure activity and conduct negotiations with affected landholders.

newsouthWalesIn late February, the NSW Government

announced new measures relating to the regulation of the CSG industry in that state.

The changes, which included the declaration of certain country towns and suburbs across NSW ‘no go zones’ for CSG activities, have been strongly attacked by some sectors of industry.

Several major energy companies have criticised what they see is a lack of certainty and raised concerns for jobs, gas prices and the effect on the economy.

Under the new CSG regime: » The Environment Protection

Authority (EPA) will be the lead regulator of environmental and health impacts of CSG activities in NSW with responsibility for compliance and enforcement;

» All exploration, assessment and production titles and activities will be required to hold an Environment Protection Licence;

» The state’s Chief Scientist and Engineer will conduct an independent review of all CSG activities in NSW, including the potential impact on water catchments;

» A 2 km exclusion zone will be imposed around residential zones

to prevent new CSG exploration, assessment and production activities (both surface and underground);

» Exclusion zones will apply to identified Critical Industry Clusters – viticulture and the equine industry; and,

» An Office of CSG Regulation will be established within the Department of Trade and Investment to enforce other regulations.

The changes and continuing uncertainty are not only an issue for the major energy companies but also risk creating further confusion amongst the communities and with directly impacted landholders.

Landholders and energy companies want certainty and a clear path forward so as to negotiate fair and reasonable outcomes for their respective interests. However, with the goal posts changing, this becomes very difficult.

A preliminary report is to be delivered to the government in July this year and the industry will no doubt be keeping a close watch on its findings.

QueenslandThe Queensland Government recently

handed down its response to the report by the Land Access Review Panel.

This finalises a long-running government initiative to review the effectiveness of the Land Access Framework designed to foster improved relationships between the agriculture and resources sectors and promote consistent and fair processes.

The Government has identified a Six Point Action Plan to be implemented as a matter of priority in 2013:1. Conduct and compensation –

(a) review heads of compensation to ensure no cost or erosion of landholder rights; and (b) Land Court jurisdiction expanded to include conduct;

2. A single Land Court accredited form of independent alternative dispute resolution, integrated into the Land Court;

3. Conduct and Compensation Agreements (CCA) to be noted on title by companies;

4. Parties can agree to opt out of the Land Access Framework (at the election of the landholder if both parties agree);

5. Development of standard CCAs for mineral, coal and CSG industries in partnership with the resource and agricultural sectors; and,

6. Review and rationalise information sources into a single resource for landholders and resource companies.

The action plan announced by the State Government, along with key principles contained within its review, are all steps in the right direction.

However, they will contribute nothing to the enhancement of relationships unless landholder engagement continues to become more professional and moves towards accreditation as advocated by Maloney Field Services many years ago.

Recent developments along the eastern seaboard highlight the constantly evolving regulatory environment energy companies face when it comes to land access.

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BestpracticestillappliesDespite these separate developments in

Queensland and NSW (and the varying regulations governing land access in other states and territories), the common principles of best practice land access and engagement are still most important.

Common mistakes are consistently being made in land access negotiations and engagement regardless of the jurisdiction an energy company is operating under. In my view, the most common mistakes are:

Poor PlanningOf particular interest in the Queensland

report was the government’s concern over the “lack of emphasis by stakeholders on upfront effective relationship building prior to commencement of land access negotiations and entry onto the land.

“(The government) acknowledges that front end relationship building, in contrast to back end dispute resolution and court action, will be a key design principle when implementing changes to the Land Access Framework,” the report stated.

This is a move in the right direction.Early involvement from experienced land

access professionals can assist management and senior executives of resource companies better understand issues associated with land access, particularly in terms of budgets and timelines.

For the resource company, it is imperative to take the time early on to learn about the landholder’s business, discuss their concerns

about the project and agree on ways to try and mitigate these concerns.

Any short-term gains from a hasty agreement can lead to long-term issues and negative community sentiment.

Set and forget engagementThe importance of face-to-face relationships

and personal rapport is vital, particularly in the rural sector, where landholders place a high value on personal relationships.

Throughout the development phase of a project, land access professionals learn a great deal about the landholder, current land use and farming practices.

Taking the time to develop strong, robust and reliable relationships and fully understanding landholders’ enterprise and the potential impact of the project upon them will result in a more mutually aligned engagement and outcome.

Landholder engagement is not a ‘set and forget’ activity.

When the project enters a new phase, landholder attitudes and opinions may change when the full extent of the construction activity and impact upon their property becomes more visible.

It is at this time that being able to maintain existing relationships and understanding becomes critical and can help reduce potential flashpoints.

Formulaic approach to compensation Achieving successful outcomes when

dealing with individual properties can be a challenging process.

As Maloney Field Services has advocated, maybe it is time to start looking at moving from a payment per well approach to compensation to a ‘whole of property value’ approach. No two situations are the same – while it is useful to look at what has been done in similar situations for consistency, each compensation arrangement must truly reflect the impact upon the landholder and their property. Applying models or matrices across multiple properties and land uses can be problematic and, while it may save some time initially, it will inevitably break down under scrutiny.

By undertaking individual assessments and taking the time to understand the property and its operations, companies can also build trust, respect and develop relationships with landholders. This leads to better outcomes for all. So while the rules of engagement in jurisdictions across Australia continue to evolve, it remains vital that a professional, honest, transparent and individualised approach to landowner negotiation remains commonplace.

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Program are working towards enhancing learning opportunities in this area. Experience-based ‘practical’ and ‘tacit’ knowledges are also highly valuable in a pipeline engineering context. They work to inform accurate and safe decisions in a way that formalised and theoretical knowledges cannot. This broader appreciation of knowledge is well-supported by the social science literature on learning and expertise, and was supported by the dominant knowledge sources reported by engineers interviewed as part of this research. Ultimately, engineering expertise and prevention of major accidents in the pipeline industry requires that a diversity of knowledge types and knowledge sources are actively fostered.

TheroleofcompaniesThis broader appreciation of the sources of knowledge requires

consideration of how learning can be most effectively supported. A factor that was found to significantly influence learning outcomes was the organisational context. Engineers were employed in diverse organisational contexts that dedicated varying resources to building knowledge in the workplace, and put varying emphasis on safety outcomes.

In some interviews, pressures that were identified to potentially make safety a second or third priority were schedule and cost. While such pressures (or their absence) could work to shape how young engineers understood safety and their role in it, in the same way, time and money also influenced learning both in terms of safety knowledge and expertise more generally.

Resources, and particularly time, were a primary factor that facilitated or inhibited development of safety knowledge and expertise in the sense that they are a necessary ingredient for experience and informal mentoring, and could compromise safe decisions. In one company context, there were significant resources dedicated to safety outcomes and staff development. A striking feature of their approach was the ‘open door’ policy that they actively engendered among staff. One engineer said that as a member of this company it was important to be ‘clearly available’ so particularly young engineers felt comfortable asking questions. Equally, staff called on to answer questions saw this as a part of their role, and a legitimate use of time. Unfortunately, this was not the case in all companies. Resource pressures could lead to resistance to dedicating time and money to extended mentoring arrangements, with the potential for a rapid loss of expertise in companies.

Senior industry professionals have raised concerns about the limited expertise of new people to the industry, particularly when it comes to a holistic appreciation of the decisions

that need to be made. These concerns, in part, stem from an acknowledgement that the very strong public safety record of the Australian pipeline industry is due to the safety values and expertise of its professional staff as much as anything else. These issues raise key questions, including: how do young engineers joining the pipeline industry understand safety and their role in its maintenance? How is that safety knowledge being built? And more generally, how is professional expertise most effectively built in the contemporary pipeline industry context?

These are questions that drove recent research through the Australian National University as part of the Energy Pipelines Co-operative Research Centre (CRC) research program. Over 30 pipeline industry professionals were interviewed, including ‘young’ engineers, their managers, and technical experts. The focus of this research was understandings of safety, learning methods that were proving effective, and the actions of companies and industry that affected these outcomes. The purpose of this research was to give a preliminary assessment of how generational change is impacting on safety practices, as well as taking a step towards identifying effective methods for building dispositions towards safety and the necessary expertise to ensure it.

learningsfromsafetyresearchAn initial finding of this research was that the young engineers

interviewed had a strong value of safety. However, there was significant variation in how safety was defined. For many engineers, safety was primarily defined in terms of personal safety (the so-called slips and trips), not prevention of major accidents. Given this emphasis, when some participants were asked about their understanding of safety in a pipeline context, and their roles and responsibilities in maintaining it, requirements like safety boots, high-visibility gear and safe working conditions were given. Some participants also demonstrated an understanding of safety as including the goal of preventing major accidents, an awareness that was demonstrated through linking their professional decisions, say in a design office, to major accidents they had heard of such as the 1998 Esso Longford gas explosion and the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion.

So why was there this variation? Understandings of safety tended to be influenced by the workplaces and roles of young engineers. Young engineers who worked in pipeline construction, maintenance,

and operation, even when their work was primarily in an office context, were most concerned with the ‘personal’ safety to their staff and, in some cases, the personal safety of members of the public. This is in keeping with the most direct challenges that they were confronted with on a daily basis. Young design engineers, by contrast, were more focused on preventing major accidents. This understanding of safety and their role in it was primarily fostered in the workplace through the stories and values of colleagues and mentors. A minority had been involved in near-misses, such as an excavator making contact with a live pipe. Such experiences were reported as powerful lessons about how quickly things could go wrong, and fundamentally changed their decision making processes.

A common theme about learning here is the central role of experience and mentoring. When we think about knowledge and professional work, the wealth of theory associated with a discipline and the significant formal education required can most readily come to mind. In engineering, these formalised and theoretical elements are vital, and programs such as the Pipeline Engineer Training

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Experience-based ‘practical’ and ‘tacit’ knowledges are also highly valuable in a pipeline engineering context. they work to inform accurate and safe decisions in a way that formalised and theoretical knowledges cannot.

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In addition to resources, structural factors in a company – particularly the physical proximity of young engineers to their mentors – had a significant influence on knowledge sharing and safety practices. In some cases, engineers were grouped by discipline. In others, they were grouped by work function. In practice, these structural factors influenced the knowledge and experiences that were available to young engineers. For engineers grouped by discipline, this typically meant that there was a wealth of discipline-specific knowledge that they could draw from their mentors. In cases where young engineers’ immediate neighbours were not engineers, or were engineers from another discipline, this work structure could inhibit the exchange of relevant engineering knowledge. This issue of proximity to relevant expertise also extended to office and off-site work arrangements, which could either support a free flow of information, or inhibit it.

An organisation’s response to safety incidents was also a major knowledge source in terms of how young engineers understood their company’s value of safety, how supported they felt to make challenging professional judgements, and how much they could learn from incidents. Particularly for young engineers, managing conflict over safety actions – whether on site or in an office context – was often a concern and a personal stressor. Some young engineers felt their safety values were congruent with their organisations’ safety actions, felt supported, and reported opportunities for building safety knowledge through incidences and near misses. For others, there were cases where they had observed what they perceived to be a disconnect between safety values and practices. In these cases, young engineers tended to feel they could not always make decisions that they believed where best for safety, and their learnings about safe practices were not being maximised. Young engineers interviewed hoped that their decisions to-date would not cause accidents, but this difficult situation was considered cause for concern.

TheroleofindustryWhile companies had a very strong influence on understandings

of safety and learning opportunities, industry-wide networks and standards also played a role. The APIA and the Young Pipeliners Forum offers opportunities for building mentoring relationships and

getting other opportunities for building knowledge such as research involvement, conference attendance, and site visits. The size of the industry was one of the reasons that mentoring at this scale was thought to be effective. There was a general sentiment that the industry had a unique ‘camaraderie’ and willingness to share.

Standards, and in particular AS 2885, were another way that knowledge and safety outcomes were managed at an industry level. All young engineers interviewed used AS 2885 to some degree. Most had attended some formal training on this standard. However, it was still thought that for those with less experience, use of the standard was dependent on the guidance of experts. In other words, standards provide a very useful guide, and collate the most up-to-date knowledge, but safe decisions still require expertise.

Whatnext?As a first stage of research, this project has aimed to identify

themes that deserve further attention in the interests of addressing the potential knowledge loss that could imminently take place, and the long-term maintenance of safety. It raises questions that individual engineers and companies can ask that will hopefully facilitate productive discussions about what is happening in pipeline companies and industry to ensure safety knowledge and professional expertise is being fostered.

There is still much that we can learn about building safety knowledge and professional expertise in the pipeline industry.

The Energy Pipelines CRC will be looking to conduct further research in partnership with industry and APIA to examine more in-depth questions about professionalism and expertise that arose out of this work, such as social factors that impact on engineers’ capacity to make safe decisions, and strategies to support experience and mentoring in the pipeline industry context.

This work was funded by the Energy Pipelines CRC, supported through the Federal Government’s CRC’s Program. The cash and in-kind support from the APIA Research and Standards Committee is gratefully acknowledged.

Thank you to the research participants who gave up their time for interviews and made many thoughtful comments about their professional lives and activities.


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Is safety understood to include the prevention of major accidents?

how are young engineers being supported in their daily activities? Are opportunities for experience made available? Are they contributing to work they are responsible for? have they visited site? on site, do they have the support of a more experienced engineer? Are the potentially serious consequences of getting things wrong well understood by young engineers and are these consequences specifically linked to their day-to-day responsibilities?

Are there senior engineers with the time available for young engineers to ask questions? Are these engineers approachable? Are they in the same discipline? do young engineers also have access to expertise in other disciplines as needed?

Are incidents responded to in an open way? have staff been pressured to make decisions due to schedule and cost considerations? do staff feel confident to make decisions for safety reasons?

Is information about incidents openly disseminated at an industry level?

Are there steps that industry can take to encourage informal mentoring?

Are there steps that industry can take to facilitate experience across companies?

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me’ mentality that is firmly grounded in employees’ prior experiences working in that environment. For example, we’ve all experienced the time-saving convenience of using a chair to change a light bulb without getting hurt. So, even though we know better, we do it anyway because we get the benefits of time saving and convenience and don’t get hurt. This personal experience will overcome the short-term emotional response we may have had when hearing about the tragedy of another person.

Thus, when considering a speaker, find someone with a powerful message about a topic of relevance to your organisation. Have the speaker customise the talk to fit your needs. And, ensure there are three or four novel and practical ‘take-aways’ that your employees can put to immediate use regardless of their role, position, or industry. Look for a speaker who is credentialed in a certain area and has practical experience to back up those credentials.

Practical experience provides relevant stories and credentials allow for demonstrations that bring specific points to life. And, a good keynote speaker will make your event memorable because the stories and demonstrations are relevant to you and your employees. Proper stories provide lessons through imagery which can be easily recalled despite personal experiences that may tell us differently. Indeed, vivid recollection is critical for lessons learned in a keynote speech to be applied in a work environment. If the stories are discounted during the speech, they will surely be discounted when working.

Lastly, if the speaker cannot tell you what he plans to ‘tell you’, or cannot adapt his or her message to fit with the theme of your conference, move on to the next. Too often I’ve been entertained by a speaker whose talk lacks the substance that I came to get from the conference. Almost as often I’ve heard different speakers tell the same stories. Thus, a final criterion should be to ensure that the content to be shared is the speaker’s original material.

2. investinyourpeopleBecause they are often overlooked, I

recommend that you build the skill set and confidence of your front-line supervisors and middle managers. More specifically, seek out

someone with expertise in human behaviour to train a fresh and practical approach to influencing others without the need to rely on formal authority. Ensure that this person does not simply teach clichés from business management models. For example, we’ve all heard about the ‘feedback sandwich’.

The sandwich approach to providing feedback specifies that when you talk to an employee about his or her performance you should start with ‘positive feedback’ for what they are doing well, then add the ‘corrective feedback’ for what you want them to change, and finally end with ‘positive feedback’ to leave them “feeling good about themselves and the interaction.” This is something that shouldn’t be done.

failure to create continuity in a workplace is a hazard when considering workplace safety, writes behavioural scientist thomas E. boyce. here, dr. boyce writes about the behavioural workplace issues he has seen first-hand on pipeline sites and what can be done to mitigate them.

I travel all over the world talking at various conferences and to many different organisations about how to

build and maintain safety momentum. Regardless of industry – oil, gas or water pipeline, mining, manufacturing, or construction – a common response to my suggestions is that “We saw an improvement in safety performance for several months after we had you out to our site (or implemented the suggestions you provided at the conference we attended). Then, something happened. So we did something else and we could never get back the momentum we lost.”

These comments are typically followed by a question: “What did we do wrong?” My response is simple: “You failed to create continuity”, and, I can attest with nearly 20 years of helping companies prevent injuries, it is not rocket science. It is behavioural science.

BenefitsofbehaviouralscienceWhat 120 years of behavioural science

tells us is that your employees will value what leaders value. And what employees value will translate into action. If safety is truly valued over production at your pipeline facility, then you will always see decisions in favour of safety over production when such a choice point exists. Furthermore, over the long term, you will get more production with this approach because you are preventing ‘down time’ resulting from injuries or property damage (not to mention the direct costs of these events).

So, how do you visibly demonstrate that safety is a value in your organisation? You walk the talk. There is no need to ‘over justify’ safety with promises of rewards and trinkets. Yes, these things are nice and when used properly send a positive message. However, when used as a primary means of motivating safety, the result is predictable. You get changes in behaviour when the rewards are in effect (and that is assuming you are focusing the rewards on behaviours rather than on avoiding injuries). Regardless, these improvements are lost when the rewards are removed. Worse yet, a majority of safety incentive programs I’ve helped to improve

have focused on avoiding injuries. These programs often produce under-reporting of injuries amongst a host of other problems (that would require another paper to address). So, to build safety momentum without over justifying it, you program for continuity. To accomplish this, I recommend you do three things during 2013. Each is discussed in turn below.

1. getpeopleexcitedaboutsafetyHave someone with a powerful yet

practical message address your workforce at a company event. A well-tested keynote speaker can get people talking about safety. And, this talk can translate into action if the message causes people to see things differently after the message than they did before. Indeed, my definition of learning is doing something differently after being taught than before.

You should avoid messages that are scare tactics such as those provided by safety speakers that recount their accidents. While these messages are attention-grabbing, the information quickly turns useless when employees get back to work. This is because often our work environments are sufficiently different than the speaker’s. And, when the entire talk focuses on a single event, there is plenty of opportunity to psychologically discount the points being made. (This does not tend to occur when a speaker uses a vivid story merely to illustrate a specific point.)

Finally, scare tactics don’t work because our work environment brings forth habitual behaviours and the ‘it won’t happen to


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In reality, the behavioural science has shown that this approach merely confuses people.

Feedback is, by definition, information about performance that allows one to know whether to sustain or change that performance. Thus, both positive and corrective feedback should be able to stand alone. A qualified behavioural strategist will help you create the path towards a culture where this is possible. If the person you hire to work with your supervisors subscribes to management clichés, find someone else. Better yet, find someone who can talk about the science behind the principles he or she teaches and does so in a manner that people can understand and remember. If done properly, the keynote speaker you select to fulfil recommendation one, should be able to fulfil recommendation two. The benefit of using the same person is that you can produce some continuity in theme from one activity to the next.

Continuity helps us avoid perceptions of ‘flavour-of-the-month’ among our employees and demonstrates commitment to a course of action. Moreover, this consultant or trainer will now be somewhat familiar to your workforce. Psychological science has demonstrated that familiarity increases likeability which improves credibility. Credibility will assist you in obtaining buy-in to the material to be trained. Buy-in is a form of commitment that will make it more likely for the information trained to be put to use in the field.

Moreover, when this information is a more detailed extension of the three or four topics highlighted in a keynote speech, you are by definition facilitating learning. Remember, doing something differently/

better after training than before is the definition of learning. Is this not what you want from your training? Continuity of information will make learning more likely.

3. involveyouremployeesintheirownsafety

Once you have supported your supervisors to be better champions of safety, it is time to encourage participation among the employees who are the primary beneficiaries of safety – those doing the hazardous work. And, for three decades, research in business settings has shown us that the most effective way to involve employees in their own safety is to start at least an informal observation and feedback process to address critical safety-related behaviours.

What people do determines the outcomes you get, including the number of lost days your pipeline facility experiences and your recordable injury rate. If we increase safety-related behaviours that could have prevented the injuries and property damage your organisation has historically experienced, we will identify problem areas and implement solutions before the injuries occur. In fact, it is such a foundation of observation and feedback that can help you to start building a safety culture where positive and corrective feedback can stand alone as suggested in the example above. This is another example of continuity.

Ensure that the person or group that you select to assist with employee involvement has a track record of implementing successful employee-driven behaviour-based safety processes. A Ph.D.-level behavioural scientist can typically direct your implementation and help your facility to

overcome any barriers to success, both real and imagined. Moreover, if you prefer not to implement a full-blown behaviour-based safety process, a good behavioural strategist will be able to work with you and a team of your employees to help set-up a less formal process that will produce visible benefits as you consider the merits of a more formal program. If you do this, ensure that the more simple process is built upon the same foundation as the more formal process so that, like above, there can be continuity to the next step when you are ready to go there.

concludingthoughtsMy many years of experience assisting

companies develop leaders and reduce their injury rates tells me that if you implement the recommendations contained in this article during the first half of 2013, you will see visible improvements in safety on a day-to-day basis and also in your key safety performance measures (e.g., recordable injury rate) by the end of the year. You are also likely to see improved production and a better ‘bottom line’. I also expect you will see improved employee morale. Indeed, one client recently commented that after following such a path they successfully eliminated ‘grievances’ from occurring at their facility, even in response to policy violations that were appropriately disciplined with lengthy suspensions.

This is unheard of in a union facility and is likely the result of employees feeling that they were being treated more fairly now than before. Investing into and involving your employees in matters that affect them provides the continuity to achieve this type of change. And, promoting changes not only in behaviours, but also beliefs is the essence of culture change! And, culture change will only come from continuity of processes. So, not unlike the wheels on a car, it is a cycle of continuity that will help you build safety momentum and keep your pipeline company moving forward.

Thomas E. (Ted) Boyce, Ph.D. is a behavioural strategist, corporate trainer, executive coach and keynote speaker. He is currently President and Senior Consultant with the Centre for Behavioural Safety, LLC. The Centre is a safety and leadership consulting firm that turns managers into leaders and helps companies create an injury-free workplace. Learn more at www.cbsafety.com or contact Dr. Boyce directly at [email protected]


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Vehicle incidents are by far the most common cause of work-related deaths in Australia. These crashes

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A major concern expressed in a recent parliamentary inquiry related to the use of mobile and drive-in/drive-out (DIDO) workforces in local communities. Whilst acknowledging the important role of DIDO workforces in the growth of pipeline and resources projects in the nation the inquiry made note of the rising accident and death toll on roads in DIDO regions (such as the Bowen Basin) and the subsequent reduction in community safety.1

In a recent investigation by TMS it was discovered that high risk for fatigue-related vehicle accidents was apparent in the resources sector due to the long working

hours, long commute times, and lack of sufficient sleep. Similar findings were noted in another study focusing on a DIDO workforce in the Bowen Basin which discovered that the percentage of DIDO workers falling asleep while driving to commence work was up to 13 per cent for dayshift workers and up to 23 per cent for night shift workers.2

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references1. House of Representatives. (2013).

Cancer of the bush or salvation for our cities? Fly-in, fly-out and drive-in, drive-out workforce practices in Regional Australia. Inquiry into the use of ‘fly-in, fly-out’ (FIFO) workforce practices in regional Australia. Parliament of Australia. Retrieved February 27, 2013.

2. Di Milia, L., & Bowden, B. (2007). Unanticipated safety outcomes: Shiftwork and drive-in, drive-out workforce in Queensland's Bowen Basin. Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, 45, 100.

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The safely completed five-day operation to winch the pipelines 2.3 km from the mainland to the

island represented Australia’s longest large-diameter underwater ‘pipe pull’.

The QGC-managed project involved laying pipelines for the Queensland Curtis LNG (QCLNG) Project and the Australia Pacific LNG Project in the same trench by pipeline construction contractor MCJV, a joint venture between McConnell Dowell Constructors (Aust) Pty Ltd and Consolidated Contracting Company Australia Pty Ltd.

The segments are integral to connecting each project’s main pipelines that will transport gas from the Surat Basin gas fields, located approximately 300 km inland, to the LNG plants on Curtis Island.

The dredged trench was 6 m wide at its base, making it wide enough to accommodate the two pipe strings side-by-side. The pipe strings had a 1 m gap between them and were secured at this

separation distance by steel dividing beams positioned periodically along their lengths. The pipelines were co-located and installed concurrently to minimise environmental impact and disruption to boating.

The harbour crossing used a temporary 450 t capacity winch on Curtis Island to pull the pipes – which together weigh 8,000 t – through the subsea trench which will soon be backfilled with gravel and then armour rock up to 380 mm in diameter to provide secure, long-term protection.

The Australian Pipeliner spoke with QCLNG Pipeline – Narrows Crossing Senior Project Manager John Macleod to find out more about this incredible engineering feat.

Whatweretheoutsidediameters(ods)andsteelgradesofthetwopipelines?

The pipelines were both manufactured from high grade steel to API 5L X70 with a yield strength of 485 MPa, OD of 1,067 mm

and coated with fusion-bonded epoxy. The QCLNG pipe has a wall thickness of 23.5 mm and the APLNG pipeline is 25.4 mm.

Both pipelines have a heavy concrete weight coating (containing illmenite ore) with a density of 3,044 kg/m3, and thickness of 100 mm and 93 mm for the QCLNG and APLNG pipe respectively, which maintains the submerged stability of the pipelines.

Howwasthetrenchbuilt?The trench between the mainland and

Curtis Island in which the pipelines were laid was dredged between August 2012 and January 2013 by a large excavator positioned on a spudded barge. Hopper barges were used to transport all of the spoil material to a designated deep sea dump site. The trench was scheduled for completion just ahead of the pipe pull to minimise any sedimentation or degradation prior to placing the pipelines.

The trench depth varied from 4 m in the main channel to up to 7 m on the shallow

In february 2013, engineers from QGc completed a world-class engineering achievement in simultaneously laying two 1 m diameter gas pipelines across Gladstone harbour to curtis Island.


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the pipeline strings being pulled towards curtis Island on rail lines.

A map of the co-located QcLnG and APLnG pipelines.

commercial and recreational boating operators through notices at boat ramps around Gladstone Harbour and in the Gladstone Observer newspaper.

Whatmachinerywasinvolvedinpullingthepipethroughtheharbour?

Execution of the pipe pull required the use of a 450 t capacity linear winch on Curtis Island and construction of an equivalent anchor block to secure the winch. The winch platform was partly excavated into a cutting in the hillside and anchors were used to secure a ground beam, to which the winch was attached.

The winch was driven by a large containerised hydraulic power pack with control cabin. Three reels, each with 1,100 m of 89 mm diameter wire and weighting 40 t, were positioned alongside the winch, while a large wire spooling winch was used to feed out the wires and recover them again during the pull operation.

A tug and other smaller vessels were used to deploy the cables and support the operation with divers, marine survey and personnel transport. With the aid of inflatable buoyancy units, the cables were floated and pulled across the Narrows seaway, into the cofferdam and attached to a pullhead that joined the twin pipelines to the single cable.

On the mainland, approximately 370 bogies were used to carry the pipelines up to the cofferdam, at which point they automatically released into a recovery pit

sides, and was profiled to suit the general topography of the seabed and the structural requirements of the pipeline.

Whatplanningwasinvolvedpriortothepipepullingoperation?

The planning for the pipe pull goes back over 30 months prior to the award of the contract, where the basic concepts were developed and the pipeline coatings were ordered. The concrete weight coating thickness needed to be adjusted to match the submerged weights of the two pipelines as, although similar, the steel pipe is not identical.

The next stage involved the detailed preparation of a 4.5 km access way, including rail track, bridges and a 1.6 km cofferdam, where the logistics of welding, moving and assembly of the full twin strings with floats – eventually weighing in at approximately 14,000 t – could take place.

This pipe installation was particularly complex as the pipelines moved through four phases of support, initially being supported on rail bogies followed by roller supports until they floated in the cofferdam. As the pipelines left the cofferdam, certain floats were removed to enable the pipe to sink to the bottom of

the trench and thereafter became a ‘bottom tow’ until it reached the smaller cofferdam at Curtis Island.

The quantity, size, procurement and securing of the floats for controlled buoyancy was a major exercise in its own. A total of 1,350 units were used in the operation, with each unit providing 2 t of uplift.

The units were fabricated to a special in-house design in Indonesia and shipped to Gladstone in special containers through Singapore and Brisbane.

The QCLNG and APLNG pipe strings were each created out of three separate strings – 1.12 km, 1.35 km and 1.5 km in length – that were welded together and hydrotested while mounted on rail lines on the mainland. The first sections of each string were floated into the cofferdam to make room for the welding of the second and third string sections.

The pipeline strings were moved along the rail lines on land by wire cable and twin 70 t winches.

The main winch was anchored to a foundation built into the hillside of Curtis Island. The pull wire, pull winch and its anchorage were all rated at a safe working load of 450 t after careful calculation of the loads involved in the pipe pull operation.

The marine logistics for the operation were carefully planned in consultation with Gladstone Ports Corporation and the regional Harbour Master through Maritime Safety Queensland.

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An aerial view of the QcLnG and APLnG pipe strings being pulled into the cofferdam before entering Gladstone harbour.

Engineers observe the arrival of the pipelines on curtis Island.

Preparing the pipe strings to be pulled through Gladstone harbour.

An aerial view of the cofferdam and winchpad on curtis Island.


profiles, were used to carry the pipe from the bogies until such time as the pipes floated in the water. This also had to cater for the fluctuating tides during the pipe pull operation.

One of the more challenging and innovative aspects, not originally appreciated, was the construction of the causeway through the very soft Marshlands muds, to create the access required to build the cofferdam and support the pipeline installation operation.

This required innovative engineering with a combination of materials, including the installation of 7,400 screw piles, which were successfully engineered and implemented to provide a solid platform that supported and contributed to the overall submarine pipeline installation success.

where two excavators were used to drag them clear and load them onto trucks to continually clear the area.

Once the pipelines were clear of the cofferdam, small vessels were used to remove selected buoys from the pipeline by pulling on a marked release wire, allowing the pipes to sink to the trench bottom. The remaining buoys were stripped from the pipeline after the completion of the pipe pull and then were tethered together and towed to a recovery ramp at the cofferdam access causeway.

Wasweldingundertakenpriortothepipepullorwasfurtherweldingrequiredunderwater?

Both of the 3.9 km pipe strings were welded, inspected, hydrotested and certified before they were pulled into the harbour channel. This included the field joint coatings at the welded joints, which had a corrosion coating of ultra-high build epoxy. This was also covered with a polyurethane foam product to provide a smooth transition fill between the concrete weight coating.

The pipelines were thus fully completed before entering the water with no further works required after installation. Tie-ins to adjoining pipes on either side will be completed in the dry cofferdams.

HowlongdidittaketopullthepipeacrossgladstoneHarbour?

It took five days to complete the main operation of pulling the twin pipe strings across The Narrows channel between the mainland and Curtis Island. This included two days to deploy the initial 3 km, 35 mm diameter messenger cable and subsequently the 89 mm diameter main pull cable, both of which were partially floated using airbags.

Prior to that, pipeline construction contractor MCJV had spent 15 months constructing temporary facilities including a 2.5 km access causeway, two bridges and a twin track railway line on which to move the pipes across two creeks, mangroves and tidal Marshlands.

Concurrent with the above, it took six months to weld together, prepare, test and move the respective pipe strings into position for the final operation.

Whatsortofinnovationsandengineeringbreakthroughswererequiredtoachievethisoperationsuccessfully?

There were no specific breakthroughs or innovations with the pipe installation operation as most of the methods and equipment had been used in similar projects around the world. However, it was the knowledge and experience of combining the various techniques to solve the specific problems of this site that played a large part in the success.

The pipe weight, diameter and overall length combined to make this a very challenging logistical operation by world standards, and with the two pipelines combined into a single pull, this

substantially increased those challenges, as both pipes needed to be matched and moved together.

The other aspect, as previously mentioned, is that it is very unusual to move a pipe through the various phases of land, floating and bottom tow configurations. Of particular note was the precision required to move the two pipelines from approximately 4.5 m above sea level to 2.5 m below mean sea level in the cofferdam, and during the process, automatically ‘remove’ the rail bogies and transition the pipe into the water, while avoiding all the supporting struts of the cofferdam.

Suspended rollers within the cofferdam, which were set to controlled levels determined by carefully calculated

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A tug and other smaller vessels were used to deploy the cables and support the operation with divers, marine survey and personnel transport.

An aerial view of the cofferdam looking back across targinnie creek and humpy creek in Gladstone.

more than 1,000 buoyancy floats were attached to the pipelines.

workmen release cable during the initial stages of the pipe pull.

The Australia Pacific LNG (APLNG) Project involves the development of APLNG’s gas fields in the Surat

and Bowen basins in southwest and central Queensland. Gas will be transported via a 520 km gas transmission pipeline from the gas fields to an new LNG facility on Curtis Island, off the coast of Gladstone, which will initially process up to 9 MMt/a of gas via two production trains. From the LNG facility, Australia Pacific LNG’s cargoes will be shipped to the energy markets of Asia. The project’s first cargo is expected to be exported in 2015.

APLNG is a joint venture between Origin (37.5 per cent), ConocoPhillips (37.5 per cent) and Sinopec (25 per cent), with Origin responsible for construction and operation of the project’s gas fields and main gas transmission pipeline, and ConocoPhillips responsible for the construction and operation of the project’s LNG facility.

As construction continues on the Australian Pacific LnG Project in Queensland, wdS provides The Australian Pipeliner with an exclusive overview of its work on the project’s upstream gas gathering system.


on the upstream side: wdS’ work on APLnG

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A map of the APLnG Project.

APLNG will produce CSG for commercial markets – both locally and overseas – and already supplies gas to power stations in Queensland, major industrial customers and homes and businesses in South East Queensland.

WDS was awarded a $280 million contract with APLNG in September 2012 for an initial period of three years with two, two-year extension options. The scope of

the project is to construct the gas gathering system and related infrastructure to 345 CSG wells over the three-year period.

The project work site is located at APLNG’s Reedy Creek and Combabula fields – which are approximately 100 km northeast of Roma and 120 km northwest of Miles by road – and at the time of writing, a permanent camp was being established at Reedy Creek.

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Over the initial three-year program, WDS will be responsible for: » Installation of 345 wellhead facilities

and installation of kiosk transformers; » Construction of approximately

900 km of gas gathering and water drainage systems;

» Installation of approximately 700 km of high voltage cables and fibre optic cables; and,

» Installation of associated civil works.WDS is also responsible for managing

and operating a 400-man accommodation camp, laydown areas and stock management systems.

“There will be approximately 300 WDS staff and personnel onsite at any one time, which translates to approximately 30,000 meals and 800 flights per month,” says WDS Chief Operations Officer Brent Jones.

Prior to commencing construction of the core scope the project team has been

engaged in undertaking early works. “Some of these early works have

resulted from landowner consultation prior to commencement of the gas gathering infrastructure and some of it is to provide access routes and temporary accommodation facilities while the permanent camp and laydown areas are being completed,” says Mr Jones.

Permanent materials are being delivered to laydown yards adjacent to the permanent Reedy Creek Camp and a dedicated crew has been managing the deliveries and stockpiling activities. The laydown yards currently hold approximately one year of stock.

Clearing of right-of-ways and track construction has commenced in the first work pack in the Combabula Field, with extensive environmental protection measures in place. At the time of writing, construction of the first gathering system

pipelines was scheduled to commence in late February 2013 to early March 2013. WDS has completed the preliminary scouting and plans required for the second work pack at Combabula so that construction can roll from one work pack to next.

WDS has also secured some further contract work near Miles and Condamine, with a small team mobilised to undertake manifold installation activity.

“Our works with APLNG complement our existing works for our other major customers,” says Mr Jones. “WDS has a proud history of delivering outstanding customer-based energy solutions in some of Australia’s toughest geographic and geological conditions. The company is equally proud of its many employees that deliver year-on-year successes with industry leading health, safety and environment results.”


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The company, which is currently working on a 160 km pipeline project in Dalby, has recently put

into action 12 hybrid excavators that are designed to leave a far greener footprint than conventional excavators.

According to Murphy Pipe and Civil (MPC) General Superintendent John Carolan, the 20 t hybrid Komatsu HB215LC-1 machines use 41 per cent less diesel fuel than conventional excavators and are also able to generate their own internal kinetic power to further reduce their NOx and CO2 greenhouse emissions.

“These unique machines are only new to the Australian construction industry and

follow the same positive environmental advances that Toyota achieved with its Prius car. The Komatsu HB215LC-1 is able to produce electricity to power key areas of the machine’s operating system while in use and also during downtime,” Mr Carolan says.

“When MPC heard about these new environmentally friendly excavators we were originally sceptical about their ability to carry out the heavy work load required on large-scale pipeline projects. However, we tested them rigorously in the field and were able to achieve the same outcomes with less impact on the environment – it was a very clear win-win situation for us.

“On the back of those successful trials we have engaged Brookes Hire to supply MPC with 12 of the hybrid machines with the intention of phasing in more machines as our project ramps up.

“Brookes Hire is one of only a few companies in Australia to supply this type of hybrid machine and we engaged them because they share the same positive environmental philosophy as MPC.

“Both companies are pleased with this environmental partnership which achieves a healthy balance between efficient productivity and responsible environmental management,” he says.

they are known around Queensland’s coal seam gas fields as the ‘Green team’ due to their strong Australian-Irish heritage, but pipeline construction company murphy Pipe and civil is also making good on its environmental commitment by using ‘Green machines’.


murphy Pipe and civil is keeping it green!

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mPc General Superintendant john carolan is pleased with the positive balance between productivity and responsible environmental management that can be achieved using the new hybrid excavators.

for more information visit www.mpc.com.au

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Following the success of the first Forum in March 2011, the 2013 Unpiggable Pipeline Solutions Forum

continues with the objective of addressing capabilities and guidance concerning tools for corrosion and mechanical damage inspection of ‘unpiggable’ oil, gas and hazardous liquids pipelines.

Organisers Tiratsoo Technical (a division of Great Southern Press) and Houston-based Clarion Technical Conferences says the focus will be on existing technologies as well as those in research and development. Advances and best practices in above-ground remote assessments, guided wave technologies, and internal corrosion direct assessment methods will form a significant part of the program.

Live-line access techniques, combined with low-flow restriction robotic and wire-line-powered internal inspection tools will also be a special focus, especially for pipeline segments that cannot be taken out of service when further integrity inspections are required.

The Forum, which includes both a conference and exhibition component, will attract project managers, engineering consultants, pipeline owners and operators, giving you an unprecedented opportunity to network with the people that need your services to keep their projects moving.

Organised by Clarion Technical Conferences and Tiratsoo Technical (a division of Great Southern

Press), the Pipeline Pigging and Integrity Management (PPIM) Conference and Exhibition was held from 11–14 February 2012 at the Marriott Westchase, Houston, Texas, in the United States.

Participation included 1,940 people from 30 countries, with 116 companies represented in the commercial exhibition.

The event was supported by Platinum Sponsor Rosen, Gold Sponsor RCS, and Silver sponsors A.Hak and N-Spec.

In-depth training courses preceded the conference and exhibition, providing attendees with the technical knowledge

required to ensure the safest pipeline infrastructure. Following these, the two-day conference program and exhibition allowed delegates and exhibitors to meet to discuss the latest developments in technology and services.

Papers for the conference program covered a range of topics including new technologies, case studies, management systems, and integrity assessment programs.

This year also saw the inaugural PPIM Young Achievement Award, which recognises the achievements of pipeline professionals under 31 years of age. Sponsored by Rosen, the award was presented by Rosen’s Ray Lewis to Jared Hebert of Coastal Chemical Company.

help unlock the unpiggable puzzle for your assets and attend the second Unpiggable Pipeline Solutions forum, to be held from 15–16 may 2013 in houston, texas.

celebrating its 25th year in houston, the Pipeline Pigging and Integrity management conference and Exhibition was a sell-out success, attracting 1,940 attendees and smashing the 2012 record attendance by more than 37 per cent.


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the exhibition at the 2011 Unpiggable Pipeline Solutions forum.

delegates heard a range of papers during the conference program.

the annual PPIm conference and Exhibition will once again be held at the marriott westchase in houston from 10–13 february 2014.for more information visit www.clarion.org or contact clarion’s bj Lowe at [email protected]

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Aspiring to establish itself amongst the dynamic and competitive international market,

the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Council on Petroleum (ASCOPE) engages in the petroleum and petroleum-related industries to promote the creation of synergistic business opportunities.

Since its establishment in 1975, the Council has successfully accomplished its objectives. It has promoted a policy, legal and regulatory framework; undertaken joint techno-economics studies; developed a knowledge management system for information exchange; promoted and shared researchers ̓works; and, is undertaking value-adding activities in oil and gas development.

This year, as a member of the ASCOPE family and based in a country which strongly believes in the oil and gas industry, Petrovietnam will host the tenth ASCOPE Conference and Exhibition with the theme ‘Innovation and co-operation – the way forward’ in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, from 28–30 November 2013.

It is important that the industry works together at a time when it must take into account new components such as new oil

field discoveries, environmental protection, the changing and competitive global market, and deploying state-of-the-art equipment and techniques.

During the ASCOPE event, the current oil and gas issues faced across the ASEAN markets will be discussed, in addition to ASCOPE’s upcoming plan. A Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Summit featuring the ten ASEAN National Oil Companies’

CEOs will also be organised to discuss the issues and challenges moving forward to implement the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint.

The ASCOPE Conference and Exhibition will provide delegates with various opportunities to network with key members of the regional oil and gas industry, as well as with thought-provoking ideas to take away.

within the frame of the global economic recovery and ongoing debates on climate change, dialogue and solidarity between the different players in the oil and gas industry is vital. by bringing the region’s leading specialists and decision makers together, AScoPE has become an archetypal instrument for co-operation among the member countries in this field.

AScoPE: promoting petroleum industry co-operation

for more information visit www.ascope-2013.com

during the AScoPE event, the current oil and gas issues faced across the ASEAn markets will be discussed, in addition to AScoPE’s upcoming plan.

ho chi minh city, vietnam, where the conference is being held.

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APiA meeTiNgS 201310 April PerthPog meeting

11 April PerthPog Seminar

11 April PerthwA chapter Dinner

16 may brisbaneBrisbane Seminar

16 may brisbaneBrisbane Dinner

5 june wollongongePcrc/rSc Seminar

5 june wollongongwollongong Dinner

6 june wollongongrSc meeting

13 june melbournemelbourne Dinner

20 june brisbanePiPA cSg Seminar

28 june PerthwA chapter Ball

11 july SydneySydney Dinner

18 july darwinDarwin Dinner

15 August brisbaneBrisbane Dinner

22 August AdelaideAdelaide Dinner

5 September melbournemelbourne Dinner

9–11 September canberraAgiT gas Speak

18 September PerthwA chapter lunch

12–15 october AdelaideAnnual convention and exhibition

15 october Adelaide Annual general meeting

27 november PerthePcrc/rSc Seminar

28 november PerthrSc meeting

29 november Perth wA chapter christmas lunch

6 december melbourne melbourne christmas lunch

11 december Sydney Sydney christmas Drinks

13 december brisbane Brisbane christmas lunch

19 december Adelaide Adelaide christmas Drinks

All events are current at time of printing, however, event locations and dates are subject to change.

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15–16 may 2013houston, texas

unpiggable Pipeline Solutions Forumwww.clarion.org/UPS_forum

26–29 may 2013brisbane, Queensland

The Australian Petroleum Production & exploration Association Annual

conference and exhibitionwww.appeaconference.com.au

10–12 September 2013darwin, northern territory

South east Asia Australia offshore conference (SeAAoc)

www.seaaoc.com

12–15 october 2013Adelaide, South Australia

The Annual APiA convention and exhibitionwww.apia.net.au

21–23 october 2013bahrain, kingdom of bahrain

Best practices in pipeline operations and integrity management

www.clarion.org

28–30 november 2013ho chi min city, vietnam

10th AScoPe conference & exhibitionwww.ascope-2013.com

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engineering/Project managerGbR Group Pty Ltd (Gordon Robinson)

manufacturer of equipment or materialAdvance welding (Graham tannant)Energy Process Services Pty Ltd (Guy hodgson)fEGAS (Steven cooper)high country fusion Pty Ltd (dermot o'dwyer)kemppi Australia Pty Ltd (david Green)Russell fraser Sales Pty Ltd (Russell fraser)vacuworx Australia (bill Solomon) Service ProviderPatrick Ports and Stevedoring (Louis Le Roux)thrifty car Rental - (jason mcLennan)UGL - operations & maintenance (Scott hodder)Ziltek Pty Ltd - (chris Lawrence)

Adviser/consultantmbS Environmental (Robert karlese)

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The development of South Australia’s nascent unconventional gas industry will take considerable knowledge, time and stakeholder engagement in order to maximise its potential benefits.

South Australia Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy Executive Director – Energy Resources Barry Goldstein states that there is realistic scope for multiple unconventional gas plays in SA to meet both domestic gas and export LNG markets for decades to come.

“Currently, 24 joint ventures are exploring nine unconventional gas and one unconventional oil play in SA, and each has potential for the development of significant oil and gas projects. The chance at least one unconventional gas play will be developed is very high,” says Mr Goldstein.

Foreseeing the potential value of the state’s unconventional gas resources, the SA Government initiated a consultative group in October 2010 to advise how unconventional gas projects could be undertaken sustainably and efficiently, while considering social, environmental and economic impacts and benefits.

This group – the Roundtable for Unconventional Gas Projects in SA – produced the Roadmap for Unconventional Gas Projects in South Australia, which was released in December 2012.

In Australia, the largest capital works project undertaken by Queensland’s water authority has reached a major milestone with the unleashing of the first of four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) that will carve out a new sewer for the region.

The Herrenknecht TBM was lowered 11 m underground as part of Queensland Urban Utilities’ (QUU) $US83.63 million Woolloongabba Sewer Upgrade Project. The project involves the installation of 5.2 km of HOBAS pipe as new trunk sewer main that will increase the capacity of the Woolloongabba sewerage system to cater for development and population growth in the area.

The upgrade project will ensure the long-term sustainability of sewerage services for around 50,000 properties in the Woolloongabba catchment.

The project will be carried out by approximately 100 personnel and will involve the construction of six new sewer lines and 37 access shafts. QUU says that current sewer pipes in Woolloongabba are approximately 80 years old.

QUU Chief Executive Officer Louise Dudley says “This trenchless method was chosen as it limits the impact on the community, making it ideal for use in heavily urbanised areas, such as Woolloongabba.

The Trans-Sakhalin pipeline system consists of 300 km of offshore and 1,600 km of onshore multi-phase oil and gas pipelines. It is part of the Sakhalin-2 project, one of the world’s largest integrated oil and gas projects.

The project is located in the far east of Russia. Construction of the pipeline network started in 2003, and it was put into operation in 2008. It carries oil and gas from two offshore fields (Piltun-Astokhskoye and Lunskoye) to the south, where Russia’s first LNG plant and oil export terminal are located.

To ensure integrity of operations, a number of design and construction decisions were made. The pipe used for the project ranged between 14 and 48 inches in diameter, with wall thicknesses varying from 7.1–30.2 mm, and made from X52, X60, X65, and X70 steel. The pipeline facilities include approximately 150 block-valve stations and 19 pig-trap stations, as well as a fibre optic cable – for communication and control purposes – running the length of the lines.

Construction in the environmentally sensitive areas was conducted in winter, when the land was frozen. Six rivers were crossed using horizontal directional drilling, for which the river banks were reinforced with gabions and rip-rap.

For Sakhalin Energy, and its pipeline maintenance contractor Gazprom Tansgas Tomsk, the key now is to sustain integrity at the highest level.

the road ahead for unconventional oil and gas in SA

cora the tunnel borer is released down Under

operating the trans-Sakhalin pipeline system

As seen in Gas Today As seen in Trenchless Australasia

As seen in Pipelines International

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EnginEEring/ProJEcTMAnAgErsAMEC Australia Pty LtdAMEC Environment & Infrastructure Pty LtdAtteris Pty LtdAusenco PSIBechtel Australia Pty LtdCadden CroweCapital Project Services Pty LtdFyfeG&S Engineering Services Pty LtdGBR Group Pty LtdGHD Pty LtdGPA Engineering Pty LtdHatch Associates Pty LtdJohn Beever Australia Pty LtdKellogg Brown & Root Pty LtdMomentum EngineeringPlexal GroupPowerflo SolutionsUhde Shedden (Australia) Pty LtdWood Group KennyWorleyParsons Services Pty Ltd

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BOC LimitedBorouge Australia Pty LtdBredero Shaw Australia Pty LtdCameronCanusa CPSCapital Steel (Int) Pty LtdCommercial MetalsCompanhia Brasileira de Metalurgia e MineracaoCRC-Evans Pipeline International IncCromford Group Pty LtdDavid Moss Corporation Pty LtdDenso (Australia) Pty LtdDiamond Key International Pty LtdDressta Asia Pacific Pte LtdDulux GroupEmerson Process Management Australia Pty LtdEnergy Process ServicesFast Fusion, LLCFEGASFiberspar Australia Pty. LtdFiberweb Melbourne Pty LtdFlexpipe SystemsFPKGasco Pty LtdGeorg Fischer Piping SystemsGFRGlobal Pipe (Australia) Pty LtdGlobal Supply Line Pty LtdHard Metal IndustriesHard Metals Australia Pty LimitedHeath Pipeline Services Pty LtdHerrenknecht (Asia) LtdHigh Country Fusion Pty LtdHobson EngineeringiGas Energy LtdInductabend Pty LtdIndustrial Plant & Service Pty LtdIplex Pipelines Australia Pty LtdJFE Steel CorporationJindal Saw LimitedJotun Australia Pty LtdKemppi Australia Pty LtdKessler Couplings & Engineering Supplies Pty LtdLaurini Officine Meccaniche SrlLincoln Electric Company (Australia) Pty LtdMAATS Pipeline EquipmentMarubeni-Itochu Tubulars Oceania Pty LtdMcElroy AustraliaNOV FGS Singapore (Pte) LtdOlympus Australia Pty LtdOrrcon SteelOzzie's Pipeline Padder IncPCS Pty LtdPentair Water Solutions Pty LimitedPinard Enterprises Pty LimitedPipe & Buoy Australia Pty LtdPipeline Actuation and ControlPipeline Inspection Company LtdPipeLine Machinery International LPPM Piping Australia Pty LtdPosition PartnersPPI Corporation Pty LtdRichmondRMG Atlas Pty LtdRMT Valvomeccanica s.r.l.Russell Fraser SalesSchmolz-Bickenbach Australia Pty LtdSchoenbeck GmbH & Co. KGSecuratrakSerimax South East Asia Pte LtdShawCor Australia Pty LtdSick Pty LtdSideline Specialty Equipment, LLCSMENCO Pty LtdSolar Turbines AustraliaSouthern Controls Pty LtdSparco Multiplast Pvt LtdSumitomo Australia Pty LtdSunset Equipment Pty LtdTapex Pty LimitedTIB Chemicals AG

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APiA would particularly like to acknowledge the generous support of its Sponsoring members

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Tremco Pipeline Equipment Pty LtdUnited Pumps AustraliaVacuworx AustraliaVermeer Sales & Service (Qld) Pty LtdVictaulic Australia Pty LtdVinidex Pty LtdVolvo Construction EquipmentWelding Industries of AustraliaWIDOS AUS NZ Pty LtdWorldpoly Pty LtdWorldwide Machinery Pipeline Division

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goVErnMEnTdEPArTMEnTs/rEgulATorsDepartment for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy (DMITRE)Department of Regional Development and Lands Energy Safe VictoriaEnvironment and Sustainable Development Directorate

AdVisErs/consulTAnTsACIL TasmanAECOMAurecon Australia Pty LtdCarter Newell LawyersChris Harvey ConsultingClayton UtzCNC Project Management Pty LtdCore Group LtdDoab Enterprises Pty LtdEnergyQuest Pty LtdEnvironmental Management ContractorsGL Noble DentonIDM PartnersITL EngineeringKD.1 Pty LtdLand Access & Management Services Pty LtdM J Kimber Consultants Pty LtdMaloney Field ServicesMBS EnvironmentalMonarc Environmental Pty LtdNorth Australian Centre for Oil and Gas

OSD Pipeline Engineering ConsultantsPlant & Platform Consultants LtdProject Consultancy Services Pty LtdRLMS Pty LtdRPSTMS ConsultingURS Australia Pty LtdWarren King & CoZiltek Pty Ltd

sErVicEProVidErsAll States Truck and Commercial RentalApplus RTD Pty LtdAPTSAqua EnvironmentalAtlas Copco Specialty RentalAuscor Pty LtdAustralian Hydrotesting Pty LtdAustralian Quality & Superintendence Pty LtdAXS Hydro Pty LtdBaker Hughes Process & Pipeline ServicesCADS Survey"CAT Rental PowerEnergy Power Systems Australia Pty Ltd"Coffey EnvironmentsContract Resources LtdCorrosion Control Engineering Pty LtdDefinium Pty LtdEPCM Consultants Pty LtdERIAS Group Pty LtdFastwave CommunicationsFHSFugro Spatial Solutions Pty LtdFurmanite Australia Pty LtdGameco Pty LtdGolder Associates Pty LtdGreat Southern PressGroundworks (Aust) Pty LtdHostile Environment ServicesISCO IndustriesLandPartners LimitedLifeAid Pty LtdLogiCammsMainline Manpower Pty LtdMears Integrity SolutionsMipela GeoSolutionsNationWide HireNeil Mansell Transport Pty LtdNixon Communications Pty LtdOAQ 4X4 HirePatrick Ports and StevedoringPeter Norman Personnel Pty LtdPII Pipeline Solutions\A GE Oil & Gas and Al Shaheen joint venturePIPEd Pty LtdPlantRentQube EnergyQuest Integrity GroupResource Equipment LtdRomea TrainingROSEN Australia Pty LtdSargent Rental and MaintenanceSavcor ART Pty LtdT D Williamson Australia Pty LtdTenixTerrex SpatialThe Cat Rental Store (William Adams)Thrifty Car RentalTorque Recruitment GroupUGL - Operations & MaintenanceUpstream Pipeline Testing Pty LtdUT Quality AustraliaWasco Coatings LtdZinfra Pty Ltd

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individual members:


Mr Peter Bagley

Mr Corey Beggs

Mr Luke Berry

Mr Paul Beukelman

Mr Peter Black

Mr John Blain

Mr Grant Bowley

Mr David Bradley

Mr Colin Bristow

Mr Ross Calvert

Mr Mark Coates

Mr Petros Contoguris

Mr Andrew Cook

Mr Geoff Cope

Mr Ross Demby

Mr Patrick Durack

Ms Sandra Dureau

Mr Murray Durham

Mr Stephen Dykes

Mr Lawrence Earle

Mr John Fleming

Mr Kenneth Flowers

Mr Peter Fox

Mr Graeme Gentles

Ms Margaret Goody

Mr Ian Haddow

Mr Lynndon Harnell

Mr Graeme Hogarth

Mr John Hough

Mr Kasper Jakobsen

Ms Barbara Jinks

Mr Kevin Kealy

Mr Steven Liddell

Mr John Lott

Mr Cameron MacDiarmid

Mr Campbell MacKintosh

Ms Marie Malaxos

Mr Jason Mansfield

Mr Brian Martin

Ms Wendy Mathieson

Mr Bruce McDonough

Mr Mick Murphy

Ms Beth Newton

Mr Garry O’Meally

Mr Giulio Pinzone

Dr John Piper

Mr Leover Polestico

Mr Andy Rankine

Mr Ray Reeves

Mr Peter Scott

Mr Bob Teale

Mr Allan Terrill

Mr Peter Thomas

Ms Jenny Thompson

Mr Tony Tschappeller

Mr Peter Tuft

Mr Phil Venton

Mr William Wallace

honorary life members:

k.A. barker

d. curry

k.L. fitzgerald

L. fletcher

d.c. Gore*

R. Gration

A. Lukas

A. marletta

j.k. mcdonald

S. mcdonald

A. newham

S. ohl

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emPloyee memBerShiP APPlicATioN: open to employees of full members of APIA. I hereby apply for Employee membership of the Australian Pipeline Industry Association and agree to abide by the Association’s constitution and any by-laws set from time to time. Payment for the appropriate portion of the first year’s subscription is attached.

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SuBScriPTioN rATeS (2011/2012 membership year 1 july 2012 to 30 june 2013)

A U S T R A L I A

membership year 1 july 2012 to 30 june 2013

SPoNSoriNgApplicable to owners only -

fee upon application

leAD

$8,940(incl. GSt)

corPorATe1-5 Employees $1,8806-25 Employees $2,50026-50 Employees $3,140>51 Employees $3,940

(incl. GSt)

iNDiViDuAl

$495(incl. GSt)

emPloyee

$185(incl. GSt)

new members joining after 1 october 2012 please call APIA to discuss the appropriate pro-rata subscription rate.(All applications received after 15 may 2013 will be issued with an invoice for the 2013/2014 membership year.)

All PriceS quoTeD For AuSTrAliAN memBerS iNcluDe 10% gST.

I N T E R N AT I O N A L

membership year 1 july 2012to 30 june 2013

SPoNSoriNgApplicable to owners only -

fee upon application

leAD

AUd $8,120

corPorATe1-5 Employees AUd $1,7406-25 Employees AUd $2,30026-50 Employees AUd $2,880>51 Employees AUd $3,580

(incl. GSt)

iNDiViDuAl

AUd $470

emPloyee

AUd $170

new members joining after 1 october 2012 please call APIA to discuss the appropriate pro-rata subscription rate.(All applications received after 15 may 2013 will be issued with an invoice for the 2013/2014 membership year.)

All PriceS Are iN AuSTrAliAN DollArS. A TAx iNVoice will Be iSSueD.


APIA

PAYMENT

Eft bank westpac banking corporation, Swift/AbA/Routing# wPAcAU2S. IbAn no. 032729162756. bSb: 032-729. Account no: 16-2756.

I enclose my cheque made payable to the Australian Pipeline Industry Association Limited, or APIA.

Please debit my credit card (please tick) Amex visa mastercard diners

cARd nUmbER: ExPIRy dAtE: totAL AmoUnt AUd$ cARdhoLdER’S nAmE: SIGnAtURE:

Please return completed form with payment to: AUSTRALIAN PIPELINE INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (ABN: 29 098 754 324)

Po box 5416, kInGSton Act 2604 | PhonE: (02) 6273 0577 | fAx: (02) 6273 0588 | EmAIL: [email protected] | wEbSItE: www.apia.net.au


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Hard Metal Industries 145Horizon Industrial Pty Ltd 114Hydratight 76IDM Partners 167Ikon Engineered Solutions 72Inductabend Pty Ltd 78Industry Marketing Solutions 169ISCO Industries 35Journal of Pipeline Engineering 171Kemppi 71Kwik-Zip 93Lantrak 58Laurini Officine Meccaniche Srl 91Lean Field Developments 2,3Maats B.V. 79MAG Clamp 85Maloney Field Services 141McConnell Dowell IFCMears Integrity Solutions 118Mitchell Water Australia Pty ltd 1Momentum Engineering 92Monadelphous Group Limited 9Murphy Pipe and Civil 4,5Nacap Australia Pty Ltd 25, 125Nationwide Hire 97Neil Mansell Transport Pty Ltd 81Nixon Communications 89OAQ 4x4 Hire 61Olympus Australia Pty Ltd 107Orrcon Steel - Pipe and Large Tubular Division 13OSD 41Ottoway Engineering Pty Ltd 65Peter Norman Personnel Pty Ltd 142Pipeline Inspection 43Pipeline Integrity 20

Pipeline International Premium 166PipeLine Machinery International 27Pipeline Plant Hire 73Plastral Pty Ltd 36PPO 154Proline Pipe Equipment Inc. 42Qube Ports 105Quest Integrity Group 18, 131Quest Serviced Apartments 37Richmond Wheels and Castors 75Rothenberger Australia 69Russell Fraser Sales Pty Ltd 113Sargent Rental and Maintenance 99Savcor Products Pty Ltd 120Schoenbeck GmbH & Co. KG 70Securatrak Pty Ltd 139Stockton Drilling Services 82TD Williamson, Inc. 117Terrex Spatial 53The Australian Pipeliner Legends 49The Australian Pipeliner Shop 132Thrifty Car Rental 103TMS Consulting 22Tremco Pipeline Equipment 109UPT Pty Ltd 57Vacuworx Australia 63Verdons Transport Pty Ltd 98Vermeer Sales & Service OBCVIETZ GmbH 77Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics 101Wasco Engineering Australia Pty Ltd 155WDS 164, IBCWorldwide Machinery 59Ziltek 143Zinfra Group 47

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