At the 37th annual convention of the International Pipeline & Offshore Contractors Association (IPLOCA) Alexander Kudriavtsev, Vice-President of OAO Stroytransgaz was elected President of this organization for 2003-2004.

Tuesday, September 16, 2003

For the first time since the formation of this prestigious organization a representative of a Russian company became its President.

The International Pipeline & Offshore Contractors Association was established in 1966 with the aim to support and promote services on the world market of those contractors whose high professional experience was confirmed in actual practice.

At present in IPLOCA there are 252 members from 42 countries of the world of which 117 are regular members – pipeline contractors, 128 are associated members – suppliers of machinery, equipment and materials for construction of pipelines and facilities, 2 are academic members – research institutions and 5 are honorary members – the persons who had made outstanding contribution to the theory and practice of the pipeline construction. Among the members of the Association there are such well known companies as Bechtel, Saipem, Caterpillar CRC-Evans and many others.

In 1996 OAO Stroytransgaz was admitted to the International Pipeline & Offshore Contractors Association. This was a sort of recognition of capabilities of the Russian company to implement major projects on construction of pipelines according to the world standards of quality.

Today there are 16 Russian companies admitted to IPLOCA. The election of Alexander Kudriavtsev President of the Association gives hope to the Russian contractors that they can timely familiarize themselves with the latest achievements in the field of environment protection and safety of construction of pipelines. This allows them to render more successfully their services abroad and develop partnership relations with foreign colleagues.

In 1972 Alexander Kudriavtsev graduated from the Energy machine building faculty of the Moscow Higher Technical Institute named after Bauman and in 1980 he graduated from the Academy of Foreign Trade. He has a vast experience in implementation of international oil and gas projects. In particular with the direct participation of Alexander Kudriavtsev during the last eighties and nineties contracts for construction of oil and gas pipelines in Nigeria, Libya, Iraq, Finland, Greece, Algeria and other countries were signed and implemented. He has been employed in OAO Stroytransgaz since 1998. He is married and a father of two sons.

Additional information

In 2002 the World Federation of Associations of Pipeline Industry was formed. The founders of this organization were IPLOCA and related associations fгom Australia, Great Britain, Germany, Indonesia, Canada, USA and Russia (the Russian Union of Builders of Oil and Gas Industry). It is anticipated that in the framework of the Federation common positions on the matters being of interest for the members will be worked out.