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Technology Focus Industry forecasts continue to cite demand for natural gas as one of the fastest-growing hydrocarbon demands over the next 20 years. Demand for natural gas will challenge our industry to provide gas from conventional and unconventional gas supplies as well as from remote locations such as deepwater areas and the Arctic region. It also will require development of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and other transportation methods to link end-user markets with supply globally. In reviewing papers for this feature, the number of natural-gas transportation papers far outnumbered papers from other natural-gas technology areas and the number of papers for LNG far outnumbered other types of transportation-technology papers. LNG continues to gain momentum as a preferred method to commoditize natural gas on a global basis. LNG projects are technically complex and require large long-term investments and a multidisciplinary engineering approach for successful execution. The Qatargas-2 LNG project illustrates the complexity and large number of engineering and technical disciplines required of an LNG project: well-completion designs that provide sustained deliverability over the life of the facility; process designs incorporating new liquefaction technology, advanced power-generation designs, improved efficiency, and cleaner emissions; and LNG carriers that continue to push single-ship transport volumes ever higher while meeting strict safety and environmental standards. Such projects require large efforts from a broad spectrum of engineering disciplines, technical specialties, and project management. They provide for some of the most technically challenging work found in the industry today. The papers highlighted in this feature and the suggested readings merely scratch the surface of LNG and other alternative-gas-transportation technologies. Regardless of technical discipline, I am confident there is a technical topic here that each reader will find touches upon his/her area of expertise. Natural Gas Processing and Handling additional reading available at OnePetro: www.onepetro.org OTC 20048 • “LNG STS Operations in Arctic Waters” by Tor Einar Berg, Marintek, et al. SPE 120745 • “Economics of LNG Projects” by Faleh T. Al-Saadoon, Texas A&M University–Kingsville, et al. IPTC 13707 • “Qatargas-2—Leading the Way in Clean LNG-Train Technology” by M.D. Pratt, Qatar Liquefied Gas, et al. OTC 20145 • “Marine CNG—Why Hasn’t It Happened?” by C. Young, Centre for Marine CNG, et al.
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