2012 Conference Programme
If you are interested in getting involved in the programme for 2012 please email Mariya Kovalyova who can provide you with further information.
Technology Innovation Day | day
one | day two
Programme - Technology Innovation day3rd December 2012
Safety and security of LNG facilities

Cryogenic equipment for your plant and distribution

Meeting the higher power, variable speed
demands required by applications in LNG industry

Plant efficiency: costs, energy and productivity

Compressors and related equipment for successful production of LNG and optimization plant productivity and profitability
Session reserved by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Europe, Ltd

Transfer of LNG with a high degree of reliability and of enhanced safety: Marine loading arms
Cryogenic heat exchangers for LNG plants efficient operations
New technologies for onshore LNG storage tanks
Enhancing reliability of a plant
Optimizing LNG vaporizers performance
Cryogenic pumps: New design trends and applications
Advancing cryogenic piping for LNG Terminals
Technology Innovation Day | day
one | day two
Programme - Day One4th December 2012

- Latest news and trends in the LNG demand and supply
- Overview of the new LNG projects, for Europe as well as for South-America and Asia
- The LNG family will have to count with new faces and new countries
- Trying to guess the longer future for the LNG industry
- Japan after the 11 March 2011: facing the energy market crisis
- Osaka Gas adjusting to new market needs
- Evolving areas of investment in LNG business
- The price of LNG: Today and tomorrow
- What are the expectations from the emerging markets of North America and Australia
Practical realisation of FLNG through the integration of advanced technologies
- FLNG vs pipes: economical feasibility of FLNG production
- Tackling potential issues of declining liquefaction efficiency, lowering plant operation rates, shortened life cycles and potential accidents
- What are the associated costs? How to minimise them?
Small scale LNG and breaking bulk: Improving the connectedness of the EU LNG market and security of supply

- The current need and demand for small scale LNG
- Small scale LNG in different regions of the world
- Legislative and regulatory frameworks for small scale LNG
- The need for harmonizing the safety regulations and distribution side
- Expectations for future development
Senior Representative - Gate Terminal
Netherlands
Dunkerque LNG: Contributing to security and diversification of supplies by increasing the capacity to import LNG with the twin priorities of improving security and environmental protection

- Responding to French and European LNG market expectations
- Justifying the site location choice
- Evaluating permitting process
- Examining connections to both Belgium and French transmission gas systems
- Use of the cooling water discharged from the nuclear power to address zero GHG emission goal
- FEED; Developing EPC strategy
Workshop
reserved by Wartsila

Workshop
Reducing costs of small- to mid scale LNG projects at each level of the value chain

- Small to mid scale LNG plants: competitive analysis
- Equipment requirements
- Construction considerations
- Available solutions to ensure safe, reliable, efficient operations at a minimum cost
Senior Representative - TNO
Netherlands
Workshop
Long term plant reliability to minimise life cycle costs

- Reducing heat gain to save on energy consumption
- Preventing Corrosion under Insulation CUI
- Case Studies
- East Africa's future as an exploration frontier
- Pre-FEED, LNG plant development and commercialization
- Who will be the customer?
- Buyers appetite for North American LNG: Where will LNG be sold?
- Shale gas development and prospects for LNG industry transformation in North America
- Conversion of import terminals to export terminals
- Production industry faced with the challenge: Regulation
- Commercial and fuel quality aspects
- Key partnerships and future prospects
Workshop
Reducing CAPEX and OPEX in the LNG liquefaction installations

- Huge power savings and noise reductions in aircooled coolers /Debottlenecking air cooled coolers? Easy
- FLNG: Get the smart Shell and Tube heat exchangers and save space, weight, capital, and keep all the advantages of Shell and tube heat exchangers
- Case study: Inspection and maintenance time and cost for Shell and tube heat exchangers just got reduced to almost zero
Workshop
Small to mid-scale LNG: The virtual pipeline

- Exploring small to mid-scale liquefaction technologies
- Regasification technologies: Weighting the pros and cons of various technologies
- Analysing virtual pipeline economies: Diesel/LPG vs. Natural Gas
Workshop
Maximizing LNG supply chain efficiency
- Improving plant efficiency, inventory management
- Maximising capacity utilisation
- Reducing the costs of operation
- Improving decision-making process through better visibility
- Response and execution
Process safety, leadership and plant integrity at PT Badak NGL: How it all comes together

- Introduction to PT Badak NGL (PTB) as one of three LNG producers in Indonesia (8 Trains, 22.5 MPTA of total capacity)
- SHEQ management system at PTB
- How SHEQ MS covers the leadership, process safety and plant integrity
- Implementation of SHEQ best practice at PTB and how to maintain it
- Assessment tools used (internal and external), and position of PTB compared with others
LNG: Providing accessibility to this promising clean fuel and supporting the emerging LNG-as-fuel industry

- Where does LNG stand comparing to other alternative fuels
- Current developments in small-scale LNG distribution: What has been done, the economic rationale and observations
- Investing in a LNG truck loading station
- LNG as the next bunker fuel
- Montoir‐de‐Bretagne LNG terminal: Developing solutions to promote LNG fuel for ships and trucks
Improving shipping access and reloading operations at Reganosa LNG Terminal

Technology Innovation Day | day
one | day two
Programme - Day Two5th December 2012

- Energy industry structure of Europe: How accessible is LNG?
- European gas import needs: Short- and long-term perspectives
- Infrastructure projects
- Constraints to realisation of infrastructure projects
- Standardisation of LNG: LNG quality, safety and technical aspects

LNG in harsh arctic environments: Project updates
- Project objectives and timelines
- Major technical challenges faced by the producer
- Available and developing solutions to tackle these challenges
- LNG transfers in the arctic region
- Nurturing international partnerships for the project success
Zeebrugge LNG terminal: Small scale LNG value chain optimisation

- LNG truck loading: operations and services
- Building a new jetty to add capacity for LNG ships from LNG bunker size up to Q-flex
- The role of LNG Terminal Zeebrugge in the Small scale LNG supply chain
Offshore terminal operations: Establishing safe and cost efficient unloading and regasification
- Undertaking the LNG hazards analysis
- LNG standards and regulations
- Identifying and eliminating the hazards
Optimising supply chains to deliver to LNG global markets
- Handling logistics of the LNG supply chain
- Identification and allocation of risks in the LNG supply chain
- Efficient delivery: Transhipment of LNG options and developments
LNG as a transportation fuel roadmap: Automotive sector in focus ยท
- LNG trucking: Future of LNG fuelled vehicles manufacturing
- Assessing the market potential
- Where does LNG stand comparing to other alternative fuels
- LNG fuel infrastructure development to support the emerging industry: The challenges and opportunities
- Current research and developments
LNG storage at receiving terminals
- Sizing of LNG storage capacity with multiple capacity holders
- Design and construction techniques
- Simulation on LNG storage tank to improve safety and reduce cost
Workshop
Advanced liquefaction technologies
- Feed gas quality, site condition and product specifications considerations
- Energy saving strategies and solutions used liquefy gas
- Efficiency, operability, reliability and cost of the plant
Workshop
Cryogenic technologies for LNG onboard fuelling and fuelling stations installations
- Key benefits of LNG fuelled stations and vehicles
- Advances in cryogenic engineering
- Economics behind an investment
- How sustainable is the infrastructure?
- Scrutinizing the safety aspects
Workshop
Safe and reliable LNG transfer between a floating terminal platform and a shuttle tanker in harsh environmental conditions
- Platforms and floating systems
- Addressing vessel mooring configuration
- Handling of the transfer lines for the cryogenic liquid
- LNG offloading systems (hoses and arms) in harsh environments
- Installation equipment and techniques
- Operating procedures
- Overview of gas reserves and gas usage around the world
- Factors that have changed the way LNG is priced
- Emerging demand for LNG by region
- Long term LNG contracts to ensure flexibility
- Regional pricing trends: Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America
- Terminal costs vs price of LNG
- Challenging the issue of ageing workforce
- Improving attractiveness of the industry
- Recruiting and retaining the valuable workforce
Driving innovation in LNG
- Evolution in LNG technology
- LNG industry roadmap: Learning from mistakes and achievements
- Do we have sufficient resources and technology to face the future growing demand and emerging LNG competition?
- All in the same boat: Improving the dialogue and sharing expertise
- The cost of innovation in LNG: To break through or to follow?


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