We are back on track...

by Christian Borrmann

  

Wednesday night was the traditional conference dinner. Around 150 people were there in order to celebrate the success of the Valve World Asia Conference & Expo 2011. Sjef Roymans thanked the sponsors and the Steering Committee for their hard and dedicated work in order to make this event the success that it is. Further he called Chairman Jack Ling and Co-Chairman Tony Smart to the stage and handed them over a present as a token of appreciation.

So now, we are back in the conference rooms in order to follow the first sessions of the day, three keynotes by EPC contractors Fluor, Technip, and Sinopec. All three explained how they deal with the valve suppliers and manufacturers and what challenges they faced, how they solved them and also they shared their experiences.

After this 'early' morning session and the coffe break, the conference continued and they delegates split into three groups to attend the three sessions that were offered by the conference programme.

The first paper session was chaired by Tony Smart, Shell, and the topic of this was design and 5 valve export from all around the world presented their challenges and solutions regarding the design of valves. The second session dealt with the topic of LNG/Natural Gas and was chaired by Jack Ling, Guangdong Dapeng LNG. Presentations in this sessions came from experts from China, Italy and the Netherlands.

The third session was a workshop, moderated by Henk Hinssen and with the help of Stan Hale and Rens Wolters. They talked about the difficult topic of Partial Stroking. Here the focus was heavily on the end users' side as many of them face severe problems when it comes to partial stroking, while manufacturers tend to have more success stories then issues.

Following these 'late' morning sessions, the delegates headed back in to the expo hall for their lunch and after lunch the conference continued with another threepiece of sessions, dealing with the important industry topics Materials, Actuation/Automation, and another workshop dealing with predicting valve performance during the sizing and sealing phase.

And now back to the expo floor, so stay tuned.

Best wishes,

Christian