44th CSG & 77th TSG Joint Meeting - Izmir

Dear TSG and CSG Representatives,

The GIIGNL 77^th Technical Study Group and 44^th Commercial Study Group meetings had been held in Izmir, Türkiye from May 5 to 7, 2025 at the kind invitation of EGE GAZ.

Best regards,

Laurent David

Monday May 5, 2025

Welcome Reception

Place: Hotel Marriott – ground floor

Dress Code: Smart Casual Attire

• 6:30 PM – 09:00 PM Welcome Drinks & Dinner at Lima Restaurant

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

TSG and CSG Meetings

Place: Hotel Marriott – M floor
Dress code: Smart Casual Attire

• 09:00 AM TSG & CSG working sessions
• 12:30 PM   Lunch
• 01:30 PM  TSG & CSG working sessions
• 05:00 PM End of the meetings

Gala Dinner

Place: Hotel Marriott
Dress code: Smart Casual Attire

• 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM  Dinner at Pagos Restaurant – Hotel Rooftop

Wednesday, May 7, 2024

For TSG: Technical visit of Aliaga LNG Terminal

• 08:00 AM Transfer to Aliaga site
• 09:00 AM Technical visit
• 12:00 AM  Transfer to Hotel
• 01:00 PM   Lunch at the hotel

For all: Cultural city tour

• 09:00 AM Cultural City Tour
• 01:00 PM   Lunch at the hotel

TSG  Meeting

• 02:00 PM TSG working session
• 05:00 PM End of the meeting

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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 76^th TSG meeting held in London in November 2024
• General Assembly, Executive Committee

3. Process Safety on LNG Facilities

• Incident identification database – Leader Elengy (Mr. Caudron)
• Lessons from recent incidents (All members)

4. Operations & Maintenance

• Operations
  • Recent O&M surveys
  • Recent issues with LNG composition (N2, C6+…)
• HSE

5. GHG Emissions

• Ways to reduce the CO2 footprint of the LNG terminals – Leader Dunkerque LNG (Mr. Planteline).
• LC02 Terminalling – Leader Elengy / Engie Lab Crigen (Ms. Capurro)
• MRV report – Input sheet to collect more primary data from regas terminals (Shell) and REX on the use of the excel template from GIIGNL (Ms. Ruan Yang)
• Methane venting permanent monitoring systems (Ms. Lahiani, TTE)

6. GIIGNL Publications

• Update of the Custody Transfer Handbook – Leader Fluxys LNG (Mr. Stevens) – Recent questions
• New edition of Rollover report to include FSRUs and FSUs – Leader Shell (Ms. Alikhanbagi)
• Update of the LNG quality & compatibility
• 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
  • GIIGNL new gases study : REX and next steps
  • 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
  • LNG truck loading (Standardisation of the design, Unmanned stations, couplers..)
  • Others
• Communication plan for the released studies
• Co-ordination with other LNG bodies (IGU, ISO, SIGTTO, GLE, GERG, Marcogaz, …)

8. Date and venue of next TSG meeting

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

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CSG Agenda

1. Update of the energy mix of Türkiye and the role of LNG

2. Regional market updates

• Europe
  • Market Update – Gaelle Seidenbinder, Strategy Manager – Elengy
  • What to expect in terms of European Gas demand? – Mike Fulwood, Senior Research Fellow – OIES
• Asia
  • Market Update – Takuro Yamamoto, Managing Director and CEO, Tokyo Gas UK
  • Prospective views on key regional markets such as China and India – Mike Fulwood, Senior Research Fellow – OIES
• Americas
  • Market Update North and Central Americas – Najla Jamoussi, Director, Market Fundamentals – Global LNG – Cheniere
  • Market Update South Americas – Henrique Anjos, Head of Market Intelligence – EDGE
  • New policy framework in the US and on the evolution of liquefaction capacity in the US – Mike Fulwood, Senior Research Fellow – OIES

3. Round Table (verbal report)

4. GHG MRV Framework

• Central Office Excel template – Case Study
• Lessons from the pilot study
• Evolution of the GIIGNL Framework / Potential partnership

5. Update on taskforces

• Decarbonization knowledge sharing sessions
• New gases study
• EU Methane Regulation