FutureGas 2013

FutureGAS 2012 program

See below for the FutureGAS 2012 conference program.

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Wednesday 28 March

Business Stream	Technical Stream
Outlook, forcast, supply and demand	Generation/cogeneration/trigeneration
Graeme Bethune, Energy Quest Future gas: golden age or stone age? Kay Gardiner, Queensland Gas Commissioner Keeping pace in gas central - industry frameworks to support forecast gas supply and demand Jim Walker AO, QMI Solutions Queensland LNG projects - accessing real opportunities for local companies	Simon Helps, MWM Cogeneration - why it's too hard, too expensive and why it doesn't work! Jerome Perrin, Wartsila Australia Smart power generation and flexicycle
Innovative/new uses for gas	CSG
Matthew Buchanan, Linc Energy Committing for the future - unconventional opportunities Romano Bernhard, Clean Energy Fuels Australia Commercialisation strategies for standard gas assets using virtual CNG/LNG pipeline	Konstantinos Athanasiadis, GHD Engineering Salt management in the CSG industry and its potential environmental impact on land and aquifer Ashley Nelson, Biarri Optimising CSG projects - the application of commercial mathematics to gas development projects John Fleming, Gas Advisory Services PE pipeline code of practice - the next steps
Shale/ tight gas	Corrosion, maintenance and managing ageing infrastructure
Tim Leshchyshyn, Fracturing Horizontal Well Completions Inc. (Canada) Montney shale and tight siltstone - a review of 1000 horizontal multi-stage fractured Wells	Richard Blagrove, Jemena Infrastructure Services and Zoltan De Rhede, Georg Fischer Innovation the key to major gas main upgrade Roger Griffiths, BP refinery (Bulwer Island) Use of 3D plant design model as an inspection tool: where to next?
Asian gas markets	Facilities, process, measurement and metering
Joanne Wood, Capital Eight (China) China's 12th five-year plan	Barry Rinehart, Sage Energy (Canada) Screw compressors: a comparison of applications and features to conventional types of compression equipment Damian Smeulders, National Measurement Institute Counting calories - the measurement challenge for exporters

Thursday 29 March

Technical Stream

New Technologies for Australia

Bob Teale, Teale Pipe Welding Solutions (USA)
Advanced automated pipeline welding

Brendon Miller, Davy Process Technology (UK)
Davy and BP's technology for gas-to-liquids

Glen Gill, Innocative Energy Consulting
The Adavale Basin salt cavern storage project

Ian Black, APA Group
The future of CO2 geosequestration- an engineer's perspective into current research

Business Stream	Technical stream
Human Capital Skills	Unconventional technology
Matthew Taylor, Clough The role of the Australian engineering industry in the current gas boom Jayne Arthur, APA Group The ageing workforce	Adam Harris, Honeywell Process Solutions Technology for unconventional gas- from pilot to production Michael Thomas, WellDog (USA) Technical solutions to advance CSG quickly from drill bit to gas production
CSG Projects	LNG
James Plumb, Carter Newwll Lawyers Current issues- accessing land for petroleum development Jamahl Waddington, Maloney Field Services Land access - opportunities for the industry to improve the way it's done	Bruce Hodgins, Westport Innovations (Australia) Direct injection natural gas engines for mobile applications