World Gas Meter Report Ed 6 2007

Table of Contents

FIGURES

TABLES

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - GAS

• Evolution in the meter market
• The installed base of meters and demand in 2007
• Demand drivers
• Meter companies
• AMI - AMR
• Technology of AMR

2. METER POPULATION AND DEMAND

3. METER COMPANIES

• The origins of the metering industry - electricity, gas and water
  • Landis & Gyr
  • Actaris
  • Elster Group
• The metering industry in mid-2007
  • Elster Group
  • Itron - Actaris
  • Bayard Group
• Other gas meter companies
  • Sensus
  • Dresser
  • GE
  • Instromet
  • Japanese meter companies
  • Chinese meter companies

4. DEMAND DRIVERS

• New household connections
• Examples of national variations
• Replacement of aging meters
• Up-grading to advanced meters
• Other market trends

5. CZECH REPUBLIC

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

6. FRANCE

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Billing
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

7. GERMANY

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • Market trend
  • Prices
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

8. HUNGARY

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

9. ITALY

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

10. NETHERLANDS

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

11. POLAND

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

12. ROMANIA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

13. RUSSIA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Market development
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

14. SPAIN

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

15. TURKEY

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Inspection and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

16. UNITED KINGDOM

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants and shares
  • Utility background

17. ARGENTINA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

18. BRAZIL

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

19. CANADA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Inspections and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

20. MEXICO

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
  • Downstream: transportation, distribution and storage

21. UNITED STATES

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Standards, type approval and certification
  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
  • The natural gas measurement jurisdictions
  • Developing metrological standards
  • Regulating the devices used for meter testing
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Re-verification
  • Market participants and shares
  • Utility background

22. AUSTRALIA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

23. CHINA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Market trend - development of the natural gas market in China
  • Exploration and transmission
  • Internal market development and distribution
  • Market factors for natural gas
  • Natural gas prices and effect on development
  • Relations with customers
  • Metering, pricing and billing
  • Connection fee
  • Utility background
  • Standards
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants

24. INDIA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
  • Gas distribution companies

25. JAPAN

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand for both city gas and LPG
  • The gas market in Japan
  • Piped city gas
  • LPG
  • Safety problems
  • Meter types
  • New ultrasonic meter for residential use
  • Commercial and industrial
  • Market trend
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

26. IRAN

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Standards and type approval
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification, inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

27. ADVANCED METERING

• AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
• AMI, Advanced Metering Infrastructure
  • AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
  • MDMS, Meter Data Management System
  • Evolution of metering technology
• Reasons for deploying advanced metering
  • Regulatory direction
  • Customer benefits
  • Economic value
  • Electric supply operations
  • Costs for AMI
• Meter Reading Technologies
  • Handheld meter reading, with or without AMR
  • Mobile AMR
  • Fixed network AMR
  • Means of fixed network communication
  • RF, Radio Frequency
  • Cellular
  • PLC, Power Line Carrier
  • Telephone ⁄ Internet
  • Other means of AMR communication
  • Cost benefit analysis of AMR methods of communication
• Demand response
• Deployment of AMR
  • Electricity, Water or Gas
  • Effect of Size
• Leading US AMR Suppliers
  • Itron
  • Cellnet Data Systems, Inc.
  • Hunt Technologies Inc.
  • DCSI, Distribution Control Systems Inc.
  • Leach Industries
  • Echelon Corporation
  • Other major AMR vendors
• Major US AMR manufacturers' market shares
• Some Non-US AMR Companies

28. GAS METER TYPES

• Diaphragm ⁄ bellows meters
• Rotary meters
• Turbine meters
• Orifice meters
• Ultrasonic flow meters
• Coriolis meters
• Turndown ratio and rangeability
• Typical turndown ratio of various meter types
• ‘Smart' ⁄ advanced meters
• Heating value

29. METROLOGY, STANDARDS, TYPE APPROVAL AND VERIFICATION

• Legislation for measuring instruments
• Enforcement of measuring instrument legislation - legal control
  • Type approval
  • Verification and testing
• National metrology institutes
  • Designated national laboratories
  • Accredited laboratories
• Global metrology infrastructure
  • ILAC
  • OIML
• Regional metrology infrastructures
• Europe
  • Accreditation - EA
  • Legal metrology - WELMEC
• EU legislation for measuring instruments
  • EU controlled measuring instruments
  • EU - MID - Measuring Instruments Directive
  • The producer' s responsibility
  • The government' s responsibility
  • Market surveillance
• Americas Infrastructure
  • SIM, Inter American Metrology System
  • Legal Metrology
  • Accreditation - IAAC
• Asia Pacific Infrastructure
  • APMP, Asia Pacific Metrology Programme
  • Accreditation - APLAC
• CIS, Central Asia Infrastructure
  • COOMET, Cooperation Metrologique for Euro Asia
• African Infrastructure
  • SADC
  • SADCMET, SADC Cooperation in Measurement Traceability
  • Accreditation - SADCA
  • Legal Metrology - SADCMEL

30. STANDARDS

• International Standards
  • ISO Standards

31. GLOSSARY

32. TABLES

Table of Figures

• Figure 2.1: Cumulative installed base of Gas meters by region 2006
• Figure 2.2: Annual demand for Gas meters by region 2006
• Figure 4.1: Population growth and household size in the developed and developing world, 1985 to 2030
• Figure 4.2: Growth of gas connections, installed base 1996 to 2005
• Table 5.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 5.2: Principal natural gas companies of Czech Republic
• Table 8.1: Principal natural gas companies of Hungary
• Figure 25.1: New ultrasonic gas meter compared with diaphragm meter
• Figure 27.1: Cost benefit analysis of AMR methods of communication
• Figure 27.2: World AMR Cumulative Installations by Region, 2000 to 2010
• Figure 27.3: Annual US demand for AMR installations in units, by utility sector, 1990 to 2006
• Figure 27.4: Installed base of AMR in the USA in units, by utility sector, 1990 to 2006
• Figure 27.5: Market shares of AMR suppliers in North America, 2007
• Figure 29.1: Regional metrology organisations
• Figure 29.2: Member countries of EURAMET e.V., 2007

Table of Tables

• Table 6.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 6.2: Principal natural gas companies of France
• Table 7.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 7.2: Principal natural gas companies of Germany
• Table 7.3: Principal natural gas companies of Germany
• Table 8.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 8.2: Principal natural gas companies of Hungary
• Table 9.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 9.2: Principal natural gas companies of Italy
• Table 10.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 10.2: Specifications, Standards and Recommendations for Gas Meters
• Table 10.3: Principal natural gas companies of the Netherlands
• Table 11.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 12.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 12.2: Principal natural gas companies of Romania
• Table 13.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 13.2: Principal natural gas companies of Russia
• Table 14.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 14.2: Principal natural gas companies of Spain
• Table 15.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 15.2: Principal natural gas companies of Turkey
• Table 16.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 16.2: Gas meter manufacturers type approved for use in the UK
• Table 16.3: Principal natural gas companies of UK
• Table 17.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 17.2: Principal natural gas companies of Argentina
• Table 18.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 18.2: Principal natural gas companies of Brazil
• Table 19.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 19.2: Approved Gas meters in Canada
• Table 19.3: Principal natural gas companies of Canada
• Table 20.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 20.2: Principal natural gas companies of Mexico
• Table 21.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 21.2: Principal natural gas companies of the USA
• Table 23.1: Meter demand per year China
• Table 23.2: Principal natural gas companies of China
• Table 24.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 24.2: Principal natural gas companies of India
• Table 25.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 25.2: Size and weight of ultrasonic and diaphragm meter
• Table 25.3: Recent new entrants into the Japanese natural gas market
• Table 25.4: Principal natural gas companies of Japan
• Table 26.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 26.2: Principal natural gas companies of Iran
• Table 27.1: Approximate installed cost for AMR systems US 2006
• Table 27.2: Comparison of Manual Meter Reading, AMR and AMI
• Table 27.3: Meter System Applications
• Table 30.1: Four main bodies which determine standards
• Table 30.2: Gas meter standards
• Table 32.1: Gas meter demand units
• Table 32.2: Gas meter demand $
• Table 32.3: Gas meter market $
• Table 32.4: Gas meter type units
• Table 32.5: Gas meter exports units
• Table 32.6: Meter exports $
• Table 32.7: Average export prices
• Table 32.8: Major exporter analysis