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Ensuring Gas Quality for Safe and Efficient Operations in the Natural Gas Industry
Gas quality is a cornerstone of safe and efficient operations throughout the natural gas industry. Poor gas quality measurement poses significant risks for the public and infrastructure. The industry relies on compliance with quality standards to ensure the safety and...
Maximizing Accuracy with Ultrasonic Meters
Ensuring accurate measurement and minimizing lost and unaccounted for (LAUF) gas is essential to ensuring operational efficiency, revenue assurance, and compliance against environmental risks. Ultrasonic meters have become a primary device to ensure the...
Bridging the Skills Gap: A Comprehensive Guide for Measurement Technicians
As seen in Pipeline & Gas Journal July 2024, Vol. 251, No. 7 As retirement brought on by the Great Crew Change cycles out a large portion of experts, companies are faced with hiring a new generation of workers. Within the industry, most employees are over 55 or...
Optimizing Training Programs for Measurement Technicians
Training is critical for measurement technicians as not everything they learn is intuitive. Ensuring that technicians are well prepared for their roles starts with a structured and thorough training program. A comprehensive approach to setting up, creating, and...
The Path to Predictive Maintenance
Maintenance of measurement equipment is vital to ensuring accurate transfers. With an ever-growing technological landscape, maintenance activities are constantly evolving. When gas meters were first invented, there was one standard type, the orifice meter, which has...
Bridging Knowledge Gaps: GTA’s Liquids Joint Project
In the energy industry, accurate and precise measurements are vital, and it’s the measurement technicians’ role to support the integrity of their company’s contracts. While the natural gas sector boasts a wealth of training resources, certain areas, like liquid...
The Future of GTA
50% of employees in the oil and gas industry are currently 55 or older, and most are retiring between 2025 to 2027. While large waves of turnover are not new to the industry, these workers take a wealth of knowledge and experience when they retire, thus resulting in a...
The Value of GTA: 4 Benefits of Being a Member
In 2008, natural gas industry leaders banded together to create foundational measurement training that would be accessible to the entire industry. The result was the Gas Training Association (GTA). What sets GTA apart is that all...
Keeping Content Current
A company replaced its previous training with GTA’s training for employees to complete as a pre-requisite for their job, leading to improved employee capability. Consistent and Updated Content Part of the challenge in developing a robust training program is the...
The Power of Collaboration
Through GTA’s member collaboration, a company combined its information and expertise with other experts’ for efficient training and development. Expertise ≠ Effective Teaching Being an expert does not automatically make you a great teacher. Prior to joining GTA,...
What Members Say
GTA provides a forum to collaborate – producing a technically sound and more well-rounded training product for our company and our industry partners.
Compared to many other organizations that provide similar content, Gas Training Association is one of the few where content is determined and peer reviewed BY the industry.
From an investment perspective, GTA member’s annual investment is leveraged 10 times for the value of the content created.
Clear and exact questions and answers made it pleasant to take, trickery only makes learning harder, thank you for not doing that!
From a leadership perspective, the Board of Directors has a combined total of over 140 years in the pipeline industry.
This is a course that I will recommend to new personnel beginning a career in Gas Measurement. It was very well done.
Aside from the value of the content output, the professional development of being able to work with peers in the industry across a diverse set of members has “fringe value”. Some of the best industry friends I have ever made are through these engagements.
The Gas Training Association offers a “back to the well” progressive foundational program to ensure gaps are filled. Together with apprenticeships and adhoc manufacturer training, the specialists are assured a comprehensive overall experience to prepare for the significant technological and financial responsibilities of their role. When used in combination with an effective Measurement Specialist development strategy with the following elements, goal setting, training period, evaluation intervals, and capabilities assessments, you can achieve a competent and capable staff for work assignment.