Gas Processors Association Europe

Young Professional Group - Latest News

Published: 13 December 2011

At the November 24, 2011 Annual General Meeting, Soufyane Teffahi, who is co-ordinating the Young Professional initiative, gave the attached short presentation discussing the latest status of developments on the subject.

The first YP event will be held in advance of the Berlin Conference in May 2012 and will consist of a training session on all aspects of Acid Gas Treatment. Full details will be published in early 2012.

Please do join the GPAE Young professionals groups in both Facebook and Linked and start making the 2012 event your event.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/GPAEYP?ap=1

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/GPAE-Young-Professionals-3979072?gid=3979072&trk=hb_side_g

For Further information please get in touch with Soufyane Teffahi (teffs0@bp.com or Soufyane.Teffahi@uk.bp.com) or GPA Europe Admin Office at admin@gpaeurope.com

or through Facebook and Linked-in URLs above. 

Remember, if you are a Young professional in the Gas Processing industry, this is your opportunity to influence the future of Gas Processing in Europe.

February 2012 Conference Registration Now Open

Published: 05 December 2011

Registration for the February 2012 Conference to be held in Antwerp is now open. Full details can be found on the website. The conference theme is "Moving Fluids - The Latest Developments in Machinery" and will be accompanied by a half day free  Knowledge Session on 24 February on the subject of Jet Pumps. 

Book now for the first of a series of excellent conferences in 2012 from the Gas Processors Association - Europe.

The Future of In Brief

Published: 29 November 2011

The Management Committee of the GPA Association has been negotiating to change the way in which the Association's in-house newsletter, In Brief, is published. The attached presentation was mentioned at the Annual General Meeting on 24 November 2011, but lack of time precluded presentation. It is provided here for information and further updates will be provided in the near future. 

November 2011 Technical Meeting AGM & Knowledge Sessions

Published: 29 November 2011

The 2011 AGM, Technical Meeting and Knowledge Session, held at the Marriott Marble Arch in London on November 24, 2011,  was one of the most successful such meetings ever held with 100 delegates registered. 

The Technical Meeting and Knowledge Sessions majored on the theme of Compact Gas Processing and the meeting commenced in the morning with two Knowledge Sessions - one on the use of Compact Heat Exchangers in natural gas processing and one on the overall subject of the selection of compressors for LNG production service. 

After a fine lunch, the delegates re-assembled for the Annual General Meeting of the GPA Europe where, in addition to the usual subjects, two major decisions were taken, namely:

To reflect the issue of rising input costs by raising the fees for Corporate Membership by 5% for all classes except Academic Membership. This is the first time fees have been changed for three years. Membership fees for Individual and Retired members were kept at their current level, and 

To authorise the incorporation of the GPA Europe as a Company Limited by Guarantee, to provide members with considerably enhanced protection in the event of the Association attracted major liabilities beyond what can be handled in contracts.

Both these issues were approved by the delegates and subject to final development of detail, GPA Europe Ltd. will formed by the end of first quarter 2012. Further detail will be made available to members by direct correspondence and on the website over the coming weeks.

The afternoon session consisted of four very interesting papers on the Proteus LNG process for small volume LNG production, the use of membrane systems in a Compact Gas-to-Liquids process, the design of separators for compact intensified design and finally the novel use of divided wall column to minimse space and weight by combing sweetening and dehydration in one column. 

All the papers preseented are available for download on the GPA Europe website - just follow this link. 

European Gas Processing Event

Published: 29 November 2011

The GPA Europe has been in negotiation with dmg::events and together they have jointly developed a concept to establish in 2013 a major Annual Conference and Exhibition in Europe aimed solely at the European Gas Processing market. 

GPA Europe have worked successfully with dmg::events, since GPA Europe was invited to hold the successful Centre of Technical Excellence within the GasTech 2011 in Amsterdam Exhibition which dmg::events managed on behalf of GasTech. dmg::events have receognsied that there is a need for a major Gas Processing event in Erope during the years when the GasTech exhibition is held elsewhere in the world, and has invited GPA Europe to be its partner for the Conference and Exhibition. This selection reflects dmg::event's appreciation of GPA Europe's highly professional organisation of conferences and the high quality of papers offered. 

The first event will be held in Dusseldorf in May 2013 and GPA Europe will be responsible for running and managing at least one day of the conference stream within the event. GPA Europe will offer its members considerably attractive rates for attendance at the confernece and will provide a Conference Dinner and other networking events for its members. 

Full details of the event will be published as they are finalised in the next few motnnths - so watch this space, but in the meantime, please find further background in the attached presentation prepared by John Sheffield for the November 2011 AGM & Technical Meeting.