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FEBRUARY 2016
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON EVENTS VISIT
Events DIARY
18 - 20 February 2016
10
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Annual Midstream Summit
Houston, USA
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24 - 26 February 2016
AOG
Perth, Australia
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6 - 10 March 2016
NACE Corrosion
Vancouver, Canada
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20 - 24 March 2016
2016 No-Dig Show
Dallas, USA
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4 - 8 April 2016
Tube Düsseldorf 2016
Düsseldorf, Germany
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25 - 29 April 2016
Hannover Messe
Hannover, Germany
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2 - 5 May 2016
Offshore Technology Conference
Houston, USA
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23 - 25 May 2016
Pipeline Technology Conference
Berlin, Germany
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29 May - 2 June 2016
Pipe Line Contractors Associaton
of Canada
Charlottetown, Canada
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7 - 9 June 2016
Global Petroleum Show
Calgary, Canada
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W
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rld News
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SeaTrepid buys AUV systems
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Ongoing Kinder Morgan
pipeline projects
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World’s first hydraulic pipe
recovery tool unveiled in
Middle East
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World crude steel output
decreased by 2.8% in 2015
To read more about the articles go to
News Highlights
Enbridge boosts security
Calgary-based company Enbridge Inc.
has boosted its security after a number
of its pipelines were shut down due to
protestors.
Enbridge’s Line 9 was under sabotage
by protestors in December 2015. The line
was offline for approximately 90 mins as
the protestors were removed from the
site. Similarly, on 3 January, another
sabotage occured, which caused the
company’s Line 7 in Ontario, Canada, to
shut down.
Enbridge Spokesman, Graham White,
stated: “Enbridge sites are locked,
secured and monitored for the safety of
people and the environment. As with
any vital infrastructure or service, they
can be made dangerous if tampered
with or sabotaged. We are assessing and
employing various additional, permanent
measures to enhance our security and
safety at these sites to help prevent
these types of tampering activities in the
future.”
BC will oppose the Trans Mountain
pipeline expansion
First Nations and environmentalists have
called on Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau to stop a National Energy Board
(NEB) review of the Trans Mountain pipeline
expansion project.
The hearings will last for 10 days in British
Columbia (BC) and will finish in Calgary. Local
municipalities, environmental groups, First
Nations and residents who live along the
pipeline are set to deliver final arguments.
The NEB streamlined the review process
to meet time limits set by the previous
Conservative government. Interveners are not
allowed to cross-examine Kinder Morgan
representatives and instead had to send in
written questions. The company answered a
portion of those questions.
The BC government previously said it
would not support the proposed expansion. It
could not support the project because of
concerns about spill response and aboriginal
support, while the Alberta government issued
its support because of the economic benefits.
Hearings were suspended last summer to
avoid a perceived conflict of interest after a
Kinder Morgan consultant took a job with the
NEB.
NED pipeline: defective?
A leading nonprofit organisation has filed a
formal protest with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC), charging
that the Tennessee Gas Pipeline (TGP)
Company’s application for the proposed
Northeast Energy Direct (NED) pipeline
project is incomplete and riddled with
inaccuracies.
The 14 page protest document filed by
Northeast Energy Solutions (NEES) requests
that FERC reject the TGP application as it is
“not minimally commensurate with the
complexity of the proposal and its potential
for environmental impact.”
The document lists over 50 specific
deficiencies in the application for the
proposed pipeline.
Vincent DeVito, a partner with Bowditch
& Dewey, the legal counsel for NEES, said:
“The industry has never witnessed a
proposal for a project seeking government
approvals that’s as patently defective as the
one submitted by TGP.”
The protest document requests that
FERC consider holding an evidentiary
hearing on the TGP application so NEES
because of the numerous issues in the
application that are of ‘jurisdictional import’
to the commission.
