RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION

CATALYZING THE FUTURE

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Contents Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................ 4

Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 5

Conclusions ........................................................................................................................................ 6

Study group reports ........................................................................................................................... 7

Meetings ............................................................................................................................................ 8

Gratitude and Member’s List ............................................................................................................. 9

Executive Summary

In the current IGU triennium 2015 and 2018, IGU Committee “Research, Development and Innovation” dedicated its work to the technical program of two IGU events:

The International Gas Research Conference which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from

24th till 26th May 2017

The 27th World Gas Congress taking place in Washington D.C., United States of America

between 25th and 29th June 2018

To accomplish this task, the committee established three study groups:

Study Group 1: Research radar

Study Group 2: Social license – Creating acceptance through innovation:

Study Group 3: Gas driven mobility

Through the work of these study groups, the intention was to trigger publications for the IGU print media, magazine and newsletter. The major findings of the Committee are: It is of high value for IGU to maintain a permanent exchange on latest R&D findings and innovation. The initiative “research radar” therefore should be turned into a permanent sharing of innovation in technology in a wider range of audience through the IGU web page. It is recommended to build up such a technology web site. Throughout different countries and different market conditions it turned out to be true that gas innovation is a major vehicle to create acceptance for gases – natural gas, synthetic gases, biogases or hydrogen. IGU should elaborate this path even further as gases are a key to achieving climate targets, improving air quality and ensuring prosperity. Gas-fuelled transport is a world-wide growing topic. Currently, transport is still dominated by gasoline and diesel. The de-carbonization potential and the potential to improve air quality in this segment is significant - the third largest after power and heat. There are many best practice examples on CNG transport or small scale LNG (such as for heavy trucks and ships) that should be spread throughout the IGU community.

Introduction

The IGU Committee “Research, Development and Innovation” dedicated its work to highlighting major technical developments in the gas industry and their effect on the public acceptance of gas.

IGU Committee “Research, Development and Innovation” examined in this triennium the developments in three "fields of action":

Study Group 1: Research radar This group focused on the identification of current R&D topics along the gas chain;

Study Group 2: Social license – creating acceptance through innovation This group supported natural gas marketing by selecting samples of technologies that improve the general acceptance for natural gas as a fuel including:

o Power to gas and convergence of energy systems

o Efficiency increases through advanced technologies

o Gases from renewables (biogas, hydrogen) and carbon management

Study Group 3: Gas-driven mobility This group examined the potential of natural gas as an across-the-board transportation fuel with a focus on LNG, hydrogen and hythane. Road vehicles were focused on, but also other vehicles (ships, trains, planes) were in scope.

Major objectives of the Committee were:

1. to provide topics and content for the IGU Gas Research Conference (IGRC 2017)

2. to provide a sound basis for fact-based communication. This included committee members producing a number of articles about new technical developments in the gas industry, collaboration with the Marketing & Communications Committee and their publication in the IGU magazine and newsletter.

Conclusions The major findings of the Committee are:

1. It is of high value for IGU to maintain a permanent exchange on latest R&D findings and innovation. The initiative “research radar” therefore should be turned into a permanent sharing of innovation in technology in a wider range of audience through the IGU web page. It is recommended to build up such a technology web site.

2. Throughout different countries and different market conditions it turned out to be true that gas innovation is a major vehicle to create acceptance for gases – natural gas, synthetic gases, biogases or hydrogen. IGU should elaborate this path even further as gases are a key to achieving climate targets, improving air quality and ensuring prosperity.

3. Gas-fuelled transport is a world-wide growing topic. Currently, transport is still dominated by gasoline and diesel. The de-carbonization potential and the potential to improve air quality in this segment is significant - the third largest after power and heat. There are many best practice examples on CNG transport or small scale LNG (such as for heavy trucks and ships) that should be spread throughout the IGU community.

Our “research radar“ shows promising cases for ongoing research across the whole value chain of gas, proving that the technical potential of gas is far from depletion.

The public acceptance of natural gas (a fossil fuel) has become a major issue. In some markets the acceptance of natural gas a fuel of choice is simply due to its price tag whereas in other regions, such as Eastern Asia and Europe, natural gas faces different market conditions and challenges. It is up to the gas industry to manoeuvre out of uncomfortable positions by developing and pointing at the ways gas can be used in future applications, not in competition to more favoured energy sources but as an improvement, many of them in relation to renewables. For those resources, natural gas has to share some of its advantages that those “new” energy sources still lack, namely: infrastructure, storage capacity, reliability of supply, affordability.

Gas driven mobility shows that combustion engines driven by gasoline or diesel are having a hard time responding to recent legal demands, but gas engines are still far from that. Taking into account that most electric power still does not come from renewable resources, gas engines are even cleaner than electric vehicles. The options for gas driven vehicles are not limited to road transport. Many examples show that natural gas is quite suitable as fuel for railway engines, ships of any size and air transport. Natural gas, in particular LNG, is very suitable e.g. to replace large oil-driven vessels, with much of an improvement to the air quality in waterways and at sea, and noise reduction as a surplus.

In summary, natural gas fuels the future. Research & innovation is a catalyst for development on the road to a low-carbon future and provides a sound basis for communication, sustainable energy policy and public acceptance of gas.

Study group reports The study groups published articles in the IGU media throughout the triennium, highlighting actual developments in gas technology across the entire industry as shown below.

Author(s)

Title

Published

Gert Müller-Syring, Hartmut Krause

Convergence of Power, Gas & Renewables Jan 2016 (Newsletter)

Apr 2016 (IGU Magazine)

Jan Olav Berge Repair of deep water pipelines by new remote welding technology

Oct 2016

(IGU Magazine)

Eugeny Stepanov, Roman Romanenko

Analysis of gas pipelines’ actual condition Jan 2017

(IGU newsletter)

Sergey Vlasov,

Alex Demyanov,

Samvel Melkumyan

Remote diagnostic monitoring of hazardous pipeline sections

Jan 2017

(IGU newsletter)

Marek Kowalczuk, Andrzej Rogala,

Jan Hupka

Mobile system for dimethyl ether (DME) production from natural gas

Apr 2017

(IGU Magazine)

Jörg Leicher,

Bernard Blez

Pollutant Emissions Reduction in Industrial Gas-Fired Applications

Apr 2017

(IGU Magazine)

Sergey Vlasov,

Valery Snakin

Ecological monitoring during the construction of main gas pipelines

Jan 2017

(IGU newsletter)

Valeriy Snakin,

Inna Vlasova,

Irina Chudovskaya

Application of methanotrophs for minimizing ecological risk in case of seepage from pipelines or underground gas storage facilities

Nov 2016

(IGU newsletter)

Meetings

The Committee held five meetings and two WebEx-meetings in the triennium:

15 - 17 September 2015 in Berlin, Germany

17 February 2016 WebEx 1

14 July 2016 WebEx II

1 - 2 November 2016 in Washington D.C., United States of America

1 - 2 March 2017 in Brisbane, Australia

26 May 2017 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (brief meeting at the end of IGRC 2017)

4 - 5 October 2017 in Sankt Petersburg, Russia

8 - 9 March 2018 in Saint Denis-La Plaine, France

Gratitude and Member’s List The Research, Development and Innovation Committee expresses its thanks to all those who made its work possible in the last three years, be it by taking up tasks within the committee work or by contributing to the meetings. Without the help of a good number of experts and without the generosity of host companies and institutions, the work of our committee and its progress would not have been possible.

Between 2015 and 2018, the following experts were active members.

Country Member Company/Organization

Algeria Rachid Baiche Sonatrach

Messaouda Benferrah Sonatrach

Yamina Benabdessalem SN HYPROC

Nassredine Boukhenazer Sonatrach

Kara Mostefa Bouziane Sonatrach

Mohamed Khodja Sonatrach

Alloua Malha Sonatrach

Nouredine Mouloudj Sonatrach

Ryad Ouali Chaouch SN HYPROC

Australia Matthew Haynes APA Group

Lloyd Graydon

(Study leader SG 2)

GPA Engineering

Brazil Aspen Ricardo Andersen da Silva Petrobras

Jorge Paulo Delmonte IBP

Canada John Adams

Greg Caldwell

Canadian Gas Association

ATCO Pipelines & Liquids

China Jing Chou PetroChina Research Institute

Yanpeng Chen PetroChina Research Institute

Shiguo Lin PetroChina Research Institute

Colombia Santiago Mejía Terpel

Tony Quintero Terpel

Croatia Marijan Svjetličić Plinacro Ltd.

Czech

Republic Radek Libak RWE GasNet, s.r.o.

Denmark Per Persson HMN Naturgas

Jean Schweitzer Danish Gas Technology Centre

Finland Antti Pasanen Neste Jacobs Oy

France Bernard Blez Engie

Cécile Boesinger TIGF

Marc Florette Engie

Agnès Grimont Engie

Yannick Onfroy GRTGaz

Raphaël Schoentgen Engie

Germany Frank Gröschl DVGW e.V.

Sebastian Just Gazprom Germania

Uwe Klaas

(Secretary of Committee)

DVGW e.V.

Jörg Leicher Gaswärme-Institut

Gerald Linke

(Chairman of Committee)

DVGW e.V.

Ingo Wagner Uniper

Indonesia Eko Praesetio Pertamina

Iran Saeed Pakseresht National Iranian Gas Company N.I.G.C.

M. Hassan Panjeshahi University of Tehran, institute of Petroleum

Engineering

Seyyed Iman Pishbin National Iranian Gas Company N.I.G.C.

Marzieh Zare National Iranian Gas Company N.I.G.C.

Italy Franco Jamoletti Regas Srl

Alessandro Menarbin Regas Srl

Stefano Rossini ENI

Japan Ichiro Fukuda Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.

Masazumi Hirono Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.

Takumi Tanaka Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.

Hisataka Yakabe Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.

(Vicechair, Leader SG 1)

Korea Yang Mi Choi Korea Gas Corporation

Jeongwook Khang Korea Gas Corporation

Hyoungsik Kim Korea Gas Corporation

Kangwon Lee Korea Gas Corporation

Whaseung Sohn Korea Gas Corporation

Kuwait Fahad Nouri Kuwait Petroleum Company

Norway Thorbjørn Svendsen Gassco

Pakistan Imran Shaukat Oil & Gas Development Company Ltd.

(OGDCL)

Muhammad Danish Petroleum Institute of Pakistan, Chamber

of Commerce

Poland Dariusz Dzirba Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG SA)

Elżbieta Dzirba GAZ-SYSTEM SA

Ewa Kukulska-Zając Oil and Gas Institute National Research

Institute

Pawel Szuflenski GAZ-SYSTEM SA

Portugal Nuno Nascimento GALP energia

Suzana Toscano AGN – Associação Portuguesa de Empresas

de Gás Natural

Qatar Khalid bin Abdullah Al-Thani Qatargas

Romania Dan-Paul Ştefănescu Romgaz

Russia Marina Afanasyeva Gazprom

Alexey Basov Gazprom

Irina Chudovskaya Energodiagnostika LLC

Vladimir Gorifianov Gazprom

Vladimir Karasevich

(Leader SG 3)

Russian Gas Society

Natalia Kruglova VNIIGAZ

Maksim Nedzvetskiy Gazprom

Konstantin Romanov Gazprom

Sergej Sorokin Gazprom

Pavel Tsybulsky Gazprom

Sergey Vlasov Energodiagnostika LLC

Inna Vlasova Energodiagnostika LLC

Serbia Miroslav Malobabic JP Srbijagas

Dusan Medic JP Srbijagas

Slovakia Lajos Csonka COM-therm spol s.r.o.

Imrich Discantiny COM-therm spol s.r.o.

Jozef Konczer COM-therm spol s.r.o.

Stanislav Rehák NAFTA

Spain F. Javier Alonso Martinez Gas Natural Fenosa

Manuel Calvo Diaz REPSOL

Jesús Manuel Gil Jiménez Enagás S.A.

Angel Maria Gutierrez EDP España

Thailand Charlie Jaiharn PTT Public Company

Phatti Punyasukhananda PTT Public Company

The

Netherlands

Pierre Bartholomeus

(first Leader SG 3)

DNVGL

Tunisia Nasr Abdelkader STEG

Ezzine Abdelwaheb STEG

USA Mike Granowski Enovation

Rodney Rinholm Gas Technology Institute (GTI)