Engineering and Maintenance
Crude Metering and Measurement Systems
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Crude Metering and Measurement Systems Course
Introduction:
Metering systems play a crucial role in enhancing the accuracy of crude oil measurements and preventing losses resulting from measurement variances or errors. It is essential to have a comprehensive understanding of these meters, their calibration procedures, and the measurement techniques employed in order to study and analyze them effectively.
Course Objectives:
The course addresses the concepts of custody transfer metering, the principle of allocation in shared facilities, and the general operating principles of custody transfer instruments:
- Flow meters (orifice, turbine, ultrasonic, venture, corilis) Densitometers
- Pressure / temperature / differential transmitters
- Automatic samplers
- BS & W measurements
- Chromatography
- Meter proving and instrument verification / re-certification
- Calculation routines and verification of flow computers
- Implementation of international standards
- Generic operating and reporting procedures
- The function of the pipeline and regulatory auditors
- Review of typical fault conditions
Who Should Attend?
Maintenance technicians, Supervisors, and Engineers.
Course Outlines:
Meters
- Focus on monetary implications of hydrocarbon measurements, an overview of methods, and definition of terms, Definition of SI units, and principles of traceability of measurement/instrument calibration
- Relevance and general principles of the meter station
- Overview on common features of dedicated flow computers, Function and calculation sequence of turbine meter flow computers
- Principles of verification of turbine meter flow computers
- Principles and practice of operating crude oil turbine meters, Turbine flow meter, Operation Theory
- Design & Construction Variations
- Turbine Meter Accuracy, Sizing & Selection
- Installation & Accessories, New Developments
- Gas Turbine & Shunt Meters
- Principles and practice of operating crude oil PD meters
- Differential Pressure Flowmeters
- Sizing the Orifice Plate, Piping, Installation, & Maintenance,
- Plate and senior orifice, Orifice Types & Selection,
- Orifice Performance
- Venturi & Flow tubes, Venturi-Cone Element
- Principles and practice of operating Coriolis meters
- Proving background, volumetric tanks, pipe provers methods, and handling
- Principles of meter K-factor control
- Principles of Ultrasonic Flowmeters
- Introduction to storage tank measurements
- Focus on Mobrey Solartron 7830 series densitometers
- Representative sampling, operation of automatic samplers, and sample handling
- Liquid mixture equations, principles of BS & W probes
- Gas Chromatography, Advantages of Discrete Sampling,
- Gas Supplies
- Injection, Columns, Oven, Detection system
- The carrier gas, Gas Chromatography mechanism
- What is dew point? Calorific value
- Generalized overview of reporting hydrocarbon meter station data
- The role of meter station auditors
- Generalized overview of operating a hydrocarbon meter station
- Guidance on predictable fault conditions and mis-measurement methods
- Revision
- Case Studies