March 10, 2025 to March 14, 2025

2025 Spring Committee on Petroleum Measurement Standards Meeting

Hyatt Regency San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

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Overview

The 2025 Spring Committee on Petroleum Measurement Standards Meeting (COPM) will be on March 10–14, 2025, in San Francisco, California. It will be open to industry professionals who wish to participate.

Reason For Attending

The Committee on Petroleum Measurement Standards Meeting remains an invaluable opportunity to be a part of how the U.S. petroleum industry develops and maintains state-of-the-art standards.

API standards meetings are open to all who may have a “direct and material interest in the subject of the standard”, in accordance with our ANSI accredited Procedures for Standards Development, which state the following regarding openness and meeting procedures, emphasis added:

5.2 Due Process
5.2.1 Openness
Participation in API standards activities is open to all parties (persons and organizations) that have a direct and material interest in the subject of a standard.

5.2.2 Balance
5.2.2.1 Overview
API seeks broad input to its standardization activities including the participation of all parties representing interest categories appropriate to the nature of the standard and allows for open attendance at standards meetings.

5.10 Standards Meeting Procedures
5.10.1 General
Committees dealing with standards activities shall meet as needed to conduct their work. Except for those portions of meetings dealing with policy and/or budget issues, standards meetings are open to all interested parties.

Benefits of Participation

  • Gain access to technical committee meetings covering API standards and best practices used throughout the industry to promote safe and environmentally sound operations.
  • Learn about the latest research and development on measurement techniques and equipment, including future R&D efforts that may benefit your business in the long run.
  • Network with colleagues and establish new business connections.
  • Connect with exhibitors to learn about products, services, and technologies that may be important to your company.
  • Qualify for the chance to win one of two complimentary registrations to the 2025 Fall COPM Meetings during the two networking breaks on Monday and Tuesday afternoons.
  • Earn Professional Development Hours (PDH) to maintain professional certifications.

Questions

Program Details

The Committee on Petroleum Measurement, COPM, is responsible for ~180 standards used worldwide for custody transfer operations. The technical subcommittees that report to the COPM are:

  • Committee on Liquid Measurement
  • Committee on Gas Fluid Measurement
  • Committee on Production Measurement & Allocation
  • Committee on Measurement Quality
  • Committee on Measurement Accountability
  • Committee on Evaporative Loss Estimation
  • Committee on Measurement Education & Training

*As not all subcommittees meet during the Measurement meetings, please be sure and check the online program to verify which subcommittees are meeting at this conference.

Who Should Attend

Industry professionals including:

  • Engineers
  • Loss/Control Specialists
  • Sales and Marketing Managers
  • Measurement Specialists
  • Measurement Auditors
  • Chemists

Anyone involved in Petroleum Measurement whose companies are:

  • Oil Producers
  • Transporters
  • Refining and Marketing Firms

PLEASE NOTE: You must register to receive access to the mobile meeting app.

TIC Safety Sessions

Register for the TIC International Safety Session Only »

Note: These sessions are complimentary for Spring COPM registrants. For anyone planning to attend TIC International Safety Sessions only, registration fees will apply.
 

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Join API at the Spring COPM Meeting for a TIC Council (Testing, Inspection, and Certification) International Safety Session on Wednesday, March 12th and Thursday, March 13th.

  • First session: Wednesday, March 12th (PM Session) + Evening Networking Reception
  • Second session: Thursday, March 13th (AM Session)

What are these sessions about?

The sessions are an effort to offer an open forum for all O&G Stakeholders, where dynamic and result-oriented discussions can take place to address safety issues. They will gather industry leaders from the inspection, petroleum shipping, and terminal sectors to tackle the critical safety challenges confronting the petroleum industry onshore and offshore.

What are the attendees going to gain from the sessions?

Be a part of this exclusive sessions that aims to foster knowledge exchange and facilitate open dialogues on safety concerns. By coming together, attendees get the opportunity to contribute in cultivating a stronger safety culture and establish a safer environment for everyone involved.

Who should attend the session?

Any individual interested in learning how operators address safety concerns, individuals who would like to contribute to the discussion on safety issues in the O&G industry.

 

Time Day 1 – Wednesday, March 12th
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Check-in, welcome refreshments
1:00 PM – 3:00 PM Block 1
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM Coffee pause
3:15 PM – 5:15 PM Block 2
5:15 PM – 5:30 PM Concluding remarks day 1 – Invitation to dinner reception
Time Day 2 – Thursday, March 13th
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM Welcome Address Day 2
9:15 AM – 11:00 AM Block 1
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM Coffee break
11:15 AM – 1:15 PM Block 2
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM Concluding Remarks day 2

Hotel

Hyatt Regency San Francisco
5 Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94111
Online Reservations

Room Rate: $289 single or double occupancy
Mention the API 2025 Spring COPM, to receive the API group rate.

Reservations questions: If you need additional assistance, please call 415-788-1234.

Reservations Deadline: Monday, February 17, 2025, or until room block is sold out.
After this date and time, reservations will be accepted on a space and room type availability basis and at the hotel’s best rate available.

Room Guarantee and Reservation Cancellation: A credit card guarantee is required to confirm and hold everyone’s reservation. Cancellations must be received by the hotel at least twenty-four (24) hours prior to arrival and a cancellation number must be obtained or the card will be charged for the first night’s room rate. The hotel is responsible for informing guests of this requirement. API assumes no responsibility. Any payments received by the hotel as a result of late cancellations or no-shows will be credited to API’s room block for attrition purposes.

Registration Fees & Details

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Price if registered by
Friday, January 31		 Price if registered after
Friday, January 31
API Member $825 $1,025
Committee Member $925 $1,075
Non-Member $1,025 $1,175
One-Day Participant
(You will only participate on one day between Monday, March 10 – Friday, March 14)		 $425 $625
TIC International Safety Session Only
(These sessions are complimentary for Spring COPM registrants.)
 $100 $250

For registration questions or method of payment inquiries, please contact 202-682-8195 or [email protected]

Early Registration Deadline: Friday, January 31, 2025

Refund Cutoff Date: Friday, February 7, 2025 (No refunds granted after this date.)

Cancellations, Refunds, and Substitutions:
Cancellations and request for refunds must be made in writing and sent to [email protected] by Friday, February 7, 2025. Cancellation shall be effective, final, and binding upon receipt by API. Cancellation requests received by Friday, February 7, 2025, will receive a refund of the registration fee less a $100 cancellation fee. Refunds are not provided for cancellation requests received after Friday, February 7, 2025 and will be processed in the original form of payment. Substitutions are welcome.

Sponsor a First-Time Attendee:
Share your standards expertise with the next generation of oil and natural gas professionals by providing a complimentary registration to a new participant from your company. The cost is complimentary, and your sponsored attendee is welcomed to participate in API Standards meetings, except for executive sessions and members only meetings.

To qualify for this complimentary registration option, you must be a new participant and sponsored by a prior, API standards meeting participant from your same company. If you are sponsoring someone from your company, that person must be registered under your registration record in Cvent at the time you enter your own registration. You may only register two sponsored attendees.

(NOTE: This option is only applicable to first-time attendees who are sponsored. First-time attendees not sponsored pay applicable registration fees.)

Terms of Participation:
API standards meetings are open to all interested parties. By participating in these meetings and the standardization process, you agree: (1) to fully comply with API’s policies and procedures governing standards and antitrust concerns, (2) that once balloted and approved by API, API shall have a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free worldwide license to use any materials submitted by the participant for use in the standard, including creation of any derivative works that will be solely owned by API, (3) you will not provide any material that will violate the rights of any third parties, including, but not limited to, patents, copyrights, trade secrets, and trademarks, (4) not to provide any  technical information or other materials that would violate U.S. export control laws, (5) to disclose the existence of  any patented technologies in the material that you provide, (6) you will not make audio recordings, video recordings, or take screen shots of API meetings and content without the express written consent of all persons who will be presenting their content, and (7) you must act professionally and comply with your company’s code of conduct at all times.

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