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";
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Deleting cookies
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6.2 Deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.
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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.
The CEO of ITP Interpipe, a global leader in the design, provision and fabrication of insulated pipelines, expresses his company’s commitment to reduce his clients’ OPEX and CAPEX. He also provides insight into the growing importance of QHSE as ITP Interpipe becomes a fabrication contractor.
What made ITP Interpipe a global leader in the design, provision and fabrication of highly insulated pipelines?
ITP Interpipe has been devoted to technical excellence and providing innovative solutions designed to reduce the costs of overall projects. We have always been trying to anticipate our clients’ needs by assessing their field architectures and enabling them to produce in better conditions. Our objective is to be a world leader in providing practical solutions for thermally insulated pipes. We target to outperform the specifications of the clients to develop our capacity to think ahead and fulfill the role of market pushers.
The founders of ITP had decided to build ITP Interpipe to address a market failure with highly insulated systems. At this stage, our specific niche market does not comprise any competitors with the same flexibility and expertise in our range of solutions. Our efforts have yielded considerable results, enabling us to invest in a fabrication workshop in Normandy. Our ambition is to grow carefully and incrementally in order to maintain our pioneer status. We owe our success to clients such as Total, Shell, Tullow, Subsea 7 and Saipem who trusted us in the early stages of our development.
While oil majors actively implement spending cuts and intensify their expectations, are they seduced by your commitment to reduce your clients’ Capex and Opex? Could you also please comment on your major projects at the moment?
Our company actually seeks opportunities to thrive during economic slowdowns. When the barrel is at $120, there is less incentive to find innovative and cost-effective solutions. At the present time, oil and gas companies are taking the time to consider every alternative and solution at their disposal and subsequently providing more opportunities for innovation. ITP Interpipe is therefore capitalizing on the current situation to assist its clients throughout Opex projects.
One of our major projects consisted in a mission in the Gulf of Guinea on behalf of Total. At the time, Total was seeking breakthrough technologies in deep-water situations and was pleased to rely on ITP Interpipe.
You describe your commitment to HSE as the absolute precondition to your company’s success. Why is QHSE so important to your everyday operations?
As I said, we recently established a manufacturing workshop in Normandy. As a result, we had to learn how to incorporate QHSE in our mutation with the support of our clients. To become a leader in the oil and gas industry , we must comply with high standards of QHSE. We are therefore allocating significant funds and time to build a QHSE framework, which corresponds to the very demanding norms of the oil and gas industry. QHSE is also an incredible tool for management purposes as it gives executives incentive to think differently and adopt new approaches. I believe in QHSE if it allows a company to re-examine its vision and functioning. Today, many corporations pursue QHSE simply to broadcast it to the general public. Twenty years ago, ITP only assumed a subcontractor’s role as a technology provider and was therefore less relying on QHSE as it is today now that we’ve become a fabrication contractor. I must admit that mentalities have changed and led to more communication across hierarchies.
You take pride in delivering high-end engineering solutions. What role does your R&D department play into the company’s success? Could you give an example of a substantial technical progress that you achieved?
Research and development provides new solutions at our disposal, that we in turn choose to integrate in our sales portfolio. The oil and gas industry thrives at the cutting edge on innovation and our clients are therefore always keen on adopting new products, even sometimes before they were tested. The difficulty is to carefully examine the purpose of new technologies and make sound predictions on their future applicability and marketability. Engineers sometimes lack the rational approach consisting in assessing the profitability of an innovation and accepting to dismiss an opportunity if it cannot be converted into a sustainable product. We must also be diligent and wisely determine if a technology is worth the time and financial input.
Why are you committed to preserving a fabrication facility in Caen, Normandy? Does the “made in France” label symbolize a clear guarantee of quality abroad?
We are indeed committed to preserving our manufacturing facility in France because it serves as a center of progress and excellence. Our plant enables us to dispatch qualified equipment and trained engineers across the world. The only difference between France and neighboring countries may be the rigid labor market and aspects related to the de-commodification of workers. On the quality end however, it drives for efficiency. Nevertheless, the world is rapidly evolving and talented engineers and graduates with tremendous potential are available everywhere. Actually the ITP team is already very international.
What are the prospects for international development? In this regard, what can be the role of external growth in upholding certain objectives?
As a small company, our objective is to win more important projects, which would in turn fuel greater growth levels. Internationally, we recently collaborated for instance with a Canadian company, but from our perspective most past examples of mergers and acquisitions have yet to lead to any tangible improvements in regards to unlocking technological barriers, penetrating new markets and bolstering sales. We recognize the wonderful opportunities that external growth ventures can provide, but must ensure that any future transaction corresponds to our needs and long-term strategy.
What are your personal objectives for the future of this company? Where do you see growth coming from?
ITP’s historical market is subsea flowlines where you either have large upcoming projects with a demonstrated need for insulated pipes or smaller projects, which also require our services and products for tie-backs. We have also invested the LNG sector and conducted extensive research to build adequate pipelines for this energy. At the time, various companies in LNG were recognizing our product’s valuable contribution to their line of business but it takes a long time to create strong opportunities in the Gas market. The key at the moment is to not solely rely on one project at a time, but rather to develop new market applicabilities for our products. My objective is to integrate more engineers and talented professionals in our team to encourage new ideas and greater performances. Our long-term approach is to become the contractor of choice for implementing thermal solutions and project ourselves beyond flowlines.