Hydrocarbon Fiscal Flow Metering

Introduction

The design, certification, commissioning, verification and periodic maintenance are all activities that must be executed with care and the appropriate knowledge. “Near enough is not good enough.” To prevent the resulting operation of the fiscal metering systems, eliminate the possibility of measurement errors that could cost the oil and gas operators millions of dollars in mis-measurements when such issues can often end in the litigation courts. Appropriate training for engineers involved in these activities is considered essential.

This GLOMACS Hydrocarbon (Oil & Gas) Fiscal Metering training course is one course in a suite of training courses related to hydrocarbon metering and deals with providing an understanding of the principles and instrumentation required to make accurate quantity measurement of valuable hydrocarbons.

This GLOMACS training course will highlight:

• Overview of Hydrocarbon Measurement Systems
• Explains Interaction between Parameter Measurements
• Explains Flow Calculation Routines
• Explains how Liquid & Gaseous Hydrocarbons are measured
• Explains Procedures Required to Maintain Measurement Accuracy

Objectives

This GLOMACS training course is intended to give the participants an appreciation of the financial importance of hydrocarbon flow metering and its implications to the profitability of the business.

This training course will explain how the measurements are made and how the different parameters measured interrelate.

By the end of this GLOMACS training course, participants will learn to:

• Understand the correlation between Fiscal Metering and Profitability of the Business
• Appreciate the Calculations carried out by the Flow Computers
• Understand how the Liquid Metering Instruments Integrate
• Understand how the Gas Metering Instruments Integrate
• Appreciate the Procedures required to Maintain a Fiscal Flow Metering Station

Training Methodology

Being a “portable” training course, it will be predominantly delivered as slides but with a high proportion of technical diagrams. Course notes accompanying the training modules will be supplied in electronic format.

Organisational Impact

• Appreciation of Financial significance of Hydrocarbon Measurement
• Appreciation of consequences of Mis-Measurement
• Appreciation of importance of maintaining measurement accuracy (i.e. Uncertainty)
• Appreciation of interrelation of parameter measurements
• Appreciation of maintaining appropriate Procedures
• Appreciate importance of Record keeping

Personal Impact

• Enhanced skills for Instrument Technicians
• Appreciation of interaction of measured parameters in Reported data
• Appreciation of consequences of mis-measurement
• Understand how to prevent mis-measurement occurring
• Enhance promotion opportunities
• Manual of Fiscal Flow metering and Course Presentation material will be