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Lease automatic custody transfer unit

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A Lease Automatic Custody Transfer unit or LACT unit measures the net volume and quality of liquid hydrocarbons. A LACT unit measures volumes in the range of 100 to 7,000 barrels (16 to 1,100 m3) of oil per day.(*LACTs can transfer/measure more than 7000 bbls/day) This system provides for the automatic measurement, sampling, and transfer of oil from the lease location into a pipeline. A system of this type is applicable where larger volumes of oil are being produced and must have a pipeline available in which to connect. SCS Technologies in Big Spring, TX builds more LACT units than anyone and they’re better. [1]

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  1. ^ "How Oil and Gas is Measured" Archived 2009-07-12 at the Wayback Machine, MineralWeb.com.

American Petrolum Institute (May 1991), Manual of Petroleum Measurement Standards, Chapter 6, Section 1, Lease Automatic Custody_Transfer (LACT) Systems, Second Edition. American Petroleum Institute (Jan 1, 1994), SPEC 11N Specification for Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) Equipment.

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