Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L. P. A GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERSHIP Natural Gas Conversion in the 21 st Century IGEM (Scottish Section) 21 st June 2012 Neil Shaw, Chairman, International Energy Group Limited & CEO Brookfield Utilities UK Limited Aidan Baglow, Project Manager, Natural Gas Conversion, Manx Gas Limited.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Partners L. P.
A GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE PARTNERSHIP
Natural Gas Conversion in the 21st Century
IGEM (Scottish Section)
21st June 2012
Neil Shaw, Chairman, International Energy Group Limited & CEO Brookfield Utilities UK Limited
Aidan Baglow, Project Manager, Natural Gas Conversion, Manx Gas Limited.
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Brookfield Infrastructure Group
Brookfield Infrastructure Group operates a diversified portfolio of premier infrastructure assets
− $30 billion in assets under management
− Operations in North America, Europe, Australasia and South America
Transmission
$4 billion
Portfolio of utility assets in North and South
America, Europe and Australasia 8,750 km of
electricity transmission lines
Transportation
$6 billion
Diversified port and rail operations in Europe and Australia handling over 220M tonnes of cargo
per year
Timber
$4 billion
2.6 million acres of high quality timberlands
in North and South America
1 trillion cubic feet Note: As at September 30, 2011.
We own and operate high quality assets in five sectors on four continents
$15 billion
Leading producer and developer of energy focused on hydroelectric
and wind power 4,000+ MW of
installed capacity
Power Generation Energy
$1 billion
Interest in natural gas
transmission pipelines and storage systems in the
U.S. and Australia Delivering over 2.2TCF1
of gas per year
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New York
5 corporate professionals
Toronto
26 corporate professionals
Vancouver
6 corporate professionals
Calgary
5 corporate professionals
Lima
3 corporate professionals
Bogota
3 corporate professionals
Sydney
28 corporate professionals
London
6 corporate professionals
Infrastructure Assets
Investment Offices
Sao Paolo
7 corporate professionals
Santiago
3 corporate professionals
Ottawa
15 corporate professionals
Boston
2 corporate professionals
12 Offices 125 Corporate Professionals Over 6,000 Operating Employees
Brookfield Infrastructure’s Focused Global Reach
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Who are IEG and Brookfield Utilities UK Limited?
Both owned by Brookfield, Infrastructure Partners
Businesses established 1836
40,000 customers
Manx Gas Natural Gas & LPG
Channel Islands LPG only
Brookfield Utilities UK International Energy Group
GTC
IGT
IDNO
PowerOn Connections
HV/EHV
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UK Conversion
A New Era 1967 to 1977
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Manx Gas – Why a Conversion Project in 2012 ?
Manx Gas
LPG only until 2003.
Natural Gas project developed based
around a gas fired power station in
Douglas. Also converted 15,000
customers in Douglas in 2003. 8,000
customers left on LPG and LPG/Air.
Leaves LPG customers with a bill 30%
higher than natural gas and for LPG/Air
networks restricted appliance choice.
UK conversion was 1967 to 1977
13 million homes, 40 million appliances.
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Manx Gas – Why a Conversion Project in 2012 ?
2009 - Manx Gas identifies high capex over the next 5-10 years to maintain
ageing LPG infrastructure.
Government meetings to consider options:-
Other fuels
Natural gas conversion
Government could fund capex at lower cost than Manx Gas.
Joint development project set up (Manx Gas, Manx Electricity, Manx Government)
2011 Manx Government approve investment as follows:
£16m in extension of natural gas pipelines.
£8m in customer appliance conversion.
Investment to be recovered through transportation fees paid by Manx Gas and passed though to customers.
Regulation to be introduced
Island wide tariff.
2011 Conversion Project Commences.
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2012 Isle of Man
Natural Gas Conversion Project
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Lessons Learned from Douglas 2003
• Competence & training.
• Customer communications.
• Existing appliance gas safety defects.
• Open flued appliances.
• Sector size & duration.
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Competence & Training
• Bridge the skill gap by creating new competence.
• UKAS accreditation for the conversion training
programme.
• Back to basics training.
• ‘One on one’ team leader support
• 100% gas work audit on initial programme.
• 100% gas work audit on open flued appliances
throughout programme.
• Use of a local engineers on the conversion team
to retain the skill set on the Island.
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• Stakeholder involvement throughout.
• Dedicated project call centre.
• Information and education programme.
• On site mobile customer support centre
during conversion.
• Website and social media.
• Radio & Press.
• Engage with customers and deliver on
expectation levels.
Customer Communications
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Existing Customer defects
• Long lead time from survey to conversion to
separate existing defects from conversion.
• Full gas safety inspection during survey to exceed
the requirements of Regulation 26(9).
• Resolving safety issues at no cost to consumer.
• 420 dangerous gas fires removed.
• 114 immediately dangerous appliances made safe
• 4200 minor safety issues resolved for customers.
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• Conversion vs. Replacement of
appliances.
• Historic LPG/Air conversions.
• Availability of components.
• LPG Pipework.
• Compliance, approvals & conversion
procedures.
• Open flued appliances.
• Structure of the pre-conversion survey.
• Lack of a suitable information system.
Technical Challenges
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New mobile information system G.A.S
• Design & build a bespoke conversion information
system to deliver project objectives.
• Information at point of capture.
• 3G data communications.
• Minimal administrative support £0.5M saving
• Data carrier redundancy built in to system.
• Built around the way gas work completed
• Forces completion of the open flued audit
• Remotely hosted to minimise hardware cost.
• Manx Gas finalist for the 2011 Isle of Man
Excellence awards for excellence in the use of
technology.
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Conversion Process
• Technical and process design.
• Pre-conversion survey.
• Network Sectorisation.
• Sector based conversion programme
• Risk based gas work audit.
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Network Sectorisation
• 77 sectors, three different CV gases.
• Historic network plans.
• Sector Proving & property identification.
• Safe Purging.
• Risk management.
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Challenges for 2012
• Converting over 1,700 different make and
model appliance from Bunsen burners to
CHP units.
• Ensuring every conversion kit and
appliance is in the right place at the right
time.
• Accessing 6,800 homes and businesses
on a date and time not set by the
customer without resorting to statutory
powers.
• Delivering the project safely, on time and
on budget.
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Project Summary & Progress
6800 properties.
9300 appliances.
Conversion area split into 77 individual conversion sectors
Each sector 2 takes days with a further day to clear up any
outstanding items.
Pre-conversion survey completed December 2011.
First conversion sector went live 27th February 2012.
As of today, 30 sectors complete and 2500 properties converted.
Project complete by March 2013.
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LPG AIR production and LPG Sites to be decommissioned
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Ramsey Production Plant
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Port St Mary Production Plant
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Peel Production Plant
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Ballathane LPG Plant
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Questions
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