1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.
1.2 By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Collecting personal information
2.1 We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths);
(b) information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including your email address)
(c) information that you provide when completing your profile on our website (including your name, user name, country/region, employment details, password);
(d) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and email address);
(e) information that you provide to us when using the services on our website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services (including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use;
(f) information relating to any purchases you make of our goods / services / goods and/or services or any other transactions that you enter into through our website (including your name, address, telephone number, email address and card details;
(g) information that you post to our website for publication on the internet (including your user name, your profile pictures and the content of your posts);
(h) information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and meta data associated with the communication);
(i) any other personal information that you choose to send to us; and
2.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Using your personal information
3.1 Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
3.2 We may use your personal information to:
(a) administer our website and business;
(b) personalise our website for you;
(c) enable your use of the services available on our website;
(d) send you goods purchased through our website;
(e) supply to you services purchased through our website;
(f) send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;
(g) send you non-marketing commercial communications;
(h) send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(i) send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
(j) send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
(k) provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
(l) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
(m) keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
(n) verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service);
3.3 If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the licence you grant to us.
3.4 Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information on our website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
3.5 We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.
3.6 All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider, Paypal. You can review the provider's privacy policy at https://www.paypal.com/gr/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full. We will share information with our payment services provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.
Disclosing personal information
4.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.2 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
4.3 We may disclose your personal information:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
(e) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
4.4 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.
International data transfers
5.1 Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
5.2 Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China and India.
5.3 Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
5.4 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.
Retaining personal information
6.1 This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.
6.2 Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).
Security of your personal information
7.1 We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
7.2 We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
7.3 All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
7.4 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
7.5 You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
Amendments
8.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
8.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
8.3 We may notify you of changes to this policy [by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
Your rights
9.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:
(a) the payment of a fee (currently fixed at GBP 10); and
(b) the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).
9.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.
9.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.
9.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.
Third party websites
10.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
10.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Updating information
11.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
Part 2: Cookies
About cookies
1.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
1.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
1.3 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
1.4 Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.
Our cookies
2.1 We use only both session and persistent cookies on our website.
2.2 The names of the cookies that we use on our website, and the purposes for which they are used, are set out below:
(a) we use session cookie on our website to recognise a computer when a user visits the website and track users as they navigate the website;
(b) we use secure cookie on our website to prevent fraud and improve the security of the website;
(c) Persistent cookies will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date;
Analytics cookies
3.1 We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website.
3.2 Our analytics service provider generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies.
3.3 The analytics cookies used by our website have the following names: _utma, _utmt, _utmb, _utmc, _utmv and _utmz
3.4 The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website.
3.5 Our analytics service provider's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Third party cookies
4.1 Our website also uses third party cookies.
Blocking cookies
5.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:
(a) in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";
(b) in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"; and
(c) in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.
5.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
5.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
Deleting cookies
6.1 You can delete cookies already stored on your computer; for example:
(a) in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835);
(b) in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy", then selecting "Use custom settings for history", clicking "Show Cookies", and then clicking "Remove All Cookies"; and
(c) in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu, and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Clear browsing data", and then selecting "Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data" before clicking "Clear browsing data".
6.2 Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
Cookie preferences
7.1 You can manage your preferences relating to the use of cookies on our website by visiting: controls below
Part 3: Our details
Data protection registration
1.1 We are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner's Office.
Our details
2.1 This website is owned and operated by Focus Reports Ltd.
2.2 We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 7676770, and our registered office is at Lynton House, 7-12 Tavistock Square, London WC1H 9LT, United Kingdom.
2.3 You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website contact form or by telephone on +441707828754.
Rome wasn’t build in a day, neither was Houston. In little over a decade, however, Perth has successfully, albeit rather abruptly, transformed itself into a thriving melting pot of hydrocarbons expertise.
Malcolm Roberts, APPEA
Today West Australia’s capital city boasts over 85,000-industry professionals spread across some 700 odd petroleum-focused equipment, technology and services companies. Moreover, far from merely relying on the wealth of natural resources laden throughout the region’s prolific basins, the local government has been busily investing in state-of-the-art technologies and niche industry segments that further distinguish the city from other international oil and gas hubs and foster a mutual growth perspective geared towards projecting Australian LNG and FLNG prowess abroad.
Greg Vesey, LNGL
Nor should West Australia’s role in real value creation be downplayed. “As befitting of a region where resources underpin the economy, we boast not only an incredibly sophisticated indigenous supply chain, but also huge wherewithal to innovate… to the point where we now possess the capacity to support first-in-kind projects for LNG, floating LNG, carbon capture and storage,” observes Malcolm Roberts, CEO of APPEA. Already numerous examples abound of locally derived and validated gas technologies and know-how being exported worldwide. Greg Vesey, CEO of LNG Limited (LNGL), for instance recounts how he has managed to grow his company into a pioneering global player in LNG infrastructure investment delivering cutting-edge Optimized Single Mixed Refrigerant (OSMR®) liquefaction process technology to mid-scale LNG projects around the globe.
Todd Martin, IXOM
“We’re talking about a country that has built it’s innovation ‘off the sheep’s back,’ so to speak, meaning that innovation is truly initiated and inspired by direct market trends and affiliated needs,” expounds Todd Martin, general manager of Ixom. He explains how his “renowned Pure MEG hydrate inhibitor, was a completely in-house innovation, initially forged in response to Chevron’s hydrates challenges encountered on the Gorgon project before being scaled up and applied to Wheatstone project as well.”
Minister Bill Marmion
“For anyone seeking to invest in oil and gas, Perth is the obvious place to be,” proclaims the honorable Bill Marmion, Western Australia Minister for Finance, Mines and Petroleum. “We’re busy cultivating a global investment, thought leadership and technology hub, delivering high-skilled job creation and bountiful growth opportunities within the context of a face-to-face business culture underpinned by integrity, cooperation and goodwill.”
Jonathan Smith, AMC Management
The publicly owned ‘Australian Marine Complex and its Common-User Facility’s’ waterfront and heavy load-out capability fully embodies the Western-Australian avant-garde streak and willingness to embrace fresh thinking. With its attentiveness to enlightened collaboration, cost-efficiency and risk sharing, the complex has already attracted the active participation of iconic entities such as FMC Technology and OneSubsea. “Our Common User Facility (CUF) is absolutely unique in its operating model and offers an unparalleled degree of affordable access to high capability infrastructure with companies only paying for usage as and when they require the facility. This model enables even less capitalized companies to hold their own within highly competitive international markets,” reveals Jonathan Smith, general manager of AMC Management.
Kym Bills, WA:ERA
While it already contributed more than USD 2.4 billion of projects since 2003 – many of which are unlikely to have materialized without this facility, AMC’s ecosystem is also stimulated by the large number of its clients having participated in the construction of two of the most complex Australian LNG projects: Chevron’s Gorgon and Wheatstone. Primarily focused on oil and gas players, this unique facility now strives to bolster a valuable cross-sector interplay by coopting companies from other cutting-edge industries. “Even if the final use may differ from one industry to another, quality standards are, for instance, similarly applied across the oil and gas subsea segment and the submarine and shipbuilding industries,” notes Smith. “We believe that, in the future, the most high performance companies will be adopting a broader business approach that entails finding solutions and closing strategic partnerships beyond the boundaries of their own narrow industry…our collaborative approach is already pioneering and supporting this increasing trend,” he affirms.
Bernadette Cullinane, Accenture
Indeed, according to Kym Bills, CEO of the Western Australian Energy Research Alliance (WA:ERA), one of the defining characteristics that marks Perth out from other oil and gas cities is it’s status as “a truly diversified resource capital where knowledge, learning and expertise from the worlds of minerals, mining and hydrocarbons can intersect and collide.” Complementary to the promotion of common use, shared infrastructure, Bills is keen to mainstream the practice of joined-up action when it comes to conducting research. “One of our overriding goals is to grow pre-competitive areas where research costs can be shared and expertise pooled,” he elaborates.
John O’Hare, Western Australia Department of Commerce
This collaborative approach takes on a crucial importance as Perth truly emerges as a laboratory for pioneering gas and marine technologies, such as Floating-LNG (FLNG), propelled by Shell’s flagship Prelude project in the region. “Significant technology is imbedded within [Western-Australian] projects. Shell’s Prelude FLNG facility is an absolute world’s first: a massive floating facility with a complex and integrated operation,” underscores Bernadette Cullinane, Asia Pacific Energy Lead at Accenture. “Together with the operator, we believe that we can build up Western Australia’s capacity to be the world class center in FLNG knowledge,” agrees John O’Hare, general manager of marine, defense, oil and gas at the Western Australia Department of Commerce. “We are mobilizing the West Australian educational structures to enable the up-scaling Australian oil and gas professionals so that they possess skills that are internationally transferrable so in turn Perth can encompass centers of knowledge where companies can go to solve not just Australian problems, but problems that may be faced in other fields and jurisdictions. Aberdeen and Stavanger have both proven to be excellent examples of this expertise export model, and this is very much a pathway we seek to emulate here,” he confides.
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