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Oscar Scarpari Appointed as New Global CEO of Techint Engineering & Construction

Oscar Scarpari succeeded Carlos Bacher as company CEO at a global level, effective January 1, 2023, while Carlos continues as Chairman, after 20 years at the helm of the company. Oscar is a mechanical engineer…

Seal For Life and Consistent Pipeline Protection

Over 50 km of new pipelines are being constructed in the Bisat area in the Sultanate of Oman. The pipeline diameters range from 10” through to 24” in diameter. Canusa CPS (a division of Seal…

SACDE and Techint Take Step Forward in Key Project for Argentina

SACDE and Techint Engineering & Construction, in an equal part consortium, are currently building sections 1, 2 and 4 of the President Nestor Kirchner Pipeline (GPNK), an infrastructure project of 573 km in 36” that…

Nacap Constructs 580 km Pipeline in Western Australia

Nacap has been engaged by the APA Group to construct the 580 km Northern Goldfields Interconnect Pipeline to connect the existing Dampier Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline, near Geraldton, Western Australia (WA) to the Goldfields Gas…

Monti-Werkzeuge GmbH Continues Bristle Blasting Innovations

Bristle blasting (blasting without loose grit) for field joint coating surface preparation creates similar results to ISO 8501-1 Sa2,5 cleanliness with roughness profile>50 micron without a flat area between the peak and the valley of…

Mears Group Inc. Installed Power Distribution System After Hurricane Ida

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ida (Category 4, 2021), energy company Entergy began restoring and strengthening the power distribution system in the hard-hit coastal communities of Port Fourchon and Grand Isle, Louisiana, U.S.A. The new…

New Honorary Member Najib Khoury

One of the highest honours that IPLOCA is able to bestow on any individual is that of Honorary Member. In order to receive this honour a person must have performed distinguished services to the onshore…

Vacuworx Third-time Winner of Oklahoma Governor’s Award for Excellence in Exporting

In 2022, the company was distinguished for global equipment manufacturing and exporting activities, becoming a third-time recipient of the Oklahoma Governor’s Award for Excellence in Exporting. Vacuworx has been welcoming new equipment dealers and strengthening…

MAX STREICHER S.p.A. Hands Over Two Compressor Stations in Poland

MAX STREICHER S.p.A. was selected by Gaz-System S.A. for the construction of two gas compression stations near the Polish municipalities of Goleniów and Gustorzyn in October 2020, as part of the Baltic Pipe Project, the…

SICIM Expands its Footprint in Mexico

SICIM has recently increased its portfolio in Mexico with a new contract acquired through its subsidiary Constructora SICIM. This contract constitutes a key to the strategy of the CFE investment plan, aimed at increasing the…

Serimax’s Field-Proven Internal Line-Up Clamp INTERNAX

Serimax has engineered and brought to market an internal welding clamp; INTERNAX features a unique pipe re-rounding capability and ensures full penetration of the internal bead with digital welding data record. The oscillation of eight…

M. Al-Barghash Co. Ltd, Received Award for Sponsoring Largest International Conference Event, Saudi Arabia

Al-Barghash Co. Ltd. (MBTC) sponsored the Saudi Pipeline International Conference and Exhibition 2022 held at Dhahran Expo from 3 to 6 October, which is the largest international conference and exhibition event held with the objective…

Goriziane E&C’s Innovative Automated Fabrication Concepts

Among Goriziane’s numerous products is the G-FIT (Goriziane – Fabrication Innovation Technology), which is a special equipment for jacket and platform fabrications, and multipurpose alignment operations. The system is used to make the alignment of…

Herrenknecht AG Receives Bauma Innovation Award 2022

Herrenknecht AG has received the highly coveted Bauma Innovation Award 2022 in the category “Machine Technology” for the new development of continuous tunneling. Up until now mechanised tunneling with shield machines in soft ground has…

Gulf’s New President & CEO and Involvement in Midwest Carbon Express

Gulf Companies (legal entity: Gulf Interstate Engineering) is pleased to announce that Kent Wilfur has been appointed President and CEO, effective 1 November 2022. He is taking the helm following the retirement of Rick Barnard,…

DENSO Group Germany Celebrates 100 Years of Invention and Experience

2022 is a special year for DENSO Group Germany: the Group is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. Since it was founded on 14 November 1922, DENSO has evolved from a family company to an international group,…

Bin Quraya Company Awarded Water Supply Facilities Project by Saudi Aramco

Bin Quraya Co. Ltd has been awarded the Zuluf AH Dvelopment package project by Saudi Aramco, which involves construction of a water injection system facilities capable of supplying 1.063 MMBWD, with provisions to ultimately supply…

ISCO Helps Bring Safe Shores and Reliable Electricity to Rwanda

Through engineering and ingenuity, several companies were able to help turn a potentially disastrous problem into a powerful solution in Rwanda, where natural resources are limited. The country sits on the shores of Lake…

GDI Develops Microtunnel in Manzanillo-Guadalajara Pipeline

GDI is proud to have supported TC Energy by developing a microtunnel (MT) in the Manzanillo-Guadalajara Pipeline as a result of integrity campaigns of TC Energy.The microtunnel was successful for three main factors which allowed…

Goriziane Manufactures Internal Line-up Clamp (ILC)

Goriziane E&C S.p.A. has recently manufactured a new Internal Line-up Clamp (ILC). These ILCs are ready for final assembly and factory acceptance testing (FAT) before delivering them to onshore and offshore pipeline projects. The…

Xionggu Automatic Welding Machine Accelerates Welding Work on Section of Sino-Russia Eastern Pipeline Phase 3

The Nantong-Yongzhi section of the Sino-Russia Eastern pipeline phase 3 is a key oil and gas infrastructure project. After completion, it will realise the interconnection of the Sino-Russia Eastern pipeline, the 1st West to East…

Techint’s Sustainable Construction Amid Wetlands in Peru

Techint Engineering & Construction has built a 87-km pipeline to transport water to the Quellaveco mining plant in the south of Peru. Quellaveco is a 60/40 joint venture between Anglo American and Mitsubishi Corporation.

Further Awards for Streicher’s Fully Electric Driven Horizontal Drilling Rig

Since winning the 2021 IPLOCA New Technologies Award and being a runner-up for the 2021 IPLOCA Health & Safety Award, Streicher’s first fully electric driven horizontal drilling rig, the HDD80-E has recently won two further…

Seal for Life’s Stopaq Total Solutions

In 2021 Seal For Life (SFL) completed a year long gas pipeline project in Croatia utilising a number of SFL products to provide a total protection solution. The work was conducted on the new connecting…

ILF Consulting Commissioned for ETL in Germany

Gasunie has commissioned ILF Consulting Engineers as general planner for the Energy Transmission Lines (ETL) 179 and 182. These pipelines are related to the LNG terminals in Germany, which are now needed more than…

Bin Quaraya Co. Ltd Awarded Construction South Header LFDL, Saudi Arabia

Bin Quraya Co. Ltd has been awarded the contract to build a 63 km pipeline for the water injection trunkline junction at Lower Fadhili distribution to the central processing facilities plant Khurais in the Kingdom…

Xionggu Automatic Welding Machine Spreads Set Inherent Record in LNG Pipeline Project

The Binhai LNG project is located in the northeast of the Subei faulted basin in the Yangtze fault block area. The strata are well developed and a set of shallow marine, coastal and continental materials…

Baltic Pipe Project’s Pre-commissioning Operation by Techfem

The Baltic Pipe Project, developed by both GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. and Energinet, Denmark as co-investors, is a 36” offshore pipeline, which will connect the east coast of Denmark and the northern coast of Poland. The project…

SICIM Awarded Major Pipeline Project in Italy

Having been awarded the construction of 4 lots of the Ravenna – Chieti gas pipeline by Snam Rete Gas, SICIM is returning to its origins and is back in the Italian pipeline construction market after…

LogIC’s Pipeline Construction Digitalised Quality Management

Throughout pipeline construction, operations must be controlled with evidence to ensure traceability, quality and compliance with requirements. Necessary activities are carried out by field teams and a significant quality team but, thanks to LogIC’s QCM…