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METERING ANALOGY
1. Hot drinking water
- We ordered 1 glass of water and ready to drink
- Seller gave in different condition

2. Floating balloon to higher ground

- Size of a helium balloon at ground
- When the balloon floating to higher

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PURPOSE OF METERING
1. To have precise and accurate reading of volume throughput
Imagine an error of 0.03% of metering reading (over), from a three
metering stream, running from a two crude metering skids, for dynamic
batching of a crude platform, for 24 hours over a month with flow rate
150 m3/h. With current price of USD50 per barrel, what is the error of
that 1 stream loss to the company or nation for over a year?
2. Terms between the seller and buyer
Some of agreement to have metering for point of buying and selling,
thus a custody metering skid is required for the purpose. Most of the
cases they would require a justification from 3rd party.

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PURPOSE OF METERING
3. Reservoir Management
- Well test management
- To know the health of some well
4. Process Management
- Process conditions for operations
5. Process Safety
- Operational measures to ensure running smoothly

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TYPES OF METERING
1. Custody Metering
Point of metering that used as billing from a buyer to another seller.
The accuracy of this metering skid is usually more strict compared to
process instrumentation.
May need 3rd party to verify and do the calibration to avoid conflict of
interest.
2. Allocation Metering
Point of metering that usually used as monitoring and no buying or
selling transaction from this metering. May be from just 1 owner.

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STANDARD CONDITION
Standard Condition commonly used in metering to standardize the
metering figures;
1. Temperature, base condition is at 15 C
2. Pressure, base condition is at atmospheric pressure, or 0 BarG.
The purpose is to ease the receiving/figures as the process condition, receiving
condition is not always the same.

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INSTRUMENTATION IN METERING SKID

1. Primary Instrumentation
- Flow transmitters, i.e. PD or Turbine Meter, Orifice Meters and
other flow element
2. Secondary Instrumentation
- Pressure Transmitters
- Temperature Transmitters
- Densitometers
- Differential Pressure Transmitters
- Flow Computers

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INSTRUMENTATION IN METERING SKID

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INSTRUMENTATION IN METERING SKID

Consist of :
1. Meter Run Skid
2. Fast Loop Skid
3. Meter Prover Skid
4. Control Room Instrumentation

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METER RUN SKID

Consist of :
1. Inlet and outlet header
2. Parallel running meter runs with flow meters
3. Upstream and downstream flow straightener
4. Pressure and temperature indicators
5. Pressure and temperature transmitters
6. Strainer
7. Differential pressure transmitters.(optional)
8. MOVs
9. Flow control valve.

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FAST LOOP SKID

Consist of:
1. Automatic inline sampler with
2. Sampling container with liquid level indicator
3. Weighing system
4. Liquid densitometer
5. Flow indicator
6. Pressure and temperature transmitter
7. Pressure and temperature indicator
8. Circulating pump

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METER PROVER SKID

Consist of :
1. Meter Prover (Compact Prover, Uni or Bidirectional Pipe Prover).
2. Pressure and temperature indicator.
3. Pressure and temperature transmitter.
4. Differential pressure transmitter indicator(Pipe Prover).
5. 4-way valve (Pipe Prover)
6. Detector switches (Pipe Prover)

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CONTROL ROOM INSTRUMENTATION

Consist of:
1. Metering Cabinet with
a. Flow Computers
b. Prover Computer
c. Analogue Totalizer
d. Communication pack ( Ethernet, Scada, etc)
e. Safety barriers and power pack
2. Supervisory Computer (MMI = Man-Machine Interface)
3. Report Printer
4. Alarm Printer

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METERING CALCULATION
Total volume throughput can be summarizes as:
Volume (net) = Volume (gross) * CTLM * CPLM,
Where, CTLM (Correction of Temperature in Liquid Meter) and CPLM
(Correction of Pressure in Liquid Meter), based on specific density of the
liquid at the time of batching condition with certain temperature and certain
pressure.

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