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Newsflash April 16th 2013
In the beginning of April Dow used "leak consultancy dogs" for the first time for the control of pipelines in Belgium.
Davy de Bruin, Pipeline Engineer, explains why Dow uses dogs and how this unique inspection is done.
To read more, click here.
Newsflash April 4th 2013
Last week, The Sniffers has been awarded for Trends Gazelle 2013 in the region of Antwerp.
We received this award because we are a fast growing company in the category of medium-sized companies.
To see the award, click here.
Newsflash March 22th 2013
We are proud to announce that The Sniffers has successfully completed its acquisition of Leak Consultancy, a dutch company specialized in Infrared gas leak detections as well as thermographic inspections.
The experience and knowledge of Leak Consultancy enables us to expand our services with Infrared Thermography.
From now on, we can also support you from our branch in The Netherlands.
We are looking forward to being able to serve you even better in the future.
For more information about our new services, click www.leakconsultancy.nl.
Newsflash March 19th 2013
The sniffers extended the contract with Gasunie for another 5 years!
For more information click here.
Article in Ganset March 2013
Sniffers perform successful project of leak detection on underground pipeline in the Netherlands with special trained dogs.
For more information click here.
Newsflash February 12th 2013
The Sniffers is participating in the next EEPC-workshop. For more information click here.
Newsflash Januari 2th 2013
The Sniffers sends you the best New Year greetings! You can read the wishes over here.
Newsflash December 3th 2012
Last Tuesday 27th of November The Sniffers, represented by Jens Antonsson where selected to present about fugitive emissions on the valve world exhibition conference in Dusseldorf. The Topic of the presented paper was an introduction on the 3 types of approaches The Sniffers provides to manage and reduce fugitive emissions.
More information can be found here.
Newsflash November 20th 2012
The Sniffers exhibited at Adipec, held from 11 November till 14 November 2012 at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Center, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
More information can be found here.
Newsflash November 16th 2012
The Sniffers was present at Tech+Petro Asia 2012 in Busan, Korea. We were invited as a guest speaker to present our services to an audience involved in the Oil & Gas Industry.
More information can be found here.
Newsflash October 15th 2012
The Sniffers will be present at the EEPC 2012 ethylene convention in Barcelona from 24/10/2012 until 26/10/2012.
At this venue we are one of the key note speakers and our topic is Flare emission reduction for Ethylene units.
More info about passing valves and a flare emission reduction program can be found here.
For more information or a personal presentation you can find us at boot 15.
Newsflash October 1st 2012
“Afternoon Session & Walking dinner Antwerp”
On the 25th of September the Afternoon Session in the Ramada Plaza in Antwerp took place.
A big audience appeared on this unique presentation of our SAP software integration.
After a welcome word by our CEO, Hans Hooyberghs, our International Sales Managers Jens Antonsson,
Giuseppe Caldarulo and Thomas Vermeerbergen gave a presentation of the fugitive emission services we provide.
With these services, LDAR, STEAM, AIR PRESSURE, TANKS, IR and FLARE, our IT Director, Stany Smets, presented
in how our software is integrated in the different services and did a demonstration.
As a conclusion Stany introduced the unique SAP software integration we now provide for our customers.
Afterwards everybody had the opportunity to have a informal talk with our team and enjoy a nice walking dinner and a good glass of wine.
We want to thank all the people present on this day and we hope it was very instructive.
If you are interested in a demonstration or you were prevented, then we can always provide the information you need.
Feel free to contact us: sales@the-sniffers.be
Newsflash August 28th 2012
“Steam trap loss management”
Steam is usually used to transfer energy from a central place (boiler) to other places in the plant for process applications.
Steam will condense, further in the pipeline, on the cooler walls and forms the byproduct condensate.
The removal of this condensate is vital for the steam system.
A steam trap is used for draining the condensate.
The Sniffers will analyze these steam traps on their performance. The Sniffers developed specified software “SNIFTRAP” for maintaining an
(historical-)overview of the state of his steam traps and to manage their maintenance.
The customer will get the following in return:
- His money! Our projects are all paid back within six months.
- He will reduce his ecological footprint.
- The safety of his staff increases.
- The efficiency increases.
Steam and its applications is almost a science in itself, through the link below you will find more information regarding steam.
Article:
What is steam
Newsflash August 22th 2012
“Afternoon sessions & walking dinner”
The Sniffers is proud to announce their afternoon seminar sessions and dinner.
The afternoon sessions will be held respectively on the 25th of September in Antwerp, Belgium, on the 2nd of October in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and on the 3rd of October in Groningen, The Netherlands.
The seminars followed by a walking dinner will be free of charge and open for all people who are interested in services for energy and cost saving solutions.
During the seminars following topics will be presented and discussed:
- Introduction about The Sniffers and it’s services by our CEO Hans Hooyberghs.
- Presentation about our energy and cost saving services by our International Sales Manager Jens Antonsson
- Presentation about our unique Software program Sfemp and it’s new features and possibilities by our IT Manager Stany Smets.
If interested please contact our Sales Coordinator Lieve Boons,
lieve.boons@the-sniffers.be
Click on the below to see the invitations
Antwerp, Belgium
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Groningen, The Netherlands
PUBLISHED ARTICLES OF THE SNIFFERS N.V.
Published article 1
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Milieu Direct |
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Dutch |
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April 2012 / 2 |
| Article: |
Dossier Lucht - Lekdetectie pakt Fugitive Emissies aan N.V. |
| Link to the article |
Published article 2
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Valve World |
| Language: |
English |
| Issue: |
Volume 17, Issue 5, June 2012 |
| Article: |
Fugitive Emissions - Measures against Fugitive Emissions, solutions from The Sniffers N.V. |
| Link to the article |
News update June 15th 2012
The Sniffers is proud to announce that the second biggest European Refinery, Total Antwerp, has selected The Sniffers LDAR software SFEMP for automatic SAP repair order integration.
For more information please contact:
Jens Antonsson
Sales & Marketing Manager
jens.antonsson@the-sniffers.be
News update June 6th 2012
The Sniffers is proud to announce that we've:
- Extendedour ISO 9001:2008 certification
- Improved our VCA* certification to a VCA** 2005/5.1 certification, this for thefollowing 3 years
The Sniffers’ workshop on fugitive emissions
Our first workshop in the capital of the United Arab Emirates turned out to be a great success. It was attended by petrochemical, oil and gas industry leaders and related companies from Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
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| Abu Dhabi, March 26th 2012 |
Following topics were highlighted:
- Steam Trap Loss Management
- Flare Loss Reduction
- Storage Tank Emission Monitoring
- LDAR and Benchmarking, International Regulations on LDAR, SMART LDAR
- Instrument Air & Nitrogen Loss Management
- Software demonstration
The workshop was leaded by our corporate sales and marketing manager Jens Antonsson and our regional sales manager Yves Castermans.
We would like to express our warm thanks to The Public Commission for the Protection of Marine, Environment and Wild life and all the participants for the very good interactive workshop.
Visit us in our next workshop on the 28th of March in Doha, Qatar.
The Sniffers’ workshop on fugitive emissions
The Sniffers’ workshop, in cooperation with The Public Commission for the Protection of Marine, Environment and Wild life was a great success. It was attended by petrochemical, oil and gas industry leaders and related companies from Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
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| Bahrain, February 20th 2012 |
After the Opening Ceremony, which was directed by Dr. Adel Khalifa Al Zayani, General Director of The Public Commission for the Protection of Marine, Environment and Wild life, following topics were highlighted:
- Steam Trap Loss Management
- Flare Loss Reduction
- Storage Tank Emission Monitoring
- LDAR and Benchmarking, International Regulations on LDAR, SMART LDAR
- Instrument Air & Nitrogen Loss Management
- Software demonstration
The workshop was leaded by our corporate sales and marketing manager Jens Antonsson and our regional sales manager Yves Castermans.
We would like to express our warm thanks to The Public Commission for the Protection of Marine, Environment and Wild life and all the participants for the nice interactive workshop.
Seminar Bahrain February 20th 2012
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On February 20th, The Sniffers will organize a Energy Saving & Air Emission Reduction workshop in Bahrain in cooperation with The Public Commission for the Protection of Marine, Environment and Wild life.
During the interactive workshop, The Sniffers will give more information about their specialized services and the used techniques.
After the Opening Ceremony, which will be attended by Dr. Adel Khalifa Al Zayani, General Director of The Public Commission for the Protection of Marine, Environment and Wild life, following topics will be highlighted:
- Steam Trap Loss Management
- Flare Loss Reduction
- Storage Tank Emission Monitoring
- LDAR en Benchmarking, International Regulations on LDAR, SMART LDAR
- Instrument Air & Nitrogen Loss Management
Each of the above techniques results in important cost savings and significant emission reductions. The advantages are meaningful not only for the industries but also for the environment.
The workshop will be concluded with a free networking lunch where experiences can be shared.
Click here to see the complete program and registration form
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News update Januari 30th 2012
- We are proud to announce that our newly developed Flame software is fully functional and installed at one of our major clients.
More information about this software can be obtained through the information requestform.
News update December 26th 2011
- The Sniffers is proud to announce the participation of the Carlyle Group in its capital.
More information can be found in the press release: In Dutch here and in English here.
News update December 23th 2011
- Last week Guido Van Baelen travelled to Ukraine to speak about our specially trained leak detection dogs at a conference about component leakage monitoring.
More intresting details can be found here.
News update December 13th 2011
- We are proud to announce that at this time we are doing follow up meetings at Ukraine with potential clients that resulted from our FIT ( Flanders Investment and Trade) mission to Ukraine.
News update December 05th 2011
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We are proud to announce that we, The Sniffers, have built a training center at our head office in Balen.
Since last week, the training center is fully operational and is used to intensively train our staff in the different services we provide such as LDAR , P&ID reading, pipeline inspections with dogs, DCVG measurements, CIP measurements, CP measurements, inspections with infra red camera etc.
In the near future, The Sniffers will organize a seminar at our offices to show our full range of high quality services to potential clients. |