Membership Benefits
- Participation in the leading industry forum for promoting the growth of expandable tubular technology
- Access to a network of industry experts in expandable technology through annual meetings, structured informal discussion, and member contact listings
- Use of the member section of the website, which includes knowledge and sharing materials generated from the meetings
Knowledge/ experience sharing and lessons learnt
- Providing an industry focus for expandable tubular technology, both through workshops and a website
- Attending the annual technical workshop/ meeting to catch up with the new technology applications and developments
- Sharing of lessons learnt through case histories
- Understanding of best practice/ industry ‘benchmarks’ through focused discussion with industry peers
- Identifying and prioritising knowledge and technology gaps
- Accessing via the website Member areas to ETF shared knowledge archive
- Accelerating field applications of new technologies
- Informal networking with other Members at workshops
Supply chain stimulation
- Engagement with a broad range of innovative technology suppliers
- Access to presentations of high quality, relevant ‘technology updates’ (which might include, for example, updates on technologies already applied/ ready in the marketplace, proposals for field trials, JIP proposals already progressed through an organisation such as ITF but requiring more participants, and completely new JIP proposals)
- Identification of knowledge and technology gaps
- Communication of operators’ prioritised technology needs and issues to contractors and suppliers
- Increased number of high-quality technologies reaching market
- Knowledge sharing, and understanding of lessons learnt by Member companies in their application of similar technologies
Deliverables
- Dedicated website with public-access and Members-only areas
- One facilitated workshop per year
- Links to other sites of interest
- Searchable shared knowledge archive
- Workshop presentations
- Increased complementarity and synergy with other engineering networks/ organisations