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Measure What Matters

Decision-Grade Flow Measurement for a Changing Energy Landscape

From measured data to trusted decisions across production, multiphase, allocation, custody transfer, emissions and new-energy metering.

February 24–25, 2027 The Woodlands, Texas, USA In-person workshop
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North America Flow Measurement Workshop, February 24–25, 2027, The Woodlands, Texas
February 24–25, 2027 The Woodlands, Texas
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About the workshop

Flow measurement is increasingly central to trusted energy decisions.

Measurement performance directly affects production optimization, allocation, custody transfer, emissions reporting, regulatory compliance, commercial settlement, measurement assurance and asset-level decision making.

As operating conditions become more complex and energy systems expand beyond conventional hydrocarbons into CCUS, hydrogen, methane emissions management and other emerging applications, the industry needs measurement practices that are defensible, traceable, auditable and fit for decision-making.

This focused, in-person technical forum will bring together operators, metrology laboratories, OEMs, consultants, academia, regulators, standards stakeholders and emerging-energy specialists. The objective is to establish a high-quality, repeatable platform for the North American flow measurement community and identify key measurement gaps, recommended practices and future collaboration opportunities.

Workshop format

Two days designed for technical depth and substantive discussion.

6 technical sessions

Approximately three sessions per day.

3–4 presenters

Each session groups complementary operator, laboratory, OEM and research perspectives.

20 + 10 minutes

Twenty-minute presentation followed by ten minutes for questions.

Moderated discussion

Each session concludes with discussion and Q&A; poster displays support deeper exchange.
Program development: Session groupings are indicative and will be finalized after abstracts are received, independently scored and organized into a coherent two-day program.
Why attend?

Technical rigor, cross-sector insight and practical application.

Measurement confidence

Examine traceability, uncertainty, calibration, transferability, validation, diagnostics and acceptance criteria.

Integrated perspectives

Connect operator needs with laboratory evidence, OEM design decisions, standards development and field-service realities.

Decision-grade outcomes

Focus on what measurement evidence is sufficient for production, allocation, custody, compliance, emissions and commercial decisions.

Call for abstracts

From operating challenge to defensible measurement evidence.

Abstracts are invited from contributors who can share technically rigorous, non-commercial work that improves measurement confidence in real operating environments. The themes follow a practical measurement journey: define the operating and manufacturing challenges; address them through technology, design, calibration, deployment and assurance practices; and validate whether the measurement is defensible enough for operational, commercial, regulatory or emissions-related decisions. Operator, OEM and manufacturer, laboratory, standards and field-service perspectives are encouraged.

1. Field Measurement Challenges: What Operators Need the Meter to Survive
  • Real operating problems through the asset life cycle: changing GOR, GVF/WLR shifts, pressure and temperature drift, production decline, gas lift, ESP operation, slugging, sand, scale, wax and changing fluid composition.
  • Brownfield and offshore constraints: limited straight run, separator limitations, unstable references, compact layouts, maintenance access, power and communications limits, and installation compromises.
  • Operator decision impact: production optimization, allocation, custody transfer, well-test replacement, deferment tracking, field troubleshooting and commercial exposure when measurement bias is not detected.
  • Case studies showing where measurement performance degraded, what symptoms appeared first, and what information operators needed but did not have.
2. Meter Design, Manufacturing and Technology Selection: How the Challenge Is Addressed
  • Technology selection for the intended envelope rather than generic claims: multiphase, wet-gas, single-phase, full-range GVF, regime-specific hardware and hybrid measurement architectures.
  • OEM and manufacturer design tradeoffs: sensor choice, meter-body geometry, bore and throat tolerances, wall thickness, sensor spacing, coupling, materials compatibility, electronics, firmware and maintainability.
  • Manufacturing and QA controls that affect performance: machining repeatability, dimensional inspection, sensor matching, pressure testing, factory acceptance testing, serial-to-serial repeatability, and configuration and version control.
  • Designing for diagnostics, field service and transferability: what should be measured, logged, alarmed or preserved so performance can be verified after installation.
  • Evidence behind technology limits: where laboratory claims stop, where application risk starts, and how vendors and operators should communicate operating-envelope boundaries.
3. Calibration, Qualification and Transferability: Proving the Measurement Before the Field
  • Calibration strategy for multiphase, wet-gas and single-phase meters, including traceability chains, reference quality, acceptance criteria and uncertainty budgets.
  • Laboratory-to-field transferability: similarity parameters, fluid-property effects, live-fluid limitations, pressure and temperature scaling, CO2 or H2S content, and conditions not easily reproduced in a flow loop.
  • Qualification programs and lessons learned from operators, laboratories and OEMs, including CEESI/NEL-type studies and how their evidence can be applied without overextending conclusions.
  • Field proving and reference-comparison workflows: separator tests, test-separator uncertainty, clamp-on or temporary references, reconciliation, and when disagreement is due to the meter versus the reference.
  • Defensible acceptance criteria: how to decide whether a test result is a calibration issue, an application issue, a configuration issue or a reference-system issue.
4. Deployment, Diagnostics, Data Quality and Continuous Assurance: Keeping the Measurement Trustworthy
  • Commissioning and configuration control: operating-envelope setup, PVT and table configuration, meter factors, firmware and model versions, change management and audit trails.
  • Diagnostics from sensor to decision: signal health, drift, blocked ports, sensor degradation, density and PVT issues, pressure and temperature errors, flow-regime alarms and uncertainty-aware validation.
  • Data-quality workflows for operators and OEM support teams: automated screening, anomaly detection, virtual flow metering, reconciliation, exception handling and root-cause analysis.
  • Measurement assurance in daily operations: what to monitor, how often to validate, what thresholds trigger intervention, and how to avoid overreacting to normal process variability.
  • Examples where diagnostics prevented bad decisions, or where missing diagnostics allowed measurement error to propagate into allocation, custody or reporting outcomes.
5. Single-Phase, Custody Transfer and Allocation: The Measurement Backbone Around Multiphase
  • Single-phase liquid and gas measurement challenges that are often overshadowed by multiphase topics but directly affect allocation, reconciliation, custody transfer and facility balances.
  • Custody-transfer and fiscal measurement assurance: proving, meter factors, traceability, auditability, bias control and uncertainty statements that stand up to commercial review.
  • Integrating MPFM, wet-gas, separator, allocation and custody systems into one defensible measurement chain rather than treating each meter in isolation.
  • Quantifying the business effect of measurement uncertainty across the full production system, including where a small bias becomes material.
6. CCUS, Hydrogen, Methane and Emerging-Energy Measurement: New Fluids, New Evidence Requirements
  • CO2 measurement for CCUS, including dense-phase behavior, impurities, custody and transport interfaces, allocation, storage accounting and metering under changing phase behavior.
  • Hydrogen and blended-gas measurement: low-density gas behavior, material compatibility, calibration challenges, leakage and implications for existing gas-metering practice.
  • Methane, flare, vent and emissions measurement: why emissions-reporting evidence differs from production-measurement evidence, and how to make data decision-grade for regulatory or corporate reporting.
  • Adapting production-style measurement assurance to emerging-energy applications without assuming the same uncertainty model, validation frequency or acceptance criteria.
  • Standards gaps, regulatory drivers and practical collaboration needs across operators, laboratories, OEMs and regulators.
7. Validation, Governance and Decision-Grade Evidence: Is the Data Good Enough to Act On?
  • Decision-grade measurement frameworks: defining what is good enough for production optimization, allocation, custody transfer, emissions reporting, regulatory compliance and commercial settlement.
  • Uncertainty propagation from sensor to business decision, including reference uncertainty, model uncertainty, PVT uncertainty, installation effects and data-quality exclusions.
  • Measurement governance: roles and responsibilities across operators, OEMs, laboratories, field-service providers and standards bodies; audit trails; change control; and defensible records.
  • Validation and escalation criteria: when to accept, recalibrate, derate, repair, reconfigure or replace a meter, and how to communicate risk to decision makers.
  • Road-ahead discussions: recommended practices, gaps in current standards, joint studies and working groups needed to move the industry from measured data to trusted decisions.
Submission priority: Field experience, laboratory evidence, uncertainty and validation methods, standards perspectives, diagnostics, data-quality practices, lessons learned and practical approaches that improve confidence in real operating environments. Final agenda and session groupings will be confirmed after abstracts are received and scored.
Important dates

Key submission, registration and workshop milestones.

Abstract DeadlineOctober 16, 2026
NotificationNovember 13, 2026
Registration Early Bird EndsNovember 20, 2026
WorkshopFebruary 24–25, 2027
Registration

Reserve your place at the workshop.

Registration is not yet open. Pricing is shown for planning purposes, and the registration link will be added when available.

SPE Regular
Regular$500
Early Bird$425

Full two-day workshop access, including all sessions, materials, breaks and the networking reception.

Non-Member
Regular$625
Early Bird$525

Full two-day workshop access, including all sessions, materials, breaks and the networking reception. SPE membership is not required.

Student
Regular$175
Early Bird$125

Full two-day workshop access with valid student-status verification.

One-Day Pass
Regular$375
Early Bird$300

Access to one workshop day, including that day’s sessions, materials and scheduled breaks.

Registration Coming Soon

Early-bird pricing is planned through November 20, 2026. The registration link is pending and will be posted when available.

Organizing committee

Led by flow-measurement specialists from across the community.

The organizing committee brings together operators, metrology laboratories, technology providers and measurement specialists to shape a rigorous and practical workshop program.

Workshop co-chairs
Awatef Tebbani
Awatef Tebbani
Workshop Co-Chair Weatherford
Colin Lightbody
Colin Lightbody
Workshop Co-Chair TÜV SÜD National Engineering Laboratory (NEL)
Committee members
Amin Amin
Amin Amin
Committee Member Belsim Engineering USA
Mike Brunton
Mike Brunton
Committee Member Halliburton
Katharine Moncada
Katharine Moncada
Committee Member SLB
Lester Yi
Lester Yi
Committee Member ExxonMobil
Brandon Buquet
Brandon Buquet
Committee Member iMEC Group Inc.
Willow Liu
Willow Liu
Committee Member MEDENG
Luiz Octavio
Luiz Octavio
Committee Member Petrobras
Anna-Maria Nooy
Anna-Maria Nooy
Coordinator TÜV SÜD
To Be Announced
Committee Member
To Be Announced
Committee Member
Nine committee members are confirmed. Three additional committee positions will be announced as the workshop planning progresses.
Resources

Workshop materials

Author Kit

Abstract guidance, author instructions and submission templates.

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Program & Abstract Book

Full session schedule and accepted abstracts.

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Presentations & Posters

Speaker slides and poster showcase materials.

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Photo Gallery

Highlights from the workshop floor.

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Questions about the workshop?

Reach the Flow Measurement Workshop 2027 organizing team for registration, submissions or venue details.

Venue Oxy Woodlands Tower Conference Center
1201 Lake Robbins Dr, The Woodlands, TX 77380, USA
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