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AGA Operations Conference, May 19-22, 2013 PRACTICAL SOLUTION FOR ULTRASONIC FLOW MEASUREMENT IN HIGH CO2 NATURAL GAS APPLICATIONS Marcel Vermeulen, Jan Drenthen, Hilko den Hollander, Paula Lanoux KROHNE Oil Gas, CT Products 1 INTRODUCTION : Having it over the past decade established as one of the preferred measurements for high pressure natural gas, the application range of ultrasonic flow meters is also shifting towards the more difficult applications. One type of these applications is natural gas with a high content of carbon dioxide (CO ). 2 The concentration of CO varies considerably over the various reservoirs. A few examples of this are 2 shown in table 1. Reservoir Component Groningen Laeq Uch Uthmaniyah Ardjuna (NL) (F) (PK) (SA) (ID) CH4 81.3 69 27.3 55.5 65.7 C H 2.9 3 0.7 18 8.5 2 6 C H 0.4 0.9 0.3 9.8 14.5 3 8 C H 0.1 0.5 0.3 4.5 5.1 4 10 C5+ 0.1 0.5 - 1.6 0.8 N2 14.3 1.5 25.2 0.2 1.3 H S