Gas Meter Market 2018-2022 by Meter Type, AMR/ AMI, Prepayment, Communications Modules & C&I

Dublin, Dec. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Gas Meter Report Ed 3 2019" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

Smart gas metering is on the increase. China and Europe have overtaken the United States in the numbers of smart gas meters deployed. While the European meters are similar in price to the American meters, the Chinese meters are much cheaper, so the value equation is very different. The report plots these developments historically and forecasts ahead to 2022.

Analysis of sales of gas meters for 43 countries, by meter type - Basic Residential, AMR/ AMI, Prepayment, Communications Modules, C&I - units, value, and average selling price, from 2018 to 2022.

At the city gate station, the gas pressure is 400-500 times the gas pressure in a domestic home and grid meters need to be robust and highly accurate. Commercial & Industrial (C&I) meters contributed only 1% of meter sales in units in 2018, but this important segment of high-value meters was worth $1 billion.

The major meter technologies are described with total market shares; diaphragm, rotary, turbine, orifice and ultrasonic, plus an outline of Coriolis, vortex and MEMS meters.

The number of housing units and households with piped gas are charted for each profiled country, from 1900 to 2020.

Global market shares are accompanied with profiles of the meter manufacturers, including those with small shares in numbers of meters but leading positions in high-end meters for high-pressure measurement - Elster, Itron, Landis+Gyr, Dresser, Diehl, Apator, Sagemcom, Sensus, Dongfa Group, Holley, Emerson.

Fundamental changes in the demand cycle for meters are taking place in the residential segment. Meter vendors need to understand the new trends to plan their footprint and to avoid mismatch, over-capacity and pressure on profits. Historically the demand for gas meters followed a stable long-term path, driven by the increase of gas penetration, first for city coal gas and then for natural gas.

The country-wide deployments of smart meters now starting, involve replacing the entire stock of residential meters with 20-year lives, in a short period of perhaps 5 years. This has never happened before and it means that there will be peaks of replacement and troughs of low demand. This is plotted for all gas consuming countries.

The major customers for gas meters, the gas transmission and distribution utilities, are outlined in each of the 43 countries profiled, together with their structure.

The NGV and Autogas segment is reviewed, a small but growing segment for gas meters, with numbers and metering technology.

Gas metering cannot be fully understood in isolation. It is not all piped natural gas. Marketers need to understand the gas supply industry, how it has developed and where it will go in the future. The industry is described, from its start with local town gas to the international natural gas industry today. There are still other pockets of gas; town gas, LPG both piped and in cylinders, local tanks of natural gas.

Key Topics Covered:

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• Split between residential and C&I meter sales
• Gas meter technology shares
• Long-term demand for gas meters
• Changes in the demand cycles for gas meters caused national smart meter deployments
• Changes in the demand cycles for gas meter markets by country.
• Competitive landscape
• Meter types from 1843 to the future
• Meter types
• Gas sources, types and delivery
• The origins of the global gas industry
• Electricity versus Gas

1. THE GAS METERING LANDSCAPE IN 2018

• Shifting trends of demand

2. WORLD DEMAND FOR GAS METERS FROM 2018 TO 2022

• Meter demand
• Gas meter technology shares

3. LONG-TERM DEMAND TREND FOR GAS METERS

• The long-term demand trends

4. GAS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

• Gas pressure
• The gathering system
• The transmission System
• Compressor stations
• Line pack
• Gate stations
• The distribution system
• The final stage, moving natural gas into the home

5. METER TYPES FROM 1843 TO THE FUTURE

• Positive displacement gas meters
• Diaphragm meters
• Rotary meters
• Inferential meters
• Turbine meters
• Orifice meters
• Other gas meters
• Ultrasonic flow meters
• Coriolis meters
• Vortex meters
• MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System)
• Smart/advanced meters
• Communication module
• Turndown ratio and rangeability
• Typical turndown ratio of various meter types
• Meter sizes - G
• Heating value

6. THE GAS METER MARKET IN EUROPE

7. THE GAS METER MARKET IN THE CIS

8. THE GAS METER MARKET IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA

9. THE GAS METER MARKET IN ASIA PACIFIC

10. THE GAS METER MARKET IN NORTH AMERICA

11. THE GAS METER MARKET IN SOUTH AMERICA

12. THE GAS METER MARKET IN CENTRAL AMERICA

13. COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS, COMPANY PROFILES AND MARKET SHARES

• Elster
• Itron
• Landis+Gyr
• Dresser
• Diehl
• Apator
• Sagemcom
• Sensus
• Dongfa Group
• Holley
• Emerson
• DNV GL

14. NGV and AUTOGAS METERING

• The filling process

15. THE ORIGINS OF THE GLOBAL GAS INDUSTRY

• The conversion process of distribution networks from manufactured gas to natural gas
• Electricity versus Gas

16. GAS SOURCES, TYPES AND DELIVERY

• Gas Categories
• Natural gas
• Manufactured gas
• Coke-oven gas
• Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
• Coal gas
• Biogas
• Blast furnace gas
• Gas hydrates
• Refinery gas
• Syngas - SNG
• PG Autogas
• Gas Delivery And Storage
• Piped gas
• Natural gas liquids, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
• Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG)
• Compressed natural gas (CNG)
• Methodology
• Demand for gas meters
• Installed base
• Demand - long term demand cycle
• Long-term demand trend in France, reconfigured by the deployment of smart gas meters.
• Short term demand
  

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