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“\"Re-evaluation + expansion\" approved! Wuhan Petrochemical’s Metrology and Testing Station Successfully Passes Audit Author/Source: Wuhan Petrochemical Online Date: 2022-06-22 Clicks: 14 On June 13, four audit experts from the Autonomous Region Market Regulation Bureau conducted on-site inspections of the 10 new standard-setting projects submitted by Urumqi Petrochemical Company’s Metrology and Testing Station. Eight of these projects were approved for standard establishment, with an approval rate higher than that of other entities that applied to establish new standards in the past two years. The reporter learned that not long ago, the 35 enterprise measurement standards submitted by the company also passed the re-evaluation process conducted by the Market Regulation Bureau of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. The approval of these 35 standards, following a re-evaluation process, indicates that Wushihua Petrochemical Company has retained its qualifications for the calibration and verification of 123 tests in five major fields: metrology, thermology, mechanics, electricity, and physical chemistry, in the new round of qualification assessments. Eight projects have passed the standard establishment application, allowing the scope of calibration and verification at the metrology station to be further expanded, thereby providing accurate and reliable measurement data for the company’s production and operations. Since 1985, in compliance with the relevant requirements of the **Measurement Law**, the company has successively established and improved 35 corporate measurement standards, becoming the first enterprise measurement verification institution in Xinjiang to obtain **specialized measurement authorization. As the market for measurement calibration is gradually opened up, various calibration institutions have sprung up across society, with uneven quality levels. In recent years, the Market Supervision Bureau of the autonomous region has stepped up its oversight to regulate the metrology and testing industry, revoking standards and canceling authorizations when serious issues are identified. **The validity period of the measurement standard assessment certificate issued is 4 years, and an application must be submitted again upon expiration. “Personnel, equipment, technical documents, and other aspects must all meet the requirements for the reevaluation and audit of measurement standards in order to pass the audit. ”Jiang Jianxin, deputy head of the metering station at the Planning and Control Department of Wuhu Petrochemical Company, explained. In order to pass the online preliminary review successfully, the Metrology and Testing Station began in October 2021 to have the persons in charge of the standards work on improving the application documents, compiling data from four years of stability assessments and repeatability tests for the metrological standards, certificates for the metrological standards and related equipment, as well as some original inspection records. Over a period of more than 2 months, nearly 6,000 pages of technical documents were collected and compiled. On January 1, 2022, applications for re-evaluation were submitted online for 35 measurement standards, and they passed the review by the relevant authorities on May 27. It is understood that 9 people at the company’s metrology and testing station hold the qualification of **First-Class Registered Metrologists, giving the company a proportion of such professionals that is among the highest among enterprise metrology and technical institutions. Nine people have obtained the qualification as **Level 2 Metrology Standard Assessors, and are eligible to be assigned by the Autonomous Region Market Regulation Bureau to participate in metrology-related technical activities. As a member of the Sub-technical Committee on Oil and Gas Measurement and Analysis Methods under the National Petroleum and Natural Gas Standardization Technical Committee, Deputy Station Master Jiang Jianxin participates in the formulation and revision of standards and industry standards every year. The **standard GB/T 36989-2018 \"Measurement of Liquid Hydrocarbon Flow Rates Using Ultrasonic Flow Meters\"**, which he contributed to drafting, as well as the local metrological technical regulation JJG( New ) 23-2021 \"Calibration Procedures for Split-Vane Steam Flow Meters\", have both been officially published and put into effect.