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François Ravel Vice-President, LNG Marketing, Total SA, Paris, France

Forecasting LNG demand is a challenging exercise. It usually starts with forecasting natural gas demand, which is itself a challenge, especially at times of economic crisis.
Tuesday, 15 June 2010 05:50

News Index June 2010

A round-up of the latest company news and developments.
Satish L. Gandhi, Director of LNG Product Development Center in the LNG Technology & Licensing group at ConocoPhillips

The Optimized Cascade process, like the classical cascade technology, uses three integrated refrigeration cycles of essentially pure refrigerants.
Chabbi Abdeldjallil and Bentabba Zine Alabidine of Sonatrach report on how number crunching helps the rotational running of an LNG fleet

Algeria is ranked among the major LNG exporting countries and its reserves must be exported at an optimal level to satisfy all its customers.
The LNG industry received a boost after the disappointment caused by a curtailed LNG16 conference in Algeria when a major planned Australian-operated project was given the go-ahead as Floating LNG venture.
M Zaparel Awang, Bintulu LNG, Sarawak, Malaysia

The Malaysia LNG group of companies has three LNG plants located in Bintulu, Sarawak, Malaysia with a nameplate capacity of 23 million tonnes per annum.
Leonardo Brunori, deputy director, RINA Industry Division, and Paolo Salza, head of Technical Department, RINA Marine Division

Italy is positioning itself to be the LNG importing hub for south and central Europe and it is showing the world a clear lead in developing offshore LNG terminals.
Paul Bridgwood, LNG Limited, Perth, Australia

A new low-cost, highly efficient process using simple proven and low-risk technology may benefit many future LNG projects.
Tuesday, 11 May 2010 11:57

News Index May 2010

A round up of the latest company news and developments.
William P. Schmidt, Technology Manager, LNG Process, Christopher M. Ott
Principal Process Engineer, Dr. Yu Nan Liu, Technical Director LNG
William A. Kennington, Commercial Manager LNG, Air Products Inc., Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA


For many years, the industry has focused on large baseload plants built on land. Recently, more attention is being given to FLNG and smaller train sizes. These new plant types have different requirements and weightings for reliability, operability, efficiency and capacity.