Describe you work
Intertek West Lab, Dept Calibration provides calibration service for prover loops and meters for fiscal purposes. This is a regulation requirement for oil producers providing traceability for all instruments used for hydrocarbon sales. We also provide fault-finding and troubleshooting services when needed. We transport our traceable equipment (10 tons) to the work site (onshore and offshore) on a yearly schedule. Another specialty is our onshore flow lab which is used to calibrate customer meters with simulated operational conditions. 

What does it take to succeed as a Metering specialist?
To be a specialist you need to be genuine interested in your field and have good understanding of your work. Experience provides confidence in your skills. You should look for solutions instead of problems.  

Tell us about your career journey at Intertek?
After training in a Norwegian telecom company I got curious about the upcoming oil industry. As I had electronics skills, the metering and calibration service suited me, and I found a company called Con-Tech who needed workers. This company then became Intertek in year 1998. Throughout my 35 years I have had different positions within Intertek and gained a lot of experience within fiscal metering.

I started as a technician/trainee 1986-93. From 1993-1998 I worked as a Senior Metering specialist. From 1998-2004 I served as technical manager and then became metering manager in 2004. Since 2010 my position has been metering specialist in the calibration department. All this time in the same department while the company changed names from Con-Tech to West Lab and now Intertek West Lab.

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