Qatargas IPTC papers focus on tech innovations and challenges

Qatargas was a principal sponsor of the annual event, attended by more than 7,000 industry professionals from across the globe. Qatargas’ environmental initiatives featured prominently in the presentations.

Ibrahim Bawazir, surveillance division manager, presented a paper on ‘Qatargas Flaring Reduction Programme’.

Khalifa Ahmed al-Sulaiti, environmental affairs division manager, discussed ‘Qatargas Greenhouse Gas Management Strategy’ in his presentation.

Bashir Mirza, Jetty Boil-off Gas Recovery Project manager, delivered a presentation on the landmark project that will help Qatar reduce its current flaring from LNG loading operations by more than 90% which equates to annual savings of 600,000 tonnes of gas and 1.5mn tonnes of carbon dioxide.

The bulk of Qatargas presentations were about the technical innovations and challenges related to offshore gas reservoir and production.

Tomas J Paez, well engineering & intervention division manager, presented a paper on – “From a Project-Oriented to an Operations-Focused Organisation – The Case of QG OPCO Well Engineering and Intervention Division”.

The paper discussed the multiple initiatives adopted by Qatargas’ well engineering & intervention division to transition from a project-oriented to an operations-focused organisation.

Prashun Kumar Das, head (well intervention), presented a paper titled “Operational Excellence in Qatar’s First Successful Rigless Heavy Duty Wireline Fishing in a Qatargas Offshore Unmanned Platform”.

The paper described the approach and the technique applied in the fishing operation for recovering 11,414ft of 0.23 inch electric line used in Qatargas North Field wells for data acquisition.

Pankaj Kumar, production performance division manager and Swati Mitra, senior production performance engineer, jointly presented a paper titled “Challenges in the Uninterrupted Production and Supply of Gas to Mega LNG Trains”.

Fraser Ross, head (Reservoir Studies), discussed the innovative technique that can be used to understand the impact that reservoir layering has on the pressure behaviour of the reservoir in his presentation titled “What Happened to All My Gas? P/Z Plots in Layered Reservoirs”.

A special event was organised during the conference to recognise the principal sponsors.

On behalf of Qatargas, Mansour Rashid al-Naimi, public relations manager, received a memento of appreciation from the conference organisers.

Hundreds of conference delegates visited the Qatargas stand at the exhibition held on the sidelines.

Delegates also visited the Qatargas LNG Plant as part of the technical tour of Ras Laffan Industrial City, during which they were able to see and appreciate the scale and magnitude of the “world’s largest” LNG producing facility.