Loading and fueling in the oil & gas industry

Monitoring of loading and fuelling

A recent development is ‘Small Scale LNG’, which involves the supply of smaller quantities of LNG delivered via a road tanker or a small ship, for distribution to special LNG fuel stations or loading facilities. The LNG is then sold as a fuel for trucks and for ships, which can reduce emissions in line with modern environmental policies. Also LNG bunkering ships are under development, which would refuel larger ships while they are in port loading or unloading their cargo.

Requirements

  • Cryogenic temperatures (<-162°C)
  • Risk of overfill or dry run
  • Inventory measurement

Requirements

  • Need for custody transfer certification
  • Transparent programming and easy to operate

Requirements

  • Cryogenic temperatures (<162°C)
  • Need for custody transfer certification

Requirements

  • Cryogenic temperatures (<162°C)
  • Risk of overfill or dry run
  • Inventory measurement

Requirements

  • Integration of flow computers, PLCs, supervisory computers and printers
  • Installation of single flow computers up to fully redundant cabinet
  • Complying with custody transfer requirements

Requirements

  • Visualisation and monitoring of critical processes
  • Control of reporting, trends and alarm handling
  • Statistical evaluation of measurement data

Applications

Custody transfer flow measurement for (un)loading of LNG
Application Report | Oil & Gas
  • Equipping a dispensing system for cryogenic fuels with a Coriolis mass flowmeter
  • Continuous measurement and indication of 2-phase-flow in the event of boil-off-gas (BOG)
  • Improved control of loading procedure, cooling time and product quality
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