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Regular readers of Private Eye – and perhaps those who abjure Lord Gnome's organ – will know there is now a database available that tries to list all property in Wales and England owned by overseas registered companies. You can browse it here.
Naturally, my interest was in Wales, and so I extracted the Welsh properties from the database and these can be viewed here, grouped by local authority, and then, within each LA area, ownership is shown alphabetically.
It soon becomes clear that different companies can be found operating in different areas, some in more than one area; but one particular company stood out for the sheer number of properties it owns.
I'm referring of course to the company of the title, Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd. Here's a list of Link's properties, again, grouped by local authority, and in date order with the most recent purchases at the top. Though you'll see that Link also owns a few houses (and a garage!) in Colchester, Essex, which seem to be the only properties the company owns outside of Wales. I'd love to know the explanation for the Essex outlier.
Perhaps the most striking thing about the Link properties is that a great majority of the title documents, almost all, in fact, bear the same date, July 24, 2006. There are so many titles bearing this date that I think it must signify the transfer of a large property portfolio to Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd on that date. Which raises the question, whose portfolio was it before Link bought it? Alternatively, it could just be a change of name. In which case, what was the previous name of Link?
Although my interest was aroused by reading the articles in Private Eye and checking out the map, what really kick-started this investigation was someone in Swansea contacting me through Facebook to say that a number of the properties listed for Link in fact belonged to a housing association, which I thought was odd.
The properties my source was referring to are in Penmaen Terrace in Mount Pleasant, three- or four-storey houses, once homes to the local bourgeoisie now broken up into self-contained flats of the kind popular with students. (The picture below shows the kind of properties I'm talking about, though not necessarily the one I shall now focus on.)
My informant referred me to No 5, which she assured me was rented out by the Coastal Housing Group. Nearby properties were also said to be rented out by Coastal. The obvious thing to do was check with the Land Registry, where the mystery was cleared up . . . sort of.
Yes, 5 Penmaen Terrace is owned by Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd, but there is a leasehold agreement with Coastal. The details can be found here in the freehold title document, and here in the leasehold title document.
Though remember that Coastal is a relatively new organisation, registered on April 1, 2008 and formed through the merger of Cymdeithas Tai Dewi Sant (1991) and the Swansea Housing Association (1978). Which means that although Coastal is named as the registered owner and proprietor (of the lease) on 04.02.1983 this must have been the Swansea Housing Association.
The two 'Restrictions' dated 23.04.2008 would appear to be some kind of recognition that the merger and reorganisation had taken place.
Scrolling to the end of the leasehold document, under the 'Charges' (loan, mortgages, etc.) heading brings us to this entry: "(04.02.1983) Proprietor: The Housing Corporation of 149 Tottenham Court, Road, London W1T 7BN." This quango was the body that oversaw and funded housing associations between 1964 and 2008. I assume it ceased to have any authority in Wales after devolution.
An assumption that seems to be confirmed by a later entry reading: "(12.10.2000) A Deed dated 4 October 2000 made between (1) National Westminster Bank Plc (2) The National Assembly For Wales and (3) Swansea Housing Association Limited relates to priorities as between the Charges dated 12 January 1983 and 4 October 2000 referred to above as therein mentioned."
In order to find out exactly what this meant, I contacted the 'Welsh' Government with a FoI. I submitted the request on Sunday, October 2, which meant that no one would have read it until Monday, then I had a phone call on the Tuesday from a Regulation Manager at the Housing Directorate! Here's a section from the written reply that arrived a couple of days later.
The answer to my question, 'How much did the 'Welsh' Government chip in?' would appear to be that the 'Welsh' Government put in no money but instead acts as some kind of guarantor for housing associations taking out or revising loans.
Having satisfied myself as to who owns and who leases 5 Penmaen Terrace I decided to look at another property in Swansea owned by Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd, one mentioned in the freehold of 5 Penmaen Terrace, where it says, almost at the end, "(24.07.2006) Registered Charge dated 29 June 2006 affecting also other titles. NOTE: Charge reference WA99891".
WA99891 takes us to a part of town with which I am more familiar, for this title number refers to the freehold of 379 Neath Road in Plasmarl, the neighbourhood where my father was born and raised. Once a busy road, in fact, the main road from town to Morriston, it has become something of a backwater due to the new road that now runs past the Liberty Stadium and on up to the M4.
The property on Neath Road is a just a terraced house but, again, it's owned by Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd, though unlike the one in Penmaen Terrace it belongs to those properties bought, or registered, after 24.07.2006. To be exact, 06.10.2006. Another difference is that the lessee in this instance is the Family Housing Association Wales Ltd. And the money to fund the lease came from Orchardbrook Ltd.
I couldn't get a great deal of information on Orchardbrook, for one thing, it doesn't seem to have a website, but I did turn up minutes from a 2009 meeting of the York Housing Association, which say, "The Chair explained that Orchardbrook (a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland) took over all Housing Associations loans and the interest rate specified was high." Suggesting that when the Housing Corporation was wound up in 2008 its assets, in the form of loans made to housing associations, were sold off.
So the Charge entered against the leasehold title of the Neath Road property in 2014 probably means that Orchardbrook 'revised' the terms of the loan it had inherited from the Housing Corporation.
We don't want to get bogged down in the minutiae of Land Registry documents so to explain a little more I'll use the Zoopla website. Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd owns hundreds of properties in Swansea and many more across the south (but none west of Llanelli).
For example, Link owns many properties on relatively new developments in the Llansamlet area, in Brynteg, Ryw Blodyn, Lon Brynawel and Clos Eileen Chilcott and other streets. Using the data I'd compiled and cross-referencing with Zoopla and other property websites we find that most of these properties are leasehold.
Obviously I can't check all Link's properties, there are just too many, but I suspect the same picture will be found elsewhere: older properties – especially large ones and Houses of Multiple Occupation like those in Penmaen Terrace – are leased or rented to housing associations, with newer properties – bought as buy-to-lets – are privately leased or rented. Though I'm not ruling out that newer properties might also be leased or rented to RSLs.
Which leaves the big question – what exactly is Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd, and who's behind it? Against my better judgement – knowing I wasn't going to learn much – I shelled out £15 for a company profile from Companies House in Gibraltar.
While the big question – 'Who owns Link?' – goes unanswered, the profile does advance our knowledge in other areas. It tells us, for example, that Link was incorporated in Gibraltar on September 11, 2003.
Digging around in the FCA website turned this up, which tells us that on 24.02.2006 Cymru Investments Ltd of Jersey changed its name to or merged with Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd. This might explain the rush of registrations with the Land Registry a few months later, for this could be the Cymru Investments portfolio being registered under the new name.
Though given that Link was Incorporated in Gibraltar in September 2003 what was it doing in the intervening period?
You'll also see that the name Cymru Investments Ltd had only been used for a year or so, so was there a previous name? Yes there was, as this document from the Jersey Financial Services Commission tells us. From 10.09.1991 to 15.02.2003 Cymru Investments was known as Rastlebeg Investments (Jersey) Ltd, and before that, from 14.03.1974, the company went by the name of Gwalia Investments Ltd.
Something you may have picked up on is that there's a gap of 23 months between Jersey saying the name Rastlebeg ceased to be used (15.02.2003) and the FCA telling us that the name Cymru investments was adopted (08.01.2005). Is this a typo, or was another name used in this period?
In the hope of getting to the bottom of things I decided to buy the original registration document for Gwalia Investments Ltd from 14.03.1974 from the Jersey Financial Services Commission. Here it is. You'll see that despite what we're being told, the company was originally registered as Castlebeg Investments (Jersey) Ltd not Gwalia Investments Ltd. Yes, that's Castlebeg not Rastlebeg – another typo? Well, no.
Because further Googling turned up this entry (below) from Hansard. Castlebeg and Rastlebeg are one and the same, so why the different spellings, was the name changed in an attempt to confuse, or is it a repeated typo?
Here's a link to another Commons exchange from 1986 concerning Castlebeg Investments (Jersey) Ltd. The company was clearly behaving in improper and even underhand ways. There seems to have been some reluctance on the part of the then Conservative government to introduce leasehold reform. The kind of reforms recommended in the Nugee Report.
Having started the previous section by saying I didn't want to get bogged down in the minutiae of Land Registry documents I'm now in danger of getting us bogged down in information from other sources, so I'll just refer to a few more scraps of information before trying to pull the various threads together.
This first document, from the FCA, is the one that confirms Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd as the successor to Cymru Investments Ltd of Jersey (see panel above), but there are tabs on it we have yet to explore. If we click on the 'Principals' tab we bring up the name of Brian D Thomas Insurance Services Ltd of Swansea. Here's the Companies House entry.
This company goes back to May 1977 and was chugging along quite comfortably, with total assets less current liabilities of £399,517 at year end 31.03.2005. But then, this thoroughly Swansea company, soon after it gets involved with Link Holdings, is taken over by the Jelf Group of Bristol, undergoes a few name changes, is moved to Bristol, goes dormant, and is finally put out of its misery by being dissolved 07.09.2010.
Interestingly, one of the many names Brian D Thomas briefly traded as in this period was Gwalia Insurance Services. It's strange how the name Gwalia keeps cropping up, and those of you familiar with the social housing scene will know that there's a Gwalia Housing Group in Swansea, which recently merged with the Seren Group to create Pobl. Is there a connection?
You will have noticed that the Principal Place of Business given on the FCA document for Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd is, 'Cymru Investments Ltd., Po Box 232, Jersey, Channel Islands JE4 8SF'.
At that same address we find Cymru Management Ltd, Company Number 91117, Registered 06.09.2005. The date of Registration fits perfectly with all the moving and shaking going on, and Link Holdings in the wings waiting to take over. The Annual Return for 2016 informs us that Cymru Management has just two £1 shares issued to Mrs Deanne Mary Pascoe.
Mrs Pascoe is a woman pushing 80 and a director of GUKL Ltd, which I guess is run by another director, Paul Henry Barron Pascoe, a solicitor, who I take to be her son. The registered office is in London, and yet, if you scroll down on the 'People' page you come to a couple of names and addresses from the city of my dreams.
One is Zoe Teresa Brooks of Killay, and the other is James Christopher Coughlan of Llansamlet. Both served as directors for just six weeks, from 15.05.1995 until 30.06.1995. And when appointed Ms Brooks was only 18 years of age! Mr Coughlan is a builder, and had his own firm for a short time. It appears Ms Brooks did not trouble Companies House ever again.
Digging into the history of GUKL tells us that it began life in March 1990 as Cruisebase Plc, but the name was soon changed, in July 1990, to Golfads (UK) Plc, and again in October 2015 to GUKL. Would it be reasonable to assume that the current name means Golfads UK Ltd? And if so, what the hell does such a company have to do with Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd?
It might be worth adding that even though a number of sources suggest Cymru Investments morphed into Link Holdings it still exists in some ethereal form, using the same number, 8431, as this Annual Return for 2016 to the Jersey authorities tells us. Five thousand £1 shares held by Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd.
I feel a bit like old Gildas writing De Excidio, where he talks of having made a 'heap' of all he'd found, because I've collected a lot of information but I'm still not sure what it tells us. Anyway, let's try to make sense of it. (And I need your help.)
We know from Hansard, quoting Ron Davies and Nicholas Edwards, that there was a leasehold company operating in the mid-1980s named Castlebeg Investments (Jersey) Ltd. This company was also and variously known as Cymru Investments (Jersey) Ltd and Gwalia Investments (Jersey) Ltd. Though the jury is out as to whether it also called itself Rastlebeg or whether this was a clerical error. As the names suggest, all these companies were based on Jersey in the Channel Islands.
This company leased both to private individuals and bodies such as housing associations. It may or may not have also rented properties. Then, after being Incorporated in Gibraltar 11.09.2003 (but, according to the FCA, still using the Jersey address of Cymru Investments Ltd) Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd took over or became the latest incarnation of Gwalia/Cymru/Castlebeg. Probably confirmed with the splurge of Land Registry registrations of 24.07.2006.
It doesn't matter how many sidetracks we follow, or from which angle we choose to approach this subject, there always seems to be a path back to Swansea. Whatever we are dealing with has its origins in or close to that city. But what is it? If Link Holdings is now a massive buy-to-let portfolio, then there is one outstanding candidate for the man behind it. I won't name him, but everything fits.
It could even be that the Link portfolio today is an amalgam of an older leasehold business, Castlebeg, and more recent purchases by another party of newer properties, such as those in Llansamlet and other parts of Swansea which look as if they could have been bought off plan. So please look at the Private Eye map and the data I've compiled, what kind of properties does Link own in your area?
And yet . . . I have this nagging worry that some of the properties now owned by Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd may once have belonged to social housing providers. I hope not. Equally, I hope that Link is not a social housing portfolio that has been moved offshore.
What we can be sure of is that Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd is registered where it is a) to pay as little tax as possible, b) to escape the UK regulatory system, and c) to hide the identity or identities of whoever owns the company. That in itself arouses suspicion.
More worrying is that Link and other offshore companies own so much property in Wales. But worse, is that housing associations, bodies receiving hundreds of millions of pounds in public funding, are doing business with Link.
My enquiries covered just one local authority area, and I looked into only one (admittedly large) offshore property company. But I doubt if the picture will be very different in other areas and with other companies. So go through the information I've linked to, have a look around your area, and send me your feedback.
We are entitled to know how much Welsh public funding ends up with companies registered offshore. The 'Welsh' Government also needs to explain why these deals were entered into. Finally, we must have a promise that there will be no more of these deals, and that Welsh public funding will no longer enrich those who view Wales as a country to be exploited.
UPDATE 16.10.2016: The online Guardian today carried a piece about Arron Banks, big buddy of Nigel Farage and funder of both Ukip and the Leave.EU campaign. Unsurprisingly, Banks has accounts in many a tax haven, including Gibraltar, where Link Holdings also hides its loot.
But the connection doesn't end there, for Banks also uses Parliament Lane Nominees Ltd as directors and STM Fidecs Management Ltd as secretaries, just like Link Holdings. (Read Link Holdings' company profile.) Probably just coincidence, I suppose, but what if . . .
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I lost count of the number of "coulds", "mays", "mights", "probablys" and "appears" in all of this.
I'm not sure, also, what exactly is morally or ethically wrong with property, owned by Jersey-based entities, being used for social housing, and how this means Wales is being "exploited"?
Perhaps you could enlighten us why you felt it warranted such a wild goose chase, summed up on a lengthy exposé which exposes, precisely, what?!
There are no coulds", "mays", "mights", "probablys" and "appears" when it comes to Capital Gains Tax.
This tax is relatively simple. The difference between what a residential property is purchased for and the price which you sell it for, is profit. This is subject to CGT (as long as it is not your main residential home). CGT is payable by individuals who profit if they are in the United Kingdom. Also, if it's a United Kingdom registered company of limited liability, it is also subject to corporation tax.
There is no Capital Gains Tax in Gibraltar.
This is the reason why property companies 'off-shore', although there were some changes to this in the Finance Bill 2015. This issue is that the value of a property depends on the income stream that can be earned from it. Housing Associations in Wales are in receipt of huge amounts of public cash from the Welsh Government and various local authorities. HAs don't pay corporation tax, and any income from trustees is subject to personal income tax. However, the amount of capital gain enjoyed by the owner depends of the value of it's lease to the housing body. This gain is 'off-shore'.
What is morally wrong is where housing associations make great play of being a provider of social housing to the poorest communities in Wales, getting huge public subsidies and claiming to be 'not-for-profit' when actually, they are nothing of the sort, as any gain made on the asset is actually snaffled away to Gibraltar. This gain is particularly large if the residential unit was purchased as a 'plot', gained planning permission, had social housing built upon it, and then leased to a Housing Association.
You say Jac's efforts are a wild goose chase. It certainly is. Some types of Wild Geese from Wales are currently flying south for winter. They use Gibraltar as a navigation aid and fuelling stop for this migration. Perhaps they get a grant from the Welsh Government? A nest egg ?
OK, perhaps some naive questions, since I only have experience of small private co-operative HA´s :
Why are the HA´s working through these off-shore freeholders, why don´t they simply use their funding to buy freehold property themselves. The loans they raise for this are then serviced through the rents paid to the HA by its tenants. If grants etc. are involved then I imagine this is to allow for more property to be bought or for rents to be lower.
Have all suitable properties in e.g. Abertawe already been ´bagged´ by these off-shore outfits? If so where does their initial capital come from? And why can´t the HA´s get in first? Are the banks etc. reluctant to lent to HA´s (even with the government etc. guaranteeing the loan)?
Or if, as I imagine Jac suspects, there is some kind of stitch-up between the admins of the HA´s and the off-shore companies, how exactly does that work? Good old-fashioned brown envelopes, or something far more subtle?
Also, HA´s can make profits of course (the alternative is to run at a loss for the public purse to pick up on!) but afaik they´re not allowed to _distribute_ their profits, they have to be ploughed back into more housing stock etc. Interest can be paid on loans, but only to a very limited extent. Anyone who invests in a HA has to be warned that their investment is essentially for a good cause, not as a source of profit per se, and such interest as is offered (to use the wording that used to be current, maybe still is) should only be ¨sufficient to obtain and retain¨ necessary funds.
So basically, where is the profit made in the first place, and how is a HA leasing from an off-shore company any different from them leasing from any private property holder who happens to own a house they´re not using. Either it´s leased and someone at the end of the line gets a home, or it stands empty? The freeholder will clearly make a profit, but unless you ban private property and capitalism how can this be avoided, it´s exactly what capitalism is all about, the rich getting richer because they already own assets they don´t personally need that other have to pay to use.
Why don't HAs simply use their funding to buy freehold property themselves?
Because the larger ones are over-geared. They have reached the end-of-the-line on leveraging capital from their existing properties. Once a bank (or public sector finance) has lent them cash on their existing houses, they cannot get any more loans. They either have to buy out other HA's (lateral expansion) or find capital elsewhere (vertical expansion).
The loans they raise for this are then serviced through the rents paid to the HA by its tenants?
No. A loan secured on property is serviced by value of the property. Income from rents depends on what the housing market can endure. Social Housing earns less than market rate and is eaten up my maintenance and overhead. It is often subsidised by public grants. The only way to yield income from the rent stream is to own the facilities management company which gets the contract to maintain the houses.
If so where does their initial capital come from?
Offshore investment companies have lots of cash; deposits arrive from investors hoping to avoid tax. This money does not sit around like bars of gold. It is used to buy a physical asset fund, like a property portfolio.
Either it´s leased and someone at the end of the line gets a home, or it stands empty?
Yes. In wealthy cities like London, any rental income is small by comparison to the value of the asset and the capital gain. It's cheaper to ship out the social tenants to the provinces. This is why there are so many prestigious residential buildings, often new build, which remain empty, in London. It's a 'bubble'. In poorer areas rental income is generated, someone does get a home, but it's mainly dependant on taxpayer subsidy.
Is some kind of stitch-up between the admins of the HA´s and the off-shore companies, how exactly does that work?
It's the business model that exists. HA's are desperate to expand to finance their footprint. The property portfolio fund managers are happy to acquire freehold to supply them with more housing. Ideally, funding new-build. Low value plots can be purchased and the HA obtains planning permission via the poor-people-housing-shortage sob story. A property gets built, the HA gets more bums in bathrooms, the public subsidy for poor tenants gets bigger, and the profit stream for facilities management operations increase. The freeholder invests in a small value plot and ends up with a high value house in its portfolio, with any capital gain if the house is subsequently sold exempt from capital gains tax as it's held offshore. The offshore issue was discussed in the Westminster House when legislating the Finance Bill 2015. MPs from London kicked off about the empty condos on their patch. A solution was found to the issue in less well off areas, the proposal being new legislation to provide an opportunity for tenants to purchase their social housing from HA's. The tenant ends up paying the difference between the acquisition value and the current market value of their house. The capital gain is then liberated, tax free if it's in Gibraltar.
Hope this explains.
That's a hefty piece of research you've put together there Jac and that schedule of properties is absolutely mindboggling. Bear in mind that most of it appears to be residential, with odd bits of "vacant" land.
I haven't yet had a chance to drive past parts of this estate which are near to my home, but questions like – is this speculative against some other future development which could drive up values markedly, or , is it just a "store" of wealth for an individual, family, or cluster of people ? Whatever, the lack of transparency is alarming and our governments' willingness to deal with such opaque identities is in itself disturbing. No one awake on the job ? no alarm bells ringing ? too much acceptance of this is how it's done round here ?
Excellent research again Jac. Very interesting database of property ownership. I hope you receive some interesting feedback now that the information is in the public domain. Compulsory reading for officials at Welsh Government who continue to write large cheques on our behalf without asking the searching questions necessary, and closing the shutters when awkward questions are asked. If housing associations are involved we need openness and transparency. Difficult to keep up with all their antics these days. As you are aware, there is a site in West Wales where a housing association has been granted planning permission to provide a mix of social housing, shared ownership housing and open market housing. I am keeping a close eye on developments and how public funds are being used to develop the site. Nobody in local government or central government appear to have any idea how funds are spent, once allocated. Keep up the good work.
Now trying to find the history of the land owned by Link Holdings near the Swansea/NPT border, and probably the site of developments like this: http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/property/birchgrove/bronwydd/
There was a Swansea estate agent called J Barron Pascoe. From memory his office was on Mansel Street. He bought reversions of estates built by building companies and sold on 99 year leases in the 1970s/80s before it was realised how lucrative an investment they could be. I believe he retired to the Channel Islands and these were his companies into which he placed his property portfolios. If I remember correctly one was known as Gwalia Investments for a short time only because the real Gwalia Housing Association became very exercised by the confusion and demanded or persuaded a change of name. Don't believe there is any ownership connection with Coastal and I think the original Barron Pascoe died some years ago. Much of the income was earned by requiring house insurance be taken out through a nominated agency as required by most leases but a law change some years ago put a stop to it and allowed leaseholders freedom to insure. They still have the benefit of selling the freeholds and any house with less than 50 years left on the lease will have to have the freehold bought prior to any sale as Banks and building societies won't accept lower terms left as security.
Treforus' comment sounds like it's close to the truth,that maybe it's all about our archaic leasehold titles which should have been done away with decades ago but vested interests still thrive.
I wouldn't expect those running HA's to be directly owning a shareholding in an offshore property portfolio. I would expect, however, lots of vulture companies hovering around over-geared HA's waiting to pounce, either for individual property sales, or job-lot disposals.
There is, however, lots of money to be made in 'management consultancy'.
We'd be looking for people who sit on HA's boards of management by virtue of being a 'social tenant' but has personal wealth and social standing way beyond such a need. You'd be looking for a Swansea version of the former wing commander living in a former council house, villa in Malaga, wife who flashes a Gucci handbag in the local Spar, sort of type. Offshore companies thrive by virtue of the confidentiality that their status acquires.
going miles off topic an item on Google News caught my eye. It relates to an UNESCO declaration acknowledging the importance of that Temple Mount in Jerusalem to Islam , but omitting any reference to Judaism. Now I don't normally have much to do with Jews and their issues, but neither do I deny the Holocaust. This action by UNESCO, a key agency of the UN, seems to be a deliberate construct favouring the Islamic persuasion while shutting out the other "sons of Abraham"
Given that the UN is supposed to bring peace and goodwill, and ergo order, how on earth do they think this kind of nonsense and empty posturing is going to move the world forward ?
This Rapture mob is new to me, probably cos I missed out on Sunday School too often !. Frankly all this religious shit is normally beyond the boundaries of my tolerance & interest, but when I saw the UN with its mandate for peace etc trotting out that old nonsense I immediately thought that someone was trying too hard to start yet another fight when he/she should have been earning his/her corn working for peace.
Your tweet column catches my eye – particularly the report about UKIP "relocating" salaries and expenses to so called staffers based so far east it would be easier for them to work in Holland ! Anyway it's as much as we expected from that prize turd Hamilton. Almost makes you wish Gill some good luck ( I said almost ! )
Phil Bale obviously won't be a happy bunny until Cardiff sucks up the entire funding budget for Wales. Well, mate, we don't buy trickle down theories of economic development and wealth creation especially at those miserly rates funds flow from Kairdiff into other parts of Wales – so go fuck yourself useless piece of shit. Time other coucil politicians in S.E Wales turned on this twat and sunk him, permanently.
Finally your old pal Lord DET has chucked his toys out of his pram ( again ) and fallen out of Plaid and out of love with your favourite repetitive moaning girl. Shame that the two of them didn't piss off together taking their gaggle of advisers and what passes for policy creators with them. There's a spare island or 2 out in the Channel or further out to a new Wladfa on the Falklands/Malvinas or Sth Georgia would be just nice.
Garngoch – if local council can't be bothered then maybe it's time to call locals to arms – grass cutting, weeding, general tidy up – followed by a glass or 3 could make a nice afternoon out in the sun or the drizzle. How often does he need to go ? I could go for that it's only about 25 mile down the road and I'm sure there's some guys who could do with the exercise living nearer. put out the call, count me in
post script to the above – I see that there's a petition doing the rounds calling on M'Lord to stand down and compete at a bi-election for his Assembly seat.
Fine idea but full of down sides –
1. he wins,so no end to his carping about being man of the people
2. Plaid substitute wins – we get Leanne endlessly spouting her (new) mantra about being the "Real Plaid"
3.Labour win it ! or even Tories or UKIP – total disaster sets the local community back about 50+ years.
So for now I'd say leave the old twat in situ. He's no more daft than most of the rest of Plaid and in all probability any replacement would be just as useless, just younger. Now if they could get Elfyn Llwyd or Daf Wigley to run against him you might get a high turn out and a worthy outcome but anything else is just an exercise in electoral fantasy.
I was interested in what you found out about Orchardbrook. I live in social housing (in York) and my housing association is paying between 9% and 16% for finance from Orchardbrook which seems excessive. I wonder how many socially housed tenants are, indirectly, paying these rates.
Have you found anything further about Orchardbrook?
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[…] There are obviously questions to answer, not least – who owns the property in question; is it Pembrokeshire County Council or Pembrokeshire Housing Association? Or is it perhaps a third party, a private landlord, or even an offshore entity leasing property to social landlords, such as I exposed in Link Holdings (Gibraltar) Ltd? […]


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ME has been under attack lately. The 'too blue' camp insists ME is too blue.
Here are three fleshtone screenshots in succession taken September of last year.
I see a 'tint' but are these screen shots excessively blue?
Feedback wanted.
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Chalk Girl: a protester at the heart of Hong Kong's democracy movement. Two years since her arrest made her an accidental infamous hero of the pro-democracy umbrella movement, the 16-year-old must decide whether to rejoin the battle alongside the 'localist' youth. As elections loom, Chalk Girl is torn between wanting to respect her family, who are concerned about the risks of her activism, and standing up to Chinese interference. Young localists see themselves as being in a fight to save their beloved city, and in the middle of it all, Chalk Girl is just a teenager wanting to feel part of something bigger.
Lee Wei Ling and Lee Hsien Yang, the younger children of Singapore's founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, are disturbed by the character, conduct, motives and leadership of their brother, Lee Hsien Loong, and the role of his wife, Ho Ching. Wei Ling and Hsien Yang have stated that they feel extremely sad that they are pushed to this position.
The values of Lee Kuan Yew are being eroded by his own son. Our father placed our country and his people first, not his personal popularity or private agendas. We are very sad that we have been pushed to this. We feel hugely uncomfortable and closely monitored in our own country. We do not trust Hsien Loong as a brother or as a leader. We have lost confidence in him.
It is with a very heavy heart that I will leave Singapore for the foreseeable future. This is the country that my father, Lee Kuan Yew, loved and built. It has been home for my entire life. Singapore is and remains my country. I have no desire to leave. Hsien Loong is the only reason for my departure.
I generally avoid commenting on Singapore politics, but this is an exception.
In the last few years, my immediate family has become increasingly worried about the lack of checks on abuse of power. The situation is now such that my parents have made plans to relocate to another country, a painful decision that they have not made lightly.
I have set up a new Facebook account which is under the name Wei Ling Lee. Future posts will only be in this new account on which no one else can write anything. When I hv news I will post on Wei Ling Lee and open to public to follow. I am doing this as no public media dares to disobey Hsien Loong and Ho Ching's commands.
I am deeply saddened by the unfortunate allegations that they have made. Ho Ching and I deny these allegations, especially the absurd claim that I have political ambitions for my son.
Our letter was carefully vetted by our lawyers and obviously not in my own voice.
The most important point I want to put across is if PM can misuse his official power to abuse his siblings who can fight back, what else can he do to ordinary citizens. But our lawyer edited that main message out


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Another new record in the works by Kurt von Stetten. It's just how he do!
A new animated video from Kurt von Stetten dropped in our laps last night! It's for the track "The Future is Fashion" of off Kurt's new one, Gutt. It's 20 tracks, it's EPIC, and it's on sale now!
Well, well, well. Here we are busy with another Longwalls album, getting into our fall routines and.. oh looky here: A new KvS album called Gutt! I guess it has been a year since the excellent Bon Fortuna record. Anyway.. Bold, defiant, insatiable. Boston's Kurt von Stetten returns with his 11th solo effort—in 11 years. Noisy and angular. Low lows. High highs. Big and fragile. Playful and tuneful as ever. And once again written and recorded entirely on his own—with Kurt himself playing every instrument. And with 20 tracks (!!) you simply can't go wrong. Give Gutt a go! It's available (digital only) 10/28 here on SMR and over at Bandcamp (and eventually the iTunes etc..). Check out the first single, In a Car Falling in Love, and watch for video for Future is Fashion on Tuesday. Enjoy!
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"Another fantastic von Stetten album… it very well be his most solid work to date, and that's saying quite a bit." That's what our pals at Visions of the Unexcused have to say about the new Kurt von Stetten album, Bon Fortuna. Meanwhile Bishop and Rock call Bon Fortuna, "a dreamy, multi-layered and methodical record."
"'Spanish Ship' is still a powerful statement. It's bold, hard-hitting, well-crafted, and at well under three-minutes it doesn't outstay its welcome. Plus, it's not even the best track on the LP, which shows you just how good this guy is." Wow, kind words indeed from The Sound of Confusion. Thank you! KvS' Bon Fortuna is on sale 10/6.
Get ready folks! Bon Fortuna—The 10th solo album from Kurt von Stetten is on its way! Look for a digital release on 10/6, and if you follow KvS on Twitter keep an eye out for give-aways of physical copies– it's the only way to get your hands on the real thing. In the meantime, check out Spanish Ship, track 1 from the album.
Wow, what a summer. And now, back to school. Our own Kurt von Stetten has completed his 10th solo album in 10 years! Damn. It's called Bon Fortuna and is slated for an October release date. Meanwhile, The Longwalls will soon be releasing Live at the Bridge—a live concert video shot/recorded during their Gold Standard release show back in March. It's black and white and looks and sounds great. The band is also working on some new material and will record a couple songs this fall. Look out for a digital single by the end of the year. And, 10 years after its release, Gatsby's Floods + Fires has been touched up and remastered with 2 previously unreleased tracks added in. Look out for Floods + Fires [Turbo Edition] later this fall. All that and more… stay tuned!
Kurt von Stetten is killing it! On the heels of composing the new theme for the Lost at Home Podcast, a fantastic interview by the fab folks at Visions of the Unexcused—entitled "The Last Renaissance Man: Ten Questions with Kurt von Stetten"—explores Kurt's creative endeavors from music to visual art to BMX and beyond. And of course there's a couple mentions of Mr. Bob Pollard… Oh, and check the latest in a string of Vans videos using Kurt's music: one celebrating a Vans tattoo exhibition/competition and another promoting a Vans 'Zine workshop. The videos feature "Codify" and "He's No Writer" (respectively) from Kurt's 2011 classic, Cyclops. Check it:
Our own Kurt Von Stetten has been working with the fine folks at Lost at Home Podcast on a theme song for their show. The new original song will debut this Wednesday! Check it out now and then tune in to tomorrow's episode to hear its debut along with plenty of horror B film chatter and discussions of all things phallic. Oh my.


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It's raining today so I was forced to do a inside shoot. I decided to do a floating one cause that was my back up plan in case I couldn't go outside. I got the idea for it after seeing a commercial for that new movie The Fourth Kind. My sister want's to go see it, but I dunno, it doesn't look that good to me for some reason. I mean they make the alien seem like the bogey man.
I have to go to work in like an hour. I need money real bad. I went shopping yesterday and I spent way more then I was suppose to. My large format camera fund has taken a bit of a set back, it needs to be replenished. So off to work I must go. Straight into the jaws of the baby eater a.k.a my boss. All tho for some reason she has been really nice to me lately. I dunno, seems very fishy to me.
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Archer City is a city in Archer County, Texas, United States. The city lies at the junction of State Highway 79 and State Highway 25. It is the county seat of Archer County. It is located 25-miles south of Wichita Falls, Texas, and is part of the Wichita Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,848 at the 2000 census. The city is named for Branch Tanner Archer, a commissioner for the Republic of Texas. Its most famous native son is the author Larry McMurtry. Archer City and its Royal Theater are the basis for McMurty's fictional towns of "Thalia" and "Anarene" in his novels, including The Last Picture Show. The films The Last Picture Show (1971) and its sequel Texasville (1990) were filmed in Archer City. Archer City is also home to several other authors. Bill Crowley has published three books, his newest being a Christian devotional. Archer City is also home to actress Angela Kinsey. She portrays Angela in the comedy series The Office. 12 miles west-southwest of the city lies a 1.5 mile antenna, the Lake Kickapoo Field Station, operated by the 20th Space Control Squadron, and part of the Air Force Space Surveillance System, used for observing objects passing over the United States. It is the primary anchor transmitter for the Space Command southern "fence" (or "Space Fence") network for monitoring the space defense system. It extends east-to-west across America at about the 33rd parallel north. The antenna has no public access, restricted entry. The current mayor of Archer City is David Levy.
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- 8 thick slices rustic bread
- Leftover turkey
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 3 eggs, beaten
- ½ cup milk
- 1 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1 cup cranberry sauce
- 8 slices fontina cheese or other cheese of choice
- 2-3 tablespoons butter
- Arugula (optional)
In a shallow dish, combine the eggs, milk and syrup and whisk to combine.
In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, mustard and curry powder.
Spread cranberry sauce on four slices of bread. Layer the turkey, cheese and arugula over the cranberry sauce. Spread the curried mayo on the other slices of bread (one side only). Place the mayo side down on top of the other 4 sandwiches.
Heat a large 12" skillet over medium heat. Add a tablespoon of butter.
Meanwhile, dip the sandwiches into the egg mixture like you would for French toast. Let the bread sit for about 20 seconds to soak up some of the egg.
Place the sandwiches (you may need to do this in two batches) into the skillet and brown them for about 4-5 minutes on each side until the bread is a very golden brown and the cheese is melted.


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Sources: Pachulia's heel free of serious injury
OAKLAND, Calif. — Golden State Warriors center Zaza Pachulia underwent an MRI on his sore right heel Wednesday, and the results came back clean, league sources tell ESPN.
Spurs fan sues Pachulia, alleges 'serious injury'
A lawsuit has been filed in county court in Texas against Zaza Pachulia and the Warriors, claiming damages to "the quality of the Spurs' chances" and the value of tickets.
Pachulia, whose status is day to day, suffered a heel contusion in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals against the San Antonio Spurs.
He scored four points in seven minutes before suffering the injury and told ESPN after the team's 136-100 victory that he didn't know how serious it was.
Pachulia is averaging 6.1 points and 4.3 boards in the postseason. Game 3 is Saturday in San Antonio.


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Carnie and Wendy Wilson defend dad over Jeff Beck comments
Brian Wilson's daughters Carnie and Wendy have expressed their disappointment at guitar great Jeff Beck after he publicly questioned the Beach Boys legend's mental state following their joint tour last year (13). Beck hit headlines last month (May14) when he opened up about the old pals' "nightmare" tour, claiming the notoriously private Wilson, who has suffered decades of mental health issues, hardly spoke to him while on the road, adding, "He's clearly in need of attention. But that's just my opinion."
The Good Vibrations rocker has yet to respond to Beck's comments, but his singer daughter Carnie Wilson has taken aim at Beck for failing to take up any issues he might have had with her father in private.
She tells the New York Daily News, "It is crass and out there. I thought they had a good time on tour."
Carnie's sister and Wilson Phillips bandmate Wendy adds, "I think you have to support your colleagues and the people you work with. It is in good taste to say nice things about them, even if you think otherwise."
Carnie insists their father is doing well, but she has been urging the 71 year old to take it easy: "(He) is doing OK. He is laying back a little bit, which is about time. I want him to do that.
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Olympia, Wash. • The parents of a missing Utah mother pushed Friday for changes in Washington state laws on custody cases, saying proposed legislation might have prevented the killing of their two grandchildren.
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TOTAL Exploration and Production
TOTAL Exploration and Production
Shin J.,Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources |
Shin C.,Seoul National University |
Calandra H.,TOTAL Exploration and Production
Journal of Applied Geophysics | Year: 2016
Laplace-domain waveform inversion reconstructs long-wavelength subsurface models by using the zero-frequency component of damped seismic signals. Despite the computational advantages of Laplace-domain waveform inversion over conventional frequency-domain waveform inversion, an acoustic assumption and an iterative matrix solver have been used to invert 3D marine datasets to mitigate the intensive computing cost. In this study, we develop a Laplace-domain waveform modeling and inversion algorithm for 3D acoustic-elastic coupled media by using a parallel sparse direct solver library (MUltifrontal Massively Parallel Solver, MUMPS). We precisely simulate a real marine environment by coupling the 3D acoustic and elastic wave equations with the proper boundary condition at the fluid-solid interface. In addition, we can extract the elastic properties of the Earth below the sea bottom from the recorded acoustic pressure datasets. As a matrix solver, the parallel sparse direct solver is used to factorize the non-symmetric impedance matrix in a distributed memory architecture and rapidly solve the wave field for a number of shots by using the lower and upper matrix factors. Using both synthetic datasets and real datasets obtained by a 3D wide azimuth survey, the long-wavelength component of the P-wave and S-wave velocity models is reconstructed and the proposed modeling and inversion algorithm are verified. A cluster of 80 CPU cores is used for this study. © 2016 Elsevier B.V.
Turlan F.,TOTAL Exploration and Production |
Audibert-Hayet A.,TOTAL Exploration and Production
Society of Petroleum Engineers - Arctic Technology Conference 2012 | Year: 2012
TOTAL Exploration & Production has been active in cold environments since 1970 (i.e. drilling in the Arctic Islands in Canada) and has been operating the Russian Kharyaga field since 1999. For its first experiences in those challenging conditions, TOTAL applied its internal rules and specifications that were not aimed at this kind of environments but to "classic" prospects, the main assets being in the Guinea Golf, in the North Sea, the Middle East and in South East Asia. As the prospects and TOTAL'S portfolio have developed in areas where temperatures are below -15°C, such as Kashagan field in Kazakhstan or Yamal in Russia, an "Extreme Cold" taskforce was put together several years ago. The aim is to gather feedbacks from the past and to centralize the Research & Development activities to look for innovative solutions for the future and on-going projects. The workgroup is organized around several panels, one of those being the Health and Safety aspects for the operations in Extreme Cold conditions. From partnership through JIPs, internal research and workshops with affiliates (mainly in Norway, Russia or Canada), and projects teams, it has been decided to produce internal guidelines in order to define and harmonize the practices, acknowledging that each field has its own meteorological constraints, and to gather the results from the multiple actions carried out by TOTAL headquarters or affiliates. The methodology and the risk analysis performed to obtain a common technical basis will be here presented. Copyright 2012, Offshore Technology Conference.
Thibaut E.,Total Exploration and Production |
Meyer E.,Total Exploration and Production |
Rambaldi E.,Total Exploration and Production
Proceedings of the Annual Offshore Technology Conference | Year: 2010
Work is currently ongoing in the offshore oil & gas industry to develop subsea processing systems supplying multiple electrical consumers, over long step-outs and in deep waters. To meet the technical challenges of these developments, new subsea electrical power transmission and distribution architectures have to be developed. This paper gives an overview of possible electrical power transmission and distribution architectures. It addresses the main technical challenges and present limitations, describes the system approach and gives an operator's viewpoint as to the way forward. Copyright 2010, Offshore Technology Conference.
Thibaut E.,TOTAL Exploration and Production |
Leforgeais B.,TOTAL Exploration and Production
Society of Petroleum Engineers - Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference 2012, ADIPEC 2012 - Sustainable Energy Growth: People, Responsibility, and Innovation | Year: 2012
Martin Linge offshore gas field (formerly named Hild) is located on the Norwegian sector of the North Sea, southwest from Oseberg. The field development comprises a platform with a jack up rig and Floating Storage Offloading unit. This offshore development will be supplied with electric power from shore, through a High Voltage AC submarine cable. With a step out distance of 170km and a design power of 55MW, this will be the world's longest AC submarine cable power supplying an entire offshore Oil and Gas platform from the shore. This paper presents the Martin Linge project, it discusses the criteria considered to select a power from shore instead of an offshore Gas Turbine power plant which is the current practice in the offshore Oil and Gas industry. And since in a first approach, for such long step-out distance, the choice of power from shore would be to select a DC transmission line, the paper discusses the design, system approach and main technical challenges of this long step-out AC transmission development. Finally, the paper gives an operator's viewpoint as to the way forward. Copyright 2012, Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Yan R.,University of California at Santa Cruz |
Guan H.,Total Exploration and Production |
Xie X.-B.,University of California at Santa Cruz |
Wu R.-S.,University of California at Santa Cruz
Geophysics | Year: 2014
Due to incomplete aperture coverage and complex overburden structures, the migration process cannot provide a trueamplitude image even though a true-amplitude propagator is used. Amplitude compensation based on source-side illumination ignores the aperture effects on the receiver side, and it may fail to recover the true-reflection/scattering strength of a geologic structure from the image. The structural dip largely controls if the wave incident on the structure can be reflected back and received by the acquisition aperture, so it should be taken into account in removing the acquisition effects from the migration image. We derived a dip-angle domain amplitude correction from the resolution theory. The stacked migration image created by reverse time migration was decomposed into common dip images, which were compensated individually by the corresponding amplitude correction factor. Then, we summed up the corrected images to form a final image. To construct the amplitude correction factor, we generated a monofrequency Green's function at the shot/geophone location and further decomposed it into incident/scattered plane waves. They were combined based on Snell's law to construct correction factors for different dips. The final amplitude correction factor was formed by visiting all the shotgeophone pairs in the observation system. We devised efficient algorithms to make the amplitude correction more practical. We evaluated two numerical experiments, a five-layer model and the SEG/EAGE salt model, in which the amplitude correction led to a scalar/pressure image with an amplitude better matching the true impedance contrasts of subsurface structures, especially in areas with steep dips and in subsalt regions. © 2014 Society of Exploration Geophysicists.
Khan F.,Total Exploration and Production |
Goujard V.,Total Exploration and Production |
Tincelin P.H.,Total Exploration and Production |
Tison M.,Total Exploration and Production |
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SPE Economics and Management | Year: 2012
Capitalizing on early successes in advanced well control and realtime monitoring, Total Exploration and Production has engaged in a major "digital-field" initiative. Combining both proven and leading-edge technologies, the field-monitoring template is providing a powerful tool for well and facilities performance monitoring and optimization. This paper presents the concept of the WPM module, and the early results of its pilot application whose implementation began in 2009 at the Girassol field located offshore Angola. The WPM module constitutes an integrated real-time monitoring solution for subsea installations, from reservoir inflow to receiving facilities. Proposing advanced features (e.g., a common asset model, a business orchestrator, and a Web-based interface), the tool provides remote access to timely and quality field data, improves communication and collaboration between offshore and onshore, and provides support by specialists from explorationand-production headquarters. Functional capabilities include data validation, virtual metering, wells and networks modeling, smart alarming, and production optimization. Specific workflows have also been defined to sustain continuous updating of the models to match observed field behavior. This paper illustrates the benefits of the WPM solution in terms of improved production and enhanced well diagnosis. It also reviews the organizational challenges associated with such a project and discusses the key factors ensuring successful implementation and good support from on-site teams. WPM brings forth a new approach for the intelligent surveillance of complex subsea-production systems. Well performance and production and reservoir teams have gained benefit from such a tool. Pertinent information is delivered to the right people in real time, enabling instant diagnosis and minimization of production shortfalls. In addition, the online simulator supports the continuous optimization of the field throughput by real-time integration of changing well behavior or production constraints. Copyright © 2012 Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Terentyev A.,Total Exploration and Production |
Fokin S.,Total Exploration and Production
GeoInformatics 2013 - 12th International Conference on Geoinformatics: Theoretical and Applied Aspects | Year: 2013
This paper gives brief overview of TOTAL's approach to 2G data management and describes an in-house solution developed to cover the needs of specialists.
Bordmann V.,TOTAL Exploration and Production
Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production 2010 | Year: 2010
With Host Countries stepping up their demands and expectations in terms of local content, defining its perimeter and boundaries has created some confusion among the industry. It becomes a challenge for IOCs/NOCs to agree on its definition, perimeter, and hence on its indicators to measure it. This proposed paper will present a possible perimeter for local content development initiatives and suggest key performance indicators. Local content -aimed at enhancing skills, developing suppliers and infrastructures of Host Countries in connection with field development and production projects -now occupies a predominant place in the oil & gas producing countries. Usually measured as a percentage of investment, of man hours, of weight of equipment manufactured, or of jobs created and industrial bases used, local content concerns industrial capacities as much as human resources. IOC/NOC operators therefore act simultaneously on multiple levers to obtain progress on this front: training the country's technicians and managers, hiring local staff, stimulating the networks of SME and pre-qualifying local companies. This proposed paper is based on a definition of local content applied by TOTAL for its oil & gas development projects. It is also based on a methodology applied by TOTAL to measure local content for its oil & gas development projects. The main application of the information provided in the proposed paper is to provide the industry with one way of defining and measuring local content, which is not always formalised. Case studies will not be presented in this paper, only the methodology. Indeed, when it comes to benchmark local content of different oil & gas development project, it is rarely possible to do it, due to different definition / perimeters, and absence of local content indicators. Copyright 2010, Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Bordmann V.,TOTAL Exploration and Production |
Obembe O.,TOTAL E and P Nigeria |
Longuet L.,TOTAL E and P Indonesia
Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE International Conference on Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production 2010 | Year: 2010
With Host Countries stepping up their demands and expectations in terms of local content, identifying and developing local capacity building initiatives becomes paramount for IOC/NOCs. This paper presents a process for identifying and developing local content initiatives, in order to achieve challenging local content development objectives and hence increase the acceptability of IOC/NOC operators. Local content -aimed at enhancing skills, developing suppliers and infrastructures of Host Countries in connection with oil & gas field development and production projects -now occupies a predominant place in the oil & gas producing countries. In a competitive context, local content becomes an important - not to say essential - criterion in securing new permit awards or obtaining approval for oil & gas field development plans. It appears paramount to build up a strong industrial fabric and have qualified manpower and contractors. It is all the more important that after the appraisal-development phases, the operator then requires skilled local / national personnel to produce the oil and/or gas fields for a several decades. This paper describes the process and illustrates it with case studies, i.e. best practices in identifying and developing local capacity building initiatives. These case studies mainly highlight education initiatives and innovative supplier development initiatives, the latter being suppliers of goods but also suppliers of highly technical services like front end engineering and design. This paper is based on best practices applied in the category of Corporate Social Responsibility. Illustrative data include case studies and lessons learnt from local capacity building initiatives implemented in various countries, mainly on the African continent (Nigeria), in Asia (Indonesia) and also worldwide through a specific higher education initiative. The main application of the information provided in this paper is to help IOC/NOC operators to build local content development initiatives, in both education and supplier development. Copyright 2010, Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Banner B.,TOTAL Exploration and Production |
Pourcel P.,TOTAL Exploration and Production |
Brown A.,TOTAL Exploration and Production
Society of Petroleum Engineers - SPE/APPEA Int. Conference on Health, Safety and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production 2012: Protecting People and the Environment - Evolving Challenges | Year: 2012
Lifting above or close to live hydrocarbon process plant or pipelines has long been an emotive subject. Managing such lifting is a fundamental part of the safe operation of the concerned production facilities. Lifting above live plant or lines can be encountered during normal production operations and also simultaneous operations for construction and production or drilling and production activities. Much of the time, with good preparation and planning, such lifts can be performed during planned shutdowns, therefore removing the 'live plant' hazard. However there are occasions when shutting down and depressurizing the plant or lines close to or under the lift path is not always perceived as possible. Based on this, a need was identified for a means to allow personnel to perform an appropriate level of assessment to aid in the decision making process regarding whether or not to allow such lifts. This paper presents the basis of a calculation tool developed to help determine whether or not a lift can be carried out over unprotected plant or lines in a consistent manner and which will give users confidence in the results generated. The tool calculates the potential impact energies of a dropped load and subsequent damage based on a percentage of indentation to a pipe or vessel diameter. This is derived from inputs by the user in terms of load shape, mass and potential drop height. Thereafter, depending on the plant or line types selected, the tool will advise whether or not the lift can be considered as acceptable providing that other criteria have been complied with. Clearly the final decision as to whether to lift above live plant or lines will be made by a team of appropriately qualified personnel. The benefits to be derived from the introduction of this tool include reduced uncertainty over whether or not such lifting is feasible and it should also reduce the number of enforced shutdowns and restarts, especially for smaller, repetitive types of lifts. Copyright 2012, SPE/APPEA International Conference on Health, Safety, and Environment in Oil and Gas Exploration and Production.


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Summer is almost here and this event is going to be a highlight for our Movement students! Movement has now been attending camp at Hume Lake for 3 years and our students have loved their experiences. This week-long camp gives students a chance to get away and spend time growing and building relationships – with Christ and each other. Not to mention, it's going to be an absolute blast!
Hume New England is located in the Berkshire Mountains in Western Mass. Take a couple minutes to check out their website and read what they're all about: www.humenewengland.org Based out of Hume California, this Christian Camp organization does it right. One of the many things to love about Hume New England is the opportunity to get away from the busyness and distractions that students face on a daily basis and have an memorable camp experience. Hume New England will not only provide high-energy recreation and activities, but students will experience God through chapel sessions, worship through music, small group breakouts, and spending time in His creation.
Jr High Camp: June 26th – July 1st
*Registration Full*
Contact firstname.lastname@example.com for potential late registration options.
(Currently in 5th – 8th Grade)
High School Camp: July 24th – 29th
(Currently in 8th-12th Grade)
Available Space: Space is limited, and students will be taken on a first come – first serve basis.
COST: $350 // $50 Deposit to RSVP. We also recommend that students bring $40 dollars in spending money for souvenirs, snacks, etc. Some activities (tubing, paintball) do cost an addition $10. We will confirm those details as they are made available.
Balance Due: Sunday, June 18th for Jr High. Sunday July 16th for High School.
Transportation/Staff: Transportation will be provided to and from Lifesong Church on Monday and Saturday. Exact times are TBD, but plan for departure from Lifesong at 12pm on the Monday that camp starts. Return to Lifesong on the Saturday that camp ends, at 12:30pm.
Some of our own Movement youth staff will be coming along with our group to be counselors for the week. Yes, they are dedicating a week of their summer to invest in students – because they're worth it!
CAMP Activities: Tubing, Paintball, High ropes course, Canoeing, Swimming Pool, Archery, Hiking, "The Loft", Gaga Ball, Disc Golf, Volleyball and more.
WHAT TO BRING: Bible, notebook, pencil, flashlight, sleeping bag for bunk beds, pillow, toiletries, warm and cool clothes, jacket, sandals, athletic shoes, modest one-piece swimsuit (no tankinis), $40 recommended spending money.
WHAT NOT TO BRING: Electronic devices (including cell phones), drugs (unless prescribed by a doctor), alcohol, tobacco, fireworks, firearms or weapons. Girls – no short shorts, no bare midriffs or spaghetti straps. Guys – no sagging of shorts.