When C-SMART Analytics set out to shift the natural gas measurement analysis paradigm over 10 years ago, we started with the most critical flow metering stations. These include high throughput custody transfer measurement, check, and segment stations out fitted with multi-path ultrasonic or Coriolis meters. And everything else attached to the flow computer, including gas chromatographs, temperature, and pressure measurement equipment.
Over the last decade C-SMART has trained and refined our augmented intelligence (AI) gas measurement analytics engine on the capital intensive metering stations of many midstream gas pipeline operators whose brands you know. Plus, downstream consumers such as leading power utilities. Our error-catching technology is even more important now to flawlessly measure methane as natural gas becomes a crucial component of the new energy mix replacing coal, backstopping renewable energy when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing, transforming the US into a premiere LNG exporter, and helping teams meet their carbon intensity goals.
Today, C-SMART users reap the benefits of our continuous innovation in tight partnership with customers who save on average $45,000 per gas measurement station per year. Benchmarking customers who have built their own analytics capability, C-SMART’s AI and automated analysis engine outperform DIY solutions by 100%. Users benefit from a 2.5X increase in error-catching sensitivity and speed, 60% reduction in error resolution time, and as much as an 80% reduction in lost and unaccounted for gas, all leading to real financial and environmental results.
Instead of trying to diagnose and fix measurement errors through quarterly and annual site visits, C-SMART allows measurement teams to truly manage by exception with real time alerts that detect catastrophic errors and daily analysis that sifts SCADA data for the smallest errors hidden in the noise. The C-SMART Complete service brings an arsenal of gas measurement monitoring and diagnostics solutions to bear on your most critical metering stations, including AI, digital twins, NIST traceable data, error events, cloud-based tools for deep dive analysis, detailed monthly reporting, and access to C-SMART’s A team of measurement experts. But what if less critical metering stations on your system don’t need all that but would still benefit from automated measurement analysis?
Building on the extensive innovation and development of the C-SMART Complete AI-powered service for critical USM and Coriolis custody transfer, we are introducing a new service to expand measurement analysis coverage to all of your metering stations. C-SMART’s Measurement Verification Program (or MVP) provides your team with an affordable solution that pairs perfectly with a broader range of technologies, including.
- Smaller Volume Custody Transfer USM Stations
- Segment and Check USM Stations
- Multi-Run Orifice, Turbine, or Rotary Meter Stations
C-SMART MVP opens the doors to condition-based maintenance for the large number of these meters that are not actively and individually analyzed for measurement errors. It allows your team to stop looking for a needle in the proverbial haystack, replacing top down analysis of myriad SCADA data streams with automated, bottom up monitoring tailored to each station.
Users receive daily and monthly health check summaries of their MVP-monitored meters that provide a pass/fail condition, drawing your team’s attention away from analyzing the 94% of meters that typically require no action to focus their attention on the 6% of meters that need further analysis. Use C-SMART MVP to know exactly what equipment needs to be calibrated, inspected, or repaired before sending your technicians into the field, completely eliminating the need for scheduled visits, and saving up to $4,500 in labor, fuel, and windshield time per year.
Our vision at C-SMART is to cover an entire system with a comprehensive layer of measurement analysis and error catching protection. C-SMART Complete is designed to safeguard high throughput metering stations where the large volumes being measured can lead to errors that escalate to massive financial and LAUF liabilities. You owe it to your bottom line and stakeholders to deploy C-SMART Complete to all of these custody transfer measurement, check, and segment meter stations. More than a measurement insurance policy, our flagship technology and services pay for themselves every day by finding and helping teams fix errors faster than ever.
MVP is now playing a crucial role for measurement teams that provides the 360 degrees of measurement analysis we envisioned from the start, allowing you to mix and match C-SMART Complete and MVP for an optimal balance of measurement error control at every meter. Now midstream pipeline operators can match the appropriate service to the importance of each meter run, bringing state-of-the-art analytics and error-catching benefits to an entire system while optimizing the ROI on a meter by meter basis.