Course Topics - Domestic Courses

This specialized course covers the topics you want and need to know to help increase your understanding of the Liquefied Gases currently used and transported on ships and barges including LNG, LPG, Ammonia, and the chemical gases; their sources, uses, markets, hazards/requirements, handling, storage, measurement and calculation of required quantities, the tanks they are stored in and the specialty ships that carry them. Topics covered:


  • State of Matter - Solids / Liquids / Gases
  • What is Liquefied Gas?  Its Markets / Uses
    - LNG-LPG-NGLs-Chemicals
  • Sources of Natural Gas - Gas Processing
  • Benefits / Methods of Liquefaction
  • Current / Proposed LNG Projects
  • History of LNG / Liquefied Gas Industry
  • Potential Hazards / Safety Precautions
  • Government Regulatory Agencies
  • Storage Tanks - In-Ground / Full Containment / Other
  • Shore Terminal Equipment / Instrumentation
  • Gas Carrier Designs - LNG / LPG / Ethylene - Other
    - Refrigerated / Pressurized / Semis / LNG
  • The IMO/IGC Code - Flag State/ Class / SIGTTO
    Cargo Tanks / Types A,B,C - Membrane – Other
  • Cargo Handling Equipment - Pipelines, Pumps,      Heaters, Vaporizers, Re-liquefaction Plants, etc.
  • Inert Gas and Nitrogen Systems
  • Cargo Handling Operations - Loading,  Discharging,          Lightering - FSRUS / FSOS - Cool-Down, Gas-Up, etc.
  • Ballasting - Cleaning Tanks - Gas Freeing
  • Terminals - Ship / Shore Interface

  • ICS Safety Guide - Gas / Health and Safety
  • Typical Sales Agreements – SPAs
  • Emergency Procedures / Contingency Plans
  • Industry Safety Record – Accidents
  • Industry Trends and Developments
  • Custody Transfer Measurement / Calculation
  • Measurement / Quantification
    - Liquid / Vapor - Volumes / Mass
    - Heating Values / Energy Transferred
  • Description of Methods of Measurement
    - Static / Dynamic / In-direct
    - Sampling / Temperature / Pressure
  • Determining Gas Components of Cargoes
    - Mass / Density
    - Gas Chromatography – In-line / Portable
    - Calculation – Costald / Francis Formulas
  • Energy Transferred Equation - LNG   
  • GIIGNL / SIGTTO
  • Newly Published Relative Industry Standards
    - ISO IS 10976 - API MPMS 17.10.1 and 17.10.2
  • Sample Calculations
    - LNG / LPG / Chemical Gases

Program Objective:  To provide participants with an understanding of the nature of the Liquefied Gas cargoes being carried on ships today, how they are safely handled, accounted for, stored, transported, and ultimately used.  This course also covers the measurement and calculation of the required quantities including heating values, energy transferred, volumes and mass as required.