24th DCA Annual Congress 2019 – Krakow/Poland

The Drilling Contractors Association (DCA) is organising its annual congress again this year. We cordially invite you to Krakow/Poland. Members, friends and partners of the DCA will meet from October 16 – 18, 2019 at Hotel Qubus to hear interesting specialist lectures and exchange experiences.

Sponsors of this annual congress are the polish companies Heads, ZRB Janicki and PPI Chrobok. Many thanks for their support go to all these sponsors!

The motto of the 24th annual congress is: “HDD smart and green”

The congress will open with a very interesting lecture by Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz-Josef Radermacher, chair of the faculty for “Data Bases/Artificial Intelligence at the University of Ulm and director (CEO) of FAW/n (Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing/n) Ulm, also member of the Club of Rome on the topic "The world in the year 2050". The focus of his exciting and challenging subject matter of the lecture will be on technology and innovation.

In addition to other interesting lectures concerning the Polish HDD market, two workshops will take place as announced.

Workshop 1 will be dedicated to the topic "Electrically operated drilling rigs".Workshop 2 will deal with "new" trenchless techniques linked to HDD technology and will discuss areas of application as well as advantages and disadvantages compared to classic HDD technology with the participants.

On Friday, lectures on HDD projects will again be presented, as usual. Furthermore, an interesting spouse program is planned (see attached information).

The registration deadline is 20.09.2019.

Registration and room reservations

DCA Supports 17th Trenchless Engineering Conference in Poland

Poland's largest trenchless industry meeting is taking place this year for the 17th time. The international conference, exhibition and technology fair "Trenchless Engineering" invites from 11th to 14th June 2019 to Tomaszowice near Krakow. On the two main days of the conference, lectures in the form of workshops with exciting discussions will be held in the morning and technology shows in the afternoon.

The following topics will be the focus of the lectures:

• Global trends and trenchless industrial development directions
• Global and Polish trenchless projects - a review
• Technology selection for trenchless rehabilitation projects
• Technology selection for trenchless pipeline installation projects
• Economy of trenchless projects
• Legal and financial aspects of investments
• Optimization of drilling processes.

The event will be accompanied by a festive event on 13 June with the presentation of the TITAN awards.

The DCA is one of the partners of the event and will be represented in Tomaszowice by board member Atef Khemiri.

Registrations can be made via the website https://konferencje.inzynieria.com/ib2019.

Jorn Stoelinga, LMR Drilling GmbH, becomes new president of the DCA

On 13 February 2019, the members' meeting of the Drilling Contractors Association (DCA) took place on a regular basis in Oldenburg. With 41 member companies of 112 member companies in the association and 93 participants, the meeting was well attended. The main objective on the agenda of this year's meeting was, besides the planned amendment of the statutes, the new elections of the board. After two years as President of the DCA, Marc Schnau was no longer available for re-election as president for professional reasons. In his speech, he thanked the members of the DCA, his colleagues on the board and the management for their excellent cooperation over the past years.

The new President of the DCA is Mr. Jorn Stoelinga of LMR Drilling GmbH, Oldenburg.

With 29 years of professional experience in horizontal drilling technology, he is a recognized and valued expert in the industry. After studying oil production technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Den Helder, he held various positions in HDD and pipeline construction at the Dutch companies Nacap and Visser & Smit Hanab b.v. before joining LMR Drilling GmbH at the end of 2018. During his career he has worked in Europe as well as in Central America and South East Asia.

Jorn Stoelinga has been a member of the DCA Board since 2015 and was initially responsible for the training of site managers and machine operators in the Netherlands. Since 2017, he was elected as a DCA Vice President, during this time he took over the leadership of the task group "Coating Quality".

In his inaugural speech, the new president announced that the previous objectives of the DCA would continue to be actively pursued in the future. In particular, the European idea of the association is to be given even more focus. After the successful introduction of two representatives of the DCA in Spain and Italy, further representatives will follow, especially in Northern and Eastern Europe. With the amendment of the articles of association and the new allocation of board positions, the profile of the DCA is to be further sharpened, especially in the area of HDD small drilling technology. In addition to promoting training and further education measures for specialist personnel, the DCA continues to endeavour to provide and further develop technical standards and recommendations. The association will continue to focus on measures to further develop technology, increase quality and harmonise contractual and competitive conditions.

After the election of the president the following members of the DCA were elected to the board:

• Vice-President (Small Scale Drilling): Marco Reinhard (Leonhard Weiss GmbH & Co. KG)
• Vice-President (Large Scale Drilling): Atef Khemiri (HDI)
• Vice-President (Associate Members): Dr. Tim Jaguttis (de la Motte & Partner Ing. mbH)
• Treasurer: Jürgen Muhl (STEP Oiltools GmbH)
• Board Member: Marc Schnau (x-plan schnau engineering)
• Board Member: Franz-Josef Kißing (Open Grid Europe GmbH)
• Board Member: Scott Stone (Visser & Smit Hanab bv)

Site manager training course at TRACTO-TECHNIK

On 13.03.2019 the construction supervisor training course will take place again at TRACTO-TECHNIK in Lennestadt. The event will be held in cooperation with the DCA and the companies Moll-prd and AMC. As in previous years, the DCA will be in charge of the technical management. The event is aimed at owners and managing directors of specialist foundation engineering companies and drilling companies, HDD construction managers and HDD project managers and focuses on supplement management and drilling mud disposal.

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Members meeting and Oldenburg Pipeline Forum 2019

The Members Meeting will take place on 13^th February 2019 as usual at the Hotel Wöbken in Oldenburg. One day later the DCA invites its members, partners and friends from the HDD industry to the traditional Oldenburg Pipeline Forum at the University of Applied Sciences Oldenburg/Ostfriesland/Wilhelmshaven. The event will take place from 14 to 15 February 2019 under the motto: "Pipelines - Transport medium for drinking water and waste water".

The DCA is traditionally represented on Thursday with two HDD lecture blocks of three lectures each. Afterwards the all-sided popular Drilling Saloon of the association waits for the participants and may be headed for the exchange of experiences. We are looking forward to your visit!