ABLE Instruments & Controls

Sep 03, 2023

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Able supply a wide range of specialised measurement instrumentation to the oil and gas industry. Our products include radar level gauges, float level switches, integrated metering systems and several types of flow meter.

Able supply a wide range of specialised measurement instrumentation to the oil and gas industry. Our products include radar level gauges, float level switches, integrated metering systems and several types of flow meter.

Our application knowledge and proven track record of solving the most difficult applications has enabled us to develop our measurement solutions that accurately meet the requirements of almost any process application.

Suitable for level measurement of liquids, granulars, slurries and interface in most process environments. High / low level alarm and continuous level measurement solutions are available.

Typical applications:

Non-contact radar and guided microwave radar transmitters (or TDR transmitters) are available for level control and tank gauging. Non-contact radar offers an easy to use level technique, ideal for tank and vessel measurements with almost any liquid and many solids.

Typical applications:

Guided radar transmitters are suitable for level indication of most liquids or solids and also interface on some applications.

Our unique float level switch modular design (switch, flange and float) provides a solution for many high or low level applications. Renowned for reliability, our float level switches can be mounted either horizontally or vertically depending on application.

Our magnetic level indicators and gauges provide a clear, high clarity indication of gauge liquid levels. A float containing a magnet rises and falls with the liquid. As the float moves, this information is transferred to the indication rail mounted on the outside of the tube. Various outputs are available for both point and continuous level control.

In nucleonic continuous level measurement, a narrow fan of radiation is directed through the vessel to a detector mounted on the opposite side for high accuracy measurement.

Our integrated metering system is designed to provide fully verified flow data and fluid property information when moving bulk quantities of hydrocarbons during production and offloading process.

The system is ideally suited to the Floating Production, Storage and Offload (FPSO) unit, as well as the FSU, semi-sub or fixed production platform. A true alternative to conventionally used turbine style devices with prover loop systems.

Our dedicated and portable range of ultrasonic Wide-Beam™ clamp-on flow meters provides accurate, non-intrusive mass and volumetric flow metering for use on clean and dirty liquids with pipe OD ranging from 6mm to 10m. Single, dual and four channel versions are available.

Typical applications:

Able's Coriolis flow meters are capable of withstanding vibration, high pressure, abrasion and corrosive media. Our range includes the world's largest mass flow meter.

The omega tube has a torsional movement, allowing increased tube wall thickness, eliminating the need for a secondary containment associated with other element designs.

Typical applications:

Other flow meter solutions include turbine flow meters and variable area flow meters (rotameters).

Our range of pressure instrumentation includes pressure and differential pressure switches, gauges and transmitters. Our products offer reliable measurement performance for critical applications. Thermowells are also available.

ABLE Instruments & Controls was founded to fill the void created by the rigid supply nature of instrumentation manufacturers and the lack of engineering and support capability exhibited by traditional representative organisations.

Understanding the accuracy of a given flowmeter is an important field but it can also be misleading, as different specifications are used to explain how accurately a flowmeter actually measures.

ABLE Instruments & Controls is pleased to announce that Canty has received ATEX and IECEx certification for its latest range of fibre optic and process lighting solutions.

Leading process instrumentation provider ABLE is pleased to announce the launch of the innovative new RHE2x series of Coriolis Flow Meter Transmitters from Rheonik.

UK-based measurement instrumentation specialist ABLE is pleased to announce the release of Rheonik's next-generation L Series Coriolis Flow Meter Sensors.

ABLE Instruments & Controls are pleased to announce that United Electric's One Series 1X electronic pressure and temperature transmitter-switch has been officially named the product of the year in the process control category by Poland's Control Engineering magazine.

ISO have now released a standard for cone meters, Measurement of fluid flow by means of pressure - Part 5: Cone meters. The major advantage of this standard to the industry is that it harmonises how cone meters are to be used and will help negate false claims made by certain manufacturers.

Each industry has its specific needs when it comes to process control instrumentation. Whether considering petrochemicals, general mechanical engineering or ship building, the requirements vary in terms of fundamental physical properties, preferred materials and supplementary factors such as cable standards.

The unmanned Neptune Platform lies in the North Sea Southern Sector off the Yorkshire coast of England. Throughout the operational life of the platform, flare stack metering has been achieved using a Fluenta ultrasonic flare gas meter, providing reliable, accurate measurement across the extreme velocity ranges and operational conditions associated with flare gas metering.

Many offshore oil and gas operators are seeking an alternative to limit switches for the control of surface Xmas tree valves, due chiefly to issues with reliability and functionality; limit switch technology can only provide valve status information in terms of fully opened or closed with no facility for continuous feedback as to actual valve position.

Leading manufacturer and supplier of process instrumentation and control solutions ABLE Instruments & Controls has launched a new website with improved functionality, design, and navigation.

Portable flowmeters need to be installed and removed without breaking the integrity of the pipe.

ABLE has successfully installed their SlugMaster® system to solve a challenging produced water application onboard the Talisman Clyde Platform.

Able's hazardous area clamp-on ultrasonic portable flow meter accurately measures liquid flow rates while providing the added performance, safety, economy and convenience of a non-intrusive design. Utilising a new battery pack design, this new high-precision transit time ultrasonic flo

Almost all oil and gas is found within the tiny spaces in sedimentary rocks, mainly sandstone and coarse-grained limestone. Bedrock limestone and sandstone, even though they are hard, also contain lots of pores that can contain water or oil or gas and other elements. Along with the gas

ABLE Instruments & Controls Ltd is pleased to report a successful acceptance testing phase for measuring coke tar moisture at Corus Steel Plant in Scunthorpe, using their Drexelbrook CM6 on-line water in oil analyser. The analyser was trialled to replace the current method using a K

ABLE Instruments & Controls Limited has successfully delivered the first training course at their purpose built process-training centre in Dyce, Aberdeen. The fully booked course offered delegates an "Introduction to Coriolis Mass Flow Meters" with a large proportion of hands-on pr

The Eastern Trough Area Project (Etap) is an integrated development of seven different reservoirs located 240km east of Aberdeen, UK, in the Central North Sea.

Bonga is the first deepwater project for the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) and for Nigeria.

The $3.5bn Agbami oilfield project is one of Nigeria's largest deepwater developments.

Discovered in July 2000, Kashagan was described as the largest field found in the past 30 years, the largest outside of the Middle East, with a projected output close to that of the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia.

The original Ekofisk area development consisted of eight oil and gas fields, namely Cod, Ekofisk, West Ekofisk, Tor, Albuskjell, Eldfisk, Edda and Embla.

Discovered in February 2003, the Stybarrow oil field is located in licence block number WA-32-L in the Exmouth sub-basin

The Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) field lies 120km off the coast of Azerbaijan in 120m of water and contains 5.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil.

The Buzzard field is located in the Outer Moray Firth, central North Sea, 100km north-east of Aberdeen, UK, and 55km from the coast at Peterhead.

When it was discovered in 1977, the Clair field was the largest discovered but undeveloped hydrocarbon resource on the U

Goldeneye is located 100km northeast of St Fergus. It was discovered in October 1996 with the drilling of well 14/29a-3

Magnus - the UK's most northerly oilfield - was discovered in 1974 by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 703. It li

Leadon is located in blocks 9/14a and 9/14b in the North Sea, approximately 220 miles north-east of Aberdeen and 15 mile

Espadarte is located in the Campos Basin, off the shore of Brazil.

Buffalo is located in the northern Timor Sea, with Laminaria 12km to the north-west and Elang around 55km to the south-east.

The Malampaya field is located 80km off the coast of Palawan Island, in the Republic of the Philippines.

Sakhalin I consists of the development of the Odoptu field (oil and gas, discovered in 1977) and the Chayvo field (mainly gas, discovered in 1979).

The MacCulloch oilfield lies 250km north-east of Aberdeen in UKCS block 15/24b, in a water depth of 150m.

The Terra Nova field is located 350km east-south-east (ESE) of St John's Newfoundland and 35km south-east of Hibernia.

The Janice oilfield is located in the first-round block 30/17a, licence number P032, in the Central North Sea.

Pierce lies in blocks 23/22a and 23/27, 280km east of Aberdeen.

Shearwater lies in the Central Graben area of the central North Sea, approximately 200km east of Aberdeen in 90m (995ft) of water.

Siri is located in block 5604 / 20 in the north-western part of the Danish sector of the North Sea, about 220km from the coast.

South Arne is located in the Danish sector of the North Sea, in block DK 5604/29.

The Liverpool Bay Development is BHP Petroleum's largest global single project. It comprises four oil and gas fields, together with significant offshore and onshore facilities for extracting, transporting and processing the reserves.

Stag is located 65km off Dampier, on the North West Shelf, in 47m of water.

Alba is located in block 16 / 26, 130 miles north-east of Aberdeen. The field lies in a water depth of approximately 138

The Banff field lies 25km south east of the Gannet accumulations in the Central North Sea, 200km east of Aberdeen, UK.

The Britannia field, discovered in the mid 1970s, is the first in the UK sector of the North Sea to be operated jointly

The Bruce field was originally developed under phase I, using two bridge-linked platforms, both connected to the main 32in Frigg trunkline by a 6km, 32in-diameter gas-export pipeline taking gas to the St Fergus Terminal.

Captain has undergone a huge Phase II expansion which has increased the 60,000 barrels per day rate to an average platea

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