THE NATIONAL GAS COMPANY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO LIMITED

Interruption in CIP Operations On November 15, 2017

MINUTES OF MEETING

DATE: 20th November, 2017 TIME STARTED: 1:25 pm TIME ENDED: 2:15pm

LOCATION: Atlantic LNG

ATTENDEES:

Atlantic
Christopher Forten- CFB Production Manager
Berry
Dave Mitchell DM Operations Manager
Chris Sookram CS Production Optimization Manager
Kevin Mungal KM Operations Superintendent
Rishi Singh RS Maintenance Superintendent
Visham VR Commercial and Strategy –Operations Planning
Ramnanansingh
NGC
Rennie Singh RS Manager Pipeline Maintenance
Richard Roberts RR Supervisor –Pipeline Gas and Facilities Reliability
Services
Corey Hamilton CH Team Leader- Pipeline Gas and Facilities Reliability
Services
Qualis Antoine QA Technician - Pipeline Gas and Facilities Reliability
Services

Item No. Particulars

1 VR commenced the meeting by welcoming NGC representative’s to Atlantic.
He asked everyone to introduce themselves.

2 VR advised that the meeting was requested by NGC’s Manager –Rennie Singh
and Supervisor – Richard Robert and who were then asked to identify the
objectives.

3 RS thanked the representative of Atlantic for facilitating the meeting on such

notice. He indicated that the NGC’s Team is from the Maintenance Division.
The objective of the meeting was to get Atlantic account of the events that
caused the shutdown on the day in question. He acknowledged that NGC was
advised that the pigging activity had negatively impacted Atlantic’s production
and referred to an e- mail received from Atlantic’s Chief Operating Officer- Ms.
Arlene Chow

4 DM Confirmed the closure of XV-411010 valve at 4:30pm during the pigging

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 THE NATIONAL GAS COMPANY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO LIMITED
Interruption in CIP Operations On November 15, 2017

MINUTES OF MEETING

DATE: 20th November, 2017 TIME STARTED: 1:25 pm TIME ENDED: 2:15pm

operation on 15-11-2017 and also the shutdown of the TROC compressor. He

reported that the levels reached 80% in bottom vessel and 30% on top vessel.
Item No.
Particulars
5 DM also indicated that they continued to receive liquid after the pigging and
that a total of 4500 bbls was collected during the period Nov. 15th – 17th.

6 RS indicated that the liquid received on the days after the pigging was most
likely due to the pig being stopped when XV1010 closed. Some of the liquid
would have settled in the line close to inlet riser and would only be received
after the plant restarted.

7 RS indicated that due to the abnormal liquid volume, NGC suspects that free
liquid was dumped into the CIP. No equipment is currently installed to detect
liquids at the shipper’s manifold

8 VR questioned NGC’s decision to switch the pigging from four (4) weeks to
five (5) weeks, noting that approximately 50% of the lower drum capacity was
received from the previous run.

9 RS stated that for most of 2017, the liquid received ranged between 200-400
barrels. He also indicated that the 50% level received in the previous run was
not considered a cause for concern. He further indicated that pigging frequency
alone would not address the concerns as liquids can be dumped into the line just
after pigging.

10 CS explained that since the modifications, there have not been any instances
where XV1010 valve shut due to spikes in the level within the top drum. He
also indicated that the 35% shut down point is considered quite conservative.

11 VR requested that NGC revisit the pigging schedule in light of the shutdown.

12 RS indicated that in 2016, there were two occasions where approximately 2000
barrels were received from pigging but did not have operational impact and that
the 80% in lower drum corresponds to approximately 1600 barrels.

13 RS indicated that a possible explanation was the pig speed (14mph) may have
caused the spike in the top drum, hence closure of XV1010. This higher spike
was due to current flow of approximately 1.3 BCF.
14 DM requested the next pigging to be done on Dec 1 st 2017.ALNG has planned

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Interruption in CIP Operations On November 15, 2017

MINUTES OF MEETING

DATE: 20th November, 2017 TIME STARTED: 1:25 pm TIME ENDED: 2:15pm

works on the liquid loading lines starting November 20 th and expected to last 10
days.
15 RR indicated that the pig run is possible once all parties involved have no issues
with same. NGC’s Commercial will organize and finalize the arrangements the
unscheduled run.

16 RS enquired of the possibility of Atlantic transferring flow from CIP onto the
36” line on the day of the pigging to reduce pig speed.
17 DM indicated the current flow of approximately 1.27 bcf would continue for
some time and it might be possible to split flow between the two pipelines,
where 900 mmscfd can be on the CIP and 300 mmscfd on the 36” line to
Atlantic.
18 RS closed the meeting by reassuring Atlantic that NGC will aim to do all that is
reasonably practical to avoid recurrence, including revisiting the pigging
frequency, reinforcing with Shippers that no free-liquids should enter CIP and
communication with Shippers on timely notice of possible upsets on their
network that may result in liquid carryover to CIP.

AGREED ACTIONS

Item Particulars Action Action

No. By Whom By
When
1 NGC to confirm if a pigging operation can be done on RR 28/11/2017

2 Atlantic to confirm that their modifications work will be done ??

prior to the proposed pigging on 1st December
3 Atlantic to confirm if 300mmscdfd can be diverted to the 36” VR 30/11/2017
on the date of the next Pigging
4 NGC to provide details of liquid study that was done for post RS 30/11/2017
TROC conditions on CIP

RECORDED BY: Rennie Singh

DISPOSITIONED BY: _________________ NGC __________________Atlantic

Richard Roberts ?????

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