Top 10 instruments providers

Petrochemical and refining operators spend about 2% of the total cost of a project on instrumentation and measurement gadgets.

Refining and Petrochemicals Middle East identifies the major instrumentation providers for the regional downstream community

Measuring, recording and controlling are core functions in the downstream process. Companies want to measure how much money they are spending, and how much material is travelling through the system. Companies prize instruments which can help them achieve high levels of precision and absolute reliability.

Downstream plant operators have to keep an accurate handle on pressure, level, temperature, flow, analysers and interface measurements. For measurement, there
are a number of techniques used.

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The right instrument set-up allows plant operators to know how they can run their plant, how much they are using in terms of inventories and utilities, and how much feedstock gas they are consuming in the process.

Our Top Ten Instrumentation Provider’s special report gives an insight to the activities and product lines available from the biggest companies servicing the exciting local downstream plant environment.

Some of the major providers listed here players offer dozens of technologies with downstream applications, while others are specialised in offering one type of instrumentation. We have opted for the most influential providers here.

The diverse strength of these companies would have made a numerical ranking meaningless. Instead the R&PME Top Instrument Provider’s are presented here in alphabetical order.

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