Monday April 28
 

07.00

Registration – sponsored by:

08.00

Official Opening

Omar Ahmed Suwaina, ADNOC, UAE

SESSION A

Chair: Kamal Morsi, ADNOC, UAE

08.20

EQUILIBRIUM WATER CONTENT OF HIGH PRESSURE ACID GASES: A MATHEMATICAL MODEL

Wayne D. Monnery, Xergy Processing Inc.

William Y. Svrcek, University of Calgary, Canada

Ismail A. Alami, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia

09.00

SOUR AND ACID GAS OIL AND GAS APPLICATIONS: ENABLING EXTREME RELIABILITY

Alberto Tesei, Dino Bianchi, Leonardo Baldassarre,

Anita Gravame, Massimo Giannozzi, GE Oil and Gas, Italy

Amin Radi, Tim Haeberle, Ravi Gadangi, GE Oil & Gas, USA

Mohamed Ali, Dennis Gray, GE Global Research, USA

09.40

DETERMINING LOCATION OF H2S GAS DETECTORS USING A RISK BASED APPROACH

Ekarath Raveendran, ADNOC

Bruno Guedes, Amey Kulkarni, Bureau Veritas, U.A.E

10.20

Refreshments

10.50

BOOSTING YOUR H2S-SELECTIVITY IN SOUR GAS TREATMENT

Harald Linga, Bernt H. Kalgraff, ProPure AS, Norway

11.30

A REVIEW OF RECENT NATURAL GAS DISCOVERIES IN CHINA

Ying Wu, John Carroll, Gas Liquids Engineering, Canada

12.10

SPEAKERS PANEL SESSION

12.30

Luncheon –

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SESSION B

Chair: Ahmed Somali, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia

14.00

CORROSION CONTROL ON AMINE PLANTS: NEW COMPACT UNIT DESIGN FOR HIGH ACID GAS LOADINGS

Jean Kittel, IFP, Michel R. Bonis, TOTAL, Gauthier Perdu, PROSERNAT, France

14.40

MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF HIGHLY SOUR NATURAL GAS

Barry Friedman, Shaun Anderson, Sean Arendell, WGI Middle East, USA

15.20

Refreshments

15.50

DEVELOPMENT AND INDUSTRIAL VALIDATION OF A NEW HYBRID SOLVENT FOR MERCAPTANS REMOVAL

Francois Lallemand, Claire Weiss, Damien Roquet, TOTAL, France

16.30

CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT OF GAS TREATING UNITS IN QATARGAS

Nasreddin Jelloul Hakim, Qatargas, Qatar

17.10

SPEAKERS PANEL SESSION

17.30

Close of Day 1

19.30

SOGAT 2008 Gala Dinner – sponsored by:

SESSION C

Chair: Bobby Kassamali, ConocoPhillips, USA

08.00

THE CONTROLLED FREEZE ZONE (CFZ™) FOR PROCESSING OF HIGH CO2 AND H2S GAS

Jaime A. Valencia, Randy Howard, ExxonMobil, USA

08.40

DEVELOPING THE RAK GAS COMMISSION’S ATLANTIS GAS PROCESSING PLANT

Michael W. Conder, Kindra Snow-McGregor, Stuart J. Watson,

April D. Schroer, Jeff W. Carlson, Pearl Development Company, UAE

09.20

THE FAILURE OF REACTION FURNACE REFRACTORY DESIGN

Ibrahim A. Al-Hummam, Maher H. Al-Abdullatif, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia

10.00

Refreshments

10.30

COST EFFECTIVE SULFUR RECOVERY SOLUTIONS FOR MIDDLE EAST’S GREENER ENVIRONMENT

Thomas K. Chow, John A. Gebur, Vincent W. Wong,

Fluor Energy and Chemicals, USA

11.10

OXYGEN ENRICHMENT OF SULFUR RECOVERY UNITS TO IMPROVE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE, BOOST PROCESSING CAPACITY AND CONSERVE CAPITAL

Elmo Nasato, Goar, Allison & Associates, Uday Parekh, Philip Morris,

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., USA

11.50

SPEAKERS PANEL SESSION

12.10

Luncheon – sponsored by:

SESSION D

Chair: Peter Verhulst, Shell, UAE

13.40

CFD STUDY OF FUEL GAS ASSISTED BTX DESTRUCTION IN A SPLIT FLOW REACTION FURNACE

Dave Sikorski, Anthony Corriveau, Nick Roussakis, HEC Canada Inc., Canada

14.20

MOLTEN & SOLID SULFUR STORAGE & HANDLING

Johnny E. Johnson, WGI Middle East, USA Peter D. Clark, ASRL, Canada

15.00

Refreshments

15.30

DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR UTILIZATION AND STORAGE OF EXCESS SULFUR

Peter D. Clark, Paul M. Davis, Robert A. Marriott, Herman H.M. Wan,

Francis Bernard, University of Calgary and ASRL, Canada

16.10

THE FUTURE OF FORMING – THE REINVENTION OF THE GRANULATOR

Brian Pyke, Enersul Limited Partnership, Canada

16.50

SPEAKERS PANEL SESSION

17.10

Close of SOGAT 2008 Conference

Conference Proceedings sponsored by:

08.00

Registration

08.30

FORUM INTRODUCTION

Chair: Stephen Lloyd, Occidental Development Company, UAE

08.40

REDUCING THE CO2 FOOTPRINT: OVERVIEW OF EXISTING AND FUTURE CO2 MITIGATION STRATEGIES

Matthias Finkenrath, Matthew Lehar, GE Global Research, Germany

Kelly Fletcher, Michael Bartlett, GE Global Research, USA

Filippo Cinelli, Giacomo Seghi, GE Oil and Gas, Italy

09.20

CO2 MANAGEMENT – THE KEY TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Power (CHP) plant.

Geirr H. Haarr, StatoilHydro New Energy

10.00

Refreshments

10.30

THE STUDY OF ENERGY CONSERVATION AND CO2 REDUCTION MEASURES IN SOUTH PARS GAS COMPLEX

Mohammad Mahdi Nouzari, Mahnaz Sayahi, Sayed Ehsan Marashi, Mojtaba Alem, NOANDISH Energy Engineering Consultants, Akbar Ehsaninejad, Habib Babaei, South Pars Gas Complex Company, Iran

11.10

CO2 ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY AND GEOLOGICAL STORAGE: LESSONS LEARNED FROM BP’S PROJECTS

Iain Wright, BP Alternative Energy, UK

11.50

SPEAKERS PANEL SESSION

12.10

Luncheon –

sponsored by:

13.40

CONTROLLING CO2 EMISSIONS IN LARGE SCALE SOUR GAS DEVELOPMENTS

Peter D. Clark, Technical Manager, ASRL and University of Calgary,

Michael A. Shields, University of Calgary,

Hal H. Gunardson, Engineering Consultant, Canada

14.20

STRATEGIES FOR SOUR GAS FIELD DEVELOPMENTS AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND

Mahin Rameshni, Worley Parsons, USA

15.00

CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: A NOVEL APPROACH TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF REGIONAL CO2 INFRASTRUCTURE

Malcolm Harrison, Tim Bullen, Simon Clarke, Foster Wheeler, UK

15.40

SPEAKERS PANEL SESSION

16.00

Close of Forum and Refreshments