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

IGEM RESPONDS TO BUILDING
REGULATIONS CALL FOR EVIDENCE GET INVOLVED IN
IGEM’S STANDARDS

IGEM HAS responded to the call for WE TAKE great pride in our
evidence to the independent review standards and are always on the
on building regulations and fire safety lookout for new panel members. If
being chaired by Dame Judith Hackitt you are working in the industry and
DBE FREng. believe you can make a
This submission followed responses contribution to the review process
from a consultation paper submitted then please contact the Technical
to the IGEM membership. Services team. Panels that are still
Responses were received from G5 looking for volunteers include:
panel members, IGEM’s Technical GM/5 Electronic gas meter volume
Coordination Committee, IGEM’s Gas conversion systems; IGEM/SR/18
Transmission and Distribution Safe working practices to ensure the
Committee and the Association of distribution networks and the report integrity of gas pipelines and
Independent Gas Transporters. was shared with the Royal Academy associated installations; IGEM/
The response also included of Engineering for inclusion in their SR/23 Venting of natural gas and
contributions directly from the gas wider engineering response. ■ IGEM/SR/25 Hazardous area
classification. ■

JANE MORT JOINS THE TECHNICAL SERVICES TEAM

WE ARE very pleased to announce Jane said: “I’m looking forward to
that Jane Mort has joined the working with my colleagues to make
Technical Services team as IGEM some relevant contributions to the
Technical Officer. gas industry.”
Jane has a degree in Electrical “Engineering has always been my
Engineering and an MSc in Gas true passion and I am glad to have
Engineering and Management, attained found my way back to where I belong.
at Salford University. She briefly Professional development and growth
worked in the healthcare sector and in the gas engineering sector is my
was employed by the NHS until 2016. dream.” ■

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