Flaring and Venting: The Big Picture

Introduction & Facilitation by the Chairperson Rhonda Zygocki, International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (OGP)

Keynote address: “Global Gas Flaring Reduction: a Time for Action!” by Rashad Kaldany, Director Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals Dept., World Bank

 Gas flaring: The countries’ experience and best practices 

• Nasipolla Suleimenov, Ministry of Industry & Energy, Head of Division, Russia 
• Alexandr Savinov, Ministry of Industry & Energy, Head of Division, Russia 
• James Slutz, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil and Natural Gas,  U.S. Department of Energy
• “Gas flaring in the context of Sustainable Development”
  Ms JoAnne DiSano, Director for Sustainable Development, United Nations

Facilitation by the Chairperson Kristalina Georgieva, Director for Strategy & Network Operations, World Bank

• “Gas Flaring, Energy Security and the Environment” (H.E. François Loos, Minister Delegate for Industry, France
• “The view of a major international oil company” (Christophe de Margerie, President Exploration-Production, TOTAL)
• “The experience of a major gas producer” (Mohamed Meziane, President and CEO, Sonatrach)
• Claude Mandil, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (Interview) 

 The producing countries’ experience 

• Alexandr. Savinov, Ministry of Industry & Energy, Head of Division, Russia
• Martyn Howells, The World Bank, on behalf of  Pr. Anthony Adegbulugbe, Special Advisor to the President on Energy Matters, Nigeria
• Torbjorn Urfjell, Advisor to the Minister of International Development, Norway 
• Abdelhamid Maghrebi, Qatar Petroleum

“The oil companies’ experience”

Facilitated by Bent Svensson, GGFR Programme Manager, WorldBank

• Aidan Ring, Business Development Manager, Marathon 
• Pat Blough VP Gas Commercialization, Chevron
• Mikhail Gordin, Gas Business Development, TNK-BP
• P.G. Cavazos, Environmental Manager, ExxonMobil
• Colin Braithwaite, Shell
• Edgar Furuholt, Special Advisor on Environment, Statoil

“Meeting the challenge!”

• "Gas commercialisation technologies" (Alexandre Rojey, Director for Sustainable Development, French Institute of Petroleum)
• "The Infrastructure challenge" (Dr Mostefa Ouki, Manager Oil & Gas, Nexant)

"Operational and commercial solutions for flaring and venting”

Facilitated by: S. Pariente-David, World Bank

• Methanol  (Larry Kocher, Marathon)
• DME  (Jean Alain Taupy, TOTAL)
• CNG Marine Transport  (Paul Britton, Enersea Transport LLC)
• CNG Marine Transport  (D. Hawkins, TransOcean)

Upstream

Facilitated by: M. Howells, World Bank

• Gas re-injection  (Elisabeth Proust, TOTAL)
• Gas re-injection as CDM  (Paul Zakkour, ERM)
• Smart wells/smart fields  (Skip Desaulniers, BP)
• Production optimisation  (Ruben van Grinsven, Shell)

Power Generation

Facilitated by:  D. Sweet, WADE

• Power generation  (Michel Molière, GE)
• Micro-power generation  (Jakob Klimstra, Wartsila David Sweet, WADE)
• Micro-power generation  (Geraldine Roy, Siemens Ind. Turbomachinery Ltd)
• A Nigerian case study of S.D.  (M. Caenen, Bonny Utility Company)
• “Gas flaring and CO2 emissions in Russia” by Isabel Murray, Russia Desk Officer, International Energy Agency 

CNG / Mini-Medium LNG

Facilitated by: C. Groothuis, Shell

• Medium-Scale Liquefaction Technology  (Tim Cornitius, Zeus Devt)
• Mini to Medium LNG  (Matthew Barclay, Prometheus Energy)
• CNG Market Development  (Masami Kojima, World Bank)
  

Expand Boundaries!

Facilitated by: F. R. Mouton,  World Bank

• North Sea experience  (Mike Mason, BP)
• Gulf of Guinea experience  (Thierry Monmont, TOTAL)
• Venezuelan experience  (Arcangelo Sena, PDVSA INTEVEP)

Carbon Credits

Facilitated by: F. Sucre, World Bank

• Gas Flaring and CDM  (Ch. de Gouvello, World Bank, Member of the CDM Meth Panel)
• Gas Flaring and JI Projects  (A. Platonova-Oquab, World Bank)
• Status of JI framework in Russia  (Helmut Schreiber, World Bank)
• Carbon finance potential of gas utilisation projects (Nikolay Seregin, Gazprom Neft)

GTL/Methanol/CNG

Facilitated by: M. Belguedj, World Bank

• Mini GTL  (Kirill Liats, MetaProcess)
• Diesel & Gas engines  (Petar Pelemis, MAN Diesel SE)
• Mini methanol  (Onataze Messiri, DTSG/OPTS Initiative)
• Mini methanol   (James Banister, Heatric)

Flares…

Facilitated by: A. Berg, AEUB

• Flare efficiency   (M. Johnson, Carleton University)
• Flare practice & improvement  (Magne BjØrkhaug, Gullfaks operating organisation, Statoil)
• Flare gas recovery systems & the “flare bullet”  (Jonathan Miles, Vetco)

Carbon Credits

Facilitated by: B. Svensson, World Bank

• Economic drivers in gas flare projects   (Paul Parks, Econ Carbon)
• CDM in practice  (Paolo Linzi, Eni)
• MDG Carbon Facility   (Andrew Yager, UNDP)
• Flare Volume Measurement (Atle Johannessen, Roxar )
• The Secret to Vent/Flare Reduction  (Bill Schneider, Comm Engineering)

 “Be Country Focused!”: identifying 2007-2009 in country flaring and venting reduction projects 

• “The Canadian experience in flaring reduction” Arden Berg, Alberta Energy & Utilities Board
• “The Norwegian experience” Mrs. Marta Melhus, Principal Engineer, Norwegian Directorate of Petroleum
• “Minimizing Flaring and Venting in Established Markets” J. Michael Melancon, Regional Supervisor for Production and Development, Minerals Management Service's Gulf of Mexico Region
• “Flares as seen from the sky” Dr. Chris Elvidge, National Oceanographic Observatory Administration, US Dept of Commerce

  Roundtable Discussions

   Russia/Caspian Sea   (Russian/English)

Facilitated by Anastasiya Rozhkova, World Bank

•  “Oil companies’ position on gas flaring in Kazakhstan”  by Ole Udsen, Kazakhstan Petroleum Association
•  “Gas flaring in Russia”  by Vsevolod Gavrilov, Ministry of Economic Development & Trade, Russia
•  "Satellite monitoring of gas flaring in Kazakhstan"  in Russian by Mr. Nasipolla Suleimenov
•  “Azerbaijan experience”  by Ilyas Alizade & Fakhraddin Karimov SOCAR Technological Institute
• "Enhancing Effectiveness of APG Utilization"  Evgeniya Pilipenko, SIBUR

 Africa Gulf of Guinea   (French/English)

Facilitated by Mrs. Dominique Lallement, World Bank

•  “Gas flaring in Nigeria”  by Charles Adeniji, Chevron
• “Gas flaring and utilization in Cameroon”  by Paul Ngii Nag, Gas Manager, SNH

 Middle East/North Africa  (French/English)

Facilitated by Dr. Silvia Pariente-David, World Bank

•  “Kuwait experience   by Adnan Al-Adwani, Kuwait Oil Company
• “OPEC vision”  by Ramiro Ramirez, Environmental Policies Analyst, OPEC

Latin America (Spanish/English)

Facilitated by Francisco Sucre, World Bank

•  “Methane to Markets/Flaring Reduction Project Development: Case Study in Colombia”  by Roger Fernandez, Team Leader Natural Gas STAR Program
• “Petrobras experience”   by Carlos Arentz Pereira, Energy Efficiency Manager & Denis Krambeck Dinelli, Business Consultant, Petrobras

 Closing session: Facilitated by the World Bank