Precise Metering

摘要

With 2.4 million miles of distribution and transmission pipelines across the US, natural gas stakeholders face an ongoing and significant challenge to determine accurately and reliably what is flowing through their networks. Within that system, there are more than 17 400 points of transfer, including those between the producer and the pipeline company or the pipeline company to local distribution providers and end-users (commercial, industrial, residential and energy generation) - the latter of which represent the majority of these transfer points. An important part of this infrastructure is the expansion of pipelines from thousands of drill sites to mainline pipelines. Retrieving this gas - as opposed to flaring it - is essential to further reaping the economic benefits of natural gas volumes in shale and fracking plays throughout the US and increasingly to stay compliant with local, state and federal statutes.