Fiscal metering of natural gas

Since the Netherlands adopted natural gas in the 1960's, DNV has been involved in the design and operation of natural gas metering stations. This training course  provides in-depth insight into all aspects of fiscal metering and includes a site visit to a large custody transfer station . It helps you to design and operate accurate and reliable metering stations with low levels of measurement uncertainty. You will find out how to minimize systematic errors, learn to judge whether the company that measures your natural gas usage is generating accurate data and push your gas balance to equilibrium. By experiment, DNV acquired insight in the behaviour of gas flow meters in hydrogen flow, natural gas flow with added hydrogen and the flow of carbon dioxide, both in gaseous phase and liquid phase. These insights will be presented during this training.

Result
After attending, you will have gained both practical and theoretical knowledge. You will understand the principles of designing and operating fiscal metering systems for natural gas and you will be fully aware that designing an accurate measurement system not only requires sound knowledge of metering techniques, but also practical experience of do's and don'ts. 

For this advanced training course, it is recommended that participants possess a basic knowledge of gas, gas flow metering and gas quality metering principles.

Subjects

• Best practices in gas flow measurement
• Flow measurement of H2 and CO2
• Best practices in gas quality measurement
• Metering policy
• International standards and new developments
• Site visit to a large custody transfer station (*)
• Visit to DNV's analytical laboratory, dry gas flow calibration laboratory and multiphase flow test loop (*) 
• Q&A

(*) Only applicable for on-site training courses held in Groningen, the Netherlands.

Target group
Metering managers, metering engineers, design engineers, station operators, service staff and inspectors of fiscal metering stations.