Expanding Market Opportunities Through the Redesign of a Wet Gas Flow Meter

通过重新设计湿气体流量计扩大市场机会

• 批准号: 10075306
• 金额: $ 0.98万
• 依托单位: TAYLOR HOBSON LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10075306
• 关键词: Expanding; Market; Opportunities; Through; Redesign

Wet gas metering plays a critical role during oil and gas production. The need for accurate measurement to support fiscal taxation reporting, allocation, and production control cannot be underestimated. For legal and regulatory reasons, meters in the field must perform within a specified uncertainty limit -- failure to achieve these targets places the operators, regulators and stakeholders under serious financial exposure. For example, a 1% measurement uncertainty in a typical wet gas meter could equate to a financial exposure of over £5M over a one-year period. Collectively, we could be talking billions of pounds of exposure in the UK gas fields alone.In terms of the technology, wet gas metering is one of the most complex and challenging forms of flow measurement. Improving the current state-of-the-art in this area continues to be a major focus and priority amongst oil and gas operators at an international level. The sector recognises the critical role accurate wet gas measurement plays in the exploitation of clean fuels to support our transition to a net zero energy mix. Ultimately the Dualstream 2 wet gas flow meter will be improved upon to expand market opportunities. Reducing the meter's optimal length, whilst widening its rangeability and operational performance, will provide industry a much more cost-effective solution to their measurement problem. Switching from laboratory flow testing to an industry-accepted simulation testing regime using CFD will provide substantial long-term cost savings for us and our users when rolled out above and beyond this project.

湿气计量在油气生产中起着至关重要的作用。不能低估为支持财税报告、分配和生产控制而进行准确计量的必要性。出于法律和法规的原因，该领域的仪表必须在规定的不确定限度内运行--未能实现这些目标将使运营商、监管机构和利益相关者面临严重的财务风险。例如，典型湿式燃气表中1%的测量不确定度可能相当于一年内超过500万GB的财务风险。总体而言，仅英国气田就可能面临数十亿磅的风险。就技术而言，湿式气体计量是流量测量中最复杂和最具挑战性的形式之一。改善这一领域目前的最先进水平仍然是国际上石油和天然气运营商的主要重点和优先事项。该部门认识到准确的湿气测量在开发清洁燃料以支持我们向净零能源组合过渡方面发挥的关键作用。最终，Dualstream 2湿气体流量计将得到改进，以扩大市场机会。减少仪表的最佳长度，同时扩大其量程和操作性能，将为行业提供更具成本效益的测量问题解决方案。从实验室流量测试切换到使用CFD的行业认可的模拟测试系统，当我们和我们的用户在这个项目之上和之外推广时，将为我们和我们的用户提供大量的长期成本节约。