Special reports

Kunal Sawhney, Kalkine Group, Australia, considers bio-LNG as an ideal alternative to fossil fuels for meeting zero carbon emission targets, without hampering energy security.

Mads Linné Kaasgaard, Svanehøj, Denmark, highlights how increased global trade in LNG calls for an enhanced focus on safety procedures, such as monitoring storage tanks and servicing a facility over its lifetime.

Panos Mitrou and Anna Apostolopoulou, Lloyd’s Register, argue that ship supply constraints could prove a major obstacle to the LNG sector’s development later this decade.

Justin Ellrich, Black & Veatch Corporation, USA, considers multiple execution methods for small scale and mid scale LNG facilities, and shares some learnings for standardisation.

Magnus Eikens, ECONNECT Energy, Norway, explores some of the challenges and possibilities within the current state of the European LNG market, and technological innovations that can contribute towards sustained energy security.

Emma Richards, Fitch Solutions, provides an outlook for the global LNG market.

New season of the Palladian Energy Podcast: Moving hydrocarbon businesses towards something greener, Infosys Consulting.

In the December 2022 issue of LNG Industry, Pierre Barere and Gilles Tissot, OPTA-PERIPH, explain how to constitute an LNG reference gas to assess the accuracy of the sampling chain analysis. This special report lists all the references contained within the article.

A brand-new complete NDT software platform has just arrived on the market. Removing interpretation from the equation, Creaform’s VXintegrity is empowering NDT service companies to provide high-value services and industrial asset owners to make the best maintenance decisions. See how two companies reduced their costs and their inspection time.

Proper control valve and relief valve selection is critical for profitable LNG terminal operations. Jean-Paul Boyer, Massimiliano Franco, Nagendra Maddula, and Eugenio Sudati, Emerson, explain the key design parameters for choosing the best components.

Rob Butler, Baker Botts, UK, looks at the data behind LNG contracting activity over the last five years in order to establish whether there has been a resurgence in long-term LNG contracts, and considers what is driving change in LNG contracting behaviour during this period.

Greg Gedney, Industry Expansion Manager, Greene Tweed, explores how to increase reliability and pump lifetime in ethylene oxide service.

During this webinar, Brüel & Kjær Vibro will uncover the secrets of how condition monitoring can go beyond detecting machine component wear at an early stage, and be able to provide diagnostics and root cause analysis capabilities to detect operator errors, installation errors, and more.

Shell has announced that Ben van Beurden will step down as Chief Executive Officer at the end of 2022, and that his successor will be Wael Sawan.

High natural gas prices will continue to drive down European demand to 7% below the five-year average through March, leaving a best-case scenario of storage levels at 31% at winter’s end.