Creation of Standard for natural gas flow is continuing: main unit is now being tested
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The Gazprom Management Committee approved the 2024–2028 Comprehensive Target Program for the Provision of Metrological Support for the Operations and Technological Processes of Gazprom.
The document is designed to further enhance the infrastructure facilities that ensure the accuracy of the measurements of volumes of natural gas being transmitted. The program envisages, inter alia, further adoption of the high-tech single-line gas metering stations (GMSs) equipped with ultrasonic gas flow transducers.
The research work for the development of these GMSs won the top Science and Technology Prize of Gazprom in 2022. In 2023, five GMSs of the new type were built on the trunklines operated by Gazprom Transgaz Kazan and Gazprom Transgaz Tchaikovsky.
Apart from that, Gazprom continues to create the infrastructure for the Special National Primary Standard for high-pressure natural gas flow. The main process unit is now being tested at the manufacturing plant. After that, it will be transported to and installed at the Ural Regional Metrology Center of Gazprom.
Background
Gazprom and the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation implement the 2019–2024 Roadmap to introduce a Special National Primary Standard for high-pressure natural gas flow. It is a process unit that will transfer the standard value of a unit of gas flow rate to flow meters at a high-pressure.
The project for the expansion of the Ural Regional Metrology Center of Gazprom envisages the creation of Russia's first-ever site for the testing, verification and calibration of instruments that measure gas volumetric flow rate (flow meters) during its transmission by trunklines under a pressure of 0.1 to 10 MPa. It will be available for all interested companies of the fuel and energy complex wishing to check and adjust the functioning of their instruments.