Projects in Asia

Azerbaijan

Mine detecting dog teams were used to enhance the capability of the local mine action authority.

Cambodia

Technical evaluation assessment of an international donor funded mine clearance project was provided to enhance local capability.

Iran

Provision of mine awareness training for management staff visiting oilfields.

Kuwait

MineTech was deployed on a highly unusual project to clean up evaporation pits in the Wafra oilfields, an area heavily contaminated with hydrocarbons. MineTech's role was to verify the absence or presence of UXO within the pits, many of which were full of oil sludge. In what is probably the first job of its kind in the industry, personnel had to wade through the sludge using broad loop detectors, equipped with HS gas monitors and gas masks to protect them from hydrogen sulphide gas poisoning. In total over 2.5 million square metres were verified.

Laos

MineTech EOD teams have recently completed a three-year project working to clear unexploded ordnance still in place from the Vietnam War for the Nam Theun II hydro-electric project in Laos PDR. MineTech has also provided mine risk education, underwater EOD clearance and training for local deminers. Personnel have overcome severe weather conditions and cleared areas that have proved to be the most heavily contaminated land ever encountered by MTI.

Sri Lanka

Level 2 surveys and clearance using mine detecting dogs and manual teams were carried out throughout the Jaffna peninsular.