More foreign transport network operators at 8th Pipeline Technology Conference

In March 2013 the international pipeline community met for the 8th Pipeline Technology Conference (ptc) in Hannover, Germany. More than 300 delegates and delegations from 33 different pipeline operators from all over the world attended this year’s conference. The opening plenary sessions again covered a wide range of operational aspects presented by speakers from international players like Open Grid Europe, Botas, Petrobras, TransCanada, Saudi Aramco and GDF SUEZ. Followed by 9 technical sessions, 3 specialized workshops and an ILI seminar, the whole event for the first time stretched over 5 full days. Dr. Andreas Helget, Pipeline Solutions Business Head, Siemens underlined the importance of ptc as Europe’s leading conference for new pipeline technologies: “Siemens sponsors the Pipeline Technology Conference for two years now because it brings together the mechanical integrity part of the business with the system integration part, the automation, the electrical sides of the business. That makes this event very interesting for us.” The city of Hannover is not just lying in the center of Germany and Europe but also in close distance to the one of the first boreholes in the world for the extraction of oil in Wietze. A unique place where the conference delegates could see during a dinner invitation at the “Germany Oil Museum” that in Germany oil was also extracted from underground mines from 1920 to 1963. ROSEN Group handed over a new exhibit for the museum during the dinner. All abstracts and papers of the conference are published on the ptc website and are now publically available for international researchers and scientists from all over the world (www.pipeline-conference.com/abstracts). The next ptc will take place from 12-14 May 2014 in Hannover. The first sponsors have already confirmed their support for next year. Besides the whole range of pipeline technologies, the 9th ptc will focus on onshore and offshore pipeline construction and pipeline safety.