Competency Management Guidelines – A Look Ahead at How IEC 61508 is Likely to Develop
Clive de Salis, RowanHouse Ltd, UK
The UK's IEC committee for writing IEC61508 and IEC61511 are working on the next issue of the master standard IEC61508. In the UK ...
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Development of Highly Contaminated Gas and Oil Fields – CO2 / H2S Separation Technologies
Theo Klaver, Shell Global Solutions International, Rijswijk, Netherlands
Over 1100 Tcf of global gas resources are contaminated with high concentrations of CO2 or H2S. As world demand for gas increases ...
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Developments in TEG Dehydration
Bob Hubbard, Director of the Natural Gas Programme, John M. Campbell, USA
The dehydration of natural gas is arguably the most widely used process in the upstream and midstream sectors ...
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LNG – Can Producers Respond to the Needs of Buyers?
Andy Flower, Consultant, Caterham, Surrey, UK
The last decade has seen a major expansion of global LNG activity as buyers look to LNG to diversify sources of supply and enhance ...
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Marine CNG – The Evolution of New Natural Gas Technology
Michael Hanrahan, Centre for Marine CNG Inc., St Johns Newfoundland, Canada In the late 1990’s several innovators began the race to commercialize marine compressed natural gas (CNG). Ten years ...
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Market Trends
Guy Massonier, IFP / Cedigaz, Paris, France
This paper from IFP together with Cedigaz will cover major trends on the demand side; sources of supply, share of non-conventional sources; Natural Gas ...
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Maximising NGL Production
Nauman Islam, Compressor Controls Corporation, Houston, Texas, USA
The use of cryogenic expanders in gas processing plants dates back to the 1960's. With higher availability of the turboexpanders and ...
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Modernisation of the Kårstø Gas Plant
Ola Traetteberg, Gassco AS, Norway
The Kårstø gas plant in Norway has been constructed in phases (1985, 1993, 2000, 2003 and 2005). After a period of capacity expansions focus ...
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Orman Lange Project – Lessons Learned During Early Phase of Operations
Nishant Gupta. Ormen Lange Operations Support A/S Norske Shell, Norway
Ormen Lange Development includes deep water wells with full well stream transfer through pipelines to the onshore plant in ...
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Outlook for the Oil and Gas Sector, The Next 25 Years
Steve Robertson, Douglas-Westwood Ltd., Canterbury, UK
Energy business analysts Douglas-Westwood have provided market intelligence, forecasting and commercial due-diligence services to the industry since 1990. This paper outlines the current state ...
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Subsea Processing - Technology, Systems and Applications
John Byeseda, Cameron Corporation, Petreco Process Systems, Houston, USA
During the last 25 years our industry has moved progressively from land and relatively shallow offshore resources to deeper water, more ...
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Three years on From Texas City, Impact on the Future
Michael Broadribb, BP, London, UK
Following the tragic Texas City incident in March 2005, the executive leadership of BP reviewed the fundamentals of the company’s approach to process safety ...
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