| Programme Day one - Tuesday 17 March 2009 |
| 08:30 |
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Registration |
| 09:00 |
Kaj Christiansen
Vice President
Investments
Gasum |
Opening remarks from the Chair |
| Highlighting the legislative challenges |
| 09:10 |
Sebastian Freier
Manager
Regulation and Water
Thuega AG |
Incentive regulation and asset management
- Reviewing the legislative structure for asset management
- Incentive regulation: the advantages and risks for distribution network operators in Germany
- Assessing incentives for new investments and reinvesting: do they work together?
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| Looking at pipeline construction and the environment |
| 09:50 |
Kaj Christiansen
Vice President
Investments
Gasum |
Evaluating pipeline coatings for severe construction conditions
- Reviewing the test conditions corresponding to actual construction work
- Highlighting the tested materials: polyether, polypropene, fibre concrete and weld coatings
- Discussing the findings
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| 10:30 |
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Morning refreshments |
| 11:00 |
Dr Rudi Denys
Laoratory Soete
Universiteit Gent |
Material qualification requirements for pipelines in strain-based designs
- Creating standards to address the strain capacity of pipelines
- Considering variables that affect girth weld defect tolerance
- Testing and qualification programs to pre-qualify prospective materials and attendant welding procedures
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| Practical approaches to ensuring pipeline integrity |
| 11:40 |
Morten Kristiansen
Product Manager
Energy Solutions International |
Model based leak detection and other advanced applications
- Latest advances in leak detection for gas pipelines
- The benefits of hydraulic models
- How to avoid operational problems and bottlenecks
- Planning your gas day
- Operator training using training simulators
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| 12:20 |
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Lunch |
| 13:30 |
A panel made up of
speakers at the conference will discuss and debate questions from the audience in this interactive session |
Panel discussion: ensuring comprehensive evaluation of pipelines to provide complete pipeline integrity
- Developing an effective pipeline integrity management strategy
- Using KPIs to determine network performance
- Pipeline integrity evaluations and engineering assessments
- Optimising future inspections, maintenance and rehabilitation activities
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| 14:10 |
Markus Büchler
Materials Scientist and Managing Director
SGK Swiss Society for Corrosion Protection |
Corrosion due to a.c. interference on pipelines: the mechanism and new approaches to mitigation
- Effect of the cathodic protection level on a.c. corrosion of pipelines
- Mechanism for the acceleration of a.c. corrosion at high cathodic protection currents
- Monitoring of the a.c. corrosion by means of a new electrochemical technique
- Mitigation measures for a.c. corrosion
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| 14:50 |
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Afternoon refreshments and networking |
| 15:20 |
Rastislav Nukovic
Section Director
Central Maintenance
and
Vladimir Potocný
Section Director
Technical Competence Centre
Eustream |
Establishing efficient and accurate pipeline inspections and diagnostics
- Highlighting the tools used to investigate pipeline integrity
- Detecting and identifying anomalies along the pipeline
- Discussing accurate diagnostics for effective monitoring
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| Ensuring safety across the network |
| 16:00 |
Robert Owen
Pipeline Integrity
National Grid |
Case study: National Grid’s experiences ensuring their network integrity
- Reviewing the hard-pressure gas pipeline transmission system across the UK
- Discussing best practice techniques for thorough line inspections
- Guaranteeing total pipeline integrity
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| 16:40 |
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Closing remarks from the Chair |
| 16:50 |
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Close of day one |
| Programme Day two - Wednesday 18 March 2009 |
| 08:30 |
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Registration |
| 09:00 |
Roberto Pirani
Managing Director
PIPELINE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING LIMITED |
Opening remarks from the Chair |
| 09:10 |
Roundtable session |
Delegates will be able to attend three one-hour roundtable discussion groups from a selection of key topics. An industry expert will facilitate each session, ensuring an exchange of opinions and ideas related to an aspect of gas pipelines. |
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Reviewing pipeline protection during construction
Kaj Christiansen
Vice President
Investments
Gasum |
Exploring technologies for leak detection
Morten Kristiansen
Product Manager
Energy Solutions International |
Reviewing pipeline integrity below and above ground
Rastislav Nukovic
Section Director
Central Maintenance
and
Vladimir Potocný
Section Director
Technical Competence Centre
Eustream |
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| 12:30 |
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Lunch |
| Developing pipeline management techniques |
| 13:45 |
A panel made up of
speakers at the conference will discuss and debate questions from the audience in this interactive session |
Panel Discussion: ensuring comprehensive evaluation of pipelines to provide complete pipeline integrity
- Developing an effective pipeline integrity management strategy
- Using KPIs to determine network performance
- Pipeline integrity evaluations and engineering assessments
- Optimising future inspections, maintenance and rehabilitation activities
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| Ensuring European gas supply |
| 14:20 |
Søren Juel Hansen
Head of Infrastructure
Energinet |
Securing the future supply of gas to and from Denmark
- Analysing the Danish supply and demand side gas challenges
- The Danish plan for ensuring new gas supplies by 2015
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| 15:00 |
Roberto Pirani
Chairman and Technical Director
GUEU-White Stream Pipeline Company Ltd |
White Stream: a diversified source of natural gas for Eastern Europe and the EU
- Gas demand in Europe and potential supply sources
- Technical feasibility
- Legal, financial and commercial aspects
- EU and Eastern European countries’ support
- Project implementation strategy
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| 15:40 |
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Closing remarks from the Chair and Champagne prize draw |
| 15:50 |
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Close of conference |
