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AGA Report No. 8: “Thermodynamic Properties of Natural Gas and Related Gases – DETAIL and GROSS Equations of State” has been issued as third Edition in April 2017 and revises AGA Report No. 8, second edition, 1994. QuantityWare has performed a detailed analysis of this revised version. As stated in this revision, the same equations of state as in the 1994 edition are applied in this third edition; property limits have been modified, thus calculated properties should have the same values as in the 1994 edition. In addition, QuantityWare will perform comparison calculations – as encouraged in this third edition – of property values obtained with QuantityWare BCG and the third edition Annex B data, which will then be included into the relevant installation test reports for shipment with BCS 3.0 CSP02, which is currently planned for release in Q1 2019.

After testing on 1709 with resources from SAPs ICC, QuantityWare has, as an interim measure, released its 30B Version for S/4HANA 1709 project usage. Productive support will be provided with release 30C.

QuantityWare Licensing is determined by customer response to our “Licensing Questionnaire”. This document is available in paper form which can be cumbersome, thus we now provide an on-line, interactive form allowing prospective or existing customer to select appropriate products and complete the questionnaire in an easier manner. A PDF can be downloaded after completion, which contains all registered details. Currently, the interactive Questionnaire does not save data in a database, but is an on-line assistance. This tool will be further developed and integrated in our service portal in 2018, allowing customers easy management of their licensing Status.

For „Small Companies” using the SAP Oil & Gas solution, who fall into our “National / Simple” Price Matrix category, we now offer a special reduced annual licensing fee of 2.000€ (excluding taxes). A “Small Company” may not exceed 5.000 BOEPD and 20 “seat” licenses for the SAP Oil & Gas solution used.

GPA 2172 has been reaffirmed and published as GPA 2172-14. QuantityWare confirms that BCG implementations for dry natural gas, that are based on the previous GPA 2172-09 versions, comply with this new Version.

After 11 years of loyal service the original QuantityWare website has been replaced with a completely re-designed site. With a clear navigation structure and immediately recognizable content, the new website also offers a “Knowledge Base” which can be searched, an overview of QuantityWare-certified consultants and a new training course section.

As of 01.10.2017 (First of October, 2017) QuantityWare will discontinue its “10 Year License Agreement with separate Maintenance Agreement” model. All customers who have purchased such a model will have the contract honored until its agreed termination date.
From 01.10.2017 onward, only the “Annual Usage” model will be offered. QuantityWare will provide multiple year-periods of usage in an Agreement if so wished by the customer.

The QuantityWare Bulk Calculations Solution has successfully completed its certification as the only “SAP® Certified – Integration with SAP® S/4HANA” quantity conversion and governance solution available for the SAP Oil & Gas solution. (To certificate.)

This new measurement standard release represents a major achievement in international standardization and harmonization of petroleum measurement standards for the global oil industries. QuantityWare BCP 3.0 contains 82 ISO:2017 compliant template conversion groups. Read our Consulting Paper for further details (to document).
NOTE: From BCP 10B (technical release 21B) onward (July 2010), ISO91 is fully supported.

Standards ASTM D1555 and ASTM D1555M – Standard Test Method for Calculation of Volume and Weight of Industrial Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Cyclohexane (Metric) – have been revised and issued as new 2016 versions. QuantityWare has carefully analyzed these new versions. Since both ASTM D1555-16 and ASTM D1555M-16 require usage of the volume correction factor without rounding in calculations, new implementations are required to cover this new definition. The new implementations will be made available as advanced development within a note in Q4 2017, combined with an instruction guide how to migrate existing ASTM D1555 conversion groups to this new methodology. Template extensions will be shipped with the next BCS 3.0 CSP.