LNG plants and other petrochemical plants are built to bring a return on investment to their investors through their safe operation. Their designers and engineer-led operators require technical knowledge to ensure these facilities are safe and dependable.

This training not only covers LNG technologies at a technical level but also focuses on human resource development. It is designed to equip you with the skills needed to design, operate, and maintain an LNG facility, with many topics applicable to other petrochemical plants. The practical application of this training will keep you engaged and motivated.

This course is intended to provide you with the intermediate technical knowledge necessary to make informed planning, maintenance, and operating decisions. By enhancing your skills, it can significantly improve your career prospects in the LNG and petrochemical industry, giving you a sense of optimism and hope for the future.

The ten lessons will provide details on operating an LNG plant, refrigeration systems for liquefying, and the thermodynamics involved in producing, storing, transporting, and re-vaporizing LNG.

This is the fifth of the ten lessons. The topics covered in this lesson include understanding:

1. Factors that must be considered when selecting a site for an LNG facility.
2. The critical impact of the feed gas composition on the siting decision.
3. The need to be nearby gas pipelines for rejecting BOG, regeneration gas, and for making sendout gas.
4. The cost and time impacts of easements.
5. Sendout interchangeability decision considerations.
6. How siting decisions impact design decisions (types of tanks, liquefiers, and vaporizers).
7. The criticality of public and government acceptance of your plant.
8. Considering future changes that could change siting suitability.
9. Buffer zones (both required and desired).
10. Zoning, environmental, proximity to airports, schools, and seismic considerations.
11. Workforce considerations.

For this intermediate-level course, the learner must have a basic knowledge of LNG and its uses.

Learning Objectives

This is the fifth in a series of ten progressively more in-depth courses on Liquefied Natural Gas. Although this learning focuses on LNG facilities, many concepts also apply to other petrochemical plants.

This course introduces the learner to the technical topics related to the production, storage, transportation, and vaporization of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). It should be considered an Intermediate-Level course.

The learning objectives of the complete ten learning sessions are to understand at an intermediate level the following:

1. Understanding how to safely, reliably, and efficiently operate an LNG plant
2. General characteristics of LNG and safety
3. Liquefaction pretreatment,
4. Liquefaction systems,
5. LNG tanks, valves, pumps, vaporizers, auxiliaries, and other LNG plant equipment.
6. BOG management and plant operations
7. Transporting LNG
8. Efficient operation of LNG facilities
9. Importance of philosophies, procedures, maintenance, and modes of operation.
10. Understanding the thermodynamic relationship that governs the behavior of zeotropic hydrocarbons.

The learning objectives of THIS SESSION FIVE are to understand at an intermediate level the following:

1. Hurdles for siting and LNG facility
2. Real vs. projected costs
3. Importance of feed gas composition
4. Impact of local community opposition
5. Impact of political climate
6. Importance of buffer zones
7. Code requirements
8. Proximity and cost of utilities
9. Proximity to supply and sendout pipelines