CSG Agenda
1. Welcome Address by Mr. Atsunori Takeuchi, Executive Officer, Senior General Manager, LNG Business Department, Toyo Gas Co., Ltd.
(joint CSG/TSG session)
2. Guest speaker:
Mr. Satoshi Yoshida, Senior Advisor, Planning Department, The Japan Gas Association
Presentation on e-methane
(joint CSG/TSG session)
3. Update: American Terminals (Cheniere)
4. Members update on LNG activities (All CSG representatives)
5. Guest Speaker:
Mr. Hiroshi Hashimoto, Senior Analyst, Fossil Energies & International Cooperation Unit, The Institute of Energy Economics (IEEJ), Japan
LNG market under the Turbulence
6. Guest speaker
Mr. Daisuke Harada, Director, Energy Research Division, JOGMEC
Reminiscence: Rising Gas flow from Russia to Asia Pacific
7. Update: Asian Terminals (Tokyo Gas)
8. LNG Advocacy WG Update (Shell)
9. Master Sales Agreement Revision Work Stream (CSG Chairman)
10. Update: EU Terminals (Elengy)
11. New study proposals
12. Roundtable discussion – other topics and industry challenges
13. Update: Next CSG meetings – timing and location
14. AOB
TSG Agenda
1. Welcome, safety moment, approval of the draft agenda and organization of the meeting.
2. GIIGNL meetings
- Approval of the minutes of the 73rd TSG meeting held in Barcelona in April 2023
- General Assembly, Executive Committee, CSG
3. Process Safety on LNG Facilities
- Incident identification database – Leader Elengy (Mr. Bouchy) (Status of the data base, Recent developments, Potential improvements, Promote the reporting and usage of the data)
- Lessons from recent incidents (All members)
- Follow-up of previous incidents
- New incidents/near misses (to be determined)
4. Operation & Maintenance
- Operation
- Recent O&M surveys (Tank PSV’s..)
- Recent issues with LNG composition (N2, C6+..)
- HSE
- Recurrent HIPO’s reported on LNG jetties.
- Presence of NORMS – Follow-up
- Reduce LNG leaks from flanges/control valves. (South Hook)
5. GHG Emissions
- Ways to reduce the CO2 footprint of the LNG terminals – Leader Dunkerque LNG (Mr. Planteline). Results of the questionnaire.
- GIIGNL MRV Framework
- Return from the pilot phase on regasification plants (Quintero or Shell – TBC)
- Cold recovery
- Presentation on Rankine cycle at Huelva LNG terminal (Enagas – TBC)
6. GIIGNL Publications
- Synergies between LNG & LCO2 terminalling- Leader TotalEnergies (Mr. Thévenard)
- Update of the GIIGNL publication on LNG quality & compatibility
- Update of the Custody Transfer Handbook – Leader Fluxys LNG (Mr. Stevens)
- Presentation by Enagas (Mr. Jiménez) on updating proposal (TBC)
- Recent questions (SLNG)
- Updates of previous publications
7. Other matters
- New subjects: All members are invited to propose new topics to the TSG.
Potential subjects could be:
- Green gases (Bio-LNG, Liquefied Synthetic Methane and LH2)
- Information paper on green gases
- Future investments in LNG terminals for dealing with new fuels such as e-methane or synergies with LH2.
- New O&M philosophy in an environment where more flexibility is required (zero send-out to peak send-out, additional services such as truck loading, transhipment, ship reloading…)
- Benchmarking of maintenance of the main LNG equipment
- Standardizing the design of LNG trucks (connections, overfill detection systems.), in order to develop unmanned truck loading stations.
- Communication plan for the released studies
- Feed Back from LNG2023 (Mr Mierez, Sempra) on COVID experiences & lessons learned.
- Co-ordination with other LNG bodies (IGU, ISO, SIGTTO, GLE, GERG, Marcogaz, …)
8. Date and Venue of the next meeting
- Round table of recent FSRU projects (All members)
- Round table of recent LNG development in existing terminals (All members).
9. Verbal reports by Members on topical LNG matters (including safety feedback on LNG ships and facilities)
Round table of recent LNG development in existing FSRU/terminals (All members).
