The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) submitted a revision of the Technical Regulation for the Measurement of Oil and Natural Gas (RTM) to public consultation. It seeks to balance metrological risks and regulatory costs in different output conditions.
Public Consultation and Audience n.º 1/2022 from the Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) seeks to collect public contributions on a draft joint resolution, between ANP and the Brazilian Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (INMETRO), intended to revise the Technical Regulation for the Measurement of Oil and Natural Gas (RTM), currently provided by Joint ANP/INMETRO Resolution n.º 1/2013. The RTM provides minimum technical, constructive, and metrological requirements for measurement systems applied to specific oil and gas production, transfer, and transport activities.
According to the regulatory impact analysis of the public consultation, the new joint resolution seeks to correct the mismatch between metrological risk and regulatory cost that stems from different volumetric measurement conditions. It intends to provide regulatory flexibilizations to fields of lower throughput (e.g., marginal fields and the majority of onshore fields), as a means to improve their economic appeal, as well as metrology improvements and additional requirements to fields of higher throughput (e.g., pre-salt oil fields), as a means to minimize measurement failures. The draft establishes four categories for measurement systems applied to oil fields, and other four to natural gas fields, based on their throughput level.
Contributions can be submitted through this form until March 21. A public hearing will be held on April 5, where interested parties may participate, subscribing through this form. The draft joint resolution, regulatory impact analysis, and technical notes are available on ANP’s website.
