THE SNIFFERS

Corporate Overview
 Headquartered in Belgium, TS is one of the largest provider of fugitive emission
monitoring and related services outside the United States
 #1 market position in Europe and the Middle East
• TS has over 200 customers located in c.20 countries and has performed work in
over 700 sites, TS counts 130 employees
 TS is managed by entrepreneurs and backed by The Carlyle Group, one of the
world’s largest private equity investor
Revenue breakdown per customer segment Illustrative customer base
Other petro-
chemicals
and
chemicals
36%
Refineries
43%

Pharma -
Cracker sites
ceutical sites
Upstream 11%
5%
including
offshore
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TS Credentials in the Gulf
 TS has been active in the Middle East since 2005 and operates through a network of
agents in the region

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TS – Unique Differentiation

Global & local player

with team over 120
professionals

Market leader in some

Proprietary software
of the most demanding
countries tools & solutions

20 year experience in Expertise in:

fugitive emission - Multiple industry segments
monitoring & management - Mutiple laws and protocols

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Service Offering

Emission monitoring / Energy saving services

• Emissions enter the atmosphere through leaking pipes and equipment such as valves, flanges, pump seals,
connections etc.

• The services are performed on above ground pipes, for the following target industries: oil & gas (on- and
offshore), chemicals, gas transport and pharmaceutical production

• Activities consist of measuring all possible leak sources, processing the data via a proprietary software tool,
reporting the leaks and advising with loss reduction programs

• Full range of services, including Leak Detection And Repair (LDAR), IR Quick Scan, flare loss monitoring, steam
loss monitoring and tank loss monitoring

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 Emission Monitoring Services
LDAR
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• “Leak Detection and Repair”
• Detection of leaks and
measurement of emissions
by measuring equipment at
each stage of the process
such as valves, flanges,
pump seals, pressure relief
valves, etc.
• Loss calculation in SFEMP
software
• Use of PID/FID measurement
equipment
• Detects virtually all leaks
(irrespective of size)
IR Camera monitoring
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• Detection of large emission
leaks by using an Infra Red
camera to inspect at process
line equipment
• The only equipment
available to measure non
accessible facilities or
storage tanks
• Typical applications include
time-efficient quick scanning
(screening for large gas
leaks)
• Loss calculation in SFEMP
software
Flare loss monitoring
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• Detection of internal leaks
on valves, etc. to reduce the
leaking of product to the
Flare, where the product is
burned
• Usage of specific ultrasonic
equipment
• Loss calculation in FLAME
software
Tank emission
monitoring
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• Detection of emission leaks
on large tanks
• Usage of specific leak
measurement equipment and • Usage of specific ultrasonic
infra-red cameras
• Measurement and analysis is
performed on fixed roof
tanks as well as internal and
external floating roof tanks
• Emission profiles are
achieved by continuous
measurements
Steam loss monitoring Other
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• Detection of steam leaks on • Compressed air loss
steam traps, including monitoring
analysis and pressure profile
• P&ID generation
• Inventory and tagging of
equipment or heat sensitive
process equipment
cameras
• Various other measurements
• Includes a technical plot
(e.g. thickness
plan creation, benchmarks
measurements)
and technical repair plan
• Including financial payback
calculation
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Fugitive emissions & LDAR

Fugitive emissions
= atmospheric emissions coming from process line equipment

LDAR (Leak Detection And Repair) program

= is a project to measure, control and to reduce fugitive
emissions.

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IR camera monitoring & SMART LDAR

•Detection of large emission leaks by using an Infra Red camera

to inspect at process line equipment

•The only equipment available to measure non accessible

facilities or storage tanks

•Typical applications include time-efficient quick scanning

(screening for large gas leaks)

•Loss calculation in SFEMP software

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IR camera monitoring & SMART LDAR

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Steam optimization & management
program
Financially very attractive
• Repays itself typically in less then 6 months
• The yearly cost reduction equals, in some cases, 10 times the complete
project cost!

Reducing the impact on the environment

• Savings on energy, water, and CO2 exhaust (Kyoto)

Safety expansion

Production efficiency elevation

• Maintaining products on temperature
• Good operational heat exchangers
• Longer lifespan of heat exchangers
• More efficient energy use
• Good tracing of equipment
.

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 Storage tank emission monitoring &
management
AF125-20/08/2004-9H05 TOT 16H09-PAKKING BREATHER VALVE B

Financially attractive
5000
4401
4500 4197
3941
4000

3500

• Focussed maintenance on tanks

3000
2830,4
PPM

2500

2000

• Better working of the tanks

1500

1000

500

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10:15
10:29
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11:25
11:39
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12:07
12:21
12:35
12:49
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TIME
AVERAGE

BAD WORKING BREATHER VALVE

Reduces the impact on the environment

• Reduction of VOC emissions

Increases Safety

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Flare loss monitoring

Detection of internal leaks

Usage of specific Ultrasonic equipment

Return of investment in 1 year

Internal leak

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Instrumentation Air Management

• Production costs instrumentation air very high

• Loss often from 30% to even 40% of total usage

• Through maintenance → loss can be decreased to 5%

• To decrease the general costs of energy

• To extend the life span of compressors

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Approach for all services

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Full inventory of all Quality check

equipment, combined with analysis in software,
quality check of P&ID’s generation of repair orders,
writing of report

Source Measuring
Preparation Reporting
inventory

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Planning, gathering Full measurement
company/unit information of all equipment sources, first
and structure, mapping repair round and data input in
streams on P&ID’s database

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 TS makes a complete overview of
process line equipment and flow cycles…
Based on the client’s initial P&ID
documentation, the company
drafts a complete and
detailed map showing
product flows of the various
gaseous products in a
production plant, with each
flow indicated in a unique
color
The company makes an
exhaustive inventory of all
process equipment, including
detailed technical information
Each component is tagged with
a unique ID label, containing
all relevant information,
including leakage details, for
easy traceability
Accordingly, the company’s
proprietary software links to a
complete P&ID map in
AutoCad showing both
product flows and all labeled
process equipment on a
separate layer
The produced map is fully in
accordance with current
technical standards,
definitions and symbols

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 …and detailed reports generated to
facilitate the repair process …
After measurement, the
database is updated
The company’s proprietary
Contains the full
software generates description and all
repair orders for every technical
specified piece of leaking characteristics of the
equipment leaking equipment,
including stream
A first repair (tightening) information
round is executed
A repair order contains
detailed information on Contains info on the
Contains the full repair rounds and on
the equipment ranging
measurement history the repair
from specific location,
of the leaking Gives the estimated
technical specifications to
equipment product loss in kg for
source of leakage and
the next year
measurement data
An extract of the P&ID
map, marking the
appropriate equipment Indication of the leak
(yellow), and a picture (yellow) on a separate Photograph of the
layer of the P&ID leaking equipment is
are added for swift and
drawings added to the repair
easy traceability
P&ID drawings of the order for quick finding
Collection of repair orders relevant leak are also and avoidance of
are used to facilitate the visible on the repair mistakes
repair process order The label of TS is
The software enables made visible,
Afterwards, re- indicating that the
the user to click on
measurements can be equipment is leaking
the repair order and
done and new repair open the P&ID
orders can be
automatically generated
(if necessary)
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…supported by proprietary software
Software layer structure Functional description

• Total software solution for Emission

Monitoring services (SFEMP)
- LDAR
- IR Quick Scan

• Written in SQL.NET and thus highly scalable

• Fully parameter based and adaptable

- Supports country or client specific
definitions and legislation:
product classification, leak
definitions, leak limits,
restrictions...
- Supports client specific analyses and
Software architecture reporting
- Multi lingual (extra languages can
easily be added)
- Multi site (batch processing sites,...)
ERP
User interface Web interface Systems :
SAP • Fully accessible through the web (data,
… reports…)
Sfemp Object Interface

Application framework
• Interfaced with SAP

• Integrated with CAD systems, Microstation,

Plant 4D
Analysis &
Database Business
reporting CAD
services
services
Logic
systems : • IT department counts 6 FTE now
Plant 4D
Autocad • Software for flare and steam loss monitoring
SQL Server 2010 … is also available

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LDAR Economic Benefits
 Emission & cost reduction by LDAR Projects: See example of the benchmarking of
LDAR project on the European crackers

1.000.000
Initial Nul
Measurement
Measurement
885.667
900.000
After maintenace
After first repair round
800.000 intervention 760.986

700.000

600.000 562.304 557.750

Kg/year

493.633 500.456
500.000

380.202 381.594
400.000 359.985 364.560

300.000 263.486 271.489

238.656 251.173 245.810
198.202 198.630
200.000

100.000
48.494

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Cracker 1 Cracker 2 Cracker 3 Cracker 4 Cracker 5 Cracker 6 Cracker 7 Cracker 8 Cracker 9

For a typical cracker, fugitive emissions were

reduced by 50% or ~ 250 000 kg per year after a first repair17round
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Flare Loss Monitoring Economic
Benefits (1/3)

• Results based on a European Naphta cracker unit

Source # Sources # Leaks Loss (Kg/year)

Safety valve (PSV) 255 7 220.085
Handvalve (HV) 281 4 238.076
Control Valve (CV) 38 7 250.054
Bleeder valve (BV) 8 0 0
Total 582 18 708.215

By reparing only 18 valves, more than 700,000 kg/year

of savings could be achieved
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Flare Loss Monitoring Economic
Benefits (2/3)

• Results based on a Refinery

First monitoring round in 2003

Source # US points # US leaks Kg/yr
Relief Valves (RV) 442 17 142317
Hand Valve (HV) 645 11 2134077
Control Valve (CV) 68 12 375535
Normaly Open (NO) 97 0 0
Total 1252 40 2651929

Monitoring round in 2005

Source # US points # US leaks Kg/yr
Relief Valves (RV) 542 10 209978
Hand Valve (HV) 821 11 568631
Control Valve (CV) 90 10 468149
Normaly Open (NO) 98 0 0
Total 1551 31 1246758

A product saving of 1,405,171 kg/yr

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Flare Loss Monitoring Economic
Benefits (3/3)

• Results based on a Gas Plant survey

Equipment # # % Loss
sources leaks leaks (Kg/year)
CV 41 3 7,3 1.854.074
HV 108 3 2,8 39.852
PSV 78 1 1,3 221
SG 1 0 0,0 0
TOTAL 228 7 3,1 1.894.147

By reparing only 3 control valves, more then 1,800,000 kg/year of savings

were achieved
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Steam Loss Monitoring Economic
Benefits

Euro 1,200,000
Costreduction in CO2 reduction
1,000,000 Costreduction in steam production 242,000
Measure, analysis and reporting Environmental
800,000 impact
Reparation and spec. Maintenance
• Reduction of
600,000 16 195 tons of
Co2 per year
400,000 841,000 • Energy saving
60,000 • Water saving
200,000
245,000
0
Total project cost Total annual
benefits

Payback period is less than 4 months

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Working together for a better
environment

The Sniffers
Industriezone Driehoek
Poeierstraat 14
2490 Balen
Belgium
www.the-snifers.be
info@the-sniffers.be

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