API CALCULATION TO DETERMINE OIL VOLUME

API CALCULATION TO DETERMINE OIL VOLUME

Objectives:

This course covers the methods and techniques for accurate measurement of crude oil and refined products at a fundamental level. The course provides a fundamental basis in static measurement (manual Tank gauging), principles of operation of the primary dynamic meters and a base knowledge on meter proving and factor calculation as well as the meter/tank ticket calculations. The course uses the API Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards and the ASTM Test Methods as the basis for instruction. 

Course contents:

Properties of petroleum

• Testing and significance of testing for properties of petroleum
• Principles of testing for API gravity and S&W (base methods)
• Laboratory and classroom demonstrations and exercises

Static measurement

• Basic principle of volume measurement by liquid level
• Fundamentals of tank calibration by the manual method
• Calibration, gauging and sampling equipment
• Fundamentals of tank gauging and sampling
• Calculation of a basic run ticket
• Field and classroom exercises, including calculation exercises

Dynamic measurement

• Theory of operation and use of PD, Turbine, Coriolis and Ultrasonic meters
• Theory of operation and use of displacement provers
• Calculation of basic meter factor from proving
• Overview of LACT/ACT installations
• Field and classroom exercises, including calculation exercises

Oil Loss Analysis

• Introduction to need for oil loss analysis and good measurement

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Personnel with a basic knowledge of the oil & gas business, especially pipeline, refining and production operations. Measurement operators, technicians, and engineers who would like to get a more firm foundation and/or are new (6 months or less) to liquid volume measurement; and those who witness or audit measurement techniques.