Course Location/Date : Kigali, Rwanda/18 -22 August, 2025
Course Date: London , UK/15-19 September, 2025
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Target Audience
This advanced workshop is designed for professionals involved in the design, specification, installation, testing, operation, or maintenance of instrumentation and metering systems related to custody transfer and production allocation. Ideal participants include:
- Facilities, process, and instrumentation engineers
- Maintenance and operations personnel
- Electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineers
- Technicians involved in flow measurement, metering, and production data handling
Course Overview
This comprehensive program covers the end-to-end framework of production allocation, metering technologies, measurement validation, and hydrocarbon loss control. Participants will gain a deep understanding of allocation methodologies, custody transfer best practices, measurement accuracy, and the application of recent technologies in data validation and metering systems. Hands-on exercises and real-world case studies will reinforce practical learning.
Course Outline
Day 1 – Introduction to Production Allocation Systems and Measurement Fundamentals
- Overview of production allocation systems and objectives
- Key devices and instrumentation used in metering systems
- Global standards and fiscal metering requirements (e.g., API, AGA, ISO)
- Accuracy requirements, proving protocols, and validation practices
- Integration with field development plans and petroleum economics
- Fundamentals of oil and gas allocation: completeness, consistency, valuation
- Introduction to loss control and Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT)
- Fluid dynamics in flow measurement: influence of viscosity, density, Reynolds number, and Bernoulli’s theorem
- Measurement of API gravity and oil classification techniques
Day 2 – Allocation Methodologies and Field Applications
- Detailed overview of production allocation methodologies
- Reporting protocols and allocation system outputs
- Volume-based, mass-based, energy balance, and mole fraction allocation cases
- Data quality and allocation result interpretation
- Optimizing production allocation in multi-reservoir or commingled fields
- Practical allocation exercise with case studies
Day 3 – Crude Oil & Gas Allocation, Reconciliation, and Loss Management
- Overview of allocation types and formulation of allocation schemes
- Static measurement, tank gauging, and stock tank volume calculations
- Measurement uncertainty and system auditing procedures
- Stock balancing, scheduling, and production planning
- Managing nominations and transportation agreements (e.g., CTA/CHA)
- Production reconciliation techniques and loss classification
- Loss quantification methodologies and mitigation strategies
- Emission reduction and hydrocarbon loss best practices in upstream operations
Day 4 – Data Validation and the Role of Modern Technologies
- Sources and characteristics of production data
- Verification, surveillance, and exception analysis
- Data integrity, security, and historian/database management
- Recent technologies in production system validation
- Overview of surface facility configurations impacting allocation
- Data validation workflows and implementation phases
Day 5 – Metering Principles, Custody Transfer, and Multiphase Measurement
- Metering fundamentals and selection criteria
- LACT units: components, principles, and operational standards
- PD meters, autosamplers, and their application in custody transfer
- Prover systems: tank, piston, pipe, and bi-directional ball provers
- Master meter systems and fiscal metering validation
- Multiphase flow measurement and water-cut (WC) principles
- Gas Volume Fraction (GVF) impact and measurement limitations
- Technology comparison: MPF meters from Roxar, Daniel, Agar, Expro, Haimo, Framo, Schlumberger, Jiskoot
- Final case study and hands-on group exercise