Long Island Sound, New York

In June 1999, Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts awarded INTEC the preliminary engineering of a 24-inch gas pipeline across Long Island Sound, New York. The project is part of Iroquois Gas Transmission Operating Company's planned extension of its gas supply from Northport, Long Island, to Eastchester, NY. INTEC has already completed the marine survey in Long Island Sound. We are now busy selecting the best pipeline route and engineering this for permitting by various US Federal Agencies. Project Manager is Gene Mullee. The project was kicked off in INTEC's Delft

office, where Ron Tucker and Gene completed an urgent conceptual study. In July Gene transferred back to Houston, where Todd Phillips joined the project as Project Engineer. Simon Bonnell managed the marine survey.

The project has some especially challenging tasks. The pipeline has to be brought ashore at a point in New York State close to The Bronx and Westchester County lines. One of the oldest developments in the Nation, this region is not only highly populated but has numerous public parks and wildlife sanctuaries as well. As if the environmental constraints were not enough, the geology in the region is highly complex and unpredictable. A product of very ancient upheaval and very recent gouging during the last Ice Age, the heavily folded bedrock and boulder-laced glacial deposits pop their heads out all over the site. This calls for special insight into available site info and careful selection of drilling and trenching methods.

The marine survey field work had its own challenges. Pipeline routing took the survey boat through intricate waterways off New Rochelle where the treacherous rocks disappear at high tide. It is said the nearby City Island boat repair shops do a roaring trade after holiday weekends.

Simon, Todd and Gene each spent a few weeks on board survey vessels in Long Island Sound. Todd, who grew up in Florida, caught his first glimpse of snowflakes as the cold November winds visited the site. Simon says it was business as usual, but admits to having been charmed by the beautiful fall colors in Elmsford, Connecticut, where we had our shore support office. With the Empire State Building and the Twin Towers visible from the survey site, Gene says he's seen a wide variety of field locations - arctic, desert, jungle, but the Manhattan skyline tops them all!!!

TUAS Pipeline Bundle For Sembcorp Gas

Conoco Indonesia Inc., Premier Oil Natuna Limited and Gulf Indonesia Resources Limited are developing gas reserves in the West Natuna Sea. The gas will be transported to Singapore via a 28-inch diameter trunkline, with the landfall point being on Jurong Island. This is the same pipeline for which INTEC carried out the preliminary design on behalf of Conoco last year.

In association with this development, SembCorp Gas Pte. Ltd. (SembCorp Gas) is developing gas receiving and distribution facilities on Jurong Island and the transportation of natural gas from Jurong Island to the Tuas Power Plant in Tuas. This involves the installation of one 28-inch diameter and two 16-inch diameter submarine pipelines across the 3-km wide channel between Jurong Island and Tuas (Singapore).

In a fitting finale to our previous involvement, we are now carrying out the pipeline detailed design work on behalf of the EPIC contractor HAM-SMIT Joint Venture (HAM-SMIT) on this last leg of the West Natuna Transportation System. This is our first real exposure to a bundled pipeline detailed design in Southeast Asia, and the experience gained will be valuable when pursuing similar projects in the future.

• Eight mill stones of 90 cm diameter turning at 150 rpm
• Mill worked 10 hours a day (no indication whether the Romans paid overtime)
• Total capacity of this system 5779 kg of flour a day
• Power required 55 kW
• Supply channel with slope of 1% and 0.5 m of water provided 3240 m3/day of flow
• The available elevation drop of 20 m would yield 176.6 kW, more than three times what was needed, at full flow
• System had over100% spare capacity allowing for periods of drought, irregular supply, varying demand and industrial disputes
• The people in Arles (or Arelate as the Romans knew it) had plenty of bread

I f we assume that each Roman, gaul and slave ate half a pound of bread a day (they didn't know potatoes in those days), then the mill's production could feed about 25,000 people, about the same number as fit in the old

Now that this burning issue has been resolved, let's see what else is happening. Well, business is picking up, in part because INTEC has captured a number of significant contracts that had been moving down the pipeline for some time, and partly because the increased cash flow from higher oil prices is dislodging some of the logjam of stalled oil and gas development projects. The wave front hit our Houston office first, then reached Kuala Lumpur, and can be seen already from Delft; Buenos Aires never did have a quiet period. The exciting aspect of the newly awarded work is that it includes major long term deepwater pipeline and subsea projects, an area of special INTEC expertise, as well as a number of FSO/FPSO projects. We won some of these jobs in competition, others in cooperation with other firms in our business, most of whom are many times our size. Technical capabilities and flexibility are obviously good attributes to have. In October we had our planning conference to prepare for next year. I will resist more millennium drivel and just say that we think 2000 will be a lot more exciting in terms of technical challenges and corporate growth than 1999. It's about time! During the second half of this year we sort of got becalmed, but we didn't reduce our crew in the expectation that the wind would soon freshen. Well, it did; all sails are up, hands on deck, stations manned, and I feel pressure on the tiller again. There are oceans to navigate out there!

Some of the rewarding ongoing activities performed by INTEC employees has been their contribution and participation in conferences and seminars, the presentation of papers and lecturing in courses. In this regard, it is worth highlighting that Dr. Basim Mekha has just finished teaching a graduate class entitled "Matrix Analysis of Structures" for the Fall 1999 semester at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Houston. This opportunity being given to one of INTEC's highly qualified employees demonstrates the recognition of INTEC by the outside world, not only for their Engineering and Management skills, but also for their capability in the conveyance of the practical experience gained to the engineers of the future.

It also worth announcing that INTEC has recently joined the Offshore Technology Research Center, a joint venture between Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin, as an "in-kind" member. This will provide unique opportunities for INTEC employees to be ahead of the latest research and development activities as well as to interact and to lecture at the numerous seminars and courses offered by the OTRC. These are attended by experts, engineers and students from all around the world.

INTEC SEA - The past seven years and the future

It was in March 1993 that Bert Schultz came to Kuala Lumpur to set up INTEC's second office, with a clear vision to establish INTEC as a premier consultancy service company to the oil and gas industry clients in Asia. Has INTEC achieved that?, Here are some glimpses of the projects we have carried out.

Malaysian Liquefied Natural Gas Tiga (MLNG 3) pipelines detailed design project is currently our largest project in the region. Some of the other projects carried out to date include:

• Total Moattama Yadana pipeline detailed design for Saipem
• Seligi-F and Tapis-E detailed design for Esso Production Malaysia Inc and
• AMRJ-1 / Saints, Tutong and Ampa Fairley detailed design for Brunei Shell Petroleum

• Four major SPM projects in Taiwan, (Shalung SPM 1, Shalung SPM 2, Talinpu SPM 1 Talinpu SPM 2)
• Star Refinery SPM in Rayong, Thailand
• Melaka Refinery SPM in Melaka, Malaysia and
• Balongan SPM in Indonesia

We have carried out several FPSO projects in the region. The principal achievement was the Project Management of the Unocal Erawan FSO life extension project. Others with notable involvement include:

• Maui 'B' for Shell Todd
• Ruby for Petronas Carigali
• PM3 for IPC
• Tantawan for Pogo
• MASA for Trenergy and
• Challis Venture and Buffalo for BHP.

Despite our growth over the years, we have strived to keep a "family" feeling amongst the employees but, as we have added to our numbers and spread out over three floors of the building, it is more difficult to hear about a sick wife, a new baby, etc., thus the formation of SOC. The committee members are strategically placed throughout the office so that hardly a single piece of news of note can escape. Cards, flowers, baby gifts and wedding presents are just some of the ways SOC finds to brighten our day.

Funding for SOC's activities started by soliciting employee contributions. Then, to build the budget, SOC came up with other ways to raise cash. We had a raffle for a turkey at Thanksgiving and, for Christmas, we have a drawing for the beautiful wreath designed by Mario Ruiz. In the Spring of 2000, SOC will publish and sell the first INTEC International Cook Book.

Special occasions get the particular attention of SOC. The holidays really demonstrate how creative and innovative these 8 people are when they share ideas. For Halloween we had a costume contest, an office decorating contest and very appropriate treats. At Thanksgiving, the entire staff enjoyed a beautiful, buffet dinner including turkey and dressing. Christmas plans are still a secret; we know there is a prize for the best decorated office and can only wonder, with visions of sugar plum fairies, what else is in store for us!

New Awards This Past Quarter

New awards this past quarter include:

• For Burullus Gas, West Delta Deep
• For Texaco Agbami FEED, Agbami Nigeria OPL Block 216
• For Soekor, Project Support Oryx Development
• For TOPS, Ewing Banks 1003 Unit

• For Sipetrol, AM-2 Study for Installation Cranes on Jackets
• For Ing Tauro, Pocitos - Campo Duran Gas Pipeline Hydraulic Study
• For IGP-UBA, Valle Morado Gas Pipeline, Seismic Evaluation
• For Esso Chile, Antofagasta Pipeline Stability Revision
• For HAM Dredging and Marine Contractors, Bid Support Jurong Terminal and Pipelines
• For Phillips Petroleum, Recertification of Agate Flowlines
• For Chevron, Inc., Technical Support on the Typhoon Development Project
• For Exxon, Diana Flowline Construction Support
• For PROTEK Engineers, PCSB: MLNG-3 Project Validation and Potential Redesign of Onshore / Offshore Facilities
• For Clough Offshore, ONGC GS-23/GS-15 Development Project
• For Santa Fe Panyu 4-2, Master Design Engineering
• For Nuttall, Pipeline Stress Checks Onshore Bangladesh
• For Deutsche Schiffsbank, Inspection of Borgland Dolphin
• For ABB/Shell, Pipeline Conceptual Design in the Middle East
• For TERMAP, Certification of Radar System as Custody Transfer
• For ABB The Hague, Belema Onshore and Swamp Pipelines
• For Interbeton B.V., Tender Support
• For Texaco, Inc., Deepwater Pipeline and Riser Specifications
• For Conoco, Inc., West Natuna Gas Project - SEAPI Task Force
• For Vanco Energy, West African Pipeline Study
• For Petrokon Utama Sdn Bhd, AMPA-Fairley Rationalization Project
• For Van de Stoel, Cable Lay Analysis
• For BBLP Drill Company Limited, Yung An-Tung Hsiao Offshore Pipeline
• For Cabot (M) Sdn Bhd, Cabot Baseline Inspection