TPi July 2016

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Denys and Selmers win IPLOCA New Technologies 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. 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 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.

The award-winning onshore automatic vacuum field joint blaster designed by Selmers

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.

Conventional field joint blasting is typically a time-consuming manual operation, and carries some safety, 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. Being informed about the performance of the Selmers joint vacuum blaster, used in the offshore industry, Denys made contact with Selmers. The companies agreed that the joint vacuum blaster could be adapted for onshore pipeline construction, and would remedy the shortcoming of manual joint blasting. The Selmers field joint vacuum blaster is developed to improve cycle times and produce identical blasted joints considering roughness and cleanness. The design of the Selmers blaster is dust-free, and the abrasive is re-used in the integrated abrasive reclaim system.

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