Custody Transfer Metering Skids
Excel Loading Systems designs and fabricates custom custody transfer metering skid systems for petroleum, chemical, renewable fuel, and industrial fluid transfer applications. Our skid-mounted metering skid systems are designed to provide accurate product measurement while reducing field installation costs, improving quality, and accelerating project schedules.
Each skid is engineered to your specifications and can be supplied as a complete package — including metering equipment, pumps, valves, instrumentation, controls, piping, and structural steel fabrication.
What Is a Custody Transfer Metering Skid?
A custody transfer metering skid is a pre-engineered package used to accurately measure fluid transfers between parties where product ownership changes. Because measurement accuracy directly affects billing, inventory management, regulatory compliance, and operational accountability, custody transfer systems demand a higher standard of precision than standard process metering.
These systems are commonly installed in:
- Truck loading terminals
- Rail loading facilities
- Tank farms
- Refineries
- Pipeline facilities
- Chemical plants
- Renewable fuel facilities
Meter Technologies
Excel Loading Systems integrates a wide variety of metering technologies based on your application:
- Positive displacement meters — Refined products, lubricants, and chemicals; high accuracy and proven technology
- Coriolis flow meters — High-accuracy, mass flow, and density measurement for chemical processing, specialty products, and renewable fuels
- Turbine meters — Petroleum terminals, pipeline systems, and fuel loading facilities; high flow capability
- Ultrasonic meters — Pipeline and high-flow custody transfer applications; no moving parts, low maintenance
Typical Applications
Truck Loading Terminals
Metering skids provide accurate measurement of products loaded into transport trucks while integrating with loading arms, grounding systems, overfill protection, and control systems.
Railcar Loading
Rail loading operations often require precise product measurement for inventory control and customer billing.
Tank Farm Operations
Metering skids installed between storage tanks and process systems provide inventory tracking, product accountability, flow monitoring, and batch control.Dye Injection Systems
Product Blending Systems
Blending operations often require multiple metering points to maintain product quality and consistency across fuel blending, chemical blending, additive injection, and product batching.
Standard Components
A typical custody transfer metering skid may include:
- Process piping — Carbon steel, stainless steel, specialty alloys
- Valves — Ball, control, check, and emergency shutdown valves
- Instrumentation — Pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters, flow monitoring, level indication
- Controls — PLC systems, HMI interfaces, batch controllers, SCADA integration, remote monitoring
- Pumps — Centrifugal, positive displacement, and booster pumps
Integrated Loading Systems
One advantage Excel Loading Systems offers is the ability to integrate custody transfer skids with complete loading systems, including top loading arms, bottom loading arms, API couplers, ground verification systems, overfill prevention systems, and vapor recovery systems — giving you a complete loading package from a single supplier.
Fabrication Capabilities
All skid fabrication is performed at our Cincinnati, Ohio facility, including structural steel fabrication, carbon and stainless steel piping, ASME welding, instrument tubing, mechanical assembly, and factory acceptance testing prior to shipment.
Benefits of Modular Metering Skids
- Reduced installation costs — Factory fabrication significantly reduces field labor requirements.
- Improved quality — Controlled shop fabrication produces more consistent results than field construction.
- Faster startup — Pre-tested systems reduce commissioning time and improve project schedules.
- Simplified maintenance — Organized skid layouts improve equipment accessibility.
- Future expansion — Additional systems can be added as operational requirements grow.
Why Choose Excel Loading Systems?
Excel Loading Systems combines fluid transfer expertise with in-house fabrication to deliver complete metering skid solutions. Unlike many skid manufacturers, our team has extensive experience with loading terminals, truck loading systems, rail loading operations, fluid transfer equipment, and process piping — resulting in a metering skid designed not just for measurement accuracy, but for long-term operational performance. See our full Modular Process Skid Systems overview for related solutions.
Looking for a custody transfer metering skid manufacturer?
Contact Excel Loading Systems to discuss your application, flow rates, fluid properties, control requirements, loading systems, and project goals. Our engineering and fabrication team can develop a fully integrated metering skid solution built around your operation.
