A forum created for operators by operators

Dates:       11-14 May 2010

Venue:       Hilton New Orleans Riverside 
                    New Orleans, LA, USA        
 

Join over 700 high-level gas transmission and distribution specialists, at the primary meeting point for operations management professionals world-wide.  Click here to download the FINAL PROGRAMME.

Forum context:

The American Gas Association Operations Conference is a hugely successful event that has been running for more than 90 years and is the premier gathering of natural gas utilities, transmission and distribution specialists.

2010 marks a significant expansion of the programme with a much-increased focus on the international community.

The new-and-improved 3 ½ day agenda will be a unique opportunity for key operations management players from across the world to share technical knowledge, ideas and best practice to promote the safe, reliable, and cost-effective delivery of natural gas to the end-user.

The Operations Conference attracts over 750 operations management specialists and 80 speakers, and contains over 100 technical presentations.

Key topics:

  • Construction and maintenance - leak survey and repair, live system maintenance, corrosion control, plastic materials 
  • Operations safety - pipeline, supplemental gas, customer, contractor, employee
  • Distribution & transmission gas measurement management
  • Supplemental gas supply operations - LNG, propane-air plants, biogas, underground storage, gas quality and interchangeability
  • Environmental matters - climate change, energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emissions, environmental data management
  • Distribution & transmission engineering operations planning & support
  • Gas control - control room, fatigue and alarm management
  • Utility & customer field services - workforce and field workload management

More information:

For more information please contact Kirsty Prentice, operationsconference@aga.org, or tel +44 20 7978 0082.