Consultant – Flow Measurement / Metering Specialist

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• Conduct/witness/assess Metering and Proving.
• Witness/assess Field Prover calibration by Water-draw and Master Meter Prover calibration methods in conformance with MPMS. Chap 4 and 12.
• Witness/Assess metering systems performance, trouble shoot measurement issues presented in meters and related instrumentation available at site, in order to pin point root causes and recommend corrective actions.
• Evaluate and Develop a program for verifying and / or calibrate the related instrumentation (Temperature, Pressure, Diff. pressure, etc.) existing in the KOC metering systems.
• Calculate and assess the uncertainty attached for any KOC metering system.
• Abilities/Skills to investigate and provided recommendations to correct situations that results in apparent loss/gain. Moreover, establish criteria to assess loss/gain and associated metering equipment performance tolerance.
• Keep up with new technology development in crude oil measurement to recommend equipment to ensure accurate hydrocarbon measurement.
• Liaison with Production, KNPC and KPC, when required to help identifying system imbalances and reviewing and writing measurement KOC Standards, Manuals, Calibrations procedures and new Project Specifications.

• Graduate Engineering Degree in Mechanical or Instrumentation Engineering.
• At least 20 years of proven experience in metering related measurement application as listed below.
  • Orifice meter applications (AGA3, ISO5167)
  • Positive Displacement meter applications
  • Turbine meter applications
  • Ultrasonic meter applications
  • Coriolis meter applications

• Should be familiar with Oil industry safety standards.

• Fluent to speak / read / write English. Knowledge in Arabic language preferred.
• Knowledge and experience to assess and interact with all types of metering systems, turbine, PD, Orifice, Ultra-sonic, and all types of provers, small volume, bi-directional, uni-directional and various measurement standards.
• Knowledge and experience of using various flow computers.
• Knowledge and experience to assess and interact with Automatic/Sampling Systems and / or In- Line densitometers.
• Knowledge and experience to assess and interact with Automatic Tank Gauging Systems.