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January 12, 2003

  • AUTHOR: Tom Cleveland

TRAINING OF OFFICE MEASUREMENT PERSONNEL It has long been held that the measurement function is the “cash register” for the energy industry. Other facts that relate to measurement are that it involves the application of scientific laws, knowledge of physical properties, application of mathematics, and facilitated in an environment based on industry standards and company policies and procedures. Also, ask…

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January 12, 2003

  • AUTHOR: Mark B. Fillman, Gary P. Menzel

GAS CONTRACTS: THEN AND NOW Our industry has seen tremendous progress in the accuracy of natural gas measurement since the implementation of electronic gas measurement (EGM) in the 1980s. With respect to orifice measurement, the transition from mechanical chart recorders to EGM had an unprecedented impact on our ability to measure natural gas and adjust to market demands throughout the…

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January 12, 2003

  • AUTHOR: Kevin Shaw

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF PRESSURE REGULATORS The following paper will concentrate on the fundamentals and principles of natural gas pressure regulators. In the gas regulator’s conception it was mainly a device used to reduce high pressure to a more usable lower pressure. Today, more is expected from the performance of the pressure regulator. Pressure reduction is no longer the only function…

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January 12, 2003

  • AUTHOR: R. Michael Squyres

REQUIREMENTS OF AN EGM EDITOR The natural gas industry has adopted EGM as a means of increasing the speed and accuracy with which measurement information is obtained. This has created the need for an electronic data management system. These systems, if not properly designed and implemented, could potentially render the entire process useless. Therefore, it is essential that the system…

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January 12, 2003

  • AUTHOR: Cynthia Corcoran

NORTH AMERICAN ENERGY STANDARS BOARD AS A CASE STUDY WHY STANDARDS? • Commercial interest: to facilitate commerce by lowering transaction (production/distribution, etc.) costs • Governmental interest: to facilitate a competitive commercial environment and serve the governmental interests of public health, safety and preservation of competition

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January 12, 2003

  • AUTHOR: Tom Tauer

CHART AUDITING Gas chart auditing can be one of the more interesting and rewarding segments of chart processing. While performing a valuable service for the customer or person requesting the audit, it can give the auditor a chance to use his or her chart expertise that could become stagnate with only routine chart processing. The chart auditor…

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January 12, 2003

  • AUTHOR: David Pulley

FROM PEN TIP TO VOLUME STATEMENT Accurate and reliable gas measurement depends on a combination of efforts from two groups of people. First, we have the field personnel. They have the responsibility of seeing that a readable chart is produced and that all information pertinent to volume calculation is supplied to our next group, which is the office personnel. This group…

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January 12, 2003

  • AUTHOR: Duane A. Harris

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN OFFICE AND FIELD The gas industry today is constantly changing, with increasing demands on office and field personnel. Initially there was FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) Order 636 that forced the gas measurement departments into the electronic age. Next came corporate slashing that has required the gas measurement groups to perform at the same level of integrity in…

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January 12, 2003

  • AUTHOR: Stephen R. Cree

BASIC APPLICATIONS OF TELEMETERING SYSTEMS CLASS #3050 Telemetering, or transporting information, has been with man from the first days of recorded history, at first in primitive forms such as grunts and smoke signals; more recently [in the past hundred years] in progressively sophisticated forms including radio and satellite systems. Harnessing electricity led to the “magic” of telephony. Telegraphs, and later telephones employ…

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