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Issue No. 894th Quarter 2008

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

At the start of every year, I always remember those who planted the seeds for CCC to reach its present status. It was achieved through their hard work, devotion and special culture. I am also reminded that their contribution to the prosperity of CCC has provided, over the years, jobs for thousands and thousands of employees.

It gives me great pleasure to mention here some retired members of CCC management who have had a significant impact on the success of the company and its self-confidence. Particular mention goes to: Michel Nasser, Issam Noubani, Kevork Toroyan, Nabil Shawwa, Fawzi Kawash and the late Naim Nasser.

All over the world, people are deeply concerned about the present financial crisis; in fact no one knows how much worse it will get. But at CCC we believe we are in a better position than others in these difficult times, due to the strength and loyalty of our staff and management, their flexibility and ability to face changing and challenging circumstances.

For our part, we aim to be competitive in our tenders, even where this may involve reduced profit margins or even minor losses on certain projects, if this means we can generate new work enabling us to sustain the same employment levels. On the other hand, you should bear in mind that, as a company, we need to “tighten our belts” and try to find ways to save in all areas and improve productivity. We count, as always, on your creativity and initiative.

I wish you all a successful and a happy New Year

Said T. Khoury

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Dear Readers,

Mr. Khoury always used to tell me that it was a good idea tohave good relations with everyone. Well, I followed his adviceand here is a picture of me with Sofia Loren (the famous Italianfilm star) at Geneva Airport on October 12, 2008.

Yours sincerely,

Kevork Toroyan(Former CCC Vice President)

Dear Editor,

I refer to the article “History Repeats Itself: The Emphasis ison CIVIL Again” that appeared in Issue No. 88 of the Bulletinon pages 8 and 9.

The effort in preparing this historical narration about previouscivil projects and the lead “top players” is commendable. How-ever, Mr. Lakeman and the Editor should have verified theirfacts from the records and consulted with the “old timers” be-fore publishing the article.

Two points come to mind:

The Shuaiba Oil Pier Extension Project (1973 - 1975) on whichI was Project Manager was worth mentioning because of its spe-cial method statement and false work design. Credit should goto the late Vincent Fenneck who designed the method state-ment and the very special false work which was a masterpieceof engineering work and a true innovation. His work saved theproject from disaster. In addition, it is worth mentioning thatthe late Vincent Fenneck was a distinguished civil engineer andthe lead top player on many civil projects during the early yearsof CCC.

Regarding the Commercial Harbour of Jubail (1976 - 1980) onwhich I was the CCC top player and representing CCC in the JVproject management team, mention should have been made of the crucial and critical achievement which was the establishmentof the quarry, building the railway tracks, importing the locomo-tives and the other ancillary equipment and building the specialrock load out port.

Regards,

Munir Khoury

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We are proud to announce that Samer Khoury, EVPOperations, was recently among the more than one hun-dred corporate Chief Executive Officers who signed apledge to support the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

The occasion was World AIDS Day and a full-page adran in the Wall Street Journal and Wall Street JournalEurope listing the companies (representing more than

five million employees) whose CEO’s had pledged HIVnon-discrimination. The Coalition’s exclusive pledge em-blem will be used to identify our company as a businessleader in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Nafez Husseini

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At the Independent Water & Steam Power Plant Project (IWSPP), located at Petro-Rabigh, Saudi Arabia - main contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) - the un-dersigned invited Mansour Engineering Services (MES) to make a site survey and to design and build a wastewa-ter treatment plant for the project’s 4,000 staff housing camp.

MES’ scope of work was the design, manufacturing, sup-ply, installation, testing and commissioning of sewage net-working, sewage lift stations, a domestic water pressurebooster system and kitchen solid waste, an oil and greasemanagement system complete with the unique approachof fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) multi-cell sewage collec-tion chambers to utilize the maximum storage volume andto overcome the water table challenge in the area.

The staff housing camp was completed prior to theagreed completion period with superior quality manufac-turing and based on international manufacturing stand-ards.

In June 2007, MES submitted a study for an 800m3/daywastewater treatment plant to CCC-IWSPP for technicaland commercial approval. Main contractor MHI forward-ed our comprehensive design study to the Petro-RabighDirectorate of Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) fora technical evaluation and design approval of the project.The directorate invited MES for the presentation andtechnical briefing on the submitted unique design to a12 member joint session, headed by Petro-Rabigh Sen-ior Engineer, John D. Lapinskas and MHI and CCC sen-ior management. After MES’ presentation, HSE accept-ed the design under strict effluent standard conditions.

After HSE’s comprehensive study for biological treat-ment parameters and satisfactory technical clarifications,the submitted design was approved by HSE without anyaddition or deletion in the de-sign. The project was awarded, but conditional to completion in a record period of 12 weeks, comprising engineering docu-mentation, plant manufactur-ing, on-site installation, test-ing and commissioning and so on. It was a challenging job to complete with state-of-the-art FRP structure for plant and innovative technology for ac-tivated sludge, extended aer-ation concept with multi-cone clarifier design for the specif-ic project.

The project was completedn 12 weeks, under the strictupervision of HSE, MHI and

CCC management, withoutany accidents, in accordancewith all Petro-Rabigh Indus-rial’s safety rules and regula-ions and as per the executionchedule.

After successful commis-ioning, the effluent sample

was mutually taken by HSEand analyzed by the third par-y. The analysis reports provedhat the efficiency of the plant

and effluent quality exceededthe agreed standards as per

PRC-PR-590 Rev.3 and PME limitations, specifically bi-ological pollutants’ limitation.

Since the plant was handed over in early September2007, the track record has shown the remarkable effi-ciency of the plant. Apart from the routine analysis testsby CCC, monthly test reports from third party are in theCCC records proving the above average efficiency of theplant.

Furthermore, the plant operational track record showsthat after the commissioning and successful handing over,no modifications or alterations were ever made. Addi-tionally, CCC’s record proved that no spare parts werepurchased or required since its operation. Smooth plantoperation without any interruption, modification or shut-down proves the worth and capabilities of the manufac-tured material standards and innovative FRP technolo-gy used.

Petro-Rabigh Wastewater Treatment Plant consumesmerely 55kw. Maximum average loads for operation of the plant as activated sludge, extended aeration, continu-ous sludge recycling, tertiary treatment system to treat the800 m3/day wastewater, furnished with the state-of-the-art technology, system configuration and integration.

This is believed to be the world’s first complete FRPstructural wastewater recy-cling plant, guaranteed envi-onmentally friendly to sustain

Middle Eastern harsh coast-al and damp environmentalconditions and a proud con-ribution towards a low car-

bon world.

Joint efforts on such pro-gressive plants and supportingimilar technology and prod-

ucts will help to achieve a glo-bal green environment.

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Purchasing Process

In this article we will continue to examine therequirements of the purchasing processes, as re-quired by ISO-9001:2000 standard in relationto supplier control processes and verification of purchased product.

Supplier Control Processes

Introduction

The ISO 9001:2000 standard requires or-ganizations to establish a process for evalua-tion and selection of suppliers on the basis of their ability to meet specified requirements.In some cases this may result in several relat-ed procedures to be used for this purpose.

The process of selection of suppliers variesdepending upon the nature of the productsand services to be procured. The more com-plex the product or service, the more com-plex the process.

Preliminary Assessment

The purpose of preliminary assessment is to select cred-ible suppliers to create an approved vendor list, and notnecessarily for a specific purchase. The organizationneeds a process for gathering intelligence on potentialsuppliers in order to eliminate unsuitable supplies so thatthe organization need not go through the whole processfor every purchase.

Some important criteria to consider during preliminaryassessment are the ability to:

Provide after-sales support.•

Comply with environmental regulations.•

Meet codes, standards and regulations.•

Meet delivery requirements.•

Comply with health and safety standards.•

Meet quality requirements.•

Meet financial obligations as applicable (bonds, war-• rantees, and so on).

In addition to the above, the supplier is required to dem-onstrate a commitment to continual improvement.

The supplier assessment process needs to cover the fol-lowing phases:

Technical assessment.•

Quality assessment.•

Financial assessment.•

Ethical assessment.•

Technical Assessment

This would check the integrity of the products, proc-esses and services to establish what they are and whatthe supplier claims them to be. Assessment of designand production capability may be carried out at this

stage or may be held until the pre qualification stagewhen specific contracts are being considered.

Quality Assessment

This will check the status of quality system, verifyingthat any certification is valid and issued by an accred-ited organization. For non-ISO registered suppliers,a quality system assessment may be carried out at thisstage to ISO-9001 standard, taking into considerationthe requirements of the organization and its custom-ers.

Financial Assessment

This would check credit rating, insurance risk, stabil-ity, and so on.

Ethical Assessment

This would check conformance to professional stand-ards, common business ethics, applicable codes andstatutory regulations.

The ISO View

The organization should establish effective and efficientprocesses to identify potential sources for purchased ma-terials, to develop existing suppliers or partners, and toevaluate their ability to supply the required products inorder to ensure the effectiveness and efficiency of theoverall purchase process. Examples of inputs to the sup-plier control process include:

Evaluation of relevant experience.•

Performance of suppliers against competitors.•

Review of purchased product quality, price, delivery• performance and response to problems.

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Audit of supplier management systems and evaluation of their potential capability to provide the requiredproducts effectively and efficiently and within sched-ule.

Checking supplier references and available data on•customer satisfaction.

Financial assessment to assure the viability of the sup-• plier throughout the intended period of supply and co-operation.

Supplier response to inquiries, quotations and tender-•ing.

Supplier service, installation and support capability• and history of performance to requirements.

The supplier’s logistic capability including locations•and resources.

The supplier’s standing and role in the community, as• well as perception in society.

Management should consider actions needed to main-tain the organization’s performance and to satisfy inter-ested parties in the event of supplier failure.

Verification of Purchased Product

The ISO 9001:2000 standard requires organizationso establish processes for the verification of pur-

chased product. In practice this may result in severalelated procedures to be used for this purpose.

The process of verification of purchased productmay vary depending upon the nature of the prod-uct or service to be procured. The more complex theproduct or service in terms of cost, importance andcomplexity, the more detailed the verification proc-ess is.

Many organizations determine the level of verifica-ion based on the economical effect, should failuren the product occur. Safety, in case of failure, is also

considered as a major factor.

Verification Process (Chart 02)

Control of any purchasing activity follows a series of processes as illustrated in chart 02. In general, thereare four key processes that should be implemented:

Specification Process: The specification processtarts once the need has been identified and ends

with a request to purchase.

Evaluation Process: The evaluation process startswith the request to purchase and ends with the place-ment of an order or contract.

Surveillance Process: The surveillance process startswith the placement of an order, letter of intent orcontract and ends upon delivery of supplies.

Acceptance Process: The acceptance process startswith the delivery of supplies and ends with the entryof supplies into the site inventory control system.

Level of Inspection

Inspection levels may have the following classifications:

No inspection is required.•

Final inspection prior to shipment is required.•

Random inspection is required during manufactur-• ing.

Full inspection scope is required (Resident Inspec-• tor).

The ISO-9001 View

The organization shall establish and implement the in-spection or other activities necessary for ensuring thatthe purchased product meets specified purchase require-ments.

Where the organization or its customer intends to per-form verification at the supplier’s premises, the organi-zation shall state the intended verification arrangementsand methods of product release in the purchasing infor-mation.

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In 1998 President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstanlaid the foundation stone to build Astana, the new capital.In 2008 the ten year anniversary of this event has recentlybeen celebrated: a modern city has been built.

Also, ten years ago CCC planted its flag in Kazakhstan,determined to be a serious player in the development of that country. The award and successful completion tenyears ago of the first Karachaganak contract followed bythe main works project known as KMWC was no smallfeat.

After a four-year sabbatical, coming back this time forthe Kashagan Project is equally spectacular. CCC thenand more so now has gained the reputation of a reliableand responsible contractor committed to world-class per-formance and rarely matched in its staff professionalismand commitment to excellence.

Kazakhstan is a particularly important area for CCC.

The period that followed the collapse of the Soviet Un-ion was a particularly difficult one to overcome. The So-viet structure meant that each country provided a serviceto the union: none enjoyed an independent economy. Ka-zakhstan’s contribution was mainly agriculture and cattle.They used to produce about 74 million tons of wheat perannum.

The new leadership, conscious of the tough task whichlay ahead, steered the country to the shores of securityand prosperity. In five short years, signs of recovery wereapparent and a bright future shone on the horizon. Forthe past ten years, Kazakhstan has been posting an im-pressive 10 per cent annual GDP and the republic’s adop-tion of a market economy has accelerated the pace of transition.

When CCC was awarded its first modest contract in 1998in Karachaganak, Aksai was a little town coming out of along slumber and getting ready for the bustle and noiseof multinationals coming to town. Suppliers were scarce,equipment outdated, airlines limited but spirits were ex-tremely high.

Kazakhstan is now an entirely different place from thattime ten years ago. The country has been transformed be-yond recognition, from the former austere Soviet skylineto high-rise buildings of steel and glass, 5-star hotels, exot-ic restaurants, luxury cars on modern highways. The Pres-ident’s focus, while building the country, has remained onthe personal development of the citizens. Directives to allinvestors were to maximize the local content and utilizelocal human resources, goods and supplies.

Construction equipment and materials are now abun-dant and national specialists are increasing to supportthe economy. But progress didn’t come without a price.Not only life became expensive but through bad loans thereal estate sector was hit hard in 2007 which led to a hugedrop in banks’ profits and a setback to the economy. Theimpact in energy centres like Atyrau was less severe, butAtyrau has its own story to tell.

Agip KCO acts on behalf of the oil companies con-sortium as the operator of the Kashagan DevelopmentProject. Agip KCO and consortium originally committedto the government to deliver the first oil by 2005. Subse-quently it became apparent that this was not achievable.The project is one of the most difficult project develop-ments in the world due to many geological, weather andunderground structural conditions.

The project is now scheduled to be delivered by 2013with a budget of US$37 billion exceeding the original

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US$12 billion budg-et. The internationalconsortium which wasawarded the on-shoreprocess plant becameconvinced of its ina-bility to build the plantand fell apart.

Agip took the con-scious decision to splitthe legacy and en-trust packages to othercontractors and CCCis one of them. Thehappy return was an-nounced in April 2008.The project team isabout to complete mo-bilization while pro-gressing on site. TheCCC logo is back intown!

Hani Akkawi, VP Iraq& CIS

Ghazy Anouti, AreaGeneral Manager

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Because Kazakhstan is so far from the oceans, the cli-mate is extremely “continental dry”. Precipitation on themountains of the east averages as much as 600mm/year,mostly in the form of snow, but most of the republic re-ceives only 100 to 200mm/year. Kazakhstan is also a sun-ny republic, with the north averaging 120 clear days a yearand the south averaging 260.

The lack of moderating bodies of water also means thattemperatures can vary widely. The winter air temperaturecan fall to -40C and in summer the air temperature canreach as high as +40C. However, temperatures vary fromregion to region. The Caspian Sea typically ices over fromDecember till March.

The Kashagan Field is in the Caspian Sea, about 80kmsouth of the town of Atyrau. The Kashagan Field Devel-opment, Experimental Programme, Main Process PlantProject is located at the West Eskene region which is sta-tistically exposed to extreme low temperatures from timeto time during the winter period.

General Preparation

Working areas will be covered with shelters and fur-nished with heaters to progress with good productivity. Itis not allowed to carry on outside activities at a tempera-ture below -30C. Only dry fire extinguishers will be usedthroughout the facilities. Heated shelters, where potablewater tanks are insulated, will be strategically located toenable personnel to warm up frequently. Hot drinks willbe available at these shelters. Hard standing access roadswill be made of concrete slabs or gravel, allowing equip-ment to be moved during the muddy season (to reach thepipe racks for pipe loading, steel structure erection, finfan assembly and so on).

Personnel Protection

All personnel will wear PPE especially provided for win-ter conditions and will undergo winter working train-

ing. Personnel will move on site in groups and will avoidchanging locations during low temperatures and everyteam will have a wireless communication device.

Equipment Protection

Winter diesel mixed with antifreeze additives will beused for all diesel operating construction equipment, ma-chinery and vehicles. Electrical connections will be pro-vided for starting vehicles and equipment, especially dur-ing morning hours. Temperature-sensitive equipmentsuch as electronic equipment, computers and measuringdevices will be kept in closed, warm areas.

Covered Shelters

Closed shelters will be arranged around work areas toensure an adequate confined space for a comfortable en-vironment both for the workers and for the progress andquality of the work. Confined spaces will be heated up to5-10C with blow heaters. The quantity of heaters will beassigned according to the confined space volume. Heaterscould be placed inside or outside the closed shelters de-pending on the type.

Earthworks

Excavation could be performed under winter condi-tions. However, a layer will be left to be stripped duringnon-frost conditions. Backfilling will be avoided. Backfill-ing material will be kept at a dedicated stockpile, coveredwith tarpaulin sheets and blow heated. Snow, water andmud will be removed at the backfilling area.

Concrete Works

Prior to feeding the batching plant, aggregate will bewarmed up at a secondary station by a blow heating unit.Aggregate heating will be in accordance with the provi-sions specified in ACI 360R Cold Weather Concreting.The aggregate heat should not exceed 60C. A concretetechnician will decide the aggregate temperature in rela-

tion to the ambient temperature versus deliveryperiod, according to Swedish Cement and Con-crete Research Institute test formulae presentedat ACI 360R Cold Weather Concreting:

T = 0,25 (tr - ta) where T = temperature dropo be expected during a one hour delivery time.This value must be added to tr to determine theequired temperature of concrete at the plant.)

Tr = concrete temperature required at job

Ta = ambient air temperature.

Batching Plant Ramp

The concrete revolving mixer drums will be cov-ered with insulation and the concrete batchingplant has its own heating system. The aggregatewill be heated up to 5-10C at the secondary heat-ng station. Steam heating will be avoided so thathe water/cement ratio will be maintained.

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The concrete wa-ter will also be heat-ed prior to mixing up to a maximum 60C. The aggregate stock-yard will have a con-crete pavement with an open drain sys-tem. Moisture ab-sorption adjustments must be carried out during concrete pro-duction. The use of moist aggregate will be avoided. However, if necessary, a batch-ing plant supervisor and technicians will pay especial atten-tion to the water ra-tio at concrete batch by regularly moni-toring the produced concrete slump.

The concrete cast location will be cov-ered by a closed shelter. During casting, the cover shall beopened allowing for adequate space for pump manipula-tion. Upon completion, the open spaces will be prompt-ly covered and the confined space will be continuouslyheated by blow heaters until the concrete reaches the 5 N/mm2 minimum strength.

Prior to casting, the confined space should be warmedup to ensure that the existing concrete and all embeddedelements temperature above 5C. Concrete must not beplaced on frozen ground. Ice on blinding concrete and/orreinforcement shall be removed by pressurized steam ap-

plication. 24 hours surveillance of the shelter and heatersis required. Any attendant should have radio or telephoneaccess. A log book will be kept to monitor the concretetemperature frequently.

Exceeding the differential temperature between theconcrete’s surface and its core causes cracks. In orderto minimize the effect the confined space will be heatedand concrete surfaces will be covered with polyethylenesheets upon concrete set. Blow heaters must be adequateenough to keep the closed shelter warm. Antifreeze and/or strength accelerating additives will be used when mix-ing the concrete.

The concrete will beadequately coveredwith polyethyleneor tarpaulin sheetso reduce water cur-ng requirement by

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most. Water curinghould not start tilloncrete achieves N/mm2 compres-ive strength. Chem-cal curing materi-

al will be appliedon all concrete sur-aces then covered

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curing might be ap-plied to reduce cur-ing time.

A Civil supervisor will be responsible for making sure that the temperature in-side enclosures is at a minimum 5C. Dry fire extinguishers will be provided at handy locations.

Infrastructure Works

Including but not limited to oily water manholes, catch ba-sins, trenches, these will be carried out during the winter period. Pre-cast el-ements will be pre-ferred to enable ef-ficient construction practices during cold weather. Under-ground works will be carried out at a limited section (lim-ited enough to protect against snow and ice). Exposed de-watering lines will be insulated.

Structural Steel

Lifting operations will not be implemented during elec-tric storms, ice, sleet or other adverse weather conditionsthat could affect the safety of personnel (ASME B30.5-2000; Mobile and Locomotive Cranes). For maximum op-

erating wind speeds,he crane manufac-urer’s data sheets

or user’s manual willbe consulted. Touch-up painting will bedone under favoura-ble temperatures.

Piping Work

Grit blasting, bev-ling, spool welding,est and painting will

be executed at pre-abrication shops in alosed and controllednvironment.

Site welds will onlybe conducted inlosed and heatedhelters. A separate

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and its ratio per volume for hydro testing. (ASME B 31.3 - 345.4.1 indicates another suitable non-toxic liquidmay be used for applicable lines.)

Outside pipe welding will be conducted in a controlledenvironment. A heated shelter to provide a comfortableworking environment for workers will cover the weldingareas. After the completion of the welding, the tent heat-er will be turned off and the weld area allowed to coolgradually to ambient temperatures. The tent will not beremoved until the metal pipe temperature reaches theambient temperature.

Electrical/Glanding/Instrumentation Works

All cable terminations and originations will be undercover, either at a substation, control room, SIS buildingand so on or a covered and heated pit / tent for under-ground cabling. Where cables are to be installedin air temperatures below – 15C, precautions willbe taken to avoid mechanical damage to insula-tion or sheath. Heated tents will be provided. Anycables to be installed under such conditions willbe stored in a heated environment at a minimumtemperature of 20C for a period of a at least 24hours before installation. Once the cables havebeen removed from the heated area, installationmust be completed as quickly as possible.

All electrical equipment such as electric motors,distribution panels and so on with space heaterswill be temporarily energized to avoid any con-densation and reduce adverse winter conditions.Heat tracing will be immediately installed to theequipment / pipzes / instrument where indicat-ed in the project drawings and will be temporari-ly energized. For temporary facilities, all exposedpipes, tank inlets, building inlets and so on will beequipped with heat tracing as required.

No sensitive equipment such as ProgrammableLogic Control, RTU, electronic device installa-tion will be performed other than in environmen-tally controlled areas. Electrical equipment will be checked periodically for antifreeze fill up.

Refractory

Refractory will be conducted in situ. This work will be avoided during the winter period. Howev-er, if circumstances dictate, the area will be insu-lated and heated for work and curing.

Quality Assurance

All terms and conditions stated in the quality plan, job specific method statements, procedures, locally and internationally acceptable standards and specifications, project data sheets and techni-cal specifications will be binding for any work ex-ecuted during the winter period as stated herein.

Work during extreme winter conditions can re-duce up to 40 per cent of normal productivity.

However, this challenging environment creates an auraof motivation and teamwork which, when linked with theright planning and preparation, can make the work safeand amusing.

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The rapid evolution in the construction industry and theextension of liabilities has set new challenges and stand-ards on the current trends of planning and monitoring of the construction activities.

Being awarded the Sulfur Slug catcher ConstructionProject (SSCP), we returned to Kazakhstan, determiningto keep up the legacy we built five years ago and stretch-ing our potentials to face the new challenges.

Proper planning and monitoring are two major pointsof concern which we are not hesitant to invest in, so that

we meet our standards and our client’s satisfaction. How-ever, visual planning is the new trend we are adopting inSSCP by utilizing the C3D advanced software techniques,which are considered to be a milestone and an upgrade toevery contractor’s managerial requirements; all achievedand designed by a dedicated team of qualified CCC per-sonnel.

So what is visual planning? What does it cover? Whatare its advantages and what does it add to the commonpractices of planning?

Kazakhstan, for instance, isan area where planning cannotbe taken lightly. Long forecastsand extended look-ahead arecommon. Receiving the ma-terial usually takes one monthin normal markets and 2 to 3months in booming markets inthis area of the world.

A single construction activi-ty might look simple to an out-sider. However, the size andnumber of those activities dur-ing the construction of a wholemechanical project constitutescan become highly complex.

The construction activitiesare interrelated and interde-pendent at the same time, so if a critical path activity is affect-ed, delayed or even completedahead of time, it might impactthe project schedule.

As well, one of the ma-jor problems we face on con-struction sites is that construc-tion people tend to optimizetheir own activity in search forprogress. This tendency some-times causes non-critical activ-ities to be prioritized over crit-ical ones.

In most of the cases there isno clear cut between activity re-lationships; it is more of a greyarea. It was found that sub-op-timizing an activity would havedire consequences on subse-quent ones. For instance togain progress in structural youcan erect all large membersand keep the small ones till theend. As a drawback the pipingactivity on the racks might notstart.

For efficient project execu-tion, relationships between ac-

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tivities should be established at an optimized level where it is not too detailed as it becomes impossible to track and control, and not too general where the relationships become meaningless.

This is where the C3D software hits the spotlight.

The visual planning tool is ca-pable of establishing activity rela-tionships and enabling them visu-ally.

Engineers during look-ahead preparation will be able to identi-fy the status of what they need to construct and whether it would be affected by other elements. In the case of SSCP, where the majority of the affecting activities are done by other sub-contractors, updat-ing and documenting this informa-tion in a timely manner is of utmost importance.

Quote from the project manager: “it pays to plan ahead;it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.”

As an illustration, the slug catcher piping erection is thesubject of the following visual plan.

Some facts about slug catcher area:

2300 tons of piping consisted of extremely heavy wallpipes with a majority of straight runs. This might look likeheaven for site construction engineers, however it is not.There are many constraints in a sample of what pre-req-uisite this activity would need (the actual list is made 100Check list item).

The power of visual planning resides in its capability toshow you the project in 3D and in parallel harnesses, the

relevant data to be at finger tips of the planners, site engi-neer and management.

Questions like how many tons can I erect this week orhow many cubic meters of concrete can I pour becomequite accurate (picture 1).

The green spools can be erected, the red ones cannot.

Why?

Simply select the spool in question and additional in-formation will pop up (for instance not connected to anerected spool, pipe support is not available, its drawinghas a revision, the spool is still in fabricator lay-downarea, and so on).

Another example (picture 2) is very useful during thelook ahead.

For instance the section engi-neer responsible for Unit 332hould erect 40 tons a week to

meet the plan, he has limited scaf-olding resources, where shall hetart?

Many checks were done on eachevel of the release pipe racks andhe erectable weight was shown.

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What is STS?

In general, the Spool Tracking System is implementedto monitor the history of spools status along with its loca-tion over the lay-down area. This history is in terms of sta-tus of the spools and in terms of store/grid number for lo-cation depending on the structure of the lay-down area.Moreover, the STS saves extra time and manpower sincethat data is transferred automatically to Talisman by syn-chronizing method where reports are produced and dataentry is passed up.

Technically, STS is a combination of hardware and soft-ware. The hardware is a rugged touch screen PersonalDigital Assistant (PDA), a handheld device that combinescomputing, telephone and fax, Internet and networkingfeatures. This model contains a built-in scanner for bar-code scanning capability. The software allows the user toautomatically or manually create spool reports, search en-gineer per isometric number or spool number, update thestatus and navigate through the spools status template,relocate the spools while moved from one area to anoth-er in terms of stores/grids. Furthermore, the software ap-plication provides the ability to synchronize data betweenTalisman and han dheld database.

Why is STS implemented at SSCP

The piping scope at the Sulfur, Slug Catcher Project(SSCP) is only erection spools since more than 80 per centof the large bore spools are already fabricated and locat-ed in the subcontractor lay-down are. GATE, the subcon-tractor’s lay-down area is huge (700,000m2) and locationsare distributed randomly within the area. Some of theselocations are divided into grids while others are not. Inaddition to the spools that are within CCC’s scope, thelay-down area contains fabricated spools that belong toother contactors’ scope.

To ensure the smooth running of the project, it was es-sential to implement a mechanism that clearly defines

CCC’s spools and col-lects them in a sep-arate lay-down area,preferably besidethe project location.Whence came theidea to implementthe spool tracking sys-tem in order to mon-itor the movement of spools among the var-ious statuses and tokeep track of the lo-cation of the spools.

GATE provided allthe fabricated spoolslisted along with theirlocation. The planwas passed through all the grids and the spools identified within the scope to al-low easy shifting of the spools to the CCC lay-down area.

All founded spools will be tagged with a barcode labelthat contains an isometric ID, spool ID, line number andother check boxes for verification of the spool accuracy.

Implementation & Modification

In order to obtain the maximum benefit of the STS,some additional requirements and modifications were re-quested from the project control team to be included inthe standard STS software. These modifications are re-lated to a group of checking techniques to be applied oneach spool. Since these spools were fabricated at an ear-lier stage and will be erected by CCC, then CCC shouldverify that these spools were fabricated completely with-out any defects prior to shifting to the lay-down areawhere the spools will be under the custody of the spools.These checking techniques are summarized as:

Paint checking1.

Confirming that all parts and materials are included as2.per the spool drawing

Positive Material Identification (PMI)3.

All the above defects are reflected on the handheld andalso included within the damage report which is submit-ted to the client.

As long as STS is implemented at different projects,more requirements and special cases will arise which willbe implemented to reach the legacy period whereby it willcover every different aspect of spool tracking.

STS will be implemented to segregate and identifyspools already fabricated by GATE (subcontractor) andlocated in lay-down area and grids. Segregation and iden-tification of spools will be done by CCEPC teams usingthe handhelds (PDAs) to store the progress of searchingand checking mechanism.

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The items below will illustrate the workflow and procedures that should be applied to implement the STS at the KDPE project:

Searching and identifying the spools: Regular •update of complete spools data report is re-ceived from AKCO in the following format: Layout drawing showing the lay-down area and the grids related.

Analyzing the data: CCEPC STS team will sort, group• the data received from AKCO to eliminate the discrep-ancies and produce a list of required spools per grid.

Bar-Coding: CCEPC will produce bar code labels con-• taining the isometric number, spool number and in-formation related to the spool. In addition, the labelswill contain check boxes for painting, position materialidentity (PMI) and dimensional conformance.

Spools Searching & STS Team: CCEPC will provideteam consisting of three staff categories to comb thelay-down areas and implement spool control checkingfor all the spools. The result of this checking will re-ported and inserted into the handhelds, these catego-ries are:

Draftsmen to observe and cross-check the spools* detailed drawings with the spools physical status onthe lay-down area. Draftsman will input the check-ing result inside the check boxes on the handhelds.

QC Inspectors to check the conditions of the spools*by verifying the paint type and condition, parts con-formance and check the defect percentage. More-over, the QC inspector will issue the Material Re-quest Form (MRF).

Expeditors will issue MRF upon finishing the spool*checking regardless of the checking results. More-over, Expeditors will also coordinate with AKCOrepresentative and CCEPC transport departmentto transfer the spools from AKCO lay-down area toCCEPC lay-down area.

CCEPC will notify AKCO about any defect found* in the spools at the checking period and will wait forone day for the AKCO QC representative to visitthe lay-down and observe the condition.

Imad MaaroufAutomation Engineer

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How Spools were Originally Piled

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The rise in the price of oil led companies to invest inthe oilfield construction industry which then led to amanpower shortage, particularly in experienced techni-cians, welders and pipe fitters. In the engineering domainthere is a shortage of draftsmen. In order to meet thisnew need, upper management took the decision to set uptraining schools.

Welding School in Kazakhstan

In 1999 CCC arrived in Aksai to work on the KPC andUnit 2 Projects which were being funded by the client,KIO. At that time, CCC management requested Jamil ElSayed, the superintendent of welding, to create a weldingschool in order to train the local Kazakh people. The rea-son behind the training was to create a supply of workersfor the completion of the fabrication and welding activi-ties of the projects. In addition, these schools would em-power the local population by providing them with knowl-edge and skills, making them stronger members of theirsociety and helping them to develop their state.

During the initial stages of the training there appeared to be communication prob-lems. The locals had a lack of the technical knowledge necessary for the training. Also, attendance was poor. These issues seemed to be more preva-lent among the locals from the poorer villag-es. However, top man-agement at CCC was determined to over-come these training challenges in order to achieve their goal. The recruiting department began to interview the local applicants to determine what skills they had. Any-one with a little background in welding or fabrication wasaccepted to attend the training school.

At the end of six months the school had turned out a to-tal of 103 welders, 68 pipe fitters and 70 fabricators. Allthe welders had to pass the prequalification and proce-dure test assigned by the client, KIO. X-ray and RT testswere done to the joints welded by the trainees to ensurethey passed industry standards. The welders passed thetest and the client was satisfied and approved movingthem to site to start production activities.

Training at Atyrau

In July 2008 CCC started preparations for the KashaganProject and management decided to apply the successfultraining experience of Aksai. The goal behind the train-ing was to improve the local manpower of the country, re-duce the number of expats and to fill the gap caused by

the shortage of manpower due to a boom in the construc-tion field. Management stressed that high morale shouldbe maintained: that meant treating the local people wellby being patient when teaching them, showing full re-spect and giving them a feeling of importance so that theywould perform at their best and fulfil the job as per CCC’score values.

Jamil El Sayed was again nominated to lead the trainingschool and he gained the full support of the project man-agement. Due to a lack of materials, management decid-ed to use the remaining materials from the Aksai project.It took six days to build the training school, with the helpof some labourers from Atyrau and to arrange for thewelding machines and welding consumables required.

The training started with a group of 20 local labourersand in the first month ten out of them became pipe fittersand another ten became welders. During training, manyvisits were made by CCC and Agip management and QCto inspect the training. Also, auditors from the state La-

bour Department visit-ed the school and wereatisfied and pleased

with the positive atti-ude of the employees

who benefited from theraining. By the end of

September, 22 weldersand 10 pipe fitters werequalified to start weld-ng on site. They wereent to the project siteo start the erection

operation of the slugcatcher area. In thecoming two months weare expecting a total of 70 welders trained on-ite to complete the

piping activities for theulphur area.

Office Training: Secretarial and Computer

The lack of experienced secretaries, technical clerks andcomputer operators due to the current booming oil andgas market dictated the need for the development and im-plementation of office training courses. Fresh graduateswere recruited and were given courses in English, Excel,Word, copying, AutoCAD, structural drawing reading,piping isometric reading and PMV. Currently 12 peoplehave undergone the training and have been employed inengineering, QC, DCG, planning, materials and PMV.

Beirut Training

The Kashagan development projects, Sulfur Unit andSlug Catcher, were previously bid to GATE JV. CCC waslater offered the bid by AGIP. All the design drawingsand detailing were ready and CCC had to immediately be-gin executing the project. This required fast mobilizationof all the different departments.

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Because of this, management decided to train an of-fice team to perform the job rapidly. The place of train-ing would be at MOB offices and the date was set for May2008. The trainees were to be selected from candidatesat technical schools who had a technical certificate. Sib-line Technical College students were called for interviewsand in addition many technical graduates from differentschools attended the interview. The training was done intwo stages and in periods of six weeks each.

The trainees were first introduced to the nature of CCC’s work. Next, the trainers went on to explain aboutKazakhstan and the nature of the people and its climate.After that, the trainees were given a general introductionto the course material and were informed of the aim be-hind the training. Lessons began with an introductory ses-sion about piping followed by details about piping com-ponents, specifications, materials, piping fabrication andwelding. By the end of the first week the trainees wereable to read a plot plan, understand a general arrange-ment, piping and instrument diagram and understand iso-metrics and markups.

During the second week of training man-agement decided that students should at-tend a daily Russian language lecture af-ter training. These lec-tures were two hours long every evening. At the same time, Auto-CAD lectures start-ed and three days of intensive lessons fol-lowed. The trainees were able to create a 2D plot plan using Au-toCAD before going to Turbo Taliso. Tur-bo Taliso setup start-ed with the target of making it suitable for Kashagan isometric drawings. The trainees prepared theisometric layouts, drew the QC blocks, revision blocksand the spool templates. Everything that had to do withthe Turbo Taliso setup was explained to the trainees. Asa result, we have people that can do Turbo Taliso setupsfor different piping projects.

In the third week of training, the start-up and produc-tion for the Kashagan project began. Meanwhile, in Qatarand the UAE, CCC had ongoing projects and had beenexperiencing a shortage of draftsmen. The project man-agers heard about the training initiatives taking place inBeirut and requested that some of the trainees be trans-ferred over to them. In response to this request, fourtrainees were sent to the UAE Borouge project and twowere sent to the GTL Qatar project. The remaining fourof the first training course were assigned to the Kasha-gan project. Each project had to send us the piping draw-

ings and specifications so that we could start producingmarkups for them from MOB. We received the smallbore IDFS from Kazakhstan and the trainees were askedto prepare the detailed markups. In three weeks we wereable to finalize more than 300 small bore isometrics usingTurbo Taliso that were ready to be issued to site. In addi-tion to detailing work, Kazakhstan trainees were asked toprint the general arrangement drawings and to assign thepipe diameters on each pipe rack in order to use this datain a C3D model. The first stage of the Beirut training wascompleted in mid-June and visas were issued to traineesso that they could join their projects.

Beirut’s second training stage started immediately af-ter the first stage was completed. There were about 13trainees who applied, 10 of which were selected to con-tinue. The training colloquium was the same as the firststage and followed the same steps until it was time forproduction. The large bore detail markups had alreadybeen completed by GATE but CCC needed to acquire adatabase of this information. So Turbo Taliso was used to

transfer the data fromhe IDFS to a database

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khstan and were ableo begin coordinat-ng right away. Theyent us the drawings

and IDFS, GATE isoand the Beirut secondraining team start-

ed assigning the spoolnumbers, weld num-bers and missing de-ails in the Turbo

Taliso markups. At thebeginning of Septem-

er 2008, after just twoeeks of hard work,

the job was finalized. The trainees and the data for theproject were all transferred to Kazakhstan.

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The Definition of “Local Content”

Payments for goods, materials and services of Kaza-• khstan origin.

Payments to national personnel.•

Statutory payments to the Republic of Kazakhstan.•

Non-monetary contributions through transferring•knowledge, technology and know-how.

CCC is committed to maximizing the involvement of na-tional personnel and companies in its operations, thussupporting the economic development of the communi-ties in which it operates.

In order to achieve long-term relationshipswithin Kazakhstan, CCC has taken on the com-mitment to become integrated within the Ka-zakh community. This will be achieved throughthe participation and the sponsorship of social,educational, cultural and other activities.

Understanding the impact of industrial ac-tivities, CCC has a policy of maximizing lo-cal content requirements not only in terms of manpower but also in terms of supplies andpurchases. Involvement of local contractorsinto works and services is maximized. CCCwill provide assistance to local contractors inthe certification process under internationalstandards. CCC understands that such an ac-tivity has a positive impact on the communi-ties and thus maintaining awareness of theseissues is critical.

Training

CCC management has put an emphasis on the issue of training and qualifications of the Kazakh workforce, ac-quiring new skills, adapting to safety and quality norms.Such training and advancement of skills are part of CCC’svision of transferring knowledge and providing skills thatcould be of long-term benefit to the country.

As part of our construction operations within theprojects, we aim to minimize the possible disruptions tothe projects through implementation of thorough and ef-fective HSE management systems, risk analysis and final-ly open dialogue and the establishment of community re-lations. Moreover, environmental issues are one of CCC’simportant considerations.

Our employees receive cultural awareness training toensure harmony and create healthy working atmospherein a multinational environment.

Social Activities

CCC is and always has been keen to give back to thecommunity. Besides its main task, that is to construct afirst-class plant in accordance with contract conditions,CCC is mindful of its responsibilities towards the socialaspect of Kazakhstan.

As was the case on previous projects, CCC providesfunds and material to be spent for infrastructure and wel-fare on different social projects in such areas as:

Educational establishments.•

Furniture and medical needs for orphanages and•homes for the elderly.

Material help for disadvantaged families.•

Training of local students in the spheres of translation,• sanitation, ecology, electrics, welding and other profes-sional and industrial trades.

Site visits and excursions for local students and pupils.•

Social Contribution, Sponsorship and Donation Highlights

Facts and figures for May to October 2008:

Commitment to employ and train unemployed persons1.from isolated regions.

Donation to the Atyrau Home of Aged People in the2.amount of US$1,600.00.

Ordering of camp blankets, pillows and bedcovers from3.the Atyrau organization of blind people in the amountof US$55,000.00.

Winter clothes donation to the Atyrau Orphanage in4.the amount of US$5,000.00.

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When you open the CCC website you will notice thatthe main building has a greenish colour. This is nothingbut the reflection of the company’s policies “to go green”.SSCP being one of the CCC projects, it also went green.

Training, slogans, banners, complying water faucets andsegregation cans were introduced.

CCC implemented the paperless system to save trees byminimizing the paper consumption.

CCC is using a water treatment facility in their camp tominimize the water waste.

CCC also contracted a local waste management compa-ny to take care of all its already segregated wastes.

CCC as well implemented a strict transportation policyto lessen air pollution by minimizing the use of personaltransportation and relying more on buses.

I am proud to be a member of the CCC family, know-ing that I am not only contributing to the progress of mycountry but also doing so in an environmentally friend-ly way.

Armine BalayanAdministrative Assistant

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Working safely in Kazakhstan

HSE here at the Kashagan project is basically the sameas any new construction project. The main difference herewill be the language barrier for newcomers but as CCCemployees we seem to be able to make ourselves under-stood everywhere in the world very quickly.

The other difference of course will be the winter weath-er. Our company has already ordered winter clothing forall employees and as we mobilize I will issue bulletins ad-vising the precautions needed in cold conditions.

Like every other department, the HSE Department ismobilizing and that means we have a lot to do to get upand running. Our training section is not yet functioningthe way we are used to but we are working on it and hopeto be able to offer a training schedule soon. The medicalside is up and running in our camp area and we are work-ing hard to have our site clinic open soon. We alreadyhave a site doctor who is mobile on site and his numberis available for emergencies on the notice boards. I wantall employees to remember that we are all here to work to make a better future for ourselves and our families. I want the project to adopt the slogan “we are workingsafely for our families”.

Douglas MillerHSE Manager

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In May 2007 I was requested to go back to Kazakhstanas a member of a team to survey the remaining works inKarabatan field and it was decided to show CCC’s ca-pabilities to the operator of the Kashagan field project.At that time I felt the whole trip was a mere formality toshow CCC’s presence and strength in the area.

Later CCC was invited to bid for the project.

Rumours in the industry were in other competitors’ fa-vour and the tendency was to award the project to others;our chances looked slim.

A year later I was called for a kick-off meeting. The op-erator was confident that CCC was the saviour of the day.By the end of the meeting, it was clear that a fast mobili-zation should take place that required extensive improv-isation.

On April 18 the team who participated in the meetingleft for other CCC project commitments. There was aclear deadline but no means to achieve it.

Key personnel were already engaged in other projectsand their on-board dates were delayed. The decision wasto go for local subcontractors who were already affected,over-stretched by the construction boom and not able tocomply.

As the saying goes ‘desperate times require desperatemeasures’. The three supervisors on site were jacks of alltrades: design, procurement, construction, whatever themobilization needed, they did it.

The camp was the first target; it had to be partially readyto accommodate the newcomers to boost the mobiliza-tion.

Everyone was under the impression that ex-KWMC ma-terial would be rushed to the rescue, but in reality therewas a logistical nightmare behind the numerous incom-ing loads, let alone the condition of the secondhand fa-cilities.

Equipment had its share among the challenges. Delaysin other CCC projects had its impact. The majority of cranes, trailers and other plant and equipment were de-layed. Locally rented plant could not cope and were un-der repair more often than in operation.

CCC’s top management had to intervene to secure thekey position staff and resources for the project.

Despite all the complexity, the determination sustainedby our CCC spirit proved to be up to the challenge andovercame most of the difficulties. It’s true the mobiliza-tion was not completed on time, but the minimum basicswere met. In June the camp was ready to accommodatepeople, delays in site facility were mitigated by havingstores and PMV at the camp. The job started with numer-ous hiccups but the wheels were turning. Structural steelerection started in July, followed by piping works in Sep-tember and equipment assembly in November and nowexpected to catch up with the plan by the end of this year,although our targeted production figures will have to beincreased during the harsh season. The project team isconfident and determined that this project will be anoth-er CCC success story.

Ramzi BarghoutConstruction Manager

Challenges during Mobilization

The Camp as it was in September 2008

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t turned out to be a hugeuccess the recent visit andCEO Meeting of Samerry (Executive Vice Pres-

Khursaniyah Gas Plant(KGP) Project, Saudi Arabia last November 12, 2008.

Wrapping up the highly intense CEO Meeting with thetop executives of the client (Saudi Aramco and BTJV),

which included a guided site tour led by BTJV (Bechtel-Technip Joint Venture), participated by the site projectmanagement team. Samer Khoury immediately met withCCC area and site project management personnel togeth-er with all the project and site engineers, numbering al-most 300 at the CCC camp mess hall, and was greetedwarmly by all project personnel.

Various project issues were raised and addressed to theremaining ongoing activities at KGP Site during the meet-ing, which were supported and attended by area manage-ment headed by our Vice President for Saudi Arabia,Yemen & Special Projects, Hamed Amin and Area Gen-

eral Manager, Mazen Qaddoura, and the KGP ProjectManagement Team, headed by the newly appointedProject Director of KGP Project, Hatem Dahleh.

KGP Senior Project Personnel were extremely happy atthe presence of Samer Khoury and willingly participat-ed on floor discussions that will help alleviate bottleneckschedule of the project. A note of encouragement by theEVPO was a refreshing closure of the site visit.

Since Khursaniyah Gas Plant (KGP) Project is stillmonths away from completion, Samer Khoury once againreiterated the support and commitment of everyone togive their best shot to overcome the obstacles and chal-lenges to complete KGP Project. The EVPO wants every-body to rise to the challenges as working in the construc-tion industry is extremely demanding, albeit the fact thatCCC always delivers a world class project, such as Khur-saniyah, to its clientele worldwide.

Hassan SeoudiProject Manager (Controls)

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INJAZ - For the Creation of Economic Opportunities for Jordan Youth

INJAZ is a non-profit organization that seeks to educateand inspire young people to succeed in a global economy.In partnership with business, the Ministry of Educationand the Ministry of Higher Education, and through thesupport of volunteers, corporations, and USAID, INJAZbrings the real world to students, opening their minds totheir potential and their different career options.

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdalla has been extreme-ly active in the continuous upgrading of education in Jor-dan and in particular the standards of the Ministry of Ed-ucation schools. Her Majesty encouraged the creation of the INJAZ Organization for the purpose of improving theeducation of Jordanian students.

CCC’s President has been supportive of this cause andhas been a sponsor of many of INJAZ’ successful eventsand activities.

Recently I was asked to participate by giving a lecture togirl students (9th and 10th grades). The topic was lead-ership and guidance on how to reach a decision or whatsteps they should take to decide on their future univer-sities or the profession they could excel in. My speechincluded descriptions of different engineering special-izations (designers, contracting and construction man-agement). The 40 students asked intelligent questions onthe subject proving their comprehension of the importantsteps to take to choose the correct major, and differentmethods to reach such a decision.

Suhail HalabyAssistant Vice President, Construction Management

INJAZ Organization

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The second Arab-Greek Economic Forum took place

November 19-20, Hilton Hotel. The

event was organized by the Arab-Hellenic Cham-ber of Commerce & Development, under the aus-pices of the Hellenic Ministries of Foreign Af-fairs and Development and the General Union of Chambers of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture for Arab Countries.

The high level of participation of companies, chambers of commerce and government officials reflects the interest of both Greeks and Arabs in strengthening ties and helping businesses to oper-ate in both Greece and the Arab countries.

The forum was considered a success by the or-ganizers and the attendees and it helped many participating companies and individuals to net-work and to get acquainted with businesses work-ing or intending to work in the Arab world and/or Greece.

The aims of the forum were:

To study the current situation, future trends •and prospects for the development of Arab-Hellenic economic and commercial relations

To provide information on trade, investment •and tourism opportunities in both regions

To attract investors and capital for the en-•couragement of joint investments in both re-gions

To present opportunities for the participants •to exchange information, experiences and know-how

To establish the event as a cultural and in-•formative institution that promotes and sym-bolizes the friendship between Greece and the Arab world.

Participants in the forum were:

Federations and associations of industries, •investors and exporters from both regions.

Credit institutions (banks, insurance agencies, and so•on).

Companies active in the fields of telecommunications•and, oil and gas, maritime transport, tourism, trade,construction, investments, industrial products, and soon.

Organizations and Arab unions active in various fi-•nancial sectors.

A fair was organized as a parallel event to the forum,with the participation of companies from Greece and the

Arab countries. CCC had the most impressive stand interms of size and of quality of presentation.

The forum speakers included representatives of theGreek Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Development,Greek and Arab chambers of commerce, business associ-ations and investors.

CCC’s speeches were given by Dr. Saleh S. Jallad (firstday) and Samer S. Khoury (second day) and they werewarmly received by the audience.

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Yannis Yannoulis, Dimitra Makri, Demetrius Dadakaridis

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In 2008, CCC co-sponsored the “Routes of the OliveTree”, whereby a group of 50 motor bikers from Greecedrove across Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan,Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Russia and then back to Greece,taking with them olive trees, as symbolic “Peace Flames”,and which were planted in the countries they crossed.

On July 20, 2008 the motor bikers arrived in Baku, Az-erbaijan, and on July 21, 2008 a ceremony, which was at-tended by a large crowd and the Azerbaijani and Greekmedia, took place in front of the Ministry of Sports andthe State Olympics Committee, during which an olive treethat was carried out by the bikers from Greece, was plant-ed by:

The Azerbaijani Minister of Sports, Azad Rahimov•

The Greek Ambassador, H.E. Themistocles Dimidis•

The leader of the Greek motor bikers, Giorgios Ka-•rabatos

CCC’s Business Development Manager, CIS & China,• Juan Boulos

The head of the motor bikers thanked CCC for sponsor-ing the event.

I am proud to work for CCC, a company that sponsorssuch social activities that bring the Azerbaijani and Greekpeople together.

Alibala PanahliCommunity Liaison Officer

Routes of the Olive Tree

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Health, Safety & EnvironmentHealth, Safety & Environment


RasGas, on November 20, 2008 dedicated a grand mu-sical evening, called the ‘Filipino Night’ to RGX/AKG2project workers being part of the celebrations on the re-markable achievement of one million B-Safe observa-tion cards at CCT JV West camp auditorium, Ras Laffan,which accommodated more than 16,000 workers of 28 dif-ferent nationalities.

RasGas Project Manager Douglas Smith emphasizedthe importance of B-Safe observation cards which in turnserve as an important tool to identify the hazards at theconstruction site and help to adopt precautionary meas-ures well in advance.

K. Ninomiya, Site Manager of CTJV, and Imad Khaled,Project Manager of CCTJV Ltd., congratulated the work-ers of RGX/AKG2 Projects for their safe work habits andhighlighted the importance of working safely in order toreturn to their family without any injuries upon comple-tion of their assignment.

The project currently has in credit 15 million safe man-hours without any Lost Time Incident.

Prakash S. JayaSr. Administrator

Celebrating Safety at Ras Laffan

RasGas on November 20 2008 dedicated a grand mu K Ninomiya Site Manager of CTJV and Imad Khaled

Health, Safety & EnvironmentHealth, Safety & Environment


CCC management has always been ahead and keen toclose the gap when it comes to the health and safety of its employees. On the Shell Pearl GTL project, irrespec-tive of their rank and experience, all employees must at-tend safety induction and hands-on training sessions toclose this gap.

Therefore, in its commitment to lead by example, in Oc-tober 2008, the senior managers of GTL project attendedand completed another safety training session dedicatedthis time to working at height. The session was conductedwith the guidance of the HSE trainer, Suliman Qabaha,

under the watchful eye of HSE Training Manager, JackWoodruff and HSE Manager, Trevor Jones. After attend-ing the PowerPoint presentation and question and an-swer session in the office, the attendees proceeded to thehands-on training area where a scaffold has been erectedto train all workers that intend to work at heights prior tohaving them proceed to site.

In their full personal protective gear, body harness andattachment clips, all CCC senior managers including theproject director climbed in turn over the two-storey highscaffold and practiced safety moves with the use of theirharness attachments between anchor points.

As this happened during the workers’ break time, theCCC managers’ practical training occurred in full view of all workers and people around.

The senior managers must be commended for makingtime in their busy schedules to learn and exhibit theircommitment to safety in order to achieve an incident andinjury free project.

It is a well known fact that an organization will never beable to achieve high standards of health and safety with-out the active and visible involvement and of its leaders atthe top of the pyramid.

CCC and particularly Pearl GTL project have one of thelowest injury frequency rates of any comparable organiza-tion and Pearl GTL has no fatality on record.

All project organization leaders who have at heart thehealth and safety of their employees are encouraged topromote safety by setting the example from the top of their ranks.

HSE Department,Pearl GTL Project, Qatar

Senior Management Working at Height Training

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Information TechnologyInformation Technology


These types of notifications became part of our daily ex-pected received messages. We wake up every morning tocheck our emails and to see who met who and what isgoing on with our friends and the friends of our friends.Once we receive such a notification we open our browserto visit our social application. Willingly we accept and re-ject people’s requests, willingly we share our stories, will-ingly we share our photos and unwittingly we expose our-selves to public in the Cyberspace.

So what is Social Networking? social applications? Andsocial graphs?

A social graph is the sum of people and their ties and re-lationships. A social application is the user interface youuse to modify social graphs, and social networking is theparticipation with such modifications.

The idea of social networking is a way to say YES, I wantto watch what you do, I am your friend and I want to fol-low you.

There are many reasons why so many people are attract-ed to join social networks; people can get connected withfriends in many ways (posts, photos, videos, instant mes-saging), and in return their friends can keep up with thethings they are doing. Social networks are the most popu-lar sites to search for old friends and also a place to meetnew people, and sometimes, social networks can be uti-lized to do businesses (selling, marketing, trading and soon).

On the other hand, there are many problems associat-ed with using social networks like: a) keeping track of onemore thing in the Internet, b) the idea that social net-works databases are not connected forces people to cre-ate their contacts list for each social application they use,

and of course, c) noteople are will-o join the samel network.

you can see in table, five outop ten websiteserms of num-of visits duringast six monthsocial networks.

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To know how and why we reached the era of social net-working we have first to review the history of World WideWeb.

History of the World Wide Web:

WWW consisted in its very early stages of static webpages. At that time, it was hard to publish anything on theWeb since publishing involved: the installation of a Webserver, uploading via FTP, managing files, and so on. Cre-ating Web pages was hard also because it required writ-ing HTML code by hand or using expensive Web creationtools. The bottom line: we used to have lots of brochure-style Web sites. Not social.

Blogs, wikis and feeds made it easier for people to pub-lish on the Web. Blogs appeared and were used for per-sonal journals, news sites and conversations, wikis fordocument-centered collaboration.

In 2004 Social Web appeared. It was easy for anybodyto share with friends: links, news, videos, photos, sta-tus, travel plans and purchases. All of that was protectedwith privacy controls based on friends, family and groups.Eventually, MySpace and Facebook exploded in popu-larity starting with younger audience, expanding to old-er users and businesses allowing social network servicesto take hold.

The growth of the WWW both in size and nature wasexpected until Facebook changed the game by launchingFacebook API, to become an application platform and al-lowing third party applications to write plug-ins to Face-book user interface (that appear in sidebar or full-page)and to access social graph data: friends, activities feed,and so on.

Google’s answer to Facebook API was OpenSocial: A standard API for interacting with social networks, sup-ported by everybody but not Facebook (yet).

So Just What Is a Social Network Service?

It is a system that allows users to share personal informa-tion, activities and applications with friends and membersof the same social groups. It may also include integratedapplications such as blogs, guestbooks, forums, photo gal-leries and chat. It can be used for finding friends, sharinginformation, getting a date, making business connectionsand collaborating on projects.

Application developers are competing now with thequality and quantity of social networks add-ons. Why vis-it a news website to read the latest news? Now you havethe latest headlines as a small box “widget” in your socialapplication home page. Likewise for the weather forecast,stock market, currency and many other things.

Lately, social networks aggregators have started to sur-face, which pulls together information from multiple so-cial network services, such as MySpace and Facebook,into a single location or helps a user consolidate multiplesocial networking profiles into one profile.

The Rise of Social Networking

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...Social Networking

Now and in the future, the most important question weshould ask ourselves: Is it really safe to use social net-works? i.e. what are the risks associated with the usage of social networks?

Though most of social networks have access/privacycontrols in place, some do not. For those who have imple-mented privacy controls, your account is open and search-able by default; all the people inside your network/group/collage/country can see your profile. It is really impor-tant to tweak your account privacy settings “who can seewhat” directly after creating your social network accountand before giving any extra detail about yourself.

Many social networks state in their sites that they arecontrolling/limiting the indexing done by search enginesto their social graphs. But tnovice programmer can crea legitimate social networknetwork to index all the data there and make itpublic. So what was pro-tected inside your groupyesterday will becomepublic tomorrow.

Always be careful whatou post in social networks,aking into considerationhe risks and implicationsf making such posts pub-c. And always remem-er social networks is not a

safe place to write person-l and business names andddresses, phone numbers,ob titles, birth dates, sched-le details, daily routinesnd business or family in-ormation. It’s far better toommunicate in generali-es than to reveal informa-on that unscrupulous in-ividuals may someday usegainst you.

Safe Social Networking!

Wafa HadidiSenior Systems Developer

References:

1. Sites ranking table: http://www.alexa.com, December 2008.

2. WWW history and images from Sun Microsystems Presentation: Introducing Project SocialSite, 2008.

3. What is a Social Network? - A webcast by: Chris Pirillo

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Sports & LeisureSports & Leisure


CCC Placement as a Company:

3rd Place in the overall Bowling Tournament*

3rd in the Running events*

3rd in the Squash event*

Anna Hussein

European Corporate Games

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Damon MorrisonSingle Men’s

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Antoine N Haddad / Yannis YannoulisMen’s Doubles

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Eva Maltezos / Angeliki MaltezosWomen’s

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Yannis ZogasMen’s Singles

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George ZogasMen’s Singles

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George Leou

Husam Musleh

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Omar Alfatyan

BasketballKostas Koumandarakis Team Captain

Gus Hourani Coach

Panagiotis Avgerinos

Carlos Haddad

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Khaled Arafeh

Joseph Hobeika

Peter Alifrangis

Mohammad Shrouf

Elias Nakhleh

Maroun Issa

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1 Omar AfifiSquash

2 Sami Haj Hamed

1 Amjad BoshehKarting

2 Tamer Maher

1 Robert SroujiTable Tennis

2 Milios Kokavessis

1 Andrew Isherwood

Running

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2 Polli Isherwood 1st

3 George Delibassis 2nd

1 Amjad BoshehKarting

2 Tamer Maher



Abu Dhabi (Area & EPSO) employees dis-played their cricketing talent in the Al ARamadan T20 floodlight season cricket tonament which was held at the Al Fara Cret Ground in September 2008. CCC was pagainst some of the top professional crickclubs of Abu Dhabi and Al Ain and proved tbe a tough opponent: we went down fightingwith our heads held high!

Muhammad NabEPSO, Abu Dhab

We were very thankful that CCC gave us the chance toe and to play cricket for ourt win, we were very proud tohope that we will still be en-

such events. Our thanks go to

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Mesaieed Camp celebrates Eid-Al-Fitr

On the second day of Eid-Al-Fitr, a multi-cultural con-cert was held at CCC Mesaieed. The artists performingwere male and female from Nepal and the “Celebration”group from Punjab, India, which played live music, andlocal Bhangara dancers and singers.

The programme started by welcoming on stage FayezShawa, Sr. Administrator QRA Project; Joao Abdalla, Sr.Administrator MAT Project, and the undersigned. Thevariety programme gave full entertainment to more than15,000 spectators.

The whole programme was sponsored by CCC and or-ganized with the assistance of the Nepalese camp occu-pants and the Singh camp occupants. The show was com-pered by Miss Joyce Mascarenhas of Qatar Airways.Krishna Pandit, Foreman Civil, gave a vote of thanks.

Tony FernandesCamp Administrator

Mesaieed Camp Concert

Mesaieed Camp celebrates Eid Al Fitr The whole programme was sponsored by CCC and or



It was a cloudy, but not too cold Sunday after-noon October 19, 2008. We were four teams of 12, gathered and ready for war, scheming strate-gic ploys against one another. Everyone was cov-ered from head to toe. We had several games in different war fields. I remember feeling my heart pulse against my chest each timEven though it was raining towwas incredible. It added morewhole game.

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Eight teams took part in the first CCC UAE games 2008hosted by CCC at the Armed Forces Officers Club & Za-yed Sports’ City on November 7 and 8, 2008.

CCC received a good response with over 160 players totake part in the tournament.

Organizing a tournament as big as this is possible be-cause of the continuous support CCC Abu Dhabi Areareceived from the management in order to build teamspirit and enhance a distinguished relationship amongCCC’s groups.

We sincerely appreciate the remarkable efforts of theArea office team and Anna Hussein for their contribu-tion in making these games a successful event and lookforward to more in the future.

Also, I’d like to express my gratitude to all the players:everyone displayed a high level of gamesmanship.

Mutasem I Al RishehChairman, Activities Coordination Committee

NPCC

As captain of the CCC Abu Dhabi basketball team, Iwould like to thank Walid Shuhaiber for believing in usand sponsoring this event. This win is one installment to-ward expressing our gratitude to him.

Thanks to Anna Hussein for organizing this wonderfulevent and for her never-ending enthusiasm towards sportsand any type of activity. Also, many thanks to our SportsCoordinator Captain, Wissam Khatib, whose nerves webroke, but nevertheless is always with his support andguidance, even when the communication lines got rick-ety.

Finally, this win is dedicated to the basketball playerswho played their heart out game in game out. It is becauseof them and the almost perfect teamwork and determi-nation that we were able to win against some of the bestteams in Abu Dhabi. This win is for you guys and it is timethat CCC Abu Dhabi earned the respect and the recogni-tion that is long past due.

“1 2 3 CCC” !!!Chady Fadel

The Abu Dhabi Area office hosted the first CCC UAEGames 2008 which were held November 7 and 8, 2008.Representative teams who participated were from CCCprojects, sister companies and cooperating companies.Five games were played at the Armed Forces Officer’sClub and at the Zayed Sports City in Abu Dhabi.

The teams that participated were as follows:

NPCC•

Morganti•

Intermass•

Dubai Mall•

Ruwais Project•

Landmark•

Technip•

CCC•

UAE Games

CCC & Technip Basketball teams

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Games participants and staff celebrating end of games

Eight teams took part in the first CCC UAE games 2008

Walid Shuhaiber (left) congratulating Hassan Hafez (Underwater)AUH Table Tennis champion



Our thanks go to Mr Shuhaiber for his constant supportfor events and special thanks to our sports coordinators,Mr Al-Khatib, Mr Hafez, Mr Sayed, Mr Radwan and MrMathews for their assistance throughout the weekend; tocompany coordinators, Ms Iris Clare (Morganti), Mr Mu-tassem Resheh (NPCC), Mr Khalil Baltaji (Intermass),Mr Rami Haddad (Landmark), Mr Orlando Intervalo(Technip), Mr Al-Khatib (CCC), Mr Wally Bong (Du-bai Mall) and Mr Ihsan Ammoura (Ruwais), Mr AmmarKassem (CCC) and to all the participants for being suchgreat sports.

Anna Hussein

CCC Abu Dhabi has a very active sports team. It startedfour years ago, and now we have competitive teams in soc-cer who have participated in many local tournaments, inDubai, and at the European Corporate Games in Athens.The same applies to the basketball and volleyball teams,as well as many individual events such as swimming, tabletennis, tennis, bowling and running.

In November 2008, we had the CCC UAE Games, sup-ported by our Sports Godfather Walid Shuhaiber, who’smaking a big effort to introduce sports into business inAbu Dhabi. Sister and affiliated companies were invit-ed as well as CCC projects. The Tournament was held intwo places: Zayed Sports City hosting the bowling and bil-liards, and at the Armed Forces Club, hosting the soccer,basketball and table tennis. I’d like to stress that all thegames were played with a 100% sports spirit; they werefun and challenging at the same time!

Thanks to Samir Sabbagh, Walid Shuhaiber, Anna Hus-sein, all the participant teams Anna listed already and as Ialways say: “CCC Fun has a Better Taste”.

We really enjoy these activities and hope that next timearound, more teams are prepared and ready to partici-pate from CCC projects and affiliated companies.

Yalla Guys it’s easy to have fun …. Just Join CCC AbuDhabi Sports Team!

Wissam Al-KhatibCCC Sports Captain - Underwater/Mussafah Office

UAE Games Results

Referee Ayman and CCC AUH Soccer Team

Soccer Results

1st NPCC

2nd Intermass

3rd CCC 1

Basketball Results

1st CCC 1

2nd Technip

3rd Intermass

Bowling Results (TEAM)

1st NPCC 2265

Mohamed Jaber /Reynaldo Faller / Romarico Dizon / Eduardo Albanez

2nd CCC 1464

Sunny Mathews / Suraj Bhuvanendran /

CB Ranjit / Luni Aljandrino

3rd Morganti 1 1465

Jirar Shawwa / Randy Gallano / Ghaith Ballani / Odai Hadaddin

Bowling Results (DOUBLES)

1st NPCC 1097 Elie and Roman

2nd NPCC 1061 Mohamed and Rey

3rd CCC 861 Sunny and Suraj

Bowling Results (SINGLES)

1st NPCC 658 Mohammed J

2nd NPCC 591 Roman

3rd NPCC 552 Rey

4th Morganti 511 Randy

5th NPCC 472 Elie

6th CCC 463 Sunny

7th CCC 397 Amer

8th CCC 349 Luni

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Table Tennis Results

CCC Hassan Hafez

NPCC Ooman Chandy

Intermass Ahmed Qaddourah

Billiards Results

NPCC Gilbert Mangahas

NPCC Roberto Mangahas

CCC Mohammad Radwan

Milestones Milestones

Engagements & Marriages


BirthsA baby girl to be named Stamatina has been born

to Alexandra Diga (MOA, Athens) and her husband Dimitris Kanellis. She was born on August 5, 2008 in Athens.

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Pierre Awad is the name of the new baby boy, son

of Anwar (MOA, Athens) and Lina Awad. He was

born on September 11, 2008 in Athens.

Michael Lopez (HGCE Project, UAE) - who describes

himself as a very happy man - got married to Cherrie

Lozano on November 13, 2008. The ceremony was held

at the Philippine Embassy in Abu Dhabi.

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Mohamed Abou-Shamah (Landmark Tower Project, Abu Dhabi) is happy to announce his engagement to Samar Ali. The joyful event took place on October 21, 2008 in Cairo, in the presence of all family members and friends. s

Khaled Suleiman (ASPI, Madagascar) would like to

announce his marriage to Rana on October 5 , 2008 in

his homeland, Lebanon.

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Mahmoud Hussain (Oman Area Accounts) is very glad to announce to all his colleagues that he got engaged to Rubeena on November 6, 2008. The engagement party was held in Hyderabad, India and this happy occasion was attended by family and friends.

born on Sept

Mohammed Rashid Khamis Al-Amrani (Sohar-Buraimi Road Project, Oman) wishes to announce to his colleagues that his first child, a son, was born on August 21, 2008. The baby’s name is Abdullah.

y me is Abdullah.

Mohammad Muslim (KFDP Project, Saudi

Arabia) is very happy to announce the arrival of his

first baby boy, Fazle Azim Sravon. Wife Nazmun

Nahar Saly gave birth on November 15, 2008 in Som

Para, Noakhali, Bangladesh.

Mohammad M. Balkis (ASPI, Madagascar) and his wife Doha announce the birth of their second baby boy, Adam. He was born on November 28, 2008 and all the family, including Nour and Amal are delighted with the new arrival.

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“Love is not about looking each other in the eyes, but about looking together in the same direction.” This quote was sent by Halid Muheed (Area Administration, Qatar) who announces his engagement to Fathima Shazrah. They will be married on January 15, 2009 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Yousef Titi (Saraya Aqaba Project, Jordan) and

his wife Arwa are pleased to announce the birth

of their second child, a baby girl called Alma on

September 5, 2008. All the family and friends are

extremely happy.

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Ahmed Hussein Said (Landmark Tower Project, UAE) and his wife would like to announce the birth of their baby girl, Raghad. She was born on December 11, 2008 in Abu Dhabi, to the delight of all the family and friends.

lighted rival.

Tareq El-Zabri (EPSO, Abu Dhabi) and his wife

Zaina are very happy and proud to announce the birth

of their first child, a baby boy, named Ziad. He was

born on October 30, 2008 in Abu Dhabi.yends.

Jan van der Voort, son of our aircraft Captain

Michel van der Voort and his wife Sabine, and brother

of Bregje, was born on November 26, 2008.


Publishing Success for IT Staffer

Our colleague, Bilal Haidar, working with CCC IT pro-vider Computers & Communication Technology Com-pany (CCT), based in Beirut, has had a book publishedby Wrox, entitled “Professional ASP.NET 3.5 Security,Membership & Role Management with C# and VB”. Aneditorial review of the book reads as follows:

“As the only book to address ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, andIIS 7 security from the developer’s point of view, thisbook begins with a look at the new fea-tures of IIS 7.0 and then goes ocus on IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET 3gration …”

Congratulations to Bilal!

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MilestonesMilestones50 Years with CCC!

Hussain Dakkour (Abu Ali), QGXII Project,Qatar, has sent the Bulletin the following mes-sage:

Greetings of gratitude and acknowledgement toall!

It is with great pleasure and honour (and withgreat pride) that I congratulate these magnani-mous people: the Al Khoury family and the AlSabbagh family, especially the fullhearted Mual-lem Sa’eed.

It was an honour to be among the first employ-ees to walk the line of progress and join a flour-ishing company which became an internationalpioneer due to the sheer wisdom, audacity and proper administration of the owners.

On this very special occasion to my heart, todayNovember 5, 2008, I have completed 50 years of perseverance in this work since the day I joined the company in the Kuwait branch on November 5, 1958.

I am proud and thrilled that during all this time I have contributed to most of the projects for the company’s various branches around the globe in every single activity and with full integrity, com-mitment and fidelity, never complaining or get-ting bored, acquiring expertise and great efficien-cy in my scope of work in the Stores Department. I repeat again and again that I’m proud that dur-ing all this long time I have been trusted by all the heads of the departments that I have worked for previously and currently.

Last but not least, I have the great pleasure and honour to present my very best regards and good wishes to the owners of the company, their assist-ants, managers, department chiefs and to all the employees with no exception and all your families as well, asking God to bestow upon you the most precious gifts of all: health, joy, success and a long life. And I ask God to keep CCC on the path of continuous progress, prosperity and generosity.

Hussain Dakkour (Abu Ali)


A Resume of Ali Khalaf’s 40 years with CCC

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I first heard the name Ali Khalaf while stationed in Equatorial Guinea trying to open a quarry for Bechtel. The Project Manager said that I needed to get this man at all costs: he could solve any problems. Needless to say, Area Qatar would not release him and we struggled in the heat and the rain.

Imagine my surprise when three years later, with myself assigned to Area Qatar with the responsibility of setting up an asphalt plant, I met the same Ali Khalaf. In the flesh he can be fearsome to those who dare to question his instructions and we warily formed what is now a good friendship as well as a good working relationship.

There is nothing Ali does not know about making or laying asphalt. Added to that, he is also an expert on crushers and the production of aggregates. On top of this, he has also operated several concrete plants, al-though I have yet to witness this personally.

So young Ali started with CCC in 1968, based in Sau-di Arabia. Working first as a fabricator on the Hagel AlBadi Road project, he then went on to become foremanfor crushing and asphalt production on Route 56 to Hailand then the Yanbo Road.

He then moved into Oman (from 1979 to 1981) wherehe was foreman for asphalt production and laying for thefamous NTR 1000km road project, Nasma to Tamrid. Onthis project, with three asphalt plants, they achieved theremarkable feat of laying 1km of sub base and asphalt dai-ly.

Ali then moved to UAE in 1981 where he was again incharge of all asphalt work on the Abu Dhabi to Al Ainheavy truck route. This was the project where CCC pur-chased three new Parker asphalt plants of 120tph capac-ity.

This part of his story reminds me of the first time I metAli. He told me he had received the brand new plants incrates with no instruction manual or drawing. Needlessto say, he put the plants together and at our meeting heexplained that the old Parker plant we were erecting atour permanent facility was one of the same three plants. I

then asked him how many times he had erected this plant.He scratched his head and using his fingers worked it out:no less than 16 times! At this point I knew I was in safehands and left him to it to concentrate on getting somework for the plant.

After this Ali moved to be in charge of the concrete andasphalt production at Shwebe Dam between Dubai andAl Ain. He then worked on the Dubai to Al Ain road.He was on the Mustpha /Al Ain interchange, Umm alNair roads, Taweelah Project and Bahraini island in AbuDhabi.

He then shifted for his second spell in Oman from1986-7 and was in charge of two concrete batching plants,one asphalt plant, crusher and two stabilizers on the AlRocel project.

He was then based in UAE on various tasks and re-turned to Oman from 1996-8 to work on the Mussandamcoastal road. This is a wonderful scenic road cut into themountain with sea on one side and cliff on the other.

In 1998 he returned to UAE to work on the Sheik Za-yed road project and various other interchanges andoad projects.

As his final move within the CCC family he has beenSuperintendent for Teyseer in Qatar since 2000. He isworking on the New Doha International Airport projectand other work around Qatar.

Thus in June 2008 Ali Khalaf completed 40 years of ervice with CCC.

Ali is the typical CCC person to the core. He is loyal,echnically very knowledgeable, nothing scares him and

he just gets on with his work. He is a pleasure to workwith and to know. I look forward to working with Ali un-il he finally decides to call it a day…

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Return toKazakhstan

ContentsFROM THE DESK OF...

EDITOR’S VIEW..................................................................1

MAIL BAG..............................................................................1

RECENT AWARDS.............................................................2

CCC Goes Green - Bassam Muhtaseb..................................3

QUALITY MANAGEMENTPurchasing Process - Mounir Soufyan.............................4

FEATURE“We are Back” - Hani Akkawi.............................................6Winterization - Tony Dagher.............................................8Visual Planning and Monitoring

Chehade Kassouf / Omar Ghazzawi...........12Spool Tracking System - Imad Maarouf.........................14Training - Rabie Abdul Baki............................................16Local Content - Fadi Mustafa.........................................18CCC and the Environment - Armine Balayan................19Working safely in Kazakhstan - Douglas Miller.............20Challenges during Mobilization - Ramzi Barghout.......21

AREA NEWSSaudi Arabia: EVPO Site Visit - Hassan Seoudi.............22Jordan: INJAZ Organization - Suhail Halaby.............23Greece: Second Arab-Greek Economic Forum

Thomas Kafarakis..............24Azerbaijan: Routes of the Olive Tree - Alibala Panahli..25

HEALTH, SAFETY & ENVIRONMENTCelebrating Safety at Ras Laffan - Prakash S. Jaya......26Senior Management Working at Height Training

HSE Department........27

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGYThe Rise of Social Networking - Wafa Hadidi...............28

SPORTS & LEISUREEuropean Corporate Games - Anna Hussein.................30Al Ain Ramadan Cricket Tournament 2008

Muhammad Nabi / Sajid Inamdar...................31Mesaieed Camp Concert - Tony Fernandes....................32Paintball in Athens - Ramez Razzouk..............................33UAE Games

Mutasem I Al Risheh / Chady Fadel / Anna Hussein....34

MILESTONESAnnouncements.................................................................36Publishing Success for IT Staffer - Bulletin Staff............3750 Years with CCC! - Hussain Dakkour........................38A Resume of Ali Khalaf’s 40 years with CCC

John C. Wright.................39

SEASON’S FESTIVITIESMOA Christmas Party - Rosemary Hunt..........................40

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