Assess underground gas storage against the emissions and efficiency targets the organisation has committed to.
Underground Natural Gas Storage Techniques and Inventory Management
Develop the judgement and the documentation needed to run underground gas storage properly.
📍 Istanbul🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Price volatility does not excuse weak discipline in underground gas storage — it punishes it. Regulators and insurers increasingly want documented evidence of how this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations is controlled. The programme is built to be used, and every section of this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations it covers ends in something applicable. The material serves both public bodies and commercial organisations dealing with underground gas storage. The teaching approach is deliberately practical: participants build a operating procedure for this area of energy and hydrocarbon operations as they go. Progress on this aspect of energy and hydrocarbon operations is usually lost in the gap between approval and execution. They acquire practical criteria for judging when underground gas storage is working and when it is only appearing to. The most reliable predictor of sound this part of energy and hydrocarbon operations is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. The programme closes with an action plan for the practice within energy and hydrocarbon operations that each participant writes for their own organisation.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Verify that contractors working on underground gas storage meet the same standard as direct staff.
Assess the current state of underground gas storage against a structured set of criteria rather than impressions.
Apply recognised integrity and inspection practice to underground gas storage.
Agree the first three actions on underground gas storage that will be taken on returning to work.
Evaluate the environmental obligations arising from underground gas storage.
Establish escalation routes for underground gas storage that work outside normal hours.
Who Should Attend
Contract and procurement staff supporting underground gas storage.
Commercial and planning analysts modelling underground gas storage.
Operations staff who encounter the consequences of underground gas storage directly.
Maintenance and reliability engineers supporting underground gas storage.
Staff seconded into improvement work on underground gas storage.
Graduate and newly assigned engineers taking responsibility for underground gas storage.
Course Modules
Underground gas storage: technical fundamentals and operating envelope
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Deciding between life extension and replacement for underground gas storage
- Identify the failure modes of underground gas storage with the highest consequence.
- Check that management of change is applied to every modification of underground gas storage.
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of underground gas storage current.
- Confirm contractor competence records for anyone working on underground gas storage.
Session 2The paperwork for underground gas storage that is actually needed
- Plan the sequence in which improvements to underground gas storage will be introduced.
- Agree the indicators that will show whether underground gas storage is improving.
- Identify where judgement in underground gas storage is legitimate and where it is not.
- Set out how exceptions to underground gas storage are requested and approved.
Underground gas storage: incidents, lessons and continual improvement
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Reading the current state of underground gas storage honestly
- Assess the emissions and discharge attributable to underground gas storage.
- Test the procedure for underground gas storage against a realistic scenario.
- Agree the smallest change to underground gas storage that would be visibly useful.
- Verify six months later that changes to underground gas storage have held.
Session 2Reading condition data on underground gas storage before failure, not after
- Confirm handover documentation for underground gas storage is complete and current.
- Collect evidence on the present handling of underground gas storage before proposing changes.
- Establish the alarm philosophy applying to underground gas storage and remove nuisance alarms.
- Record the technical rationale for the chosen approach to underground gas storage.
Underground gas storage: environmental obligation and emissions
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1What the last incident involving underground gas storage should have taught us
- Verify emergency response arrangements cover the scenarios underground gas storage can create.
- Verify isolation points for underground gas storage are proven and documented.
- Build the internal briefing that explains underground gas storage to those affected.
- Review the instrumentation on underground gas storage for coverage gaps.
Session 2The operating limits on underground gas storage and what happens beyond them
- Check that underground gas storage still works when volumes rise unexpectedly.
- Set the trigger for a life-extension versus replacement study on underground gas storage.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for underground gas storage.
- Model the economics of underground gas storage at low, base and high price cases.
Underground gas storage: integrity, inspection and condition assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Comparing underground gas storage with recognised practice
- Compare the cost of underground gas storage with the cost of its absence.
- Confirm that lessons from underground gas storage are shared beyond the team that learned them.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to underground gas storage.
- Review incident and near-miss history involving underground gas storage.
Session 2Holding contractors on underground gas storage to the standard you hold yourself
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in underground gas storage.
- Establish what evidence demonstrates underground gas storage is under control.
- Define the safe operating envelope for underground gas storage and how deviations are detected.
- Check that the permit regime covering underground gas storage matches the actual hazard.
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- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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USD1,850
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- Workshop or Program Participation
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- Supervision & Secretarial Services
- Accredited Certificate of Participation
- Complete Training Kit
- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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