Conference Program
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1: Tuesday, August 28 2007 - Conference* |
7:30 - 8:15 AM
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Registration and Continental Breakfast
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8:15 - 8:30 AM
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Introduction, Objectives
Bob Nimocks, chief
executive, Zeus Development Corporation
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| 8:30-10:00 - SESSION ONE:
POTENTIAL FOR MEDIUM SCALE AND PERU CASE STUDY |
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Demand for Medium-Scale Liquefaction
- Why It's the New Frontier
Mike Pugh, executive
director, Zeus Energy Consulting Group
Pugh will first review world gas fields
by size and location to identify the quantity
and quality of mid-tier gas reserves relative
to large field reserves. He will then review
the cost of establishing LNG supply chains
and their change of the past five years.
Lastly, he will review an inventory of medium-scale
LNG projects underway.
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Case Study: Irradia
Gas Natural in Movimiento
Ken Kelley, president
& CEO, Kelley Family of Companies
Neptune Leasing, Inc., of the Kelley
family of companies, Explorers Petroleum Corporation
through its offshore entity Ichor LNG and
Inversiones Wineca of Peru are building a
medium-scale liquefaction plant to distribute
gas in Peru. This case study provides a prime
example of how LNG technology is being modularized
and downscaled to monetize mid-tier reserves. |
10:00 - 10:30 AM
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Break |
| 10:30-12:00 - SESSION TWO:
MEDIUM-SCALE APPLICATION |
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The Latest on LNG FPSOs
Brad Hubbard, LNG
technology director, Mustang Engineering
Mustang has designed a floating production
storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for liquefied
natural gas, which is sized specifically for
mid-tier fields. Hubbard has been asked to
review the design and discuss its application
and ideal gas-reserve range. |
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Cost-Saving Approaches to Medium-Scale
Liquefaction
Brian Price, vice
president, LNG technology, Black & Veatch
Price explains that the LNG industry is following
a path similar to the one taken by the gas-processing
market in the 1990s when producers began purchasing
compact, low-cost, highly efficient cryogenic
units rather than large, centralized lean-oil
plants, to access smaller reserves.
Black and Veatch has devised a modular-process
liquefier with advanced efficiency and reduced
complexity to make them it competitive for
mid-tier reserves on a per-unit basis.
Price will describe and quantify how these
innovations over the past decade have led
to lower costs for medium-scale LNG. |
12:00 - 1:30 PM
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Lunch |
| 1:30-3:00 - SESSION THREE:
DOWNSCALING LIQUEFACTION SYSTEMS AND TANKS
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Routes to Downscaling Liquefaction:
Air Products' Perspectives
Mark Roberts,
engineering associate, LNG process development,
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc
Air Products designs a broad range of cryogenic
liquefaction systems from the largest (AP-X(tm))
LNG trains to medium-scale mixed-refrigerant
systems and small scale, nitrogen refrigerated
peakshavers. Roberts will review the different
cycles that have been or can be used for medium-scale
LNG trains, compare different heat exchanger
types (wound coil and plate-fin), and propose
ways that medium scale LNG plant designs can
be simplified. |
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Use of Brazed Aluminum Plate-Fin
Heat Exchangers in Mid-Scale Liquefaction
Stephen Morgan,
manager of process systems sales and process
engineering, Chart Energy & Chemicals,
Inc
Since the early days of commercial
LNG liquefaction Brazed Aluminum Plate-Fin
Heat Exchangers (BAHX) have been used for
LNG trains ranging in size from the very smallest
plants up to some of the largest at 5.0 million
metric tons per year (Train 4 of Atlantic
LNG). Chart has supplied BAHX and Cold Boxes
for baseload facilities to Bechtel/ConocoPhillips
and for small to mid-scale LNG liquefiers
to Kryopak, Black and Veatch and others including
several plants using Chart’s own proprietary
design. Morgan has been asked to describe
the types of liquefaction process, their economics
and those applications where BAHX are most
effective. Morgan will also touch on current
equipment delivery lead times.
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Reducing Tank Costs through
All-Concrete Designs
Brian Raine, principal
and business leader, Arup Energy
One of the key challenges for downscaling
LNG export facilities is storage and cargo
transfer to carriers. Arup has been working
on an all-concrete tank that promises to reduce
the cost of field-erected storage tanks, regardless
of their size. Brian has been asked to review
the advantages and limitations across a range
of sizes of tanks from 20,000 to 300,000 cubic
meters of these all-concrete designs to full-containment
conventional concrete and 9% nickel steel
designs or single-containment carbon steel,
9% nickel steel designs. |
3:00 - 3:30 PM
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Break |
| 3:30-5:00 - SESSION FOUR:
GOING JETTYLESS WITHOUT THE BURN |
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Downscaling Marine Facilities Through
Trestleless, Jettyless Undersea Cryogenic
Pipe and Offshore-Connection Systems
Ron Hardiman,
director, LNG terminal marine facilities,
Technip
Technip has devised undersea cryogenic pipe
that can transfer LNG miles offshore without
significant heat leak. Hardiman will describe
how this approach may cut the costs of conventional
LNG marine facility designs by half. He
will review not only the cryogenic pipe
technology, but also the configurations
and state of development of several offshore
carrier-connections and vapor-return systems.
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Trestle-less, Jetty-less Offloading Systems:
The Latest Developments on Cryogenic Swivel
Joints and Other Single-Buoy Mooring Designs
James Ellis, product
development manager, SBM
SBM has been working with manufacturers of
sub-sea cryogenic pipelines to design and
test solutions for offshore LNG loading and
offloading systems. The pipe is a key enabler
for several in-house designed proposals for
offshore and/or harsh environment applications.
These designs are common in other hydrocarbon
applications and have saved the industry billions
of CAPEX investment in marine construction
for jetties, trestles, breakwaters, dredging,
loading docks, etc. |
5:00 PM
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Wrap Up |
5:00 - 6:00 PM
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Reception |
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| Day
2: Wednesday, August 29 2007 - Tour of Salof
Companies Kryopak Manufacturing Plant, New
Braunfels, TX |
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Kryopak Manufacturing Plant Tour
 Kryopak, a division of the Salof Companies,
is a manufacturer of medium-scale liquefaction
plants that have been shipped and installed
around the world. Modular designs
are often skid mounted for ease of assembly
in remote locations. Kryopak has been
very active in China among other nations,
assembling several “rubber-tire pipeline”
plants to liquefy, store and distribute
China’s domestic natural gas via LNG
tanker trucks. The tour of the New
Braunfels’ facilities will review
the manufacturing process that Kryopak has
perfected over the years as well as discussions
of how the company is expanding its capabilities
and service offerings. We hope that
you can join us for an up-close review of
this highly unique facility for the assembly
and fabrication of medium-scale liquefaction
systems.
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| 7:00 - 7:30 AM |
Registration
and Continental Breakfast |
7:30 - 7:45 AM
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Load Bus for Tour At:
Houston Marriott Westchase
2900 Briarpark Dr.
Houston, Texas 77042 |
| 7:45 - 10:45
AM |
Drive to Salof
Companies Manufacturing Plant, New Braunfels,
TX |
10:45 - 12:45 PM
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Tour of Salof Companies Manufacturing
Plant |
| 12:45 - 1:00
PM |
Drive to Restuarant |
1:00 - 2:00 PM
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Lunch at The Gristmill River Restaurant
Hosted By:
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| 2:00 - 5:00 PM |
Drive back to
Houston, TX
Houston Marriott Westchase |
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