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Instrumentation developments keeping pace to serve evolving business applications in gas industry As the natural gas industry has evolved to operate in a competitive, worldwide business environment, demands on automation [...]

Because sizing is not an exact science, technicians should rely on their experience and common sense In today's increasingly competitive market, distribution company measurement departments must heighten their attention to [...]

Adding electronic flow sensing components prepares devices for service into next century Orifice meter recorders, proved reliable during decades of use, have gained new life at selected meter sites by [...]

Researchers run the devices in wet gas and compare accuracy and durability against orifice measurement Performance of two 8-in., multipath ultrasonic gas flowmeters has encouraged pipe line operating company researchers [...]

Pipe line operating companies are looking at supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems to achieve strategic corporate objectives. Traditionally, SCADA-based applications have been limited to decision support systems for [...]

Developments in instrumentation and sensitivity to proper technique ensures sampling integrity Measurement of natural gas has experienced tremendous change in recent years. The acceptance of electronic flow measurement, as a [...]

THE MEASUREMENT PORTION of PG&E's study was concerned with identifying and quantifying bias errors (fixed or systematic errors) which are independent of the general uncertainty (random errors) in measurement associated [...]

Controlling hydrates in high-pressure flowlines HYDRATE FORMATION in flowlines or process equipment is a phenomenon whose consequences have been known for 50 years. However, continuous efforts to develop new production [...]

Evaluating underbalanced perforating conditions UNDERBALANCE PERFORATING operations ensure a surge of reservoir fluid such that gun debris and crushed rock in the perforation tunnel are swept into the borehole, providing [...]

Several gas utilities have installed and tested thermal dispersion flow meters (hot wire anemometers) over the past few years, more out of technical curiosity than a predefined need or potential [...]

Utilities combine specifications for initial market strategy While the GRI compact gas meter program initially addressed technical issues, there was not a clear consensus within the gas industry concerning both [...]

METER RELIABILITY depends on maintaining a stable flame. To achieve stability, the sampled gas flowrate must be limited to a 2 to I range. Mechanical designs of small burners prevent [...]

An automatic meter reading primer for gas utilities WITH ANY AMR system, a key element to obtaining maximum utilization and benefits is the system software. The software provides a comprehensive [...]

The H2051 high-accuracy, triple-scale flowmeter regulator for MIG and TIG welding operations has been introduced by Smith Equipment. It has an output of 0.50 standard cu ft/h and features a [...]

Flow measurement technology's future looks bright as a result of competitive pressures in the worldwide energy business, according to J. E. Gallagher, P. E., Savant Measurement Corp. Gallagher offers several [...]

First hand experience with industry measurement problems - more closely during the last several years than for the previous decade - has delivered one salient message. Loud and clear. The [...]

Orifice metering standard is being revised USERS OF orifice meters in the oil, gas and chemical manufacturing industries are now revising the standard for measuring the flow of Newtonian liquids [...]

Oryx Energy converting to electronic flow measurement A Staff Report Natural gas purchasers and producers increasingly are utilizing electronic flow computer technology for improved efficiency in areas of operation and [...]