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We are pleased to inform you that the 77^th edition of the FABIG Newsletter is now available on the FABIG website.

FABIG Members are able to download Issue 077 from the Technical Newsletters section of the website (once logged-in) whilst non-Members of FABIG are able to purchase it.

This issue comprises the following articles:

• Editorial: 'Explosion and fire hazards associated with fracking sites'
  R.W. Brewerton - Inoventech and S. Medonos - Petrellus Engineering
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered 'Review of Current Understanding of Large-scale Explosion Mechanisms'
  G. Andrews¹, M. Johnson², G. Chamberlain³, E. Oran⁴, A. Pekalski⁵, S. Davis⁶, T. Skjold^7,8, L. Mauri⁷, H. Hisken⁷, G. Atanga⁷,M. Lucas⁷, D. Muthusamy⁷, K. van Wingerden⁷, P. Quillatre⁹, A. Foissac⁹, V. Blanchetiere⁹, A. Dutertre¹⁰, T. Marteau¹⁰,D. Allason², L. Jenney², J. Hebrard¹¹, D. Jamois¹¹, E. Leprette¹¹, G. Vannier¹² - ¹University of Leeds, ²DNV GL, ³Waverton Consultancy, ⁴Texas A&M University, ⁵Shell, ⁶Gexcon USA, ⁷Gexcon Norway, ⁸University of Bergen, ⁹GRTgaz, ¹⁰Total, ¹¹Ineris, ¹²SCI
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered 'New Developments in Fire & Gas Detection'
  E. Sizeland¹, J. McNay¹, O. Heynes², S. Kanno³, K. Nitta³, P. Uv⁴, J. Dalheim⁴, F. Aoun⁵, S. Bachir⁵, F. Jafarov⁶ - ¹Micropack (Engineering), ²Insight Numerics, ³JGC Corporation, ⁴Lloyd’s Register, ⁵Chevron, ⁶Kuwait Oil Company
• Review of the Technical Meeting which covered 'Protection of Pressurised Systems against Fire and BLEVEs'
  S. Medonos¹, G.E. Scarponi², I. Bradley³, G. Vannier⁴, D. Talbert⁵, J. Evans⁵, C. Milne⁶, M. Chalk⁷, A. Bond⁸ - ¹Petrellus Engineering, ²University of Bologna, ³BAM, ⁴SCI, ⁵MMI Thornton Tomasetti, ⁶px Limited, ⁷Solent Composite Solutions (SCS), ⁸AEB Engineering
• The importance of Deflagration to Detonation Transition (DDT) in explaining Vapour Cloud Explosions (VCEs)
  M. Johnson - DNV GL
• Managing explosion hazard from onshore fracking sites
  R.W. Brewerton - Inoventech
• Managing fire hazards from shale hydrocarbons sites
  S. Medonos - Petrellus Engineering
• Nuclear containment subjected to near field impact loading: A design safety project
  T. Yarlagadda¹, X. Huang², T. Huang³, X. Zhuo³, Z. Li², X. Huang¹, A. Usmani¹ - ¹The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, ²Institute of Industry Technology Guangzhou & CAS, ³China Nuclear Power Engineering

Best regards,

The FABIG Team