Desktop Standards 1 April 2008 Technical Alerts Document Responsibility: Standards Coordinator General Information Technical Alerts are brief items of immediate interest to Operations, Maintenance, Loss Prevention, Security, Engineering, and Project Management organizations throughout Saudi Aramco. Technical Alerts are written and issued to quickly communicate items of technical importance throughout the Company. To streamline and centralize the process of issuing new Technical Alerts, a new guideline has been reviewed and endorsed by the Saudi Aramco Board of Engineers (BOE). In the course of approving and issuing the new Technical Alerts, Engineering Services Subject Matter Experts’ review and concurrence are required through their department’s head. Therefore, Technical Alerts will only be issued for publication once reviewed and approved by Engineering Services concerned departments. Contact the Standards Coordination on 874-5670 for instructions to add a new Technical Alert to the Standards Website. Previous Issue: 30 April 2003 Planned Update: 1 April 2013 Revised paragraphs are indicated in the right margin. Copyright©Saudi Aramco 2009. All rights reserved. Page 1 of 1