Arrive
at Riverdale LNG plant in Riverdale, GA, and tour. Riverdale is the largest AGL plant located
in Riverdale, GA, and has storage capacity of
31,080,000 gallons or 2,560,000 million cubic
feet (Mcf) of natural gas in its two tanks. Located
south of Atlanta, the plant is supplied by two
interstate pipelines for supply. It is connected
to the Atlanta Gas Light (AGL) beltline pipeline
system for distribution of gas to the Atlanta
market. The plant is able to deliver 400,000 Mcf/day
of gas during peak send-out. Staff from AGL will
be on hand for questions and presentations.
The tour will include a walk through the
plant with AGL staff. Hard sole shoes only, no
tennis shoes. The plant will provide hard hats
and protective eye wear. Long pants are required.
The tours of each plant's operational facilities
are to include the control room operations, security
functions, safety systems, and processing operations.
Cameras will not be allowed due to security reasons.
11:30 - 11:45
Board bus for Lunch
12:45 - 2:10
Lunch will be served at Williamson
Bros. Bar-B-Q
2:10 - 2:20
Board bus for Cherokee LNG plant
2:45 - 4:45
Arrive at Cherokee LNG Plant in Ball Ground,
GA, for tour
The Cherokee LNG plant, located north of Atlanta
in Ball Ground, GA, has storage capacity of 25,242,957
gallons or 2,020,237 Mcf equivalent of natural
gas in a single tank. The 934-acre site was designed
to accommodate a second tank of equal capacity
if warranted. This plant receives supply from
three pipelines and can deliver an equivalent
of 400,000 Mcf/day of peak send-out to AGL's Atlanta
market. Staff from AGL will be on hand for questions
and presentations.
The tour will include a walk through the
plant with AGL staff. Hard sole shoes only, no
tennis shoes. The plant will provide hard hats
and protective eye wear. Long pants are required.
The tours of each plant's operational facilities
are to include the control room operations, security
functions, safety systems, and processing operations.
Cameras will not be allowed due to security reasons.
4:45 - 5:30
Board bus and return to host hotel.
5:30 - 6:30
Reception
Friday,
December 1, 2006
7:45 - 8:15
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
8:15 - 8:30
Conference Introduction, Objectives, Agenda Bob Nimocks, president,
Zeus Development Corp.
8:30 - 9:10
Peakshaving Survey Conclusions: Key Issues
for the Peakshaving Industry in 2006 Andy
Malone, consultant and plant manager, Trussville
Utilities District, retired Malone,
a former peakshaving plant manager and president
of the manager's consortium, has conducted a survey
of LNG plant managers to determine the key issues
before the industry. As a way to frame the issues
at the beginning of the conference, he will discuss
his findings.
9:10 - 9:50
How the U.S. Southeast's Growing
Load Factor Is Presenting More Opportunities for
LNG Peaking Dana Grams, president,
Pivotal Energy Development,
division of AGL Resources
AGL is in the center of one of the most vibrant
LNG peakshaving markets in the world. Since 1973,
winter load (Dec-Feb) has grown more than twice
the rate of annual base-load demand. Consequently,
AGL is expanding its peakshaving capabilities across
five plants. Grams will describe this unique market
and the opportunities for trucking and satellite
storage that may arise as more LNG is imported into
coastal terminals.
9:50 - 10:20
BREAK
10:20 - 11:00
World LNG Peakshaving:
A Review of This Dynamic Industry's Growth Bob Nimocks, Zeus Development
Corporation
While the United States has the most large-scale
LNG storage plants (with and without liquefaction),
other markets like Spain are rapidly growing. In
fact, at many Spanish LNG import terminals, it is
the truck load-out facilities that are the most-constrained
link in the distribution chain. This presentation
will review world LNG peakshaving and satellite
storage trends.
11:00 - 11:40
Latest Trends in Small Scale LNG Facilities Brian Price, vice president,
LNG technology, Black & Veatch
The small scale LNG industry in the US was initially
developed in the 1960-70 time period and generally
consisted of peak shaving facilities for winter
gas supply The numerous facilities developed during
that time period are now reaching the end of their
useful life and are being replaced with new, modern
designs which are more efficient and easier to
operate. In addition, new uses for LNG from small-scale
facilities are filling needs outside the US for
vehicle fuel and distributed gas supply. These
facilities are based on the same process as the
peak shavers with radically different LNG storage
and sendout facilities. This pressentation will
cover the process options for new facilities and
the unique facilities being developed around the
world to fill the need for clean fuel from LNG.
11:40 - 12:40
LUNCH
12:40 - 1:20
Peakshaver Siting Opportunities
and Challenges Don Coers,president, Coers and Company
Coers will review the key siting requirements for
peakshavers and ways to improve their footprint
and capital cost. He will first outline the critical
cost items of a plant, including set-back requirements
and their calculations. He will then review the
benefits and challenges of various alternatives
to reduce capital costs and setback requirements.
1:20 - 2:00
Field Erected Storage Tanks: Recent
Innovations, Lead Times and Economics Sam Kumar, advisor, IHI
Japan-based IHI is a well-known LNG storage tank
contractor that also provides engineering services
for LNG receiving terminals, process control, and
supervisory systems. An unprecedented number of
LNG tanks are under construction worldwide. Kumar
has been asked to review recent innovations in field-erected
storage, current lead times and the economics of
field-erected storage relative to shop-fabricated
storage.
2:00 - 2:20
BREAK
2:20-3:00
Economic Crossover Point: Long Haul Pipeline
Capacity, LNG Peaking Facilities Versus Geological
Underground Storage Tom Quine, president,
Northstar Industries, Inc.
Utilizing Case histories, this presentation reviews
the economic cross over point and market drivers
for LNG peak shaving plants versus geological
underground storage, versus long haul transportation.
Each solution has its role in supply. Capital
cost of facilities, operating cost and economic
drivers for facilities will be presented. An outline
for new LNG project development will also be presented.
3:00-3:40
The Latest Designs for CNG Storage John Dunlop, vice president
business development, EnerSea Transport LLC
Enersea offers a CNG alternative to gas storage,
what the company calls its volume-optimized land
storage (VOLANDS) system. It is designed to provide
high deliverability, cyclic storage similar to
salt caverns. White will discuss the design's
scalability, cycle capabilities, current state
of development and other performance capabilities.
3:40 - 4:00
Wrap-up Bob Nimocks, president,
Zeus Development
4:00
Conference Ends
*The conference management reserves
the right to make any necessary changes to this program. Every
effort will be made to maintain presentations and speakers
represented. However, unforeseen circumstances may result
in the substitution of a presentation topic or speaker. Conference
and tour times are also subject to change.
Arrive
at Riverdale LNG plant in Riverdale, GA, and tour.