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Tour of Willis LNG Facility

Clean Energy has acquired the Willis LNG Plant in Willis, Texas, from Applied LNG Technologies USA LLC in a transaction valued at more than $14 million. The plant is located approximately 60 miles north of Houston, Texas.

The Willis Plant, which can produce up to 100,000 gallons of vehicle-grade LNG per day, includes truck loading facilities and a one-million-gallon storage tank. Clean Energy also acquired five tanker-trailers for delivering LNG.

The LNG plant receives natural gas from the pipeline, chills it to liquefied form and stores it at low pressure for delivery to a growing public- and private-sector customer base.

Among Clean Energy’s customers are Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) and Sun Metro (El Paso), and the Houston operations for Sysco Food and HEB. Other LNG customers include The City of Phoenix (AZ), Adams Lake Lumber (British Columbia), and Norcal Waste Systems (San Francisco CA).

Lunch, included in registration

Arrive at Cryogenic Vessel Alternatives to see how vacuum jacketed cryogenic containers are manufactured

CVA is an ASME and National Board manufacturer of cryogenic transportation and storage equipment.

Market Review: China's Amazing Transshipping Growth
Shukui Zhao, vice president, Max Universal
Max Universal has designed and implemented several LNG over-the-road shipping projects in China. At least 3-5 more projects are planned. Zhao has been asked to discuss trends in China's transshipping LNG, a country known for transporting the fuel to remote locations. Max is an engineering firm that designs small-scale (2MMscfd to 200MMscfd) LNG facilities including liquefaction, storage, loading/unloading and vaporization.

Barged LNG to Southwest Canadian Markets
Mark Butler, president, WestPac LNG and
Rick Kline, vp government relations, WestPac LNG Corp. Calgary
WestPac LNG plans to build and operate an LNG transshipment terminal on Ridley Island, located 11 km south of Prince Rupert. Demand for gas in Canada is robust as oilsands production has escalated. The Ridley Island port is deep enough to handle the largest LNG ships. The port also has sea, rail and truck links as well as access to an existing natural gas pipeline. The project will include a new marine berthing facility with transfer piping to onshore LNG storage tanks; two to four onshore LNG storage tanks, with a total capacity to transship up to one billion cubic feet of natural gas per day. The speaker will discuss their plans for an LNG transshipment network.

Barging Opportunities in North America
Gary Van Tassel, president, Argent Marine
Along the Atlantic Coast, proposals for conventional terminals have been blocked by activists who alarm local citizens over the size of field-erected storage tanks and the ships that serve them. The tanks commonly rise 15 stories above the skyline and are served by super carriers larger than the QEII. While smaller barge-serviced facilities must also meet stringent NFPA and DOT siting requirements, their visible impact on a community is much smaller. Van Tassel has been asked to describe opportunities for LNG barging along the Atlantic Coast.

Lunch

Marine LNG Transfer using Qualified Systems
Charlie O'Nan, director of technology, LNG terminals, Technip
The LNG Industry is now in a phase of package integration regarding transfer systems in marine-dynamic environments. These systems are being integrated into an overall LNG delivery chain and must be based on a set of clearly defined procedures which are repeatable, functional, safe and reliable. The use of standard LNG carriers with existing mid-ship manifolds is of primary importance since the LNG carrier must continue to carry out standard trading operations form existing offloading jetties. Functional, repeatable, safe and reliable procedures can only be derived from successful full-scale qualification trials, backed up by 3rd-party certification to proven standards. Confidence in the operability of such equipment and systems can assist in keeping modifications to FSRU or RV's as simple and cost effective as possible.

Cryogenic Pipelines Reduce Risk, Schedule and Costs in the LNG Transportation Chain
Vicki Niesen, president, ITP InterPipe
ITP's new technology, the Izoflex insulation, is seen as a solution to answer the specific challenges posed by pipeline construction. The presentation will show how the use of Izoflex has allowed the development of a complete LNG pipeline system that not only provides superior thermal performance but also solves many of the mechanical issues associated with cryogenics through the use of a 36%-nickel alloy that obviates the need for thermal expansion loops. The insulated pipe development has taken into account all steps from the insulation of individual 40' pipe joints to their assembly in remote and potentially hostile environments and the installation of mile long insulated pipe strings between LNG carrier berths and onshore facilities (LNG storage tanks or liquefaction plants). After extensive testing on full-scale pipes in several JIP's with major gas players ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron and ConocoPhillips, the system has received approval stamps from DNV, Lloyd's Register and ABS and is now considered in the FEED of several LNG projects. The speaker will also discuss some of the findings that have emerged from the risk-assessment sessions that have been conducted in the FEED studies that are being performed with all of the major gas operators.

LNG Distribution on a Global Scale - Current and Future Trends
Marshall Carpenter, project development manager, Prometheus Energy
Prometheus Energy is an integrated LNG company producing LNG from non-traditional sources near end users and distributing it to end users. New drivers for markets across the world are emerging such as displacement of petroleum based fuels for economic reasons, and emission reduction impacts both direct and green house gas related. Utilities are also using LNG for peak load shaving, serving remote communities, and portable vaporization to provide service during pipeline system maintenance activities. Carpenter will discuss several utility projects and small-scale liquefaction projects. Liquefaction projects include landfill gas in Southern California, coal-bed methane in Poland and flared-gas sites.

Small-Scale Facility Siting Issues - Experience from the Field
Tom Chrisfield, vice president of sales, North Star
North Star is one of the largest builders of LNG satellite facilities. Satellite facilities range in size from one Bcf of gas storage to a 500-cubic-meter pressure vessel. How might size improve the siting requirements for LNG facilities and where has this been demonstrated? What are the economics of LNG facility installation? This presentation will address these issues.

Transmodal Technology for Fill & Drop Applications
Keith Hall, customer technical support manager, Cryogenic Vessel Alternatives
CVA builds intermodal LNG tanks that can be filled and transported to the end-sue facility instead of building a stationary storage tank at the site that is served by another tank on a transport trailer. Hall has been asked to describe the practicalities and economics of this system, as well as the types facilities it is best suited to serve.