Production Measurement - Invert Orifice Measurement, Contaminant Problems And High Pressure Metering Problems
Author(s): Richard L. Rex
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Production measurement problems in the area of most of our field production is due to the weather. We have six months cold and snow, two months of rain and the remainder of the year is hot and dry. Most of our well locations are in high altitudes or remote locations. Due to snow and rain the roads to most well locations are in bad condition several months of the year, making tending these wells very difficult. We have solved the chart changing and well tending problems in some areas by using he1icopters.
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Fundamentals Of Diaphragm Type Positive Displacement Meters
Author(s): G. O. Christensen Ken Bordner
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The displacement gas meter is frequently referred to as a positive displacement meter, not because it is any more definite or accurate than measuring with any other type of meter, but because the measurement it affords is a Positive Volumetric quantity in cubic feet at flowing conditions regardless of or pressure the temperature, gravity of the flowing gas.
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Flow Computers And Transducerscalibration And Trouble Shooting
Author(s): Lawrence Lanidert
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In d 1( 1974 Mountain Fuel took a long hard look at the feasibility of more accurate measurement of its interruptible customers gas usage. At that time, consideration was given to the benefits that could be derived from a monitoring system capable of communicating this measured gas usage to our gas control people. These people could then better anticipate gas acquisitionand distribution. With the advent of an imposition of penalties for gas consumed during curtailment periods, Mountain Fuel had to keep a finger on the pulse of its interruptible customers.
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New Developments Workshop
Author(s): N. L. Vaughn
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Their new MPB Flow Computer incorporates microprocessor Electronic circuitry to obtain a precise digital computation of corrected volume gas flow through turbine type meters. Uncorrected volume from a turbine meter is continually computed to a base volume of +0.02 percent accuracy.
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3373AF07
Overpressure Protection The Oot Cooe
Author(s): Ra1ph Kubitz
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Probably the most important parts the code, as far as overpressure protection is concerned, are: 192.195 192.199 192.197 192.201 192.195 is a general statement covering the need for pressure regulation plus protection against overpressuring 192.197 deals with regulators supplying gas to customers from high pres sure distribution mains and specifies what should be done for overpressure protection. It divides regulators serving customers (service regulators) into two categories:
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Teton Dam Disaster
Author(s): O. R. Burch
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June 5, 12:30 pm, II was returning from Blackfoot when I overheard a partial radio conversation between Del Russe11 and Marv Pitman. I asked Marv to update me on what was going on and he informed me the Teton Dam had broken and a wall of water was approaching Rexburg and Sugar City. He also informed me which of our people had been made aware of the crisis. Harry Peterlin and Del Russell were on the south side..of the Snake River at the Annis Valve. This valve was selected because of its location to secure shutdown of the 8 lateral going north to Rexburg, Sugar City and St. Anthony.
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Noise Abatement & Control At Regulator Stations
Author(s): J. Marvin Lange
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A lecture on noise abatement and control seems very timely. Under the byline National Noise Abatement Strategy in the December 1976 issue of Sound and Vibration we read The abatenoise is an exthat will require of all segments strategy ment and control of tremely complex task the coordinated efforts of sociiety, and a national must be designed and implemented to achieve this goal
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297AB5A4
Th Gas Dispatcher The Field Technician
Author(s): James L. Hamlin
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Over the past generation, cooperation between the dispatchers and field technicians has become increasingly important. All of a sudden, natural gas, which was once considered nuisance to oil men, is a highly regarded, much in demand, expensive commodity. When a commodity is in demand, its value increases. This is evident by our gas bills today
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High Pressure Regulation
Author(s): Rrayrosh-Ny
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lht is High Pressure Regulation? Generally speaking it is the. closing and opening of a valve to maintain a desired pressure at the downstream side of the valve. Actually, the original regulator was just that - A man opening and closing a valve. A high pressure regulator is just a regulator built to withstand thousands or hundreds of pounds of pressure on the inlet side of it.
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Industrial Regulators Shop Maintenadce & Repair
Author(s): Jerry Chapman
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Over the years, the importance of Meter Shop activity centered around the repair of retired regulator stock. Our company found itself in a position, in some cases, of having two years supply of commercial regulators just sitting in retired stock and new ones being pur chased to satisfy demand. It didnt take us long to analyze the net profit that could be gained by starting a routine reg-repair procedure as an .ntegral part of the Meter Shopsactivities.
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Simplified Concepts Automaticed Of Controller Actions
Author(s): TaTiairBoir
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T?omatic controllers are useful engineering tools, but to use them, engineers must first know the basic principles of automatic control. In this paper the basic principles are given in everyday words. Basic responses of controllers are illustrated with common, familiar devices. Simple graphs show how the measured variable acts under regulation by an automatic controller
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Meter Reading - A Better Way ?
Author(s): Joseph A. Wager
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Introduction The installation of the Carco Automatic Meter Reading System in Ashland, Nebraska was broken into two phases. Phase I - Feasibility of remote meter reading and transmission of data to centralized computer processing fac- s phase of the project was established to determine whether Darcos remote meter reading equipment can be used to read meters from a reote location, and whether or not these meter readings can be transmitted to Peoples Omaha headquarters via some communications media such that it can be separated into files
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Lubricated Plug Valve Maintenance & Repair
Author(s): G. Keith George
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As. e ol( a type of valve, the plug valve is the oldest style of valve on which we have been able to trace a history. Plug valves have been around for about 3200 years. The original plug valve was a piece of wood that had a hole bored in it. This was inserted in a pieceofpipe, which was then hollowed out bamboo, and when you turned that plug so that the hole in it was in line with the hollow portion of the bamboo (the run of the pipe) you got flow. When you rotated the plug 90 degrees, so that the solid portion was in 1ine with the run, the flow stopped.
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Well Head Control Surface()
Author(s): W. A Merrick
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The primary purpose of wellhead control is safety and the prevention of blowouts and possible fires. These accidents can result in the loss. of life, loss of property and expensive operations to bring the well under control. An understanding of the operation of the devices used in wellhead control will help to assure their efficient performance and prevention of accidents.
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Wellhead Control Sub-Surface()
Author(s): Bob Rasmussen
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For years the Industry has used subsurface safety valves to protect the environment and their personnel. With the increase in the need for energy conservation and the increasing concern for the environment the interest in subsurface safety valves has also increased.
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Fundamentals Of Pressure Regulation
Author(s): Harold F. Kruzan
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A pressure regulator is designed to reduce and control pressure. This is done primarily .to provide an adequate safety factor, increase the accuracy of measurement and efficiency of the utilization of the gas, and to increase the economy of the transmission and distribution of gas. A gas pressure regulator must be capable of reducing either a constant or variable pressure to a constant discharge pressure of a lower value.
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The Concept Of Using Valves Regulation For Is Not New
Author(s): Mark D. Smith
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At this time a few gas companies started experimenting with plug valves as regulators. They found the valve to have very 1ittle pressure drop, but found it difficult to control the plug. As the problems were worked out, the plug valve regulator became more bulky and expensive.
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Metrication Is Here
Author(s): Don J. Hunter
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It has been said that the history of measurement is the history of mans struggle to understand what his neighbor meant when he was talking of quantity, and then to agree with that neighbor on a description that would have the same meaning for a third party. Before reviewing the status of the metric system (SI), that both our countries are implementing on a voluntary basis, I believe it is important to review a little of that history of measurement that has led to this decision to change from the Imperial or British system to the metric system. Initially to barter, man had to invent systems of measurement to help him in what he was buying and selling.
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The Clay Basin Storage Project
Author(s): A. J. Acker G. W. Debernardi
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The Clay Basin field Daggett County in the INTRODUCTION noriheasfcornerorthr State of Utah near the Colorado and Wyoming borders. The city of Rock Springs, Wyoming, lies 50 miles to the north, and Salt Lake City, Utah, is approximately 140 miles to the west. The field is an anticlinal dome about four miles long (east to west) and two miles wide (north to south) underlying about 4,680 acres
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There Is A Chip In Your Future
Author(s): Enejgfindsstrynlrketing
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There is a Chip in Your Future. So, I researched the language and literature to find out what a chip could be. Webster says: A small, usually thin, piece of material broken or cut from the surface of a substance by a cutting tool. That didnt sound interesting for my future. I hate chopping wood.
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Public Relations We Pay For
Author(s): Dale Zabriskie
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is becoming harder and harder for our customers to have happy thoughts when they think about their natural gas service, mostly because of the higher costs we are all experiencing. These are certainly times when public relations with our customers and the general public are of major importance to each of our various companies individually, and to the entire natural gas industry collectively.
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64480572
Whats New In Meter Testinngg
Author(s): Joseph A Wager
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Due to the almost daily increasing cost of natural gas, there is a growing concern for accurate measurement. Due to these concerns, marw new ideas and equipment have been developed to insure both distribution and transmission people of a more accurate method of testing and calibrating their measuremett equipment.
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Turbine Meters: Fundamentals, Installation And Maintenance
Author(s): Jim Can Brad Lawrence
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Basically the turbine type meter is a vane rotor installed in a stream of flowing gas. The velocity of the gas flow puts a force on the vanes of the rotor and turns it at a speed proportional to the velocity of the gas flow. The turning of the rotor shaft is put through a gear train and transferred up to an index or a correcting device, usually through a magnetic coupling system. (This is used to avoid the use of a packing assembly which has a tendency to leak around the shaft.)
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Rotary Meters
Author(s): Gary Hanson
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This paper reviews the principle of operation, construction, selection, installation guidelines, and testing methods related to gas measurement by rotary meters. The meters discussed will primarily be the figure-eight lobed impeller type however, most comments will pertain to all types of rotary meters. INTRODUCTlON
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Basic Fundamentals Of Orifice Meter Measurement
Author(s): Ken Kendall
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Fluid meters are divided into two functional groups - One measures primarily guantity (Positive Displacement) the other measures primarily rate of flow (Inferential.) All fluid meters, however, consist of two distinct parts, each of which has different functions to perform. The first is the primary element, which is in contact with the fluid, resulting in some form of interaction.
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Basic Fundamentals Of Orifice Meter Measurement
Author(s): Ken Kendall
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Fluid meters are divided into two functional groups - One measures primarily guantity (Positive Displacement) the other measures primarily rate of flow (Inferential.) All fluid meters, however, consist of two distinct parts, each of which has different functions to perform. The first is the primary element, which is in contact with the fluid, resulting in some form of interaction
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Volume Correcting Devices Application And Maintenance
Author(s): Jim Axelton Mike Neeley
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All gas meters are tested to register the volume of gas in cubic feet at the existing line pressure. With the advent of pipe lines for the transmission and distribution of gas at high pressure, the problem of measurerrent arose with the question: How can gas be measured at high pressure and the volume be expressed as the number of cubic feet which would be measured by a meter at a pressure as low as that at which a cubic foot of gas is assumed to be standard?
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C12899B7