• Understanding the Legal and Commercial Metering Requirements
• Appreciate design criteria and importance of accuracy
• Understand measurement concepts and types of error
• Understand the basic concepts, principle of operation and equipment used for Gas metering, liquid metering, proving and sampling
• Understood the basic concepts, principle of operation and hardware used for typical flow computers, Prover Control Micro-computers and Supervisory Systems.
• Understand the typical operations, control functions and record keeping requirements
• Evaluate the results of Turbine Meter Calibration and determine the validity by use of Control Chart

Our General Industries, Oil & Gas Fiscal Metering Courses are designed to satisfy the information required of any one concerned with the operation, maintenance and readings from metering systems. This includes:-

• Operations Engineers
• Graduate Engineers
• Supervisors
• Operators
• Metering Specialist/Technicians

DAY 1

• TYPICAL GAS SYSTEM OVERVIEW
• Typical Gas Pipeline System
• Role of Operator
• Overview of Typical Gas Sales
• Contracts
• TYPICAL GAS METERING SYSTEM OVERVIEW
• Introduction to Fiscal Metering
• Pipework and Valving
• Flow Measurement
• Secondary Instrumentation
• PRIMARY FLOW MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTATION
• The Flowmeter
• Meter Tubes and Other Fittings
• Removals/Replacement Procedure
• FLOW MEASUREMENT ACCURACY
• Flow Measurement Uncertainty,
• Rangeability and Calibration
• Calculating Uncertainty
• Traceability
• SECONDARY MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTATION
• Pressure Measurement
• Temperature Measurement
• Density Measurement

DAY 2

• GAS QUALITY MEASUREMENT
• The Gas Sampling and Conditioning System
• Relative Density Analyser
• Moisture Analyser
• GAS CHROMATOGRAPHS
• Introduction to Gas Chromatography
• Gas Conditioning System
• Gas Chromatograph
• Chromatograph Controller
• Calibration and Maintenance
• COMPUTER SYSTEM OVERVIEW
• Hardware
• Software
• Display Formats
• Alarm Handling and Interpretations
• Response to Input Failures
• SUPERVISORY COMPUTER SYSTEM
• Hardware and Software
• Operator Interface
• System Security
• Communications
• METERING PANEL AUXILIARY EQUIPMENT
• Analogue to Digital Conversion
• Power Supplies

DAY 3

• INTRODUCTION TO PRIMARY FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICES
• Introduction
• Basic Principles of Pipe Flow
• Mathematical Developments
• PRIMARY FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICES - Differential Pressure Type
• Simple Theory
• Orifice Meters
• Venturi Meters
• Flow Nozzles
• Low Loss Devices
• Variable Orifice Meters
• Variable Area Meters
• Pitot Tubes and Pitot Static Tubes
• Target Flowmeters
• PRIMARY FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICES - Displacement Flowmeters
• Basic Principles
• Liquid Meters
• Designs for Gases
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Applications
• PRIMARY FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICES - Rotary Inferential Meters
• Turbine Flowmeters
• Miscellaneous Designs
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• PRIMARY FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICES - Fluid Oscillatory Flowmeters
• Principle of Operation
• Vortex Shedders
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• PRIMARY FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICES - Electromagnetic Flowmeters
• Principle of Operation
• AC and Pulsed DC Types
• Applications
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• PRIMARY FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICES - Ultrasonic Flowmeters
• Doppler Type
• Time-of -Flight Type
• Clamp-on Type
• Applications
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• PRIMARY FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICES - Mass Flow Measurement
• Coriolis Flowmeters
• Angular Momentum Devices
• Thermal Meters
• Applications
• Advantages and Disadvantages
• PRIMARY FLOW MEASUREMENT DEVICES - Miscellaneous
• Cross Correlation
• Tracer Methods
• Weighing Methods
• Lasers

DAY 4

• CALIBRATION AND MAINTENANCE
• General Techniques
• Volumetric Methods
• Gravimetric Methods
• Meter Provers
• Reference Meters
• Miscellaneous Methods
• Gas Meter Calibration
• TYPICAL OIL DEVELOPMENT OVERVIEW
• Typical Oil Pipeline System
• Role Of Operator
• Overview of Pipeline
• Transportation Agreement
• FLOWMETER INSTALLATION GUIDANCE
• Introduction
• Sources of Installation Effects
• Effect of Installation on Flowmeter Performance
• Meter Run Design Criteria
• PRESENT DAY INDUSTRIAL PRACTICE
• Operation Conditions
• Size and Performance
• Industrial Usage of Flowmeters
• FLOWMETER COSTS AND FLOWMETER SELECTION
• Initial Considerations
• Flowmeter Selection Procedure
• Additional Factors
• COMPUTER MODELLING TECHNIQUES
• Software Packages
• Applications
• Limitations

DAY 5

• QUALITY ASSURANCE AND STANDARDS
• Traceability
• standards
• National Measurement Systems
• Accreditation Certificates
• MULTIPHASE FLOW MEASUREMENT
• Basic Principles
• Meter Classification
• Measurement Accuracy
• Problems
• Flow Regimes
• Modelling
• Phase Effects
• OIL QUALITY MEASUREMENT
• The Oil Sampling and Densitometer Fast Loop
• Water-in-Oil Monitor
• SELECTION AND BEST PRACTICE OF FLOWMETERS
• Classification
• Selection Considerations
• Problems
• Installation Planning and Installation
• Faults and Failures
• Application Tables
• FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN FLOW MEASUREMENT
• Flowmeter Developments
• Secondary Instrumentation
• New Materials

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.