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The growing demand for natural gas worldwide is putting pressure on the gas transport and distribution sectors to construct major infrastructure projects and maintain existing pipeline capacity. The surveys indicate that at the beginning of this year, 119,938 miles of pipelines are planned and under construction worldwide. Of these, 83,634 represent projects in the planning and design phase while 36,304 miles reflect pipelines in various stages of construction. In America only, according to the National Petroleum Council, natural gas distribution utilities must construct 255,000 miles of new lines by 2015 to bring natural gas to consumers, expanding the current system by about 25%. In Asia Pacific of the 41,525 miles of new and planned pipelines, 29,072 miles represent pipelines in the engineering and design phase, while 12,453 miles reflect projects in various stages of construction with China, India and Australia remain the most active. In Eastern and Western Europe, Middle East and even in Africa pipelines are being planned and built. (Source: Pipeline & Gas Journal – “2011 Worldwide Pipeline Construction Report”).

There are millions of kilometers of gas transportation networks worldwide and the regulation and measurement technologies play a more and more important role in all gas pipeline stations. Over the long term, the countries must ensure that natural gas supplies keep pace with growing demand, and that adequate infrastructure is in place to bring supplies to regional demand areas. With increasing transport distances and the ever-growing concentration of regional transport networks, the demands on these technologies continue to rise.

“The quality and accuracy, supported by complex automation technology, are today the answer to the development of the gas network. We’re talking more and more about design criteria and the importance of accuracy in gas quantity and quality measurements, trying to eliminate the measurement uncertainty.”, says Ion Andronache, the CEO of the Romanian company Syscom18, one of the national leaders on the process control and automation market, company that provides integrated solutions for gas applications.

Briefly, wherever gas needs to be transported, measured or stored, there are necessary adequate solutions for design and manufacture of natural gas control, measurement and analysis equipment, including flow metering technology, regulating products and safety devices for the most demanding applications. The gas metering systems are used to measure and manage the custody transfer of gas in a pipeline and designed specifically for the environment where they will be used. The measurement systems usually manage product transfer at critical points for a range of operations including: pipelines, Onshore and Offshore production facilities, floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) units, liquefied natural gas plants, refineries, and petrochemical plants.

Typically, the gas metering systems are located at critical measurement points on a pipeline such as international borders, interstate / county boundaries. But the gas metering systems may also be located on gas producing platforms, gas separation plants, gas storage facilities, LNG plants and gas processing facilities. The pipeline engineering offers solutions for gas measurement and transmission through pipelines. The measurement systems may include ultrasonic and orifice meter skids, flow control/SCADA, valve switching, inter-connect piping. The complete skid mounted metering systems that are fabricated in-house help ensure consistently high quality gas metering systems and they are produced faster than field-built options.

“The works within the gas sector are complex. Syscom18, for example, realized locally in recent years, several projects in natural gas systems, mainly works of automation at gas compression stations, and natural gas measurement-metering systems at the main gas stations.”, as Mr. Andronache shows. The works at the measuring-metering gas stations were made accordingly to different principles of measurement used in Europe (systems with ultrasonic meters, systems with turbine meters or orifice plate). The measuring stations are made ​​at the interface between the main operators on the natural gas market in Romania (Transgaz, Romgaz, Petrom). Syscom18 also modernized the measuring stations Isaccea 1 and Negru Voda 1 for the international transit Ukraine-Romania-Bulgaria and has provided years of service among all the import and transit stations in Romania. During 2011 and continuing in 2012, the company will perform, produce, install and commissioning measuring-metering systems for the new transit station Giurgiu-Ruse, connecting Romania and Bulgaria.

“It is important to have a system integrator’s expertise along the entire gas supply chain, particularly in the areas of natural gas transportation, storage, distribution and industrial consumption. Organizations managing automation systems must ensure the long-term security and compliance of those systems, while maintaining availability and reliability. These new capabilities will help our customers enhance operational excellence while more efficiently managing security and compliance infrastructure.”, says Ion Andronache.

The environmental legislation in Europe, the growth of many of Eastern Europe's LPG markets, and the expansion of the natural gas network, have all presented operators with unparalleled opportunities. In Romania, the LPG market, including the cylinders, the auto gas and the propane bulk, is situated around 440.000 tonnes annually. If in 2009 the cylinders took almost half of the LPG market, in 2010 the auto gas dominated the market with about 45% from the entire market, growing with over 10% comparative with 2009. In 2010 there were traded almost 200.000 auto gas tonnes from about 1.200 LPG auto skids existing in Romania (according to the Romanian Association of LPG). The growing was first of all determined by the price of auto gas, situated at half of the price of the gasoline.

Romania seems to enter the European trend concerning the LPG situation, fuel that is intensely promoted as viable alternative for the traditional fuels, both directly by the legislative rules, and by the auto vehicles producers who deliver cars already provided with LPG installations from the factory.

In neighboring countries as well, the LPG sector is growing. Although Serbia remains an import oriented market, the share of big market players in retail motor fuel LPG business increased. Since 2007 for all kind of LPG activities (wholesale trading, storage, retail Sale etc.) there is needed “Energy license” issued by state authority-Agency for energy. The minimum required LPG storage capacity in one depot is 1000 m3, but the condition is for a min. 3000 m3 storage capacity for “Energy license” for LPG trading and production activity. If in 2009, 78% of LPG consumption was through motor fuel mixture (35% Propane, 65% Butane), in 2010 there was almost the same level of consumption (320.000 tones). The motor fuel LPG represents 78 % of LPG consumption in Serbia. There are about 500,000 cars (25 % of 2 000,000 total cars) with LPG installations and more than 650 motor fuel LPG stations. In the last couple of years companies like OMV, EKO HELLENIC, MOL, LUKOIL, MB Gas, EUROGAS established their own network.

In Bulgaria the auto gas represents about 90% from the entire LPG market. The retail chains such as Lukoil, OMV, Shell, Eko, Petrol, Rompetrol represent more than 60% of the auto gas market and a share of about 40% is represented by independent from retail sites. Autogas is very popular with commercial users in Bulgaria, as 90% of minibuses and taxicabs were able to run on the fuel.

With the expansion of the LPG use and beyond the decisive aspect of its use, namely reducing the cost of fuel, the operation and safety measures in the auto LPG skid sites will also expand and diversify, so that the new equipment is not endangered. The market trend also reflects upon the suppliers of equipment dedicated to LPG industry.

“It is clear that the consumption of LPG in the coming years will grow. Therefore it is important for providers to expand supply, but at the same time to provide services safely away from the risk of gas leaks or explosions that could occur when the systems are not inspected or properly used.”, says Ion Andronache, the CEO of the Romanian company Syscom18, a national leader on the process control and automation market, company that provides fiscal metering systems for LPG applications.

The extensive applications of LPG in the local market leads to growth among the local suppliers of equipment needed for the implementation of the projects or for the control of the systems and facilities. "Over the last five years, I found a real increase on the local LPG market, reflected in new orders placed. One of the last projects we’ve completed was the warehouse automation system at ButanGas, one of the largest LPG distributor in Europe.”, says Ion Andronache.

About the role that the LPG plays in the automotive sector and beyond, the industry leaders and policy makers in Europe and the world will debate at the Annual Congress of the European LPG Association to be held this year in Bucharest, between 22 and 24 June.

Romania's alignment to the European Directive 94/63/EC relating to control of the volatile organic compounds emissions resulting from gasoline storage and distribution, has been a challenge and an opportunity for the Romanian industrial automation and process control companies to expand their activities within the downstream branches of the main players on the petroleum products market.

At Petrom’s warehouses, Romania’s largest oil company, from each loaded truck the gasoline vapors can be fully recovered, following the implementation of vapor recovery systems by the Romanian company Syscom 18, one of the national leaders in industrial automation. In the same time, use of truck bottom loading increases the safety standards and environmental protection in the loading zone.

Syscom 18 has in its portfolio 16 vapor recovery systems, being the most experienced company in Romania and one of the most important in Eastern Europe.

Over the years, for the vapor recovery systems at oil companies’ tank farms, Syscom 18 served as general contractor and systems integrator, providing the basic engineering, contracting with third parties for the design works, contracting and delivering the necessary equipment, performing the implementation of the application software and the execution of special high tech works.

The years 2004/2005 were the stage of analysis and adopting the most appropriate vapor processing and recovery technology, completed with the implementation of a comprehensive, balanced system for vapors coming from fixed roof gasoline storage tanks and loading operations in trucks and wagons loading bays in a Romanian refinery, RAFO SA.

The “heart” of this installation was a vapor processing skid connected to a vapor holder - specialized tank to integrate the peaks of the vapor stream and to intermediately storage the vapors, before being processed. We have chosen a membrane based VRU, manufactured by Borsig MT in Germany. In fact it was the first application of its kind in Romania, verified and approved by the competent environmental authorities.

The achievement, based on a turn-key contract, was a success, the proof being that the largest operator on the petroleum products market – Petrom, member of OMV Group, used our services for the implementation of other 5 systems in its tank farms, systems also based on Borsig VRUs. The projects were started in 2006 and completed on time in 2007. Because some clients have requested also the installation of recovery units based on adsorption of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in active carbon, this technology was also examined, starting cooperation with Jordan Technologies. The decision was timely, because in the coming years 2008/2009 Syscom 18 has been implemented another 10 such plants, of which 7 are working with active carbon and the rest with membrane separation. Most of these projects, as well as the first, were turn key projects, Syscom 18 providing the engineering, installation and commissioning.

Omega Resources, a leading recruitment specialist in the Oil and Gas Industry has today announced that they will be utilising the services of an innovative new recruitment website, www.oilandgaspeople.com

Omega Resources Director, Sharon Shepherd, said “We are delighted to be working with Oil and Gas People and to be included among the first recruitment companies to be using this fantastic new website. At Omega Resources we are continually developing and looking for new solutions to enable us to offer our clients and candidates the best possible service. We believe that Oil and Gas Peoples’ new model will offer us not only a more efficient service, but also huge cost savings over current oil and gas job sites.’’

Managing Director of Oil and Gas People, Kevin Forbes responded, “Oil and Gas People has seen significant growth over the last six months since we went live to recruiters. We are excited to add Omega Resources to an ever growing list of recruitment companies who can see the benefits our site brings. We offer genuine cost savings of up to 95% compared to other Industry job sites and a much Improved process that saves recruiters lots of time as well as money’’

Kevin went on to say, ‘’It’s sometimes hard to implement change and to introduce something new. Recruiters are used to the current offering of job sites to the point where they accept their flaws and the extra work they create. We are delighted that Omega Resources can see our vision and we look forward to working with them for many years to come.’’

Sharon rounded up by saying “When first approached by Oil and Gas People we were sceptical as we thought they were just another job site. After talking to Kevin about his background in the oil industry and trailing Oil and Gas People first hand, we were extremely impressed. The level of customer service on offer is refreshing and the site has some features that are a dream come true to recruiters”

oilandgaspeople.com allows recruiters to post jobs, view applicants and search a live database of candidates for free. Candidate’s profiles on the site are very detailed and offer a complete insight into the individuals work history, qualifications and requirements. An in-site candidate management system does away with the need for an inbox full of CVs and allows instant screening of candidates. At the final stage recruiters pay as little as £10 to release matched candidates contact details. There are no hidden charges and if recruiters don’t find the candidate they want, they pay nothing.

Oil and Gas People is currently offering free trials to all new recruiters. Contact info@oilandgaspeople.com to find out more or view their Media Pack at http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/media-pack.pdf

Omega Resources website can be found here www.omegaresources.co.uk

A new recruitment website is being marketed as the home for oil and gas jobs in Norway. Oil and Gas People, a UK based site has recently signed up several big recruitment companies in the region.

With the market starting to pick up and a buzz of activity in Europe, dozens of oil and gas positions are being listed in the region every week.

The site which only launched this year is proving a huge hit with candidates and recruiters in the industry. Following a new model, Oil and Gas People has clearly been designed to assist those looking for work in the oil and gas industry.

Oil and Gas People creates a live snap shot of the available work force and offers recruiters a process that allows them to post jobs and be instantly matched to available candidates for free.

Candidates benefit from their own free online CV that they can link to when applying for jobs anywhere on the net. By maintaining a live profile on the site candidates will be automatically matched to suitable oil and gas positions posted by recruiters.

To Search oil and gas jobs in Norway and internationally, visit the site at www.oilandgaspeople.com

A fantastic community site is also available atwww.oilandgascommunity.com which is a great place to network and exchange information with other oil and gas people.

 A new recruitment website is being marketed as the home for oil and gas jobs in Qatar. Oil and Gas People, a UK based site has recently signed up several big recruitment companies in the region.

With the market starting to pick up and a buzz of activity in the Middle East, dozens of oil and gas positions are being listed every day.

The site which only launched this year is proving a huge hit with candidates and recruiters in the industry. Following a new model, Oil and Gas People has clearly been designed to assist those looking for work in the oil and gas industry.

Oil and Gas People creates a live snap shot of the available work force and offers recruiters a process that allows them to post jobs and be instantly matched to available candidates for free.

Candidates benefit from their own free online CV that they can link to when applying for jobs anywhere on the net. By maintaining a live profile on the site candidates will be automatically matched to suitable oil and gas positions posted by recruiters.

To Search oil and gas jobs in Qatar and internationally, visit the site at www.oilandgaspeople.com

A fantastic community site is also available at www.oilandgascommunity.com which is a great place to network and exchange information with other oil and gas people.

The Official Launch of Oil and Gas People has been scheduled. From Tuesday the 9th of Feb Recruiters will be able to post oil and gas jobs for free and be instantly matched to suitable and available candidates.

Oil and Gas People aims to be the number one recruitment site for the industry by providing a better service to both candidates and recruiters. If you are looking for your next Oil Job then join today at www.oilandgaspeople.com and create your free online CV.

Welcome to our first news letter.

Our community site is really starting to take off. As we prepare to welcome our 1000^th member I thought I would give some updates on some very exciting recent developments.

As most members know the site is part of www.oilandgaspeople.com our new oil and gas job site, offering recruiters and candidates a brand new recruitment solution. Oil and Gas People will go live during January and we expect to be welcoming thousands more members to our community then.

We have added some cool new features to the community site and there are lots more to come over the coming weeks and months. Our new contact importer enables members to invite there contacts from popular social networking site LinkedIn and from email clients such as Hotmail, Yahoo Gmail and AOL. A lot of members have come to the site through LinkedIn so why not invite your contacts to join you on Oil and Gas Community. The bigger the network grows the more we will all benefit. If you are not already a member then join our LinkedIn group also.

This week we have added a feature called Twitter Connect. Any site member can link their profile on the site to their Twitter account and have there status updates on the site sent automatically to Twitter. New members can also join the site using their Twitter login and password. This is also a great way of driving traffic to the site so add your account today it only takes a second. Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date with all site developments

Now that the site has plenty of members we have added a new chat room feature. This is in addition to the sites instant messenger and video chat feature. Anyone signed into the site can join the general chat room. It’s just another way to network with people in the industry.

We are in the process of building up a business directory on the site. If you own an oil and gas company or recruitment company, you can have a free listing in the directory by linking to www.oilandgaspeople.com from your website or blog. If this is of interest to you drop us a an email to info@oilandgaspeople.com

As the community site develops we intend to add lots of information pages for new starts and graduates to the industry. Soon we hope to introduce a document library where members can upload and download documents such as safety alerts, lessons learned, procedures, presentations etc. We hope this will become a really useful resource and enable the free sharing of information across the industry.

Finally and this is our most exciting announcement. From Monday this week, all candidates registered on www.oilandgaspeople.com our jobs site, will be able to use their profile on the site as a free online CV. You will be able to link to your edited profile from social networking sites, blogs, email signatures etc. Your edited profile contains no contact details or personal information. It will be fully optimised to appear in search engine results and it will maximise your exposure on the web.

A special link will be available that you can use when applying for jobs on other sites that will give recruiters free access to your full profile including contact details and documents. This is a first for any Jobs site and we expect it to be a very popular feature. The feature will be available to all candidates on www.oilandgaspeople.com whose profile is more than 60% complete.

Now is a good time to log in and complete your profile on the site. Remember recruiters don’t see your CV until the final stages. The more information in your profile, the more chance we will have of accurately matching jobs to you and the more information, the more keywords you will be found for in search engine results.

We hope you enjoy our new features. We thank you for being an early adopter of our sites and we look forward to matching jobs and networking with you in 2010.

Best Wishes for the New Year

Kevin Forbes
www.oilandgaspeople.com
www.oilandgascommunity.com

Marske’s Recruitment Business Manager for the UK, Lee Grimes said, ‘’We are delighted to be working with Oil and Gas People and to be included among the first recruitment companies to be using this fantastic new website. At Marske we are continually developing and looking for new solutions to enable us to offer our clients and candidates the best possible service. We believe that Oil and Gas Peoples’ new model will offer us not only a more efficient service, but also huge cost savings over current recruitment and job sites.’’

Managing Director of Oil and Gas People, Kevin Forbes responded, ‘’As a contractor who has worked for the last 6 years within the Oil Industry, I became frustrated at existing recruitment sites. They offer candidates very little in the way of service and only add to a recruiters work load, in that they have to spend a lot of time sorting through irrelevant CV’s, often received in response to traditional job ads.’’

Kevin went on to say, ‘’It’s sometimes hard to implement change and to introduce something new. Recruiters are used to the current offering of job sites to the point where they accept their flaws and the extra work they create. We are delighted that Marske can see our vision and that they are prepared to support the site from the offset.’’

www.oilandgaspeople.com aims to offer a more efficient service by allowing recruiters to post jobs for free on the site. Jobs posted will be automatically matched to suitable and available candidates and both sides will be required to confirm their interest in each other, before any candidates contact details are released. It’s a process that is totally free and allows recruiters the best possible chance of placing a candidate before they make a small payment to release matched candidates details.

Candidate’s profiles on the site are very detailed and only candidates who are actually available and actively looking for work will be shown. Candidates can link to their profiles using them as a free online CV and as a place where they can store all of their employment documents.

By removing the processing of hundreds of irrelevant CVs from a recruiter’s workload, Kevin Forbes hopes that candidate plus in essence, recruiters, shall once again be offered a more personal, direct and less time consuming service.  The old complaint regarding recruiters never getting back to candidates shall be placed in the past, along with the old-fashioned traditional job board models.

Each candidate selected for a position will receive regular updates through the site and they can be safe in the knowledge that they have full control over their personal details and will no longer be bothered with cold calls about irrelevant jobs.

More details about Marske Site Services can be viewed on their website www.marske.com and more details on why Oil and Gas People is better for recruiters and candidates can be found here http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/about.asp

With the present decline in the gas and oil industry along with the recent trend for pay offs and pay cuts, a vast majority of individuals are looking for better prospects. The down turn has resulted in fewer jobs but more people looking for work. It’s a difficult situation for recruiters, now more than ever they are being inundated with CV’s from potential candidates. Recruiters work loads are increasing at a time when they themselves are trying to cut costs. It is difficult for recruiters to cut costs as there is lots of administration work associated with registering new candidates and from reading through masses of CV’s received for the few vacancies that they have.

The oil and gas market is already showing signs of recovery fueled by the rising oil price and the announcement of new discoveries and prospects, in countries where the doors have traditionally been closed to foreign oil companies. Recruiters don’t want to be turning candidates away when they could have hundreds of vacancies to fill in a few months time.

So how do recruiters cut costs? Traditionally most recruitment companies rely on job boards to find candidates. The current model these sites follow sees a job being posted and candidates asked to send their CV in response. With so many people desperately looking for work these sites make it easy for anyone to send their CV. More often than not most of the CV’s received are irrelevant with the individual not even meeting the basic requirements for the position! It creates lots of unnecessary work for recruiters as each application has to be reviewed manually and logged in their system. The irony is that these recruitment sites charge vast amounts of money for job posts and access to their candidate database. They do very little to assist with the reduction in a recruiters workload and can add to fruitless time wasting and frustration on the recruiters part.

Recruiters now more than ever are turning to their own databases to find candidates. This however presents another problem, keeping an in house database up to date is near impossible! How do recruiters know which candidates are actually looking for work?? Lots of time is spent cold calling potential candidates and sending emails. It’s a lengthy process that not only takes time but costs a great deal of money, employees time has to be budgeted for, plus international calls soon amount to huge phone bills. End case scenario is that you will end up paying to place the position on a job site anyway, as a  result of your own candidate database failing to produce the match required for the vacancy.  This in effect doubles the cost and could see you loosing the position as most companies now use more than one recruitment company. Speed in finding candidates is essential.

So what’s the solution? How about a site where recruiters can post oil and gas jobs for free? A site where suitable candidates can be automatically matched to positions and recruiters can view their matches for free? A site that offers a better solution and solves all of the above problems while offering a better service to candidates…

Enter into the market oilandgaspeople.com A site that has been developed by people in the oil and gas industry and has been designed to solve all of the above problems. Offering cost savings of up to 75% over traditional job sites and a process that makes finding suitable candidates painless and instant. All of the traditional admin work is done away with. Recruiters can post positions for free and then have that position instantly matched to suitable candidates. Candidates detailed profiles can be viewed for free and both sides confirm an interest in each other before an individuals contact details are released. No more cold calling candidates, waiting for reply’s to job ads and sorting through hundreds of CV’s. Just instant matches to suitable and available candidates!

oilandgaspeople.com offers recruiters the best possible chance of placing a candidate before we charge a recruiter. Our match process allows recruiters to search every part of a candidate’s profile. No longer do they have to rely on key word searches. Our candidates are required to update their availability every 60 days to stay live on the site. We will never boast about how many hundreds of thousands of candidates we have registered! Just how many up to date candidate profiles we have, who are actually available and looking for work. Recruiters will be able to download a matched candidates edited CV absolutely free of charge. This CV can even be sent over to their client for approval before a minimal fee of as little as £25 is charged for a candidates contact details.

Our service means candidates are not constantly browsing for jobs. Positions find them... They don’t get send hundreds of irrelevant job alerts and nor do they receive cold calls about positions that don’t interest them. Our candidate profiles can even be linked to and used as a free online CV. Click to view a sample candidates profile. All of a candidates employment documents can be attached to their profile thus saving recruiters even more time once a candidate is accepted.

Through personal experience and essential feedback from over 300 agencies during the past year, we can now offer a more efficient and affordable recruitment service. No other Oil Job site allows recruiters to post positions, match candidates, and access candidates profiles for FREE! We charge a very small fee to release a candidates contact details but only after we have given recruiters the best possible chance of placing that candidate. Our match process is instant and means recruiters can have suitable CV’s on a client’s desk within an hour of receiving the job.

Our model aims to fundamentally change the oil and gas recruitment market. Click here for more information on why we are better for recruiters and candidates.