Study of the international experience in testing facilities for fuel & energy sector machinery and technologies

Authors: N.N. Andreyeva, I.M. Valiullin (GC RusGazEngineering JSC, RF, Moscow)

Key words: testing facility, technology testing, development of standards, environmental safety, state support, target clients

Over recent decades oil&gas technologies developed rapidly in the world due to the availability of a wide network of testing facilities. These testing sites are used to perform various tests of instruments and well survey techniques, metering devices and vessels, which are required to meet the demands of the Fuel & Energy Sector. They are also used to test technologies of well drilling, extraction of hard-to-recover oil reserves, water-gas stimulation of formation, formation hydraulic fracturing etc. The test results form the basis of new national standards and technical procedures further used in the real operational environment. The article describes and analyses operation of testing facilities in the USA, Norway and Holland.