Working safely is vital in the gas industry and we are required to have these detailed procedures for every job we do. Yes, we have clients throughout the UK and overseas. We recently installed a gas compression station in Argentina. The compression station increases the pressure of the gas, which is piped down a major gas pipeline stretching 1000 kilometres over the Andes mountain range and in to Chile. In Chile we installed a governor station to reduce the pressure to a suitable level for the local network.
Trips abroad last up to three weeks at a time.
In the last six months I've driven about 38,000 miles to work on different projects around the country. Richard Brooks Richard works for Transco's System Operation, controlling gas supplies to consumers through the transportation network. There are four Area Control Centres across the country. Richard is based in the East Area Control Centre in Hinckley, Leicestershire, which covers North Yorkshire down to north London. I establish the strategy for the shift team each day in telephone consultation with the National Control Centre.