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I n t e r n a t io n al Search and Deploy The exploration boom
February 2015
Protecting brakes and clutches
Overcoming poor connectivity
Waste Heat Boilers Ensuring efficient sustainable energy optimisation for exothermal processes
Rapid Repairs Fast track maintenance to generator prevents excessive lost production
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Despite an uncertain economic backdrop, exploration – not only in oil but also in gas – has been booming. See Page 6.
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This issue concentrates on
52 Production • Processing • Handling 8 Can teamwork help promote zero pipeline failures? 8 Actuator technology aids gas blending
68 Health & Safety 8 Fire suppression – getting the right system 8 Personal protective equipment 8 Deepening the search for oil and gas
78 Special Focus: Decommissioning 8 A dynamic future for decommissioning 8 7th Annual Decommissioning & Abandonment Summit
30 What about HVAC? 32 Magnetic arc blow 35 Specialised steels 38 Pipeline inspection
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58 Green alternatives 66 Pressure relief 76 Signalling devices 82 Advertisers’ Index
44 Communications/Telemetry 8 Overcoming the challenge of poor internet connectivity 8 A targeted approach
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6 Exploration • Drilling • Field Services 8 Search and deploy … the exploration boom 8 Sourcing spares: signed, sealed, delivered … 8 Pipeline rehabilitation – the rise of a need
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