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Title: Overview Of API Comp() Measurement Activities As 7120
Author: Fred G. Van Orsdol
Source: 2000 International School of Hydrocarbon Measurement
Year Published: 2000
Abstract: During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the API and its member companies were under considerable pressure from the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). These Federal organizations were generally responsible for monitoring any measurement practices or systems that could effect Federal or Indian interests (other than the Osage tribe) and were actively involved in writing regulations, onshore orders and notices to leasees (NTLs) covering measurement systems and procedures. Primary interest centered around crude oil, natural gas and associated liquids. The BLM eventually took the position with the industry that the industry had to make a choice. It could write comprehensive standards covering all the common measurement systems and practices in use, or the BLM would institute a program to write them for us. It was our choice. The industry chose to write and/or update all the key standards needed to provide a comprehensive and current set of standards. Concurrently, the industry was generally improving the technology available to determine custody transfer quantities and implementing research programs to make existing technologies perform with less uncertainty. These two forces are still at work, but have already resulted in numerous new or substantially updated industry standards that significantly reduce measurement uncertainty and more adequately cover the technologies and practices in general use throughout the industry.

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