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Floating-ball Valve Floating-ball Valve Solutions Applications for Mol Sieve July / August 2013 LNGINDUSTRY | July / August 2013 www.energyglobal.com Meeting challenges you haven’t even thought of yet. FMC Technologies invented the first offshore LNG loading technology. Today we are developing new solutions built on proven components. Our Articulated Tandem Offshore Loader (ATOL) safely performs high-velocity LNG transfers in severe conditions with waves up to 18 feet (5.5 meters). Our Offshore Loading Arm Footless (OLAF) side by side transfer solution accommodates massive new FLNG freeboards in the range of 82 feet (25 meters). And for tomorrow? We’re practically there already. VISIT US AT OFFSHORE EUROPE STANDS 5C120, 5C130. Copyright © FMC Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. www.fmctechnologies.com ISSN 1747-1826 CONTENTS JUL/AUG 2013 03 Comment 50 Cover story: Built to last Kevin Jackson, MOGAS Industries Inc., USA, examines the benefits of using severe service, dual metal-seated ball valves 05 LNG news over single seated lift-and-turn ball valves in LNG molecular 10 Difficulties down under sieve applications. Alex Field, Energy Industries Council (EIC), UK, discusses the 57 Not just another gas development of the Australian LNG industry and potential Mark Henley, Bestobell Valves, USA, looks at why selecting stumbling blocks to its further growth. the correct valve is especially important in LNG applications. 61 A fuel for all Alex Field, Energy Industries Council (EIC), UK, Thomas Vles, Bottle Consulting, the Netherlands, outlines the discusses the development of the Australian LNG industry 10 and potential stumbling blocks to its further growth. drivers, barriers and developments in the use of LNG as a fuel. 64 Shipping in Martial Claudepierre, Bureau Veritas, France, discusses the he LNG industry has burgeoned over the past contributions from new projects are also unlikely to meet decade, becoming increasingly integrated into the rises in demand, with only two facilities set to come online Tglobal gas market, yet the LNG market is set to in the next year. challenges and benefits of utilising LNG as a marine fuel. tighten over the next few years as demand closes in on supply. With a raft of projects already under construction Global LNG supply and a steady stream of developments at the planning In total, global LNG capacity is expected to grow by stages, Australia is set to challenge Qatar’s future position 8.4 million tpy to 277 million tpy in 2013, with even lower as the world’s largest producer of LNG. But with spiraling growth of 4.4 million tpy forecast for 2014. The supply cost issues and project delays, what is the outlook for demand imbalance is forecast to worsen further as several the Australian LNG sector and where does it fit in when it LNG regasification facilities are set to come online during comes to plugging the supply gap? 2013 and 2014; according to the EIC’s in house energy At the beginning of 2013, LNG accounted for around projects database, EICDataStream, a total of 34 LNG 13% of the global gas market and by 2030 it is forecast to regasification terminals are due to come online over this meet over 35% of delivered gas supplies. Yet in the near period globally. During January 2013, India’s long-awaited 69 Fuelling the revolution term, demand for LNG is expected to outpace supply, Dabhol terminal and Israel’s Hadera floating, regasification increasing by a factor of 4.3 and 8.9 in 2013 and 2014 and storage unit (FSRU) were commissioned, bringing respectively, an average rise of 37 million tpy each year. At a combined 7.9 million tpy of regasification capacity the start of 2013, global LNG capacity stood at online. China’s Zhuhai and Tangshan facilities along with Alan D. Hatfield, Braemar Engineering, USA, discusses the 269 million tpy, only 4.8 million tpy higher than at the Singapore’s first regasification plant are all also due same point 12 months earlier following the commissioning online during 2013, totalling 13 million tpy of regasification of just one liquefaction plant, the Pluto facility in Australia. capacity. A similar outlook awaits this year, with minimal capacity LNG projects coming online are expected to provide set to come online, exacerbated by the delay of sufficient supply to meet demand up until 2017, but by technology developments that are making natural gas fuelled Angola LNG’s Soyo 5.2 million tpy liquefaction facility 2020 demand will exceed supply unless planned projects during 2012, which has now been pushed back until the (yet to be sanctioned) are given the go ahead. This supply first half of 2013 due to commissioning issues. Supply deficit will impact on prices which, after hitting a 17 month vehicles a reality. 73 E-LNG – a comparison 10 LNGINDUSTRY JUL/AUG 2013 JUL/AUG 2013 LNGINDUSTRY 11 Karlheinz Aigner, Christian Beer and Michael Schmelz, Siemens Energy Oil & Gas Solutions, Germany, examine 15 Boomtown whether electric drives are a viable option for LNG plants. Peter W. Lewis, Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP), Australia, discusses Western Australia’s burgeoning LNG 77 Portable gas industry. John Lamb and John Tirrell, CHI Engineering Services, Inc., 19 Leak-free FLNG USA, examine the practicalities of portable LNG solutions. David Brown, Tony Bokas and Mark Elliott, Baker Hughes Process and Pipeline Services, explain how leak detection ON THIS MONTH’S COVER services can enhance the commissioning process and reduce costs. MOGAS provides 24 Twin ships engineered valve solutions W. van Wijngaarden and F. Criminisi, SBM Offshore, for severe-service the Netherlands, and M. Schmidt, Linde AG, Germany, discuss applications, including a new mid-scale FLNG concept. July / August 2013 high-temperature, high-pressure, corrosive, 31 Optimised to float abrasive and erosive Antonio Pelagotti, Gabriele Mariotti and Carlo Cortese, environments. MOGAS GE Oil & Gas, Italy, discuss the development of serves many industries turbocompressors for FLNG applications. worldwide, offering isolation and control 35 Simple solution valve products in sizes Javid Talib, Brian Price and Shawn Hoffart, Black & Veatch, up to 36 in., with describe the benefits of using a single mixed refrigerant pressure classes up to process in FLNG facilities. ASME 4500. Larger Floating-ball Valve Solutions sizes, special applications for Mol Sieve Applications and unique material 39 Avoiding the disconnect requirements are available Stephen Woolway, Trelleborg Marine Systems’ Docking and upon request. Visit Mooring product area, Sweden, offers an integrated approach to FSRU mooring. www.mogas.com for more information. 45 To compress or to liquefy? Robert Dick, Phil Clark and David Stenning, Sea NG, Canada, examine the case for compressed natural gas transportation vs. LNG. Copyright © Palladian Publications Ltd 2013. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, LNG Industry is audited by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC). recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. All views expressed in this journal are An audit certificate is available on request from our sales department. those of the respective contributors and are not necessarily the opinions of the publisher, neither do the publishers endorse any of the claims made in the articles or the advertisements. Printed in the UK. LNG_JulyAug_2013_01-02.indd 1 06/08/2013 11:42 Visit us at Offshore Europe 2013, Aberdeen, UK Booth 5D30 Nothing can stop a real performer. 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Siemens has updated the compression and and successful operation. www.siemens.com/oilandgas LNG_JulyAug_2013_01-02.indd 2 08/08/2013 14:13 CALLUM O’REILLY EDITOR COMMENT s I write this month’s comment, I am keeping a close Industry experts estimate that BG Group, Origin Energy eye on one of the world’s oldest sporting contests – and Santos could have saved billions of dollars by merging AThe Ashes. For the uninitiated reader, The Ashes is a two of the three LNG ventures currently under construction fiercely competitive cricket competition that has been played in Queensland. Instead, we have seen a costly duplication of out between England and Australia since 1882. For many years, facilities and services, despite the fact that all three projects use Ashes cricket was dominated by Australia, who won eight test the same liquefaction technology and the same contractor. series in a row between 1989 and 2002-03. However, times There are growing fears that spiralling development costs have changed. England have emerged victorious in the last could hamstring Australia’s LNG industry as it attempts to two series and are leading this current test series 2-0, with just capture the second wave of project development. An article two tests still to play. from the Energy Industries Council (EIC), starting on p. 10 of this In England, much has been made of the recent plight issue, outlines a number of domestic factors that have resulted of the Australian cricket team. There are two main lines of in these huge cost escalations, including labour shortages, a thought as to why the country is suffering such a dramatic strengthening Australian dollar and a complicated regulatory decline in sporting fortunes.