全球瓦斯表市场(第6版)

Abstract

In this new edition of the Gas Meter Report we have expanded the coverage of the marketing profiles to review 8 new countries not previously covered and the report now contains reviews of the gas meter markets in 22 countries. The countries contained are (new countries underlined):Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, UK, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, USA, Australia, China, India, Japan, Iran. We have also added a table of the installed bases of gas meters in all gas using countries. The report includes a discussion of the market drivers. Two new issues have been identified and will be investigated more fully in future reports. In some countries the LPG market is impinging on the city gas/natural gas market with consequences for metering. This is notably the case in Japan and Mexico although the circumstances are different in each case. Secondly, central storage of gas, supplied by tanker in countries without pipeline networks, is an increasing trend. End users have meters in the same manner as user of piped gas.

Market analysis and meter types

• Meter demand in units and $ value, forecast annually to 2012
• Regional and country analysis of demand

Market participants

• The major companies globally and within region are identified
• Company mergers and consolidations
• Market leaders identified in each major market

AMR (Automatic Meter Reading) and AIM (Advanced Infrastructure Management)

• Survey of global AMR and deployment
• Future trends and deployment projections
• Major AMR suppliers identified with market share for leader

Detailed surveys of the 22 largest gas meter markets, over 80% of the world market volume -Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Turkey, UK, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, USA, Australia, China, India, Japan and Iran.

• Number of gas customers
• Annual meter demand in units and $ value
• Meter type
• Market trend
• AMR deployment and development
• Type approval and certification, together
• Significant changes which are driving market development
• Market participants
• Utility background and market characteristics

Tables and spreadsheets containing:

• Global analysis and forecasts for every market, for each of 180 countries
• Meter population and annual demand
• Market analysis by stock/balance, imports, exports and demand, for every country
• Market size and forecast for each year from 2006 to 2012 for every country, units and $ value
• Historical export data from 1997 to 2006 in units, $ value and unit prices
• A separate Excel file is available containing all of these tables plus an analysis of unit exports by country of origin and destination, for each year from 2003 to 2006

Meter Manufacturing Companies

• Major meter companies identified and consolidations and mergers outlined
• Directory of 989 meter manufacturers, including 288 producing gas meters

Metrology

• Outline of global metrology institutions and standards, procedures for type approval and meter verification
• Regional details and cooperation arrangements
• Methodology changes which are driving meter market developments

Table of Contents

FIGURES

TABLES

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - GAS

• Evolution in the meter market
• The installed base of meters and demand in 2007
• Demand drivers
• Meter companies
• AMI - AMR
• Technology of AMR

2. METER POPULATION AND DEMAND

3. METER COMPANIES

• The origins of the metering industry - electricity, gas and water
  • Landis & Gyr
  • Actaris
  • Elster Group
• The metering industry in mid-2007
  • Elster Group
  • Itron - Actaris
  • Bayard Group
• Other gas meter companies
  • Sensus
  • Dresser
  • GE
  • Instromet
  • Japanese meter companies
  • Chinese meter companies

4. DEMAND DRIVERS

• New household connections
• Examples of national variations
• Replacement of aging meters
• Up-grading to advanced meters
• Other market trends

5. CZECH REPUBLIC

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

6. FRANCE

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Billing
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

7. GERMANY

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • Market trend
  • Prices
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

8. HUNGARY

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

9. ITALY

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

10. NETHERLANDS

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

11. POLAND

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

12. ROMANIA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

13. RUSSIA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Market development
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

14. SPAIN

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

15. TURKEY

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Inspection and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

16. UNITED KINGDOM

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants and shares
  • Utility background

17. ARGENTINA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

18. BRAZIL

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

19. CANADA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Inspections and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

20. MEXICO

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
  • Downstream: transportation, distribution and storage

21. UNITED STATES

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Standards, type approval and certification
  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • The American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
  • The natural gas measurement jurisdictions
  • Developing metrological standards
  • Regulating the devices used for meter testing
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification
  • Re-verification
  • Market participants and shares
  • Utility background

22. AUSTRALIA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

23. CHINA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Market trend - development of the natural gas market in China
  • Exploration and transmission
  • Internal market development and distribution
  • Market factors for natural gas
  • Natural gas prices and effect on development
  • Relations with customers
  • Metering, pricing and billing
  • Connection fee
  • Utility background
  • Standards
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants

24. INDIA

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background
  • Gas distribution companies

25. JAPAN

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand for both city gas and LPG
  • The gas market in Japan
  • Piped city gas
  • LPG
  • Safety problems
  • Meter types
  • New ultrasonic meter for residential use
  • Commercial and industrial
  • Market trend
  • AMI - AMR
  • Type approval and verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

26. IRAN

• Gas meters
  • Customers
  • Annual meter demand
  • Meter types
  • AMI - AMR
  • Standards and type approval
  • Type approval
  • Initial verification, inspection and re-verification
  • Market participants
  • Utility background

27. ADVANCED METERING

• AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
• AMI, Advanced Metering Infrastructure
  • AMR, Automatic Meter Reading
  • MDMS, Meter Data Management System
  • Evolution of metering technology
• Reasons for deploying advanced metering
  • Regulatory direction
  • Customer benefits
  • Economic value
  • Electric supply operations
  • Costs for AMI
• Meter Reading Technologies
  • Handheld meter reading, with or without AMR
  • Mobile AMR
  • Fixed network AMR
  • Means of fixed network communication
  • RF, Radio Frequency
  • Cellular
  • PLC, Power Line Carrier
  • Telephone ⁄ Internet
  • Other means of AMR communication
  • Cost benefit analysis of AMR methods of communication
• Demand response
• Deployment of AMR
  • Electricity, Water or Gas
  • Effect of Size
• Leading US AMR Suppliers
  • Itron
  • Cellnet Data Systems, Inc.
  • Hunt Technologies Inc.
  • DCSI, Distribution Control Systems Inc.
  • Leach Industries
  • Echelon Corporation
  • Other major AMR vendors
• Major US AMR manufacturers' market shares
• Some Non-US AMR Companies

28. GAS METER TYPES

• Diaphragm ⁄ bellows meters
• Rotary meters
• Turbine meters
• Orifice meters
• Ultrasonic flow meters
• Coriolis meters
• Turndown ratio and rangeability
• Typical turndown ratio of various meter types
• ‘Smart' ⁄ advanced meters
• Heating value

29. METROLOGY, STANDARDS, TYPE APPROVAL AND VERIFICATION

• Legislation for measuring instruments
• Enforcement of measuring instrument legislation - legal control
  • Type approval
  • Verification and testing
• National metrology institutes
  • Designated national laboratories
  • Accredited laboratories
• Global metrology infrastructure
  • ILAC
  • OIML
• Regional metrology infrastructures
• Europe
  • Accreditation - EA
  • Legal metrology - WELMEC
• EU legislation for measuring instruments
  • EU controlled measuring instruments
  • EU - MID - Measuring Instruments Directive
  • The producer' s responsibility
  • The government' s responsibility
  • Market surveillance
• Americas Infrastructure
  • SIM, Inter American Metrology System
  • Legal Metrology
  • Accreditation - IAAC
• Asia Pacific Infrastructure
  • APMP, Asia Pacific Metrology Programme
  • Accreditation - APLAC
• CIS, Central Asia Infrastructure
  • COOMET, Cooperation Metrologique for Euro Asia
• African Infrastructure
  • SADC
  • SADCMET, SADC Cooperation in Measurement Traceability
  • Accreditation - SADCA
  • Legal Metrology - SADCMEL

30. STANDARDS

• International Standards
  • ISO Standards

31. GLOSSARY

32. TABLES

Table of Figures

• Figure 2.1: Cumulative installed base of Gas meters by region 2006
• Figure 2.2: Annual demand for Gas meters by region 2006
• Figure 4.1: Population growth and household size in the developed and developing world, 1985 to 2030
• Figure 4.2: Growth of gas connections, installed base 1996 to 2005
• Table 5.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 5.2: Principal natural gas companies of Czech Republic
• Table 8.1: Principal natural gas companies of Hungary
• Figure 25.1: New ultrasonic gas meter compared with diaphragm meter
• Figure 27.1: Cost benefit analysis of AMR methods of communication
• Figure 27.2: World AMR Cumulative Installations by Region, 2000 to 2010
• Figure 27.3: Annual US demand for AMR installations in units, by utility sector, 1990 to 2006
• Figure 27.4: Installed base of AMR in the USA in units, by utility sector, 1990 to 2006
• Figure 27.5: Market shares of AMR suppliers in North America, 2007
• Figure 29.1: Regional metrology organisations
• Figure 29.2: Member countries of EURAMET e.V., 2007

Table of Tables

• Table 6.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 6.2: Principal natural gas companies of France
• Table 7.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 7.2: Principal natural gas companies of Germany
• Table 7.3: Principal natural gas companies of Germany
• Table 8.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 8.2: Principal natural gas companies of Hungary
• Table 9.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 9.2: Principal natural gas companies of Italy
• Table 10.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 10.2: Specifications, Standards and Recommendations for Gas Meters
• Table 10.3: Principal natural gas companies of the Netherlands
• Table 11.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 12.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 12.2: Principal natural gas companies of Romania
• Table 13.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 13.2: Principal natural gas companies of Russia
• Table 14.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 14.2: Principal natural gas companies of Spain
• Table 15.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 15.2: Principal natural gas companies of Turkey
• Table 16.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 16.2: Gas meter manufacturers type approved for use in the UK
• Table 16.3: Principal natural gas companies of UK
• Table 17.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 17.2: Principal natural gas companies of Argentina
• Table 18.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 18.2: Principal natural gas companies of Brazil
• Table 19.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 19.2: Approved Gas meters in Canada
• Table 19.3: Principal natural gas companies of Canada
• Table 20.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 20.2: Principal natural gas companies of Mexico
• Table 21.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 21.2: Principal natural gas companies of the USA
• Table 23.1: Meter demand per year China
• Table 23.2: Principal natural gas companies of China
• Table 24.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 24.2: Principal natural gas companies of India
• Table 25.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 25.2: Size and weight of ultrasonic and diaphragm meter
• Table 25.3: Recent new entrants into the Japanese natural gas market
• Table 25.4: Principal natural gas companies of Japan
• Table 26.1: Meter demand per year
• Table 26.2: Principal natural gas companies of Iran
• Table 27.1: Approximate installed cost for AMR systems US 2006
• Table 27.2: Comparison of Manual Meter Reading, AMR and AMI
• Table 27.3: Meter System Applications
• Table 30.1: Four main bodies which determine standards
• Table 30.2: Gas meter standards
• Table 32.1: Gas meter demand units
• Table 32.2: Gas meter demand $
• Table 32.3: Gas meter market $
• Table 32.4: Gas meter type units
• Table 32.5: Gas meter exports units
• Table 32.6: Meter exports $
• Table 32.7: Average export prices
• Table 32.8: Major exporter analysis