Hydrocarbon Fiscal Flow Metering

What are the Goals?

By the end of this 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

Who is this Training Course for?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit: 

• Instrument Technicians wishing to Maintain Fiscal Metering Systems
• Engineers / Technicians Commissioning Metering Systems
• Engineers responsible for Fiscal Metering Systems
• Engineers who need to specify or design a Fiscal Metering System
• Hydrocarbon Production Reporting Engineers

Daily Agenda

Day One: The Concepts of Hydrocarbon Custody Transfer Measurement  

• General Course Introduction
• Reasons Why Metering is Required
• Overview of measurement Traceability
• Overview of Allocation of Commingled Hydrocarbons
• Overview of Principles of Measurement Uncertainty
• Features of Managing a Fiscal Metering Station
• Overview of different Flow Meters strengths & weaknesses

Day Two: Hydrocarbon Flow Calculations and Flow Computers 

• Overview of Flow Computers
• Liquid Flow Computer Function and Calculations
• Verifying a Liquid Flow Computer
• Meter Proving Flow Computer Function and Calculations
• Gas Flow Computer Function and Calculations
• Verifying a Gas Flow Computer
• Review of Metering Supervisory Computer

Day Three: Liquid Hydrocarbon Flow Measurement Techniques 

• Principles of Liquid Turbine Flow Meters
• Principles of Positive Displacement Flow Meters (Optional)
• Principles of Coriolis Mass Meters
• Liquid Metering Instruments (Density, Sampling, BS&W) (Pressure & Temperature see Gas)
• Stock Tank Measurement

Day Four: Gaseous Hydrocarbon Flow Measurement Techniques 

• General Gas Measurement Overview
• Principles of Orifice Plate Flow Meter
• Features of Orifice Carriers
• Principles of Ultrasonic Meters (Liquid applications incorporated)
• Gas Metering Instruments (Pressure, Temperature, Density, Chromatograph)
• Physics of Gas Measurement
• Wet Gas Metering

Day Five: Managing Custody Transfer Metering Stations 

• Generalised Guidance on Operating a Hydrocarbon Metering Station
• Generalised Guidance on Reporting a Hydrocarbon Metering Station Data
• Overview of Instrument Verification Techniques
• Principles of Technical Audits
• Guidance on Fault Conditions and Mis-measurement