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Phil Dent (MCF Vice-Chairman) – Exova |
Shukun Liu - Lloyd’s Register
EMEA Cliff McGuire – Exova Emmanuel Marcus – AMEC (ICorr) Gary Masters – E.ON Engineering Abdelkader Mekki – Conoco Phillips (visitor) John Middleton – Tuscan Corrosion Control (ICorr) Michael Moffat – Corrpro Companies Europe Ltd (ICorr ) Dave Moore - Lloyd’s Register EMEA Ali Morshed – PSN (ICorr) Kelvin Ngala - Lloyd’s Register EMEA Eugene Ogosi – DNV (ICorr) Tolu Otekalu – Aker Solutions Jacques Parlongue – Elsyca (guest) Mike Pursell – Consultant (ICorr) Sayah Saied - Midlands Surface Analysis (guest) Kushang Sanghavi – DNV (ICorr) Alistair Seton – Subsea7 (ICorr) Stephen Shrive – Aker Solutions John Sullivan – Midlands Surface Analysis (guest) Tanvir Sumon - Lloyd’s Register EMEA Yee Chin Tang – DNV (ICorr) Alastair Tawns – Shell Ed Wade – MetalEcosse Ltd (ICorr) Richard Waud – Aker Solutions Edward Whyte - Lloyd’s Register EMEA |
APOLOGIES
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Charlie
Barraclough – Commtech Associates |
Carol
Powell – CDA Darren Reid-Hutchings – British Energy Keith Stokes - DSTL Julian Wharton (Committee) – Southampton University Mike Wilson – BAE Systems Brian Wyatt, - Corrosion Control Jian-Zhong Zhang – Lloyd’s Register EMEA |
The MCF Vice-Chairman,
Phil Dent (Exova), opened the meeting.
1.1 ‘Material Testing in Super Critical CO2 Environments’, Matthew Peet, CAPCIS
2.1 Chris Fowler, President of NACE International, mentioned that there were to be conferences on Carbon Capture in Huston and in Regina, Canada. These were likely to be chaired by Shell (Canada) and details would be announced shortly.
2.2
Phil Dent
announced that a conference on renewable energy applications (tidal, wave,
offshore wind-farms) was currently being planned between the Midlands branch of
ICorr and the MCF. Anyone
interested in this was asked to see one of the MCF committee. More details would be released when available.
2.3 Keith Hart from the Energy Institute gave information about their work on Cathodic Protection and other corrosion related activities. For Cathodic Protection, the EI had inherited all of the Marine Technology Directorate's publications and are in the process of reviewing these. The one titled 'Design and operational guidance on cathodic protection of offshore structures, subsea installations and pipelines' was first published in 1990 and is now being reviewed by a team of specialists. The 2nd Edition should be available in Q1, 2011. [In a short presentation at the end of the meeting Keith mentioned Training Courses and Publications offered by the Energy Institute, details of which can be found on their website.]
3.1 ‘Computer Modelling in the
Design and Operation of Oil & Gas Fields and its Role in Effective Asset
Management’, Robert A Adey, CM
BEASY Ltd
3.2 ‘Modern Surface Analysis
Techniques and their Possible Application to Corrosion Issues’, John Sullivan, Midlands Surface Analysis, Aston
University
3.3 ‘The Real Cost of Corrosion’, Chris
Fowler, Exova and President of NACE International
3.4 ‘Numerical Simulations for Design and
Monitoring of Offshore Structures’ ICCP Systems’, Jacques Parlongue,
Elsyca, Belgium
The
Chairman closed the meeting at approx. 4:40 pm
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The
meeting was followed by a meeting of ICorr, Aberdeen branch:-