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Remote site medical and safety specialist, Exploration Logistics Group plc has acquired Calgary-based Avalon HSE in a move that reinforces the UK company's presence in Canada. It will enable the expansion of the specialist HSE service Avalon currently delivers to oil and gas operations in Canada, to support an international ...
MineTech International is expanding its influence across Sudan, working to complete four more major United Nations projects to clear the legacy of landmines and other explosive remnants of war from the ...
MineTech is taking a leading role in the international humanitarian initiative to tackle Sudan's crippling landmine legacy, having been awarded an $10 million contract to work on four separate initiatives across ...
Twelve new arrivals at the MineTech Dog School in Pretoria, South Africa, mark the successful start of a new programme at the school, as MineTech begins breeding its own Springer ...
John Anderson reports on a project in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the logistics of deploying and supporting a MineTech survey and demining initiative proved almost more of a challenge than the ...
Unexploded ordnance left as recently as March last year in the capital and border areas of Chad is creating new havoc in a country already suffering with extensive landmine contamination. Steve Pritchard, Project Manager overseeing two MineTech disposal teams working on a contract to provide emergency demining capacity for the UN, ...
Buddy, a four-legged friend working in Baghdad, had to be flown back to Pretoria for emergency treatment after breaking his leg in an out-of-work ...
The UK-based remote site medical and safety specialist, Exploration Logistics Group, has acquired full ownership of MineTech International. The move marks the beginning of significant new investment in MineTech, which begins its 20th year as a global leader in landmine clearance and explosive ordnance disposal with the full backing and support ...
The installation of air-conditioned kennels into the workplace has kept eleven MineTech Explosive Detection Dog teams working hard at their posts in Baghdad Airport, despite difficult conditions and temperatures that sometimes topped 55C.The teams are providing an essential screening role, supporting security specialist Global Risk Strategies in delivering a comprehensive security ...
Searing temperatures were the least of the difficulties facing the MineTech Battle Area Clearance
crew deployed to complete a highly unusual demining project in Kuwait over last summer.
The task was to clean up Evaporation Pits in the Wafra Oilfields close to the border
with Saudi Arabia, an area heavily contaminated ...
Chances and challenges for oil exploration in Sudan
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The signing of the peace agreement between North and South Sudan
is being seen as one of the best opportunities in recent years to halt
Africa's longest running civil war, with substantial international ...
19 May, 2005
Smaller than your hand and formed with two distinctive wings, it's easy to see why these palm-sized plastic objects are so appealing to curious children, but 'Dragon's Tooth' BLU-43 mines will detonate with just the gentlest of pressures. What on the surface may appear an interesting childhood discovery, in modern post ...
8 December, 2004
The successful development of oil and gas opportunities in Libya will require incoming organisations to master a range of logistical support issues and develop strategies for risk management to deal with the particular hazards, both natural and otherwise, that face all new arrivals in the ...
4 August, 2004
Since May 2003, MineTech International has maintained an almost full time presence on the ground in Southern Iraq, with some ninety MineTech explosive ordnance disposal and mine clearance professionals employed by the UN to tackle the extensive legacy of mine and explosive ordnance ...
24 March, 2004
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