Tim Jackson

New pipeline protection available

United States-based Polyguard Products has been a manufacturer of buried pipeline coatings since 1950 and is now offering the RD-6 coating system to the Australasian market.
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Australia-wide end-to-end solutions

Heath Pipeline Services Pty Ltd is pleased to announce its recent acquisition of the Heath Consultants business, enabling a significantly improved operating capacity for oil and gas clients, including Australia-wide major gas pipelines.
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Savcor: a bright spark

Savcor Products is now offering the unique DEHN EXFS 100 range of isolating spark gaps, which have been certified for use in hazardous areas.
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A pipeline personality in SA: Mark Dayman

Mark Dayman has been a feature of the South Australian pipeline industry for many years, and has recently been elected to serve his fourth year on the board of the APIA. In this new feature of The Australian Pipeliner - profiling the big pipeline names as relevant to the edition's region review - Mr Dayman spoke about his journey from managing cult Australian rock bands in the 1980s to becoming the managing director of one of the country's biggest engineering and surveying companies, Fyfe Pty Ltd.
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APC: offering your complete camp solutions

Australian Portable Camps is a leading Australian provider of innovative accommodation and core camp solutions, custom-built to meet specific project needs and individual site environmental and social requirements.
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Bob Papp

As one of the most experienced welders in the Australian pipeline industry, Bob Papp has made his mark on some of the country's biggest pipelines and set a pipe welding record with his lifelong colleague and friend Fred Verna on the Roma to Brisbane Pipeline.
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An update on the APIA Pipeline Engineer Training Project: building on the foundation

At the 2012 APIA Convention, Chris Harvey, APIA's Project Manager for the Pipeline Engineer Training Project, provided a progress update for members on the project and outlined future plans. Mr Harvey's presentation was entitled APIA's Pipeline Engineer Training Project - Building on the Foundation. This article provides a brief summary of Mr Harvey's presentation.
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Ingenuity under the M1

The team at APA Group had a chance to become extra creative when fixing a gas leak that was impossible to repair or isolate via conventional methods.
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Pipe installation in Papua New Guinea

Operator of the Papua New Guinea LNG Project, Esso Highlands Limited, has given an exclusive update to The Australian Pipeliner on the extensive offshore and onshore pipe works involved in the project and the challenges posed by the country's rugged terrain.
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UEA undertakes desalination plant HDD

UEA Trenchless was contracted by Trility for the final horizontal directional drilling component of the new desalination plant being constructed for the townships of Agnes Waters and 1770 in Queensland. The scope required the installation of a 610 m section of 630 mm PE100 PN16 pipe for a raw sea water intake.
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Mears: offering exceptional AC interference services

Pipelines sharing, paralleling or crossing high-voltage AC transmission line right-of-ways may be subjected to electrical interference from capacitive, electromagnetic inductive and conductive effects. Electromagnetic induction is the primary effect of the high-voltage AC transmission line on the buried pipeline during normal (steady-state) operation.
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