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The Arcelor Mittal steel plant in Bremen has secured a landmark $7 billion order for 310,000 tons of steel for the proposed 2000 km Azerbaijan - Turkey - Europe natural gas pipeline. The steel provided will constitute one-third of the overall amount necessary to complete the project. Deliveries will begin this year and continue until 2017. Company spokesperson Stephane Tondo declared that "this will be a challenging project for us."

Synodon Inc. ("Synodon") announces that at an earlier ceremony organized by the Managing Director of the Agency for Local Development (“PROMALAGA”) for the City of Málaga, it has signed a Collaboration Agreement with Aganova Grupo (“Aganova”), a natural gas and water pipeline inspection service provider headquartered in Malaga, Andalucía, Spain.

Countering Russian President Vlamimir Putin's assertion this week that the $40 billion South Stream natural gas pipeline project was dead in the water, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker declared the project was very much alive and can go ahead.

Russia and Turkey have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to construct a new offshore natural gas pipeline from the Russian Federation across the Black Sea to Turkey. The pipeline will have a capacity of 63 billion cubic meters per annum with 14 billion cubic meters envisioned for the Turkish market and some 50 billion cubic meters for Europe.

In the past, data availability and reliability characterized the main challenges to understanding and improving operations in the oil & gas industry. Today, data flows in by the millisecond, however - most of the engineering practices remain the same. Are oil companies extracting the full potential of their investments in data infrastructure? Fathom Solutions offers a Deeper Understanding to the vast databases of information available in the Oilfield today.

Fathom Solutions from Saudi Arabia is a first time exhibitor at the Pipeline Technology Conference.

NACE International, The Worldwide Corrosion Authority, serves nearly 33,000+ members in 116 countries and is recognized globally as the premier authority for corrosion control solutions. The organization offers technical training and certification programs, conferences, industry standards, reports, publications, technical journals, government relations activities and more. NACE International is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in San Diego, California; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Shanghai, China and Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

Delegates from 42 different nations travelled to Berlin for the 9th Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc) from 12-14 May, in order to gather information from nearly 70 presentations on the latest trends in design, construction, operation and maintenance of onshore and offshore pipelines. A new attendance record was set with over 420 participants.

The annual Pipeline Technology Conference, ptc (www.pipeline-conference.com) is known for its enduring dealing with the latest technological developments in the pipeline industry. Besides the annual conference and exhibition in Berlin and the publication of the electronic Pipeline Technology Journal, ptj (www.pipeline-journal.com) the ptc organizer EITEP Institute offers a range of specialized seminars.

The second issue of the new ptj covers reports about research, development and technology, news from industry and practice and latest information about pipeline conferences and other related event information. It especially focuses on the safety and reliability of pipelines.

Uwe Ringel will succeed Heinz Watzka as co-chair of the Pipeline Technology Conference from today.

Uwe Ringel started his professional career in 1984 as Engineer for gas supply technology (FH; University for Applied Science) within the Dispatching Department of the present VNG – Verbundnetz Gas AG, Leipzig. Since 1990 Ringel worked in the Gas Purchase Department. 2002 he changed into the Gas Transmission Department where he was the responsible Director from 2004 to 2005.

Having grown up as part of HANNOVER MESSE, Europe’s leading pipeline conference and trade show, Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc), will move to the capital Berlin next year.

The ptc has grown steadily over the years and, in addition to the conference itself and the accompanying exhibition, it is now also directly followed by several special workshops and in-depth seminars. International participants from over 30 different countries use the opportunity to come to Europe and obtain information about cutting-edge technologies and new pipeline projects.

The first three companies have already booked their sponsorship package for Pipeline Technology Conference 2014 and will from now on be part of the international marketing of the event.

• Rosen Group (Platinum)
• NDT Systems & Services (Golden)
• Gottsberg Leak Detection (Silver)

Please visit our sponsorship section for more information and contact us if you are also interested in joining ptc as sponsor.