To Further Examine the Effect of Wet Gas on our Adjusta-Cone Product

GM Flow制造一种先进的干燥天然气流量计，即经过处理以去除气流中天然存在的液体的天然气。沙特阿拉伯国家石油公司（Saudi Aramco）已经观察到，该仪表有可能发展成为一种湿气仪表，因此它可以直接部署在天然气井口上，在天然气生产过程中以及在昂贵的天然气干燥过程之前测量天然气和相关液体。该仪表具有独特的、极大的工作流量范围。通过部署具有新型和更先进的湿气特性的流量计，沙特阿美公司计划避免更换传统流量计，目前传统流量计无法完全覆盖随着油井产量自然下降而导致的天然气流速的显著下降。通过将湿气测量算法添加到仪表中，对于阿美公司和其他天然气生产商来说，这是一个非常有吸引力的提议。这意味着，在我们竞争对手的电表变得过大，需要被更小的电表取代很久之后，我们的单电表将能够继续使用。我们已经进行了一个小规模的中试循环测试项目，用湿气测试仪表，然后我们在沙特阿拉伯对仪表进行了现场测试，结果很有希望。正在寻求第二个更大的流量回路测试程序，我们希望在更宽的工作流量，含水，压力和液体负载范围内测试仪表。这将使我们的仪表有资格与沙特阿美公司进行第二次现场试验。沙特阿美有数百口井可以部署该技术，该A4i项目的成本将产生相当于授予价值700倍的投资回报率。该流量计在天然气井和许多泵送气体应用中具有全球适用性，因此在湿气市场和未来的碳捕集市场具有巨大的潜力，在这些市场中，湿气会引起腐蚀问题。

GM Flow manufacture an advanced flow meter for dry natural gas i.e. gas that has been processed to remove naturally occurring liquids within the gas stream. The meter has been observed by Saudi Aramco as having the potential to be developed into a wet gas meter, so it could be deployed directly onto a gas wellhead to measure the gas and associated liquids, as they are being produced and before the expensive process of drying the gas.The meter has a unique, extremely large operating flow range. By deploying the meter with new and further advanced wet gas features, Aramco plan to avoid the need to replace conventional flow meters, which cannot currently fully cover the significant reduction in gas flow rates as the wells' production naturally declines over time. By adding wet gas measurement algorithms to the meter, it becomes a very attractive proposition for Aramco and other natural gas producers. It means that our single meter will be able to remain in service, long after our competitors' meters will have become oversized and need to be replaced by smaller meters.We have undertaken a small pilot flow loop test program to test the meter with wet gas, we then field tested the meter in Saudi Arabia with promising results. A second larger flow loop test program is being sought, we wish to test the meter across wider operating flow, watercut, pressure and liquid loading ranges. This will enable our meter to qualify for a second field trial with Aramco.Aramco has many hundreds of wells where the technology can be deployed, the cost of this A4i project will produce an ROI equal to some 700 times the value of the grant awarded. The flow meter has global applicability in natural gas wells and in many pumped gas applications, so has tremendous potential for the wet gas market and in the future in Carbon Capture markets, where wet gas causes corrosion problems.