Australia

Tremco

APGA convention says goodbye for another year

When we all said farewell in Adelaide in 2019, nobody could have anticipated that it would be three turbulent and unprecedented years before we would come back together to the most exciting event of the year: the APGA Annual Convention and Exhibition. Read More
AGIG

Q&A with AGIG’s James Smith

Pipeline Operations Group (POG) members share real-world experiences of government regulation, safety and environmental concerns, equipment performance and people issues associated with working in remote locations.  Read More
HDD

Michels specialises in technical HDD

When horizontal directional drilling (HDD) emerged in the mid-1960s as a new way to install utility lines under immovable or unavoidable obstacles without significant surface disruptions, crossings spanned up to a few hundred feet guided by frequent potholing. That changed in 1971 when a 4-inch gas line was placed under a river in Watsonville, CA, USA, a location where potholing would not be possible. Read More
Pollards

Pollard’s Packs Tuff

Since it was established in 1968, Pollard’s Sawdust Supplies has been recycling and processing virgin timber by-products and packaging them into their Pack Tuff pipe bedding bags specifically for the pipeline industry. Read More

APA Group tapped for Basslink

Pipeline giant APA Group has been named preferred bidder for the sale of the electricity inter-connector Basslink, following a hotly contested six-week auction for the 370 km underwater electricity cable which connects the TAS and VIC grids. Read More
CCS CO2

Santos awarded CO2 storage permits

Santos has been awarded permits to undertake evaluation and appraisal work for the potential storage of carbon dioxide in the offshore Carnarvon and Bonaparte Basins, off the coast of WA.
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