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Due to strong industry demand, QuantityWare has defined a development strategy for hydrogen quantity conversions, which is published in note 000106. Planning for the first release in Q3 2022 of a high pressure hydrogen solution – as part of QuantityWare BCG 3.0 – has been made as part of this strategy and already published in a separate news item.

ABNT NBR 5992 has been revised and published in November 2016 as ABNT NBR 5992 (2016). QuantityWare has carefully analyzed this latest version. The basic formulas for calculation of the alcohol densities and mass proportions did not change when compared with the 2008 version; however, the definition of the volume correction factor (VCF) changed between the 2008 and 2016 version. The 2008 version requires the multiplication of the densities related VCF with the expansion coefficient of stainless steel (0.000036 / °C). The 2016 version does not contain this storage device correction any longer. Thus, a new MQCI implementation of ABNT NBR 5992 (2016) will be delivered by QuantityWare as an Advanced Development (AD) in Q3 2022.

It is unfortunate but true, organisations are being exposed to greater risk of increasingly creative multi-level attack and such forms of attack are becoming more automated and available to a wider group of criminals. This article in the blog “Protect2S-SAP Security automation” succinctly describes the high risk that SAP Oil & Gas systems are exposed to if using “CALL SYSTEM” for their quantity conversions calculations. See this FAQ for more detail.

QuantityWare will start development of a high pressure hydrogen quantity conversion solution on 01.03.2022. This implementation will be shipped as Advanced Development in Q3 2022 – all details can be found in our Hydrogen FAQ. With this solution in place, pipeline flow data (hydrogen volumes at any given flowing temperature and flowing pressure) can be converted to standardized volume and mass quantity values. Masses are the financial reference quantity value when trading hydrogen. Customers and consultants who wish to participate in the specification of this development are invited to share their requirements until 15.02.2022 with our development team.

ASTM D4311 has been revised and published as ASTM D4311-21. QuantityWare has carefully analyzed this new version. No changes impacting quantity conversions of existing ASTM D4311-15 BCP implementations are present in this new standard version. Thus, customers utilizing ASTM D4311-15 BCP implementations are compliant with this new version. Documentation compliance updates for all relevant PMC functions will be delivered with BCS 30x Collective Note – Corrections & Enhancements II – Note number 000103 in February 2022.

On the 10th of December 2021, a major vulnerability in the Apache Log4j2 software was discovered, which has impacted a wide range of organizations.

Following a thorough review of our infrastructure, we have found no Log4j2 vulnerabilities in any of the QuantityWare systems or software.

QuantityWare does not run Log4j2 on any systems, including this website, the Service Portal, and QuantityWare itself.

If you are a QuantityWare customer and require any further information regarding this, please raise a ticket with us using the QuantityWare Service Portal.

Many thanks,

The QuantityWare Security Team

Standard API MPMS Chapter 11.2.5 – A Simplified Vapor Pressure Correlation for Commercial NGLs – has been issued as a new, second edition in December 2020. QuantityWare has carefully analyzed this new edition, which replaces the first edition from 2007. The QuantityWare BCS 3.0 NGL/LPG implementations for the vapor pressure calculations do comply with this new edition. An online documentation compliance update for the PMC will be delivered with the next BCS 30x Collective Note.

The QuantityWare Bulk Calculations Solution 3.0 (BCS 30B) has successfully completed its certification as the only “SAP® Certified – Integration with SAP® S/4HANA Cloud” quantity conversion and governance solution available for the SAP Oil & Gas solution; thus BCS 30B has now been released by QuantityWare for productive usage on SAP Oil & Gas on S/4HANA 2021 (S/4HC 2021_EX).

Standard ASTM D1555 – Standard Test Method for Calculation of Volume and Weight of Industrial Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Cyclohexane – has been revised and issued as a new 2021 version.

QuantityWare has carefully analyzed this new U.S. customary unit version. ASTM D1555M-16 (the metric version of ASTM D1555) has (until date of publication of this News Item) no revision and no new revised version.

Concerning ASTM D1555-21, our analysis has shown that ASTM D1555-16 BCP template conversion groups are in compliance with this new 2021 version. An online documentation update for the PMC will be delivered with the next BCS 30x Collective Note.

With support for revised standard versions, usability enhancements and minor corrections, these CSPs (CSP02 for BCS 30A and CSP01 for BCS 30B) also contain ASTM Table 1 conversion factors for all quantities (e.g. GSM, GSW, GSV, NSW, NSM and NSV) and automation / monitoring of BCS-specific tasks per SAP SCCMS. See the release Notes in our Knowledge Base for further details. Registered users can find all CSP files in the DataLounge within our Service portal, for download.

To coincide with this CSP release, we have also updated and re-released virtually all documentation in a new, modern format.