Natural gas and LNG technologies and supply chains

Day one: – Supply chains, industry development, processes and markets
• Characteristics and properties of natural gas and LNG
• Components of natural gas and LNG supply chains
• Market segments, trends and forecasts for the industry
• Competition LNG versus pipeline gas and shale gas
• Case study: gas liquefaction plants in Qatar
• Evolution of the LNG industry and markets
• Japan and Korea LNG markets, contracts and pricing
• Liquefaction process options: mixed refrigerant and cascade processes
• Liquefaction plant cost components and trends
• Phases of technology improvement and economies of scale
• LNG Receiving terminal components and re-gasification and technologies
• Case study UK LNG receiving terminals
• LNG for long-term storage and peak shaving backup supplies

Day two: – Competition, Shipping, Storage and Gas Supply Strategies
• The European gas import market: LNG and pipeline competition
• LNG shipping technologies, vessels and market issues
• Impacts of boil-off gas on LNG shipping economics
• Shipboard regasification vessels (SRVs) and re-liquefaction options
• Gas ports, ship to ship transfers and ships used for LNG storage
• Onshore LNG storage tanks, stock and throughput issues
• Price indexation and netback pricing
• Economics of gas supply chains
• Floating liquefaction (FLNG): competing technologies and emerging projects
• North American LNG evolution and market impact of shale gas
• Case study Russia – gas pipeline and LNG projects expand its global reach
• Project planning, FEED and EPC contracting for liquefaction plants
• Case study: gas exports from Trinidad and emerging projects in Colombia and Venezuela
• Gas imports and regasification facilities in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
• North African gas liquefaction and pipeline projects (Algeria, Egypt and Libya)
• Case study: gas liquefaction in Norway - Snøhvit

Day three: – Contracts, safety, finance and regional case studies
• Gas project and supply contract structures and drivers
• Take-or-pay, force majeure and operator’s liabilities
• Review of gas and LNG sale and purchase agreement terms
• Growing gas import markets in China and India
• Gas liquefaction export project proposals, western and eastern Canada
• Case study Alaska - LNG and gas pipeline aspirations
• Environmental and safety issues for LNG facilities
• Spark spreads: gas versus other power generation fuels
• Liquefaction projects in West Africa: Angola, Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea
• LNG exports from Peru open up South American gas exports
• LNG Facilities in UAE, Kuwait, Oman and Yemen
• Operating and developing LNG projects: Australia – North West Shelf
• Australia’s coal bed methane LNG export projects in Queensland
• Papua New Guinea liquefaction project exports first LNG in 2014
• Liquefaction facilities in south-east Asia: Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei
• Iran’s spends more than a decade negotiating potential gas export projects

Day four: – Gas resources and processes to monetise them
• Shale gas resources of North America
• Shale gas exploitation technologies and economics in the United States
• Shale gas potential in other regions and their exploitation challenges
• Technical and geopolitical issues for stranded gas resources
• Gas-to-liquids (GTL)
• Fischer-Tropsch (FT) and synthesis gas, products and providers
• FT-GTL case studies (Malaysia, Qatar, Nigeria and South Africa)
• Methanol, Dimethyl Ether (DME) and other petrochemical products
• Increased roles for ethane and natural gas liquids as petrochemical feedstock
• Catalysts, pilot plants, technical developments
• Compressed natural gas (CNG) for bulk gas transportation
• Gas hydrate resources and their potential
• SWOT analysis of the global natural gas industry