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IGEM NEWS | Technical Services Update

IGEM’s Technical Services team brings you all the news of their latest activities
and the standards to look out for in the near future

STANDARDS and direct purging of natural gas fuelling stations IGEM/SR/22 Purging
RECENTLY industrial and commercial IGEM/IG/3 Safe recovery of operations for fuel gases in
PUBLISHED gas installations a LNG road tanker transmission, distribution
IGEM/GL/2 Planning of gas IGEM/UP/1A Strength and storage
transmission and storage testing, tightness testing STANDARDS DUE TO IGEM/UP/9 Gas turbines
systems operating at and direct purging of small BE PUBLISHED SOON and supplementary and
pressures exceeding 16bar low pressure industrial and IGEM/TD/101 Adoption auxiliary fired burners
IGEM/GL/4 Gas system commercial gas of pipe systems by a GT IGEM/GL/1 Planning
assets – risk management installations – management of UIP distribution systems
IGEM/GL/9 Natural gas IGEM/UP/11 Gas activities IGEM/UP/16 Design for
supply in an emergency installations for educational IGEM/GL/6 Permitry for the natural gas installations on
IGEM/G/11 Gas Industry establishments safe flow of gas industrial and commercial
Unsafe Situations Procedure IGEM/TD/4 PE and steel premises with respect to
IGEM/GM/7A Electrical gas services and service STANDARDS hazardous area
connections for gas pipework STARTED classification
metering equipment IGEM/UP/6 Application of IGEM/TD/12 Pipework IGEM/PRS/40
IGEM/GM/7B Hazardous compressors to natural gas stress analysis for gas Medium pressure meter
area classification for gas fuel systems industry plant installation kits
metering equipment IGEM/GL/4 Gas system IGEM/G/6 Gas supplies to IGEM/PRS/41
assets – risk management mobile dwellings Medium pressure meter
DRAFTS AFTER IGEM/GM/4 Flowmetering IGEM/SR/16 Odorant installation kits
COMMENT practices (>38bar and systems for gas IGEM/PRS/50
IGEM/UP/1 Strength <100bar) transmission and Meter serial numbering
testing, tightness testing IGEM/UP/21 Liquefied distribution

IGEM/GL/9 Edition 2 published GET INVOLVED IN

IGEM’S STANDARDS
published and is available to purchase
in the IGEM shop.
The new edition provides advice for
large gas users of the actions they
should take during a natural gas
supply emergency.
It provides an insight into the
potential reasons for the cessation of
gas supplies to large gas users, in
particular industrial gas users and the
actions necessary to be taken in an
IGEM/GL/9 EDITION 2 Guidance for emergency, how to plan for such an
large gas users in dealing with natural event, and how the impacts can be
gas supply emergencies has been minimised. ■

WE TAKE great pride in our
IGEM/GL/2 Edition 3 out now standards and are always on the
lookout for new panel members. If
you are working in the industry and
IGEM/GL/2 EDITION 3 Planning of The pressure will also be sufficient believe you can make a
transmission and storage systems so that their appliances continue to contribution to the review process
operating at pressures exceeding 16bar operate at all times, unless load then please contact the Technical
has been published and is available to shedding has been initiated (through Services team. Panels that are still
purchase on the IGEM shop. commercial agreements or in an looking for volunteers include:
The latest edition provides the emergency situation). GM/5 Electronic gas meter
requirements for the planning of IGEM/GL/2 is intended to be used volume conversion systems,
transmission and distribution systems by persons involved in the planning of IGEM/SR/23 Venting of natural
so that, as far as possible, continuity new systems and for the ongoing gas and IGEM/SR/25 Hazardous
of gas supply is maintained to monitoring and reinforcement of area classification. ■
consumers on the system. existing systems. ■

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