Towards Energy Efficiency حتقيق الكفاءة في استخدام الطاقة

Technical Program

GCC POWER 20162016

Doha - State of Qatar7-10 November 2016

08:00 - 09:00 Tutorials Registration

07:30 - 13:15 Conference Registration 09:00 - 10:30 Opening Ceremony 09:00 - 09:05 Welcome Statement and Holy Quran09:05 - 09:10 H.E. Minister of Energy and Industry 09:10 - 09:20 H.E. President of Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation

09:55 - 10:30 Exhibition Inauguration

15:00 Close of Day and Lunch

19:30 - 22:00 Gala Dinner - Sharq Hotel - Please Reserve your seat at the Registration Desk

13:00 -15:00 Panel Discussion: GIS Diagnostic and Maintenance - A Return of Experience with PDM Systems – Case Studies Panel Moderator: Dr. Salem Al-Harthi Panelists: Dr. Hab Wojciech Koltunowicz (Austria) – Convenor of WG D1.66 Prof. Uwe Schichler (Austria) – Convenor of AG D1.03 Prof. Claus Neuman (Germany) – Convenor of JWG D1/B3.57 Dr. Uwe Riechert Mr. Glenn Bergmann

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

18:00 - 21:00 Conference Registration & Reception

09:00 - 14:00 Tutorial 1

PD Diagnostics of GIS/GIL: Sensitivity Verification and

Risk Assessment based on UHF Method

Dr.-Ing. Habil Wojciech Koltunowicz-Cigre SC D1

Tutorial 2: Arc Flash, A Practical Approach

to Manage the Hazard Majid Al-Homarani

and Hamad Al-Fayez

GCC Lab

Tutorial 3: Digital Substations

Georg Schett ABB- Switzerland

Pre-Conference Tutorials: Monday 7th November 2016 (7 Safar 1438)City Centre Rotana

Day 1: Tuesday 8th November 2016 (8 Safar 1438)

12:30 -13:00 Prayer and Tea Break for Exhibition Visit

11:00 - 12:30 Panel Discussion: Energy Efficiency: Optimizing Energy Resources and Decreasing Costs Panel Moderator: Ali Al-Ali, Manager of Planning & Development, KM, Qatar Panelists: Eng. Essa bin Hilal Al-Kuwari, President, Kahramaa, Qatar Shaikh Nawaf bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, Chief Executive, EWA, Bahrain Eng. Fatima Al Foora Al Shamsi, Assistant Undersecretary - Ministry of Energy, UAE Dr. Naif Mohammed Al-Abbadi, Executive Director of the Energy Efficiency Program, KSA

09:20 - 09:25 H.E. GCC Secretary General 09:25 - 09:35 H.E. Chairman of GCC CIGRE Board of Directors 09:35 - 09:40 H.E. Cigre Secretary General 09:40 - 09:55 Honoring Conference Main Sponsors

Track A Track B

Track A Track B

Session A1:System Operations & Electricity Market Chaired by: Eng. Abdulaziz Al-Mahmoud

Operation & Control Manager-Kahramaa, Qatar

A101-Future approach to mitigate Inter-Area Oscillations in GCC Combined System

Mr. Hatim ElsayedGCCIA-Saudi Arabia

A102-The Potential for Pumped Storage power in GCC for Very Fast Emergency Reserves: A

Necessity in Nuclear Era Mr. Naji Al-Messabi

TRANSCO-United Arab Emirates A103- High Speed Motor Bus Transfer Simula-tions and Field Experience in Power Generating Station and Industrial facilities

Mr. Kamin Dave, ASHIDA-India

A104-Coordinated Voltage Control for Distribu-tion System Restoration in Smart Grids

Mohamed El-KhatibUniversity of Waterloo-Canada

A105-Establishing Voltage Unbalance Level on DEWA Transmission System

Dr. Zia EminWSP Parsons Brinckerhoff-United KingdomA106-Development of Gulf Electricity Market

with Renewable EnergyDr. Mohamed Y. Al-Hamad

GCCIA-Saudi Arabia

A201-System Impacts of Renewable Power Integration to the Qatar Power System

Mr. Jose Restrepo, SNC Lavalin-Canada

A202-Commissioning, Operation and Despatch Issues of Advanced Power Reactor 1400 Nuclear Power plant in ADWEA Network

Mr. Hamidullah SiddiquiTransco-United Arab Emirates

A203-Ensuring Secure Grid Operations while Integrating Renewable Energy Sources

Mr. Malfliet BernardElia Grid International-Belgium

Session B1:Asset Management for Power Systems Chaired by: Eng. Waleed Alsaadi

Technical Services VP. - SEC, Saudi Arabia

Session A2: Renewable Energy and Smart Grids Chaired by: Eng. Hamed Al-Saqaf, IPP &

Renewable Energy Executive Director, Saudi Arabia

Session B2: Transformers and Reactors Chaired by: Kamel Abdul Samad Al Shehabi

Director, Central Stores-EWA, Bahrain

B101-Numerical Relay Testing and Validation in Relay Life Cycle

Mr. Kamin Dave ASHIDA-India B102-Partial Discharge Measurement by TEV and Ultrasonic Methods and their Limitations

for Medium Voltage (MV) Switchgears -- Experience of Kahramaa

Mr. Chittranjan Bhatnagar, Kahramaa-QatarB103-Condition based Asset Management for

Distribution Substations – An Kahramaa Experience

Mr. Navin Rego, Kahramaa-Qatar

B104-UHF PD Monitoring System for High Voltage Power Transformer

Mr. Ha-Young LeeHyosung Corporation-South Korea

B105-Asset Performance Management Technology for Reliability and Value: Go Digital

Mr. Jean-Louis Coullon General Electric-France

B106-Replacement Prioritization of Major Electrical Assets at HV Substation

Mr. Abdullah AlghamdiNational Grid-Saudi Arabia

B201-State of the Art transformer Bushing Monitoring

Mr. Thomas Linn, Qualitrol-Switzerland

B202-Increased Transformer Operation Reliabil-ity Through Continuous MonitoringDr. – Ing. Laurentiu-Viorel Badicu

OMICRON ENERGY SOLUTIONS GmbHGermany

B203-Air-core Dry-type Reactors for Electric Power Systems / Design and Maintenance

Requirements for Installations in GCC Countries Mr. Alexander Grisenti

Coil Innovation GmbH-Austria

Day 2: Wednesday 9th November 2016 (9 Safar 1438)

10:00 - 10:45 Coffee Break for Exhibition Visit

08:30 - 10:0010:45 - 12:30

Special Presentation:GCC Lab bySaleh AlAmri

Track A Track B

Session A3: HVDC and FACTS TechnologyChaired by: Eng. Ahmed Al-Mubarak, Research & Development Executive Director, Saudi Arabia

Session B3:Underground Cables and Overhead LinesChaired by: Olivier Moreau, Business Development

Manager , EDF Cigre SCB1 Member

12:45 - 13:30 GCC Cigre General Assembly

14:45 Close of Day and Lunch

17:00 - 19:00 GCC Cigre Board of Directors Meeting

A204-Grid Code Compliance for Integrating 50 MW Wind Farminto Dhofar Power Grid

Mr. Hisham AL-Riyami Oman Electricity Transmission Company-Oman

B204-Simulation pf Tank Vibrations and Sound Levels of High Voltage Shunt ReactorsDr. Claes Bengtsson, ABB AB Power

Grids-Sweden

B205-Asset condition monitoring using dissolved gas analysis and Stray gassing

Mr. Bruce PahlavanpourNynas AB Middle East-Qatar

A205-Design of Fuzzy PSSs Based on PMUs Global Signals forDamping Low Frequency

Oscillations of Smart Power SystemsMr. Jamil Ur Rahman Karim

Qatar University-Qatar

A206-GCCIA WAMS Upgrade and Interface with EMS

Mr. Ikram Rahim, GCCIA-Saudi Arabia

A207-Optimal Placement of PMUs for the Implementation of WAMS in TRANSCO Network

Dr. Saleha DawoodTransco, Abu Dhabi, UAE-United Arab Emirates

A301-The World's Largest SVCs Deliver Voltage Stability and Load Balancing in the Saudi Power

Grid at High Speed Railway Feeder StationsMr. Amar Al Sulami, ABB Contracting Co. Ltd.

Saudi ArabiaA302- Application of STATCOMs to Oil and Gas

Power Networks Case Study of Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO)

Mr. Atef El-Irani, Siemens LLC-UAE

A303-Simulation & Evaluation of Composite AC-DC Power Transmission

Mr. Abeer Ahmed Muhammad Manzoor AhmadDAR Engineering-Saudi Arabia

A304- All advantages in your hand withmultilevel Hybrid SVCs Mr. Thomas MangoldSiemens AG-Germany

A305-Dynamic Response Analysis of Frequency Control Function in GCCIA HVDC Converter

Abdulrahim Al-QarniGCCIA-Saudi Arabia

B304- New methods for offline PD Diagnosis on MV Cable SystemsMr. Daniel Salathe

Megger Limited-Switzerland

B303-Standardization of Conductors for 380kV Overhead Transmission Lines

Mr. Mofareh Al-OtaibiNational Grid SA-Saudi Arabia

B302-A New Monitoring tool to Increase usable Network Transfer Capacity with existing Assets

Mr. Jean-Louis RepettoAmpacimon-France

B301-GCCIA POLLUTION TEST STATION Part II: Field Assessment & Test Station Results

Ahmad Al-ThagafiGCCIA-Saudi Arabia

10:45 - 12:3013:30 – 14:45

12:30 - 13:30 Prayer and Tea Break for Exhibition Visit

Track A Track B

Session A4: Substations Protection and Automation Chaired by: Eng. Mohammed Saif Al WardiSenior Transmission Engineer - OETC, Oman

A401-Implementation of Comprehensive Protection Data Management System

Mr. Hussain BinMashniNational Grid-SA-Saudi Arabia

Session B4:System Planning, Development & EconomicsChaired by: Mohammad Al-Sheik, Chief Network

Officer. GCC Interconnection Authority

B401-A project of enhancement in Schedulling and despatch process of ADWEA network - A

tale of SuccessMr. Ehtesham Iftikhar

TRANSCO-United Arab Emirates

A402-Criterion to Evaluate New Generation Digital Protection Relays: Cost benefit and

Reliability Concerns Mr. Suyash Kulkarni

ASHIDA-India

A403-Future Proofing the Substation Control and Monitoring Systems (SCMS) in Dubai Grid

StationsDr. Fouad Abou Chacra

Dubai Electricity and Water Authority-UAE

A404-Ease Commissioning and Factory Acceptance Testing of Protection and

Automation Systems using an Integrated Substation SimulationMr. Thomas Hensler

OMICRON Electronics GmbH-Austria

A405-Testing Line Distance Relays During their Life Cycle

Mr. Rajkumar SwaminathanSchweitzer Engineering Laboratories Inc.

Bahrain

B405-Network Reconfiguration Methodology for Short-Circuit Current LimitationMr. Ibrahim Abdullah Al-Qahtani

SEC-Saudi Arabia

B406-A bottom-up approach for the Development of Qatar spatial long term load forecast

Eng.AbdulAziz Al-Mahmoud Kahramaa-Qatar

B404-Portable Grounding System vs Traditional Methods

Mr. Muhammad Tanveer Ahmad Ahmad DAR Engineering-Pakistan

B403-Review of Transmission System Security Standard in Oman

Mr. Hisham AL-Riyami, Oman Electricity Transmission Company-Oman

B402-Experimental Study of High Impedance Earth faults and Protection in Directly Earthed

Overhead Medium Voltage Network with Desert Terrains

Mr. Milos JovanovicEnergoprojekt Entel-United Arab Emirates

Day 3: Thursday 10th November 2016 (10 Safar 1438)

08:30 – 10:00

Track A Track B

10:00 - 10:45 Coffee Break for Exhibition Visit

A501-SEC National Grid SA’s Field Experience Study for Major Explosions of New Outdoor 230

kV SF6 Circuit Breakers at Shedgum Power Plant

Mr. Muhanna AL-DukhayyilSaudi Electricity Company-Saudi Arabia

B501-Optimal Placement and Sizing of Distributed Generations in Qatar Power System

Miss. Zeineb AbdmoulehQatar University-Qatar

Session A5: Switchgear and HV EquipmentChaired by: Wojciech Koltunowicz, Senior

Technical Consultant-Omicron. Cigre SCD1 Member

Session B5: Distribution SystemsChaired by: Eng. Thahawi AlHamli

Distribution Director, Kahramaa MEW-Kuwait

12:15 - 13:00 Prayer and Tea Break

13:00 - 13:05 GCC Cigre Chairman Closing Statement

13:05 - 13:10 GCC Cigre Secretary General Announcements

13:25 - 13:40 Technical Committee Chairman Remarks & Recommendations

13:40 - 13:45 Open Discussion and Final Remarks

13:45 Conference Close and Lunch

A502-Refurbishment of Bombs AttackedSubstations and Transmission Lines in Najran

Mr. Venkatasamy RameshNational Grid-Saudi Arabia

A503-Application of Fault Current Limiters for 400KV Kahramaa Power Grid

Mrs. Wadha Alhelal Kahramaa-Qatar

A504-New non-conventional instrument transformer (NCIT)

A Future Technology in Gas Insulated Switchgear

Dr. Petr RudenkoSiemens AG-Germany

B503-Implementation of Distributed Automation in Croatian Distribution Power System

Mr. Boris BrestovecKoncar Power Plant and Electric Traction

Engineering Inc.-Croatia

B502- Advanced Automation with Zone Dividers Deployment in Distribution Network

Mr. Peter KreutzerABB Switzerland-Switzerland

10:45 – 12:15