Guidelines

for Setting up
Custody Transfer Metering Station
at Entry and Exit points
Established pursuant to Subsection 19(2) and (5) of Act 501 and
section 4.1 of Third Party Access (TPA) Code
Presentation Objective

• To get Jawatankuasa Teknikal approval on these Guidelines for

Setting up Custody Transfer Metering Station to be published
and enforced by Suruhanjaya Tenaga.
Introduction

• The issuance of these Guidelines is for the purpose provided

under Subsection 19(2) and 19(5) of the Gas Supply Act 1993
as well as its amending act, Gas Supply (Amendment) Act 2016
(“Act”); and
• Established pursuant to Section 4.1 of Third Party Access (TPA)
Codes
Introduction – Act 501

Subseksyen 19(2) dan (5), Akta 501:

(2) Meter itu, yang disediakan oleh pemegang lesen penggasan semula, pengangkutan, pengagihan atau
peruncitan, sama ada melalui jualan, sewaan atau pinjaman, hendaklah daripada jenis yang diluluskan oleh
Suruhanjaya atau badan yang dilantik olehnya atau oleh mana-mana badan kerajaan berkaitan yang lain untuk
tujuan tersebut dan mematuhi keperluan mana-mana peraturan-peraturan yang dibuat di bawah Akta ini, kod atau
garis panduan yang dikeluarkan di bawah Akta ini atau mematuhi mana-mana Akta lain yang mentadbir badan
kerajaan itu.

(5) Peraturan-peraturan boleh ditetapkan dan kod atau garis panduan boleh dikeluarkan untuk mengawal selia
tanggungjawab pemegang lesen berhubung dengan pemeteran mengikut Akta ini.

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 Introduction – Concept (Section 4.1 of TPA Codes)
Regasification Terminal Transmission Network
Exit Entry Exit
Meter Meter Meter

CONSUMERS
Entry RGT e.g. POWER PLANTS
Meter

Retail Transmission Network
Network Distribution Network
Entry Exit Entry Exit
Meter Meter Meter Meter

Industries/
Residentials
Exit
Meter
 Introduction – Concept
Regasification Terminal Transmission Network
Exit Entry Exit
Meter Meter Meter

CONSUMERS
Entry RGT e.g. POWER PLANTS
Meter

Retail Transmission Network
Network Distribution Network
Entry Exit Entry Exit
Meter Meter Meter Meter

Industries/
Residentials
Exit
Meter
Objective & Purpose of these Guidelines
• to provide broad, transparent and uniform principles to allow accurate, reliable and transparent
process for the metering of quality and quantity of natural gas
• to establish a harmonized framework in implementing the principles laid out under the TPA Codes in
relation to the metering philosophy and metering requirements for the natural gas industry
• The intends are:
a) to standardize measurement principles, data acquisition and accuracy inclusive of harmonize
units and conversion factor across the gas value chains;
b) to identify technical requirements for Measuring Equipment and Metering Station dedicated
between connected parties which measures gas movement into or out from the facilities;
c) to ensure technical and operational compatibility between connected facilities in transporting
natural gas and execution of facilities operations; and
d) to synchronize technical, operational, communication and data exchange practices to facilitates
operational and business-related barriers.
 Contents of these Guidelines Contents

1.0 Introduction 4
No. Isi Kandungan Butiran
2.0 Underlying Principles for Setting up
1 Introduction Menjelaskan objektif dan skop bagi garis panduan dan the Custody Transfer Metering Station 8
Menyatakan secara terperinci keperluan perundangan dan kod
akses pihak ketiga ke atas garis panduan; 3.0 References 9

2 Underlying Principles of Menegaskan ketentuan prinsip prinsip dasar yang digunapakai 4.0 Definitions 12
Setting up Custody dalam membentuk stesen pemeteran bagi tujuan ”custody
Transfer Metering Station transfer”; 5.0 Ownerships of Custody Transfer
Metering Station 20
3 References Senarai rujukan yang digunapakai oleh pemegang lesen
kemudahan gas dalam sistem dan stesen permeteran dalam 6.0 Design Concept of Custody Transfer
mengoperasikan sistem talian paip gas; Metering Station 22

4 Definitions
5 Ownerships of Custody
Transfer Metering Station sistem dan stesen permeteran bagi memastikan pengoperasian,
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Senarai definisi bagi terma yang digunakan di dalam garis 7.0 General Requirement for Custody
panduan selain daripada terma yang terdapat di dalam Akta 501 Transfer Metering Station Design 37
dan Kod Akses Pihak Ketiga;
8.0 General Requirement for Equipment Installed
Menerangkan tanggungjawab pemegang lesen sebagai pemilik in Custody Transfer Metering Station 45
penyelenggaraan dan pengukuran kuantiti dan kualiti gas asli 9.0 General Requirement on Safety and Security
yang di salurkan mengunakan peralatan pengukuran yang diiktiraf of Custody Transfer Metering Station 55
dari segi perundangan, peraturan dan standard yang ditetapkan.
10.0 Validation and/or Calibration 58
Juga menerangkan tanggungjawab mengkoordinasikan data dan
rekod permeteran antara ”Connected Party” ; 11.0 Operations, Maintenance and Upgrading of
Custody Transfer Metering Station 89
 Contents of these Guidelines Contents

1.0 Introduction 4
No. Isi Kandungan Butiran
2.0 Underlying Principles for Setting up
6 Design Concept of Menyatakan konsep struktur dan susun atur blok peralatan stesen the Custody Transfer Metering Station 8
Custody Transfer permeteran yang diperlukan untuk digunapakai berdasarkan
Metering Station klasifikasi stesen dan isipadu gas untuk penghantaran bagi setiap 3.0 References 9
kategori kemudahan talian paip gas;
4.0 Definitions 12
7 General Requirement for Memberi penekanan kepada keperluan asas sistem dan peralatan
Custody Transfer yang perlu di beri keutamaan dan pertimbangan dalam 5.0 Ownerships of Custody Transfer
Metering Station Design merekabentuk stesen permeteran bagi memastikan peralatan Metering Station 20
sistem pengukuran berfungsi dengan sempurna dan menepati
6.0 Design Concept of Custody Transfer
piawaian yang dikehendaki dan dapat dioperasikan dan
Metering Station 22
diselengarakan tanpa menjejaskan pengukuran bekalan gas asli
kepada pengguna; 7.0 General Requirement for Custody
Transfer Metering Station Design 37
8 General Requirement for Memberi penekanan kepada keperluan asas sistem dan peralatan
Equipment Installed in yang perlu di beri keutamaan dan pertimbangan dalam 8.0 General Requirement for Equipment Installed
Custody Transfer merekabentuk stesen permeteran bagi memastikan keupayaan in Custody Transfer Metering Station 45
Metering Station dan keselamatan peralatan sistem pengukuran dan sistem
sokongan permeteran berfungsi dengan sempurna dan dapat 9.0 General Requirement on Safety and Security
dioperasikan dan diselengarakan tanpa menjejaskan of Custody Transfer Metering Station 55
penghantaran bekalan gas asli kepada pengguna;
10.0 Validation and/or Calibration 58

11.0 Operations, Maintenance and Upgrading of

Document Custody Transfer Metering Station 89
 Contents of these Guidelines Contents

1.0 Introduction 4
No. Isi Kandungan Butiran
2.0 Underlying Principles for Setting up
9 General Requirement on Menerangkan langkah langkah kawalan yang diperlukan bagi the Custody Transfer Metering Station 8
Safety and Security of memastikan jaminan keselamatan kepada data data pengukuran
Custody Transfer dan pemeteran. Begitu juga langkah langkah yang perlu di ambil 3.0 References 9
Metering Station bila berlakunya pencerobohan dan penggubahan data;
4.0 Definitions 12
10 Validation and/or Memberi garis panduan dan tatacara kepada pemilik sistem dan
Calibration stesen pemeteran dalam melaksanakan penentu ukuran setiap 5.0 Ownerships of Custody Transfer
peralatan pemeteran bagi memastikan ketepatan data Metering Station 20
pengukuran;
6.0 Design Concept of Custody Transfer
11 Operations, Maintenance Menjelaskan keperluan pemberitahuan, perbincangan dan Metering Station 22
and Upgrading of koordinasi dalam pelaksanaan pengendalian, penyelenggaraan
Custody Transfer dan pengubahsuaian yang melibatkan gangguan kepada 7.0 General Requirement for Custody
Transfer Metering Station Design 37
Metering Station penghantaran bekalan gas asli kepada pengguna.
8.0 General Requirement for Equipment Installed
in Custody Transfer Metering Station 45
Document
9.0 General Requirement on Safety and Security
of Custody Transfer Metering Station 55

10.0 Validation and/or Calibration 58

11.0 Operations, Maintenance and Upgrading of

Custody Transfer Metering Station 89
Contents of these Guidelines
• Introduction
• Source of Authority
• Objective & Purpose of these
Guidelines
• Requirement under TPA Code
• Legal Effect of these Guidelines
• Modification of these Guidelines

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Introduction
Introduction – Act 501

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Introduction – TPA Codes (RGT)

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Introduction – TPA Codes (RGT)

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Introduction – TPA Codes (Transmission)

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Introduction – TPA Codes (Transmission)

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Introduction – TPA Codes (Distribution)

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Introduction – TPA Codes (Distribution)

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Legal Effect of the Guideline

• This Guideline is applicable to the following Licensees:

a) Regasification Licensee;
b) Transportation Licensee; and
c) Distribution Licensee.

• Custody Transfer Metering Station to be designed and constructed after

the registration of this Guideline is to comply with requirement stated in the
Guideline.

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Underlying Principles of the Guideline
• This Guideline is established, with regard to the Custody Transfer Metering Station, based on the
following underlying principles:
• Serve as Custody Transfer Point(s);
• Automated and unmanned facilities (with at least one level of redundancy for critical metering
equipment for Transmission Network but optional for Distribution Network);
• Accurate and a real-time calculation for the measurement and control system (optional for
Distribution Network on control system);
• Operation and maintenance of Measuring Equipment shall be performed with minimal
interruption of gas supply to the Connected Party;
• Smart diagnostic capability for equipment failure detection where applicable (only for
Transmission Network due to criticality to ensure network integrity);
• Compliance to regulatory and established standard requirement;
• Compliance to Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) requirement. Return
References
• American Gas Association (AGA)
• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
• American Petroleum Institute - Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards (API MPMS)
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
• British Standard European Norm (BS EN)
• British Standard (BS)
• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
• Malaysian Standards (MS)

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 Ownership of the Custody Transfer Metering Station
• The Connected Party who owns, operates and maintains the Custody Transfer Metering Station, is
obligated to:
a) measure the quantity of gas at each Entry and/or Exit Point(s);
b) measure the gas quality at each Entry and/or Exit Point(s) (optional for Distribution Network(s), with
relation to Exit Point(s), as gas quality at all Exit Point(s) within the same network is the same as gas
quality entering the network);
c) ensure all the Measuring Equipment complies with all the applicable laws and regulations as well as
this Metering Philosophy;
d) operate and maintain the Measuring Equipment in accordance with the requirement of the relevant
Access Arrangement and these Guidelines;
e) provide the other Connected Party who owns, operates and maintains the connected network(s) to
the Custody Transfer Metering Station(s), the access to data taken at the Measuring Equipment of
the Custody Transfer Metering Station for monitoring, operational coordination, planning and billing
purposes;
f) provide the other Connected Party who owns, operates and maintains the connected network(s) to
the Custody Transfer Metering Station(s), with the right to inspect the Custody Transfer Metering
Station(s), the operations and maintenance records and require validation and/or calibration records,
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as the case may be, of the Measuring Equipment owned, operated or maintained by the party.
Recommendation
• Jawatankuasa Teknikal to approve these Guidelines for Setting
up Custody Transfer Metering Station to be published and
enforced by Suruhanjaya Tenaga.
Thank you
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• Design Concept of Custody Transfer Metering Station

• Classification Regasification Terminal: (Classification)
Metering Station 
• Station Layout type 
Flow capacity  Remarks 

Measure LNG quality. As for quantity 
Entry Point As per LNG Shipment measurement, it is based on tanker volume 
Transmission Network: (Classification) (tank gauging) 

Metering  As per Terminal  Send‐ Measure gas prior entering Transmission 

Flow capacity  Remarks  Exit Point
Station type  out Capacity  Network

Measure gas prior entering 
Entry Point Flow ≥ 10 mmscfd 
Transmission Network  Distribution Network: (Classification)
Measure gas to a single/multiple  Exit Network  Outlet Pressure 
Exit Point Max Flow capacity
Flow ≥ 10 mmscfd  Connected Party as well as prior  Pressure Range setting
(Large Station)
entering Distribution Network
Exit Point (A) 
Measure gas to a single/multiple  29.4 – 420 kPag Flow ≥ 100 sm3/hr
Exit Point (1034 ~2483 kPag)
Flow < 10 mmscfd  Connected Party as well as prior 
(Small Station) Exit Point (B) 
entering Distribution Network 2.94 – 140 kPag Flow ≤ 800 sm3/hr
(241 ~ 400 kPag)

Note: Tapping point of pipeline connection to Gas Consumer(s) will be

determined based on the closest distance to either Exit Point (A)-Feeder Line or Exit
Point (B)-Distribution Line
Figure 1: Overall schematic of typical Custody
Transfer Metering Station for Regasification
Terminal at Exit Point

Figure 2: Overall schematic of typical Custody

Transfer Metering Station for Transmission Network

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Figure 3: Overall schematic of typical Custody

Transfer Metering Station for Distribution Network
 Contents of the Guideline
• General Requirement for Custody
Transfer Meter Station Design
• Consideration of Maintenance
Requirement
• Standard Reference Condition
(101.325 kPa (abs) at temperature
15oC)
• Meter shall have Accreditation
Authority approval
• Telemetry Requirement (where
applicable)
• Redundancy Concept
• Safety and Security Requirement
• Accuracy and Uncertainty Requirement
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1 + 1 unit of GC
1 unit of H2S analyzer ƒ 1 unit of multistream FC (Primary)
ƒ 1 unit of hydrocarbon dew point analyzer  ƒ 1 unit of multistream FC (Backup)  
ƒ 1 unit of moisture analyzer
Ethernet 
Switch
ƒ 2 units of PT for each run
N+1 Units of 
Scrubber Filter 
N+1 unit of ultrasonic 
meter runs 
ƒ 2 units of TT for each run  
Figure 5: Equipment Requirement for Entry Point(s) (flow ≥ 10 mmscfd) Custody Transfer
Metering Station in Transmission Network
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 Contents of the Guideline
• General Requirement for Equipment
Installed in Custody Transfer Meter Station
• Measurement and Control System
• Spare Capacity Requirement
• Reference / Standby Meter Requirement Figure 8: Typical MCS for metering station in transmission network
• Cathodic Protection Requirement Minimum remaining spare 
System  Area 
• Lightning Protection Requirement capacity
HMI  Hard disk storage  50% 
• Fire and Gas Detector System
PLC CPU  CPU  20% 
• Network Protection System FC I/O & I/O rack  Module  20% 
• Pressure Relief Device
Table 6: Metering Station MCS requirement

Total capacity  Operational run (n)  Spare configuration (n+1) 

2 x 100%  1 running  1 running + 1 spare 

3 x 50%  2 running  2 running + 1 spare
4 x 33%  3 running  3 running + 1 spare 

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Figure 9: PRD set pressure downstream of regulator.
 Equipment Validation Accuracy Limits
CALIBRATION 
NO EQUIPMENT CALIBRATION ACCURACY VALIDATION SCHEDULE
RANGE
Contents of the Guideline 3 Pressure
Transmitter
Typically, Initial, Quarterly or 6‐
monthly (depend on 
0 – 8,000 kPag +/‐ 0.1% of calibration range
customer type), Major
0‐1160 psig
• Validation and/or Calibration 4 Temperature
Transmitter
Typically, Initial, Quarterly or 6‐
monthly (depend on 
00C ‐ 600C +/‐ 0.5 0C of reading
customer type), Major
• Volume and Energy Calculation 320F‐1400F
6 Electronic Flow Volume: Flowrate Calculation Check:  Initial, Yearly, Major
• Type and Frequency of Validation Activity Measurement +/‐ 0.01% of reading
N/A
(EFM)
• Validation Procedure for each Measuring Flow Accumulation 
Calculation Check:            
Equipment
+/‐ 1.0% of reading

• Equipment Accuracy Limits Pressure Sensor:  

Typically,
Initial,6‐monthly, Major
• List of Test Equipment/Tools used for Pressure Sensor:               
0‐8000 kPag
0‐1160 psig +/‐ 0.25% of calibration 
Validation Activity
range
Temperature 
Sensor:        
Typically, 
Initial,6‐monthly, Major
0‐600C           
Temperature:                     
320F‐1400F
Return +/‐ 0.50 C of reading
Contents of the Guideline
• General Requirement for Safety and Security of Custody Transfer Meter
Station
• Security on Unauthorized Access
• Meter Tempering Handling Procedure
• Preservation of Data
• Confidentiality of Data and Information

• Operations, Maintenance and Upgrading of Custody Transfer Meter Station

• Responsibility
• Notification
• Reporting units in Metrics
• Conversion factor publish by International Gas Union (IGU)

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