TPT July 2016

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Denys and Selmers win technology award SELMERS has announced that the company, together with Denys, has won the 2015 IPLOCA New Technologies Award sponsored by BP. The award was presented during the IPLOCA annual convention held in Singapore, by Michael Hiam, engineering manager, BP Integrated Supply and Trading. Jean Claude Van de Wiele, Johan Van Wassenhove, Bart Appelman, Luc Hoppenbrouwers and Michael Hiam

The award is given in recognition of a significant achievement in the development of new pipeline technologies. The IPLOCA New Technologies committee, with Jean Claude Van de Wiele as the chairman, decided to present the award to Denys and Selmers, represented Johan van Wassenhove (Denys), Bart Appelman (Selmers) and Luc Hoppenbrouwers (Denys), in recognition of their work on their onshore automatic vacuum field joint blasting. The adjudication committee selected this entry because the new tool improves HSE conditions for workers in the field; it is a development coming from a contractor and a manufacturer

health and environmental risks, since the process produces a lot of dust and thus also potential pollution. The quality assurance also demands effort and discipline. Advantages of the operator-friendly closed-loop vacuum blaster include internal grit recovery; high blasting capacity; and a clean, automated and remote-controlled process with minimal abrasive loss.

working together; and it is an example of technology transfer from the offshore to the onshore industry. Denys specialises in the onshore construction of oil and gas pipelines, and has used this field joint blaster in day-to- day work. Together with Denys, Selmers was able to evaluate the field joint blaster when used in the field. With the outcome of the evaluations, the working of the field joint blaster was optimised. Conventional field joint blasting is typically a time-consuming manual operation, and carries some safety,

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