PARTNERS - Industry
Total is a leading multinational energy company with 110,783 employees and operations in more than 130 countries. Together with its
subsidiaries and affiliates, Total is the fourth largest publicly-traded oil and gas integrated company in the world. Its businesses
cover the entire oil and gas chain, from crude oil and natural gas exploration and production to the gas downstream (including power
generation), transportation, refining, petroleum product marketing, and international crude oil and product trading. Total is also a
world-class chemicals manufacturer.
Reasons for participating
As a petrochemical company, working with hazardous chemicals, Total recognise the importance of inspection of welds, as being
one of the primary defences against environmental catastrophies, and large economic losses.
Contribution to the project
Total will be providing steering from an end-users point of view, involved in the petrochemical industries.
FilmFree is a collaboration between the following organisations: TWI Ltd, CIT Ltd, Balteau NDT SA, Innospexion ApS, OY AJAT Ltd, Advanced
Technology Group s.r.o., Isotest Engineering S.r.l., Tecnitest Ingenieros SL, Trueflaw Ltd, Kingston Computer Consultancy Ltd, NDT
Consultants Ltd, Technic Control Ltd Co, Industrial Control Machines SA, X-Tek Systems Ltd, Applus RTD, Nexus Engineering Ltd, Airbus
UK Ltd, EADS CCR - Groupement d?Interet Economique, Wytwornia Sprzetu Komunikacyjnego PZL ? Rzeszow SA, Total France, Rolls Royce plc,
Advantica Ltd, DB AG, Helenic Society of Non Destructive Testing, Castings Technology International, Bulgarian Welding Society,
Commissariat a l?energie atomiique, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Technical University of Sofia and Politechnika
Szcezinska. The Project is co-ordinated and managed by TWI Ltd. and is partly funded by the EC under the IP SME programme ref: Number
NMP2-CT-2005-515746.