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• Eastern Counties Branch Annual Dinner

  • When
    18 Oct 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 11:00 PM
  • Location
    The Quy Mill Hotel, Church Road, Stow-Qum-Quy, CAMBRIDGE, CB25 9AF

  Eastern Counties Branch.  Annual Dinner

  The Welding Institute Eastern Counties Branch invites you to their Annual Dinner.

  With an after dinner presentation by David Watts:  

  A Day at The Globe Theatre - Tourists, Purists and Plague

  Founded by the pioneering American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare's Globe celebrates Shakespeare's transformative impact on the world.

  David Watts is a retired teacher who has been volunteering at the Globe for nearly 20 years.

  

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• Lecture on finding the true cause of the Alexander L. Kielland Oil Platform Collapse

  • When
    23 Oct 2025
  •  
    11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Coleg Cambria, Bersham Road, Wrexham, LL13 7UH

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  Wales Branch

  Lecture on finding the true cause of the Alexander L. Kielland Oil Platform Collapse

  What will the event cover?

  Lecture on finding the true cause of the Alexander L. Kielland Oil Platform Collapse

  
  

  What will you learn? 

  
  

  The Lecture will show how the true cause of failure of the rig was determined and established beyond all doubt with indisputable evidence

  
  

  Industry expert will be presenting on:

  Lecture on finding the true cause of the Alexander L. Kielland Oil Platform Collapse

  
  

  Benefits from attending the event:

  • Information transfer from experts
  • Discussion, questions and answers on the specific topics
  • A broader understanding of the extent of standards in the industry
  • Attendance of this event qualifies for CPD 

  Continuous Professional Development (CPD):

  The Welding Institute awards points towards CPD for delegates attending this webinar. Every hour attendance of an event will earn 2 points towards your continuing professional development.

  Meet the speaker:

  Dr Edwin James France, Consultant Welding Engineer and Material Scientist of E.J. France Consulting.

  Doctor France has had, up to now, a 50 year career in the welding fabrication profession and its industry.  The nuclear energy and electricity has featured significantly in his experience, especially in, manufacture of nuclear fuel, in the reprocessing of used fuel and its associated welding equipment.  He has written and published the fundamental welding engineering specific papers, on, explaining what welding and welding engineering really is. The paper concerning and explaining the true cause of the Alexander L. Kielland Oil Platform Collapse is accepted worldwide.

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• Different sizing methods to characterize flaws using advanced ultrasonics

  • When
    23 Oct 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    King Rufus Pub, 135 Winchester Road, Chandlers Ford, Eastleigh SO53 2DU
  • Spaces left
    16

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  Southern Counties Branch Event

  Industry expert will be presenting on:

  David Deeny from Sonatest will be presenting on 'Methods to characterise flaws using advanced ultrasonics' 

  Benefits from attending the event:

  • Information transfer from experts
  • Discussion, questions and answers on the specific topics
  • A broader understanding of the extent of standards in the industry
  • Attendance of this event qualifies for CPD 

  Continuous Professional Development (CPD):
  

  The Welding Institute awards points towards CPD for delegates attending this webinar. Every hour attendance of an event will earn 2 points towards your continuing professional development

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• Managing Integrity Challenges in Carbon Capture and Storage Operations

  • When
    6 Nov 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Bushy House, National Physical Laboratory, Hampton Road, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 0LW/Hybrid Event Meeting

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  This event is hosted at National Physical Laboratory (NPL) where attendees will benefit from industry networking, knowledge sharing, live Q&A sessions and a buffet lunch. The meeting will run in a hybrid format to include colleagues joining from a distance. We would encourage everyone to attend in person where possible, in order to make the most of discussion and networking opportunities.

  If you wish to attend online, the link will be sent a week prior to the event. 

  In-person attendance is first come, first serve and will be limited to 55 spaces.

  What will you learn?
  

  This event aims to explore the integrity challenges facing those responsible for managing risks associated with Carbon Capture and Storage operations. 

  Who should join? 

  Integrity, Materials and Corrosion Engineers and any other personnel responsible for managing risks in the field of Carbon Capture and Storage. 

  What will you learn?

  Topics will cover areas of common interest and challenges in the field of materials and integrity, including current research work relating to the management and monitoring of corrosion critical CO2 stream variables. 

  
  

  Experts from industry will be presenting on a range of topics:

  • Dr Gareth John, Executive Consultant, Intertek CAPCIS - CCUS – Uncertainties with Respect to Integrity Assurance

  

  • Matt Healey, Director, PACE CCS - Corrosion in CCS Networks - Operations and Design Experience

  

  • Dr Shravan Kairy, Senior Scientist, National Physical Laboratory - Towards a Standardised Methodology for Corrosion Testing of Pipeline Steel in Dense Phase CO2 

  

  • Dr Jonathan Wilkins, Technical Director, Enoflex - Non-Metallic Pipes for Corrosion Resistant Transfer of Liquified CO2

  

  • Mike Lawrence, Chair of the Industrial Advisory Group (IAG) of the Integrated Energy Industry (IEG) - Industrial Advisory Group (IAG) of the Integrated Energy Industry (IEG)

  

  • Ewa Papaj-Shields, Principal Subsea Pipeline Engineer, Genesis - Advancing Integrity Management for CCUS Pipelines: Lessons Learned and Emerging Strategies

  

  • Ian MacLeod, Technical Director, Wood PLC - CO2 applications, impurities, specification, and flexible pipe experience

  Please note that this event is recorded.

  Please note that payment must be made before the event in order to receive the joining instructions for the event.

  If you are a Member, please ensure to be logged into your Member account to register for this event and select the correct ticket type. 

  Fees:

  Members	Price
  In Person: Professional Members (TechWeldI, MWeldI, FWeldI) Associate Members (AWeldI) TWI Staff Retirees Students Industrial Members of TWI Ltd	£48 + VAT (£60)
  Online: Members Associate Members (AWeldI) Retirees Students Industrial Members of TWI Ltd	£28 + VAT (£35)
  Online: Professional Members (TechWeldI, MWeldI, FWeldI) TWI Staff	Free

  
  

  Non-members	Price
  In Person	£132 + VAT (£165)
  Online	£104 + VAT (£130)
  Online TWI Staff	Free

  
  

  If you are a Welding Institute Retiree Member or an Associate/Student Associate Member, please select the 'Members of The Welding Institute' ticket for either in-person or online. 

  
  

  Can't Attend Live?

  If you can't join us on the day, you can still access the presentations by registering ahead of the event and completing payment (subject to speakers' consent).

  Please note: access to the materials is only available to paid and eligible free registrants.

  

  Associate Membership (AWeldI) of The Welding Institute

  Registering on this Technical Group webinar as a non-member or a TWI Training Customer without Professional Membership gives you full Associate Membership (AWeldI) for one year. To activate your membership, just complete the highlighted fields on the event registration form.

  You will also benefit from:

  • Discounted registration fees for Technical Group events (£25 + VAT)
  • Free attendance at Branch events
  • Access to our knowledge database including our library and information services 

  
  

  Continuous Professional Development (CPD)

  The Welding Institute awards points towards CPD for delegates attending this webinar. Every hour of attendance of an event will earn 2 points towards your continuing professional development.

  A CPD certificate will be sent post-event via email. 

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• The Welding Institute London Branch and Kent Branch with The Society of Chemical Industry

  • When
    12 Nov 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    The York Room, Lancaster Hall Hotel, 35 Craven Terrace, London W2 3EL/Online (Zoom)

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  The Welding Institute London Branch and Kent Branch with The Society of Chemical Industry

  NOBLE NIOBIUM

  What will the event cover?/What will you learn? 
  

  Niobium is an element of great importance in the modern world, and this presentation looks at its history, occurrence and extraction processes. The majority of the extracted niobium is used as an alloying addition to structural, stainless and special steels and in superalloys as a grain refiner. 
  

  Industry expert will be presenting on:

  The presentation will discuss its properties and its many other uses in the chemical, electronic, lighting, coinage and jewellery industries as well as the welding techniques required to fabricate the metal. Recycling possibilities are discussed along with health and safety issues in handling and fabricating the material.
  

  

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  Benefits from attending the event:

  • Information transfer from experts
  • Discussion, questions and answers on the specific topics
  • A broader understanding of the extent of standards in the industry
  • Attendance of this event qualifies for CPD 

  Continuing Professional Development (CPD):

  The Welding Institute awards points towards CPD for delegates attending this webinar. Every hour attendance of an event will earn 2 points towards your continuing professional development.

  Meet the speaker:

  David Rowe has worked for over 40 years in the refractory metals industry for major companies in the field, and established Cedar Metals Ltd in 2004, a specialist consultancy company covering refractory metals, rare earths, and their usage in the Aerospace, Defence, Chemical, Electronics, Furnace, Oil & Gas, Nuclear and Glass industries. David’s other specialist subjects include friction stir welding, furnace design powder metallurgical processing and the thixotropic processing of aluminium and magnesium alloys.
  

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