DEVELOPMENT A MOBILE LABORATORY FOR METROLOGICAL ASSURANCE OF QUALITY AND QUANTITY IN NATURAL GAS CUSTODY TRANSFER IN COLOMBIA

Henry Abril, Luis E. García, Juan M. Ortiz, John F. Velosa

Abstract

The relevance of providing traceability to gas quality and quantity in field increases every day. However, this task is expensive, generates risks related to equipment transport, demands adequate logistics and the required time to fulfill the measurement assurance process (calibration, confirmation and correction) may be long, causing disagree among agents involved in the natural gas custody transfer process. As a feasible alternative to provide traceability to the measurements of gas quality and quantity in field, International Gas Transmission Company (TGI S.A. ESP) and the Gas Technological Development Center (CDT de GAS), supported by COLCIENCIAS, planned and carried out the design and commissioning of a mobile laboratory integrating the facilities to operate as a stationary metrology laboratory and CMC conform to the requirements of the natural gas measurement processes.

Keywords

mobile laboratory, natural gas, traceability, custody transfer

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