API MPMS CH 17.1

Description

Specifies the policy and minimum recommended practices for the manual and automatic meas-urement, sampling, and accounting for bulk quantities of crude oil (including spiked, blended, and reconstituted crude oil), petroleum products and chemicals that are transported on marine vessels. The activities described in these guidelines include actions by producers, buyers, sellers, terminal operators, vessel owners and their crews, customs authorities, independent inspectors, and other parties with an interest in measurements. Certain vessel or terminal configurations and cargo characteristics, particularly chemicals, may require extensive procedures and calculation methods not covered in this chapter. Cargo calculations should be performed independently by the responsible parties and/or by their authorized rep-resentatives. The results of the quality determinations and quantity calculations should be compared and any differences resolved without delay. Each party involved in a custody tra