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

湿气计量在油气生产过程中起着至关重要的作用。不能低估对支持财政税收报告、分配和生产控制的准确测量的需求。出于法律的和监管的原因，现场仪表必须在规定的不确定性限度内运行--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，典型的湿气表中1%的测量不确定性可能相当于一年内超过500万英镑的财务风险。总的来说，仅在英国的气田，我们就可以谈论数十亿磅的暴露量。就技术而言，湿气计量是最复杂和最具挑战性的流量测量形式之一。提高这一领域的现有技术水平仍然是国际石油和天然气运营商的主要重点和优先事项。该行业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结构过渡方面发挥的关键作用。最终，Dualstream 2湿气流量计将得到改进，以扩大市场机会。缩短仪表的最佳长度，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解决方案，以解决其测量问题。从实验室流量测试切换到使用CFD的行业认可的模拟测试制度，将为我们和我们的用户在本项目之外的推广中节省大量的长期成本。

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.