173 – Monthly conference call

CO-LaN Management Board held today its monthly meeting at 2 pm Central European Time.

Agenda:

• Request for Consultancy Services by Optimized Gas Treating, Inc.
• Public release of Flowsheet Monitoring interface specification
• BASF change of representative
• Actions Review
• AOB

Present:

• BASF (represented by Peter MAUER),
• BP (represented by Kathyrn YEARSLEY),
• LINDE (represented by Oliver KOCH),
• Shell (represented by Richard BAUR),
• Michel PONS (CTO/contractor),
• Bryn STENHOUSE (contractor)

Discussion:

• Apologies for absence

Received from Air Liquide (represented by Philippe ARPENTINIER) and from The Dow Chemical Company (represented by Michael BERGER)

• Previous Minutes

The June 2019 Management Board minutes are approved.

• Request for Consultancy Services by Optimized Gas Treating, Inc.
  • The Management Board approved the consultancy service work for Optimized Gas Treating, Inc. (OGT) up to a limit of 40 man-hours of support from AmsterCHEM. The approval is subject to the normal consultancy service terms and conditions, including an agreement for OGT to provide a feedback presentation on the work.
• Public release of Flowsheet Monitoring interface specification
  • After analysis of the development and review process followed by the Methods & Tools Special Interest Group, CO-LaN Management authorizes the public release of this new interface specification, part of version 1.1 of the CAPE-OPEN standard.
• BASF change of representative
  • Peter MAUER reported that he will be retiring from BASF at the end of July 2019 and hence will not be representing BASF on the CO-LaN Management Board after that date. He will be replaced on the board by Norbert ASPRION who has a team lead position with process simulation at BASF. The board expressed their sincere thanks to Peter MAUER for his many years of valuable contributions to CO-LaN.
• Actions review

Next meeting is scheduled for August 8, 2019.