Conference Programme 2022

Roundtable “The role of hydrogen in the new decarbonization scenarios”

Caravaggio Room – Ground Floor, 18:00 – 19:30

Moderator – Paolo Mutti – Project Leader Hydrogen Innovation Report, Energy & Strategy – Politecnico di Milano
Omar Bedani – Manager of Commercial Operations Fired Heaters, Global hydrogen and Technology – Wood
Giacomo Lovino – Purchasing Group Leader & Category Manager – Maire Tecnimont
Michel Ronchini – Senior Manager Onshore/Offshore Piping and Valves – Technip Energies
Giovanni del Serrone – Director – Technip Energies
Paolo Carrera – New Energies Head of Commercial and Tendering – Saipem Spa
Jacopo Zanetti – Business Development Manager Hydrogen Energy – Air Liquide
David Greeson – President, Proven Project Development Group

Theme 1 – Advances in safe valve design, materials, manufacturing, coatings and focus on additive manufacturing

Room 1 – First Floor, 10:30 – 12:30

Moderator – Carlo de Bernardi – ConocoPhillips (USA)

a) Selection and Application of Nickel Aluminium Bronze Isolation Valves
Shiphamvalves – United Kingdom – Nick Gray

b) Castings Production of Sdss with high wall thicknesses
Fondinox S.p.a. – Italy – Alberto Morini, Simone Volpi

c) A new equation for flow through surface choke valve in digital field calculations
Polytechnic of Milan – Italy – Giambattista De Ghetto
Valvitalia Spa – Italy – Pierpaolo Mandolesi

d) Implications of Robotic Process Automation and Machine Learning: RFQ Process in Industrial Valve Market
Industrial Data Labs – USA – Martin Dytrych

e) Circular Economy in the O&G Industry for Additive Manufacturing of metal parts
F3nice and Valland Spa – Italy – Luisa Elena Mondora

Theme 2 – Valve actuation and control

Room 2 – First Floor, 10:30 – 12:00

Moderator – Umberto Navarra – Technip Energies Italy (Italy)

a) The integrated valve information device for emergency shutdown valve
Imtex controls – United Kingdom – Paul Turner
LGM Engineering – Italy – Andrea Gironi

b) The Convergence of IIoT, Data Analytics and Asset Integrity Management / Reliability in the Valve Industry
Score Group – United Kingdom – Dave Anderson

Theme 3 – Fugitive emissions and valve sealing technologies

Colleoni Room – Ground Floor, 10:30 – 13:00

Moderator – Christian Reynes – Total Energies (France)

a) A systematic approach for pre-validation of polymer spring-energised seals for critical valve applications
Omniseal Solutions – Belgium – Philippe Burlot

b) VICTREX CT™ Polymers for more Reliable Seals in Cryogenic Conditions
Victrex – Italy – Christian Salvatori

c) Emissions Elimination – Why “Reduce” Emissions when you can “Eliminate” them?
Score Group – United Kingdom – Dave Anderson

d) Valves role on environmental protection
Ved-Coemi – Italy – Nicolai Tasca

e) Semi-dynamic metal sealing: base theory and examples of valve applications
Technetics Group – France – Laurent Guimet

f) Comparative study between IOGP and ISO valve fugitive emissions requirements.
CETIM – France – E. Sauger, J. Leray
Total Energies – France – L. Deneuville

Workshop: Polyurethane seals for the valve industries

Caravaggio Room – Ground Floor, 11:00 – 11:40

Istvan Robert Hajzer – Division Manager for SealFluid – FP-F.lli Paris Srl

Workshop : The new regulatory framework of the Low Emission Graphite Packings for Industrial Valves

Caravaggio Room – Ground Floor, 11:40 – 12:00

Francesco Apuzzo – Chief Technical Officer – Carrara Spa

Theme 4 – Innovation, emerging technologies and future scenarios

Room 2 – First Floor, 12:00 – 13:30

Moderator – Ron Merrick – Consultant, Retired from Fluor Enterprises (USA)

a) Material Selection for Valves in H2 environment
Valland S.p.a. – Italy – Alex Giorgini

b) Developed solutions for valves in different hydrogen applications
Dafram – Italy – Marco Sparisci

c) Flexible Graphite seals for Hydrogen applications
SGL Carbon GmbH – Germany – Roland Mittelhammer

Theme 5 – International standards, supply specifications, lean documentation
management and remote inspection technologies

Colleoni Room – Ground Floor, 13:30 – 16:00

Moderator – Brian Lade – Consultant, Suncor Energy (Canada)

a) Bio water-based liquid penetrants for non destructive testings of valves’ quality
NDT Italiana – Italy – Michele Cevenini

b) How smart industrial companies can unlock productivity safety with augmented reality
Vmatch – The Netherlands – Richard Baars

c) API 20 series – Upstream Supply Chain Management
Studio Gamba – Italy – Massimiliano Gamba
Valvosider – Italy – Pierluigi Moretta

d) European and International standards for valve actuators
AUMA Italiana – Italy – Nicola Spreafico

e) Managing Supply Chain Quality Risks
Eni Spa – Massimo Sanso’

f) Use of the IEC-60870-5-104 protocol in the remote control and management of oil and gas plants, a real case
Ailux S.r.l. – Italy – Stefano Pini

Panel discussion – Additive manufacturing and digital inventory: dreams or reality for the energy sector

Caravaggio Room – Ground Floor, 14:00 – 16:00

Moderator – Valeria Tirelli – President & Ceo – Aidro
Carlo De Bernardi – Additive Manufacturing Industry Lead – ConocoPhillips
Brede Laerum – Head of AM Centre of Excellence – Equinor
Angeline Goh – Digital Manager Supply Chain-Shell
Edwige Ravry – Additive Manufacturing Lead – TotalEnergies

Workshop: Advanced meshing techniques and their application on complex valve geometry components

Caravaggio Room – Ground Floor, 10:30 – 11:10

Giovanni Bettega – Chief Technical Officer – Solvo srl
Simone Mandelli – General Manager – Solvo Srl

Workshop: Case study on Valves Subcomponents

Caravaggio Room – Ground Floor, 11:10 – 11:50

Giovanni Bettega – Chief Technical Officer – Solvo Srl
Simone Mandelli – General Manager – Solvo Srl

Workshop: CCUS – Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage

Caravaggio Room – Ground Floor, 12:00 – 13:30

a) Workshop: CCUS – Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage: a practical guideline
David Greeson – President, Proven Project Development Group

b) Tenaris Products for Energy Transition
Stefano Crippa – Tenaris Product Manager – Pipeline Technology Division

Theme 5 – International standards, supply specifications, lean documentation
management and remote inspection technologies

Room 2 – First Floor, 13:30 – 15:30

Moderator – Ugo Ormezzano – Tetra Technologies (Italy)

a) Product certification of equipment for oil & gas sector. Export to EAC countries, Saudi Arabia, China, Uzbekistan
Sercons International – Italy, Russia – Valeria Vinogradova, Carlo Alberto Franco

b) Saudi Aramco: Valves’ End User Experience
Aramco Europe, Italy Inspection – Hatim Allhamdan, Chief Office Representative 

c) Product Life Cycle Management System Requirements for the Petroleum and Natural Gas Industries – API18LCM
Studio Gamba – Italy – Massimiliano Gamba
RMT VALVOMECCANICA SRL – Italy – Riccardo Zamboni

d) API 6D 25th edition, Specification for valves, main changes
Studio Gamba – Italy – Massimiliano Gamba

e) Mechanical components for functional safety applications (SIL): standardization urgently needed!
AUMA Riester GmbH & Co. KG – Germany – Joerg Isenberg