The 13th Annual Australian Gas Turbines Conference

An annual event from IBC, dedicated to the gas turbine industry

The 13th Annual Australian Gas Turbines Conference
28th & 29th November 2012
The Sebel & Citigate Albert Park – Melbourne

We are delighted to announce the 2012 dates for the annual Gas Turbines Conference.
Following the huge success of last year’s gathering we have been inundated with enquiries about the forthcoming event. The 2012 programme will follow closely in the footsteps of the 2011 agenda with the very latest updates for the Gas Turbines Industry.

This year's current speaker line-up includes:

• Dr Maxine Watson, Director Power Resources, Quest Integrity Group LLC
• Mladenko Tunjic , Swanbank ‘E’ Station Superintendent, Stanwell Corporation
• Peter South, Manager, Gas Turbines and Sustainable, Operations Branch, Verve Energy
• Dennis Nicholson, Turbo Machinery Overhaul Specialist, Santos Ltd. EA Downstream Gas Operation, Planning
• Baden Firth, Manager Machinery Department, Mitsubishi Australia
• Liam Kean, Regional Director, Asia Pacific | Marketing & Sales, Industrial Power Turbines, Siemens Ltd
• Claude Schiansky, Turbo Machinery Overhaul Team Leader, Santos Ltd. EA Downstream Gas Operation, Planning
• Chris Jones, Quest Integrity Group, Gold Coast
• Charles Borg, Sales Director Power Generation Services, GE Energy
• Wim Belgraver, Mechanical Engineer, Stanwell Corporation
• Dr Sean Norburn, Quest Integrity Group, Gold Coast
• Paul van Dyk, TMC Consultant, Invensys

Some of the issues to be addressed include:

• OEMS - Case studies of projects, failures or improvements
• Smarter strategy – Staying profitable by doing more with existing resources
• Commissioning & construction of new units
• Ensuring plants are ready to meet the flexibility requirements of the future
• Sourcing & retaining skilled staff
• Gas turbine workload pipeline, installation, diagnostics, Effective surveillance, maintenance & performance
• Reducing unscheduled maintenance  & improving failure response capability
• Major inspection overhauls & outage planning
• Control of operating costs, Cost reduction, optimization & availability
• Major equipment supplies to give technical papers on the upgrades to their turbines and recent projects in Australia

I am currently developing the programme and welcome your feedback on topics you would like to see included in this year’s agenda, alternatively if you have an interesting paper you would like to present, please contact me via E-mail: alex.bennet@informa.com.au

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