Pipeline knowledge tested at WA APIA and YPF Quiz Night
By Jodi Gratton and Peter Kneale The Australian Pipeliner — July 2011
Do you know the name of the longest subsea pipeline in the world? If you answered the Langeled Pipeline, which connects Norway to the United Kingdom, then you were probably at the WA APIA and YPF Quiz Night.
This year, the quiz night was held on 22 March at the Perth and Tattersalls Bowling Club. The venue was at capacity with 106 guests battling it out over ten intense rounds of general and not-so-general knowledge, from identifying key figures of the past and present, to determining the meaning of acronyms such as HDPE, RSC and CSC.
Once the dust had finally settled from those ten challenging rounds, it was the winners of the previous year that took home the bragging rights again, comprising Edward Lauer, Mike Lauer, Diane Lauer, Dean Solmundson, Ruth Brisbane, Peter Wilson, Marie Wilson and Pam Vassi. Coming in at a close second was the Rosen table. Although the table representing WA Gas Networks placed last, all of its members still walked away with a bottle of wine each.
These tables weren’t the only ones who went away with a prize. Jeromie Gasper from DBP – using either exceptional mathematical methods or sheer luck – managed to successfully guess how many M&Ms there were in a jar. Given how big the jar was, those M&Ms are sure to last him until the next quiz night!
The quiz night was made possible by the efforts of the APIA WA Chapter and WA YPF committees, and sponsors Nacap Constructors and Murphy Pipe and Civil, ensuring all attendees enjoyed themselves and had plenty of opportunity to network. A special thank you goes out to Alex Aitken, who stepped up to fill the role of quiz master only five hours after stepping off the Queen Elizabeth cruise ship.
Lessons from Montara and Deepwater Horizon
On 4 May 2011, WA Chapter Dinner attendees heard from Freehills Consultant Greg Smith speak about the lessons that could be taken away from the recent Montara and Deepwater Horizon incidents.
Greg Smith engaged the WA dinner by taking the attendees through his beginnings in safety – learning from childhood accidents– to working as a safety manager in the oil and gas industry, and then on to working as a lawyer in the field of occupational health and safety.
Freehills acted on behalf of a number of companies that were involved in the Montara field oil spill inquiry. Mr Smith explained some of the lessons learnt from the Montara situation.
Mr Smith’s speech had attendees sitting on the edge of their seats, and many came away with information to feed back to their organisations.
Image caption: The WA Chapter enjoying the Quiz Night.
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