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Custody
Transfer "Measurement System" for Liquid Hydrocarbon Cross
Country Pipeline Network
 Reduction
in capital expenditure and operating expenses can result from a
well-designed skided metering facility, elaborates Trilochan Gupta.
LPG is a popular domestic fuel, moved in bottles. Generally, the
majority of LPG is not bottled in cylinders in the premises where
it is produced, instead moved by road or rail in bulk form to the
LPG bottling plants. More>>
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Production
and Pipeline Control Systems
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this article we will look at one of these new technologies . Foundation
Fieldbus . and the challenges and opportunities that it provides
in terms of SCADA type control systems, including remote diagnostics
and maintenance information, says Logan Andrew Alexender.
There are a number of new technologies and
standards that are having a profound impact on the specification
and implementation of SCADA applications in the energy industry.
These new technologies and standards combine with strong cost reduction
requirements and greatly increase data availability and inte-
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Detection
of Crude Oil Theft from Cross-country Pipeline
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CAT Survey was employed for the first time to detect a point of
pilferage other than its usual application of coating integrity
survey techniques, emphasises Md. Sohrab Ali.
Oil India Limited has a cross-country pipeline spanning over a length
of 1157 km and traversing through all sorts of soil in three states
of Assam, West Bengal and Bihar. It is almost a common phenomenon
to have crude oil pilferage from the pipeline. Once it is sensed,
there is no way but to detect it. In July 2001, drop of pumping
pressure was observed in the Central Control Room More>>
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