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Woodside has achieved an important regulatory milestone for its Scarborough gas development offshore Western Australia. The National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) has advised of its acceptance of the Scarborough Offshore Project Proposal (OPP), following its assessment of the potential environmental impacts over the life of the project.The OPP is the primary Commonwealth environmental assessment document for the Scarborough project in Commonwealth waters and forms the basis for future activity-specific Environment Plans, which must also be assessed and approved by NOPSEMA.

The world of fusion welding has effected many industries and fabrication opportunities worldwide. Countless industrial items are assembled using a vast number of different welding techniques governed by numerous rules, codes and norms. Casting upgrade welding is a very specialised series of operations. The casting process offers a unique opportunity as the casting is an economic preform. Weld upgrade is inherent to the process.

GE announced that the order of two high-efficiency and lower emission power units to be constructed through consortium at the Polska Grupa Energetyczna Górnictwo i Energetyka Konwencjonalna’s (PGE) Dolna Odra Power Plant in the Western Pomerania region of Poland.

Aker Solutions has entered a master agreement to provide umbilicals for Chevron-operated oil and gas fields in the US Gulf of Mexico.

Following the acquisition of the UK’s first EHLA system, TWI is funding a core research project investigating the capabilities and future potential of EHLA technology.

When Sandvik Materials Technology needed to upgrade a critical furnace that was purchased half a century ago, it turned to ABB for a modern solution.

The CEO of Acerinox, Bernardo Velázquez, and the President and Managing Partner of Lindsay Goldberg Vogel (former holding company of VDM Metals), Thomas Ludwig, signed the agreement for the company with headquarters in Germany to form part of Acerinox.

The Materials Processing Institute has been awarded £22 M to deliver a five-year research and innovation programme to revolutionise the steel and metals sector.

The Core Research Programme (CRP) invests half of TWI’s Industrial Membership subscriptions, around £ 3.5m/annum, to develop new technology capabilities to be applied in industry in 3 5 years’ time.

There are a number of industrial applications that use transitions between dissimilar metals where joining is of the utmost importance.