CO-LaN Management Board held its monthly meeting on April 12, 2022 at 10 am Central European Time.
Agenda:
- Welcome to Florence KUIJL
- Approval of March minutes
- Financials
- Issues with CO-LaN bank account
- Membership
- NTP Truboprovod
- Procedures
- May 2022 face-to-face meeting
- Software development projects
- Actions review
- AOB
Present:
- BASF (represented by Norbert ASPRION),
- The Dow Chemical Company (represented by Michael BERGER),
- LINDE (represented by Oliver KOCH),
- Shell (represented by Richard BAUR),
- F&Cie (represented by Florence KUIJL)
- Michel PONS (CTO/contractor),
- Stenhouse Simulations Ltd (represented by Bryn STENHOUSE).
Apologies
- BP (represented by Kathyrn YEARSLEY),
Highlights:
- Management Board welcomes Florence KUIJL who takes the position of office manager, taking over from Bryn STENHOUSE and Michel PONS on many tasks related to the day-to-day management of CO-LaN.
- Minutes of the Management Board meeting on March 11, 2022 were approved.
- Financials
- Management Board reviewed the actions underway to satisfy the requests made by Société Générale, the bank at which CO-LaN holds its account. The requests pertain mostly to the controls in place to prevent activities related to sanctioned countries or sanctioned persons to transit directly or indirectly through CO-LaN’s bank account.
- Membership
- For CO-LaN’s own safety and liability, the decision has been taken to decline NTP Truboprovod the possibility to be a member of CO-LaN in 2022.
- Procedures
- CO-LaN Management Board has decided to formulate a procedure for member/contractor review to verify that members/contractors are not among sanctioned persons and not involved in sanctioned activities.
- May 2022 face-to-face meeting
- Agenda for the meeting was finalized.
- Software development projects
- Tester Suite: Malcolm WOODMAN proposed a new Contractor Work order (CWAF#07) covering the review of available vendor feedback, the review of open tickets and their allocation, the identification, documentation and implementation of selected tests for Thermo Process Modelling Components. Management Board agreed to split work between different contractors according to the current expertise of each and the need to develop their expertise. CWAF#07 was approved by the Management Board.