Ideal for High-Temperature, High-Pressure Liquid, Natural Gas or Steam Service

Oil Sands process engineers looking for a rugged all-purpose flow meter that delivers high accuracy measurement in dirty liquid, natural gas or steam media will find the versatile V-Cone Flow Meter from McCrometer is the right fit for extreme process environments.
Extracting oil from tar sands, which include a combination of crude bitumen (a semi-solid form of crude oil), silica sand and clay minerals, requires three processes-- extraction, separation and upgrading. The tar sands are typically mined from open pits and sent to a plant, where a hot water process and agitation are used to separate bitumen droplets that are later upgraded into synthetic oil.
Other alternative oil sands processes inject heated steam directly into the sand for the purpose of separation where bitumen deposits are deep below the surface. No matter the process, large amounts of water and energy are required for heating and pumping purposes. Flow meters that can accurately and reliably measure liquids, natural gas and steam play an important role in controlling and optimizing these processes to produce oil with the highest efficiency.
McCrometer’s V-Cone Flow Meter provides a high accuracy, dependable flow measurement solution for oil sands production and refining in all media. It operates in the most demanding conditions—including dirty flows, high temperatures and high pressures with superior accuracy of +0.5% of flow rate and repeatability of +0.1%.