About PFT - Alexander

PFT-Alexander, Inc. is a recognized leader in the Manufacturing, Sales and Service Calibration of Flow Measurement and Control Equipment and Systems. PFT-Alexander, Inc. is frequently asked by its valued customers to design, select and procure equipment as well as to fabricate, install, test, inspect and commission complete flow measurement and control systems.

​PFT-Alexander, Inc.’s Fabrication division has built skid-mounted loading, metering, and delivery systems for the petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical, aviation, food & beverage, wastewater and municipal water industries. PFT is renowned in the industry for a history of on time and on budget project completions..

PFT employs the most seasoned and respected personnel in the Flow Measurement and Control industry in order to provide our customers with the expertise required for complete systems startup and maintenance. Our technical, service and support personnel are directly involved with all phases of flow measurement, control and automation both domestically and internationally.

History

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Since 1958, PFT-Alexander, Inc. has provided Custody Transfer Systems and Industrial Measurement & Control solutions with product sales, service, calibrations, fabrication, engineering, design and turnkey systems for the petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical, aviation, food & beverage, wastewater, and municipal water industries.

Locations

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L.A. Area

Our corporate campus is located in Signal Hill, California. Our 10,000 sf main building houses our corporate offices and main repair & flow measuring facility.

Our gauge calibration & certification lab is in a second 5000 sf building and our flow test & calibration lab is in a third 5000 sf building. ​

Bakersfield

PFT-Alexander, Inc.’s fabrication facility is a 10,000 square foot building with an additional 4000 square feet of covered area for large outdoor projects and is located on five acres in Bakersfield, California. ​

Bay Area

PFT-Alexander, Inc. maintains a staff of home based sales and service technicians in the Bay Area

PFT-Alexander, Inc. also has a fleet of service and calibration rigs based throughout the Western United States. ​

Authorized Distributor/Representative

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• Anton-Paar – Precision Densitometers and Analytical Equipment
• Apollo Valves – Valves and Accessories (OEM)
• Ashcroft- Pressure Gauges and Snubbers (OEM)
• Blue Ribbon – Pressure and Temperature Gauges & Transmitters
• Brodie International – Custody Transfer Positive Displacement Flow Meters and Control Valves
• Bullard – Fall Protection, Load Racks, Safety Bridges/Stairs
• Civacon – Overfill and Grounding Systems for Tank Truck and Rail Car
• Clif Mock – Samplers, Sampling Systems, Turbine Meters, Chart Recorders and Flow Equipment
• Corken – Positive Displacement Pumps
• Daniels – Turbine Meters (OEM)
• Dixon – Couplings, Fittings and Valves
• ​Dresser Roots Rotary Gas Meters
• Emco Wheaton – Loading Arms and Couplers – Marine, Tank Truck and Rail​
• Enardo – Detonation Flame Arrestors, Tank Vapor / Vacuum Vents, Vapor Control Equipmen
• ​Endress + Hauser – Coriolis Mass Flow Meters, Level Instruments

• Faure Herman – High Viscosity Custody Transfer Liquid Turbine Meters, Ultrasonic Flow Meters
• FMC Technologies Invalco – Liquid and Gas Flow Products
• FPP Meters – Oval Gear Meters High and Low Flow
• Honeywell (Lubrizol) – Blending Systems and Additive Systems, and Load Controllers
• Honeywell Enraf – Tank Level Systems, Marketing Terminal, Marine and Aviation Automation
• Hy-Grade Valve, Inc. – Precision Engineered Check Valves
• Jamison Products – Strainers, ASME Vessels, PIG Launchers and Receivers
• KEP – Kessler Ellis Products ​
  
• Krohne – Flow and Level Management, Liquid and Gas Custody Transfer Ultrasonic’s
• Liquid Controls – Positive Displacement Meters, Truck Loading, Propane Systems
• McCrometer – V-Cone and Propeller Meters, Water Flow Monitoring Equipment

• Micro Motion – Mass Flow Meters, Densitometers (OEM)
• Micronics – Clamp-On Ultrasonic Flow Meters
  
• Neptune/Red Seal – Positive Displacement Meters
  
• OPW Engineered Systems – Chemical Load Arms, Couplings, and Dry Disconnects
  
• Precision Digital – Electronic Indicators, Digital Readouts, Flow Controllers
  
• Rosemount Transmitters
  
• Sponsler – Turbine Meters
  
• Toptech Systems – Complete Automation and Control Systems for Truck Loading/Unloading
  
• Veeder-Root – Counters, Presets and Printers
  
• Viking – Pumps (OEM)
  
• Yamada – Diaphragm Pumps
  
• Zenner – Water Meters and AMI/AMR Systems
  

In addition to the above items PFT-Alexander, Inc. distributes, we also sell, service and/or repair the following:

• Apex Positioners
• Apollo Valves
• Armstrong Products
• ASCO Solenoids
• AVF Fittings
• Bolt Extractions
• Chemtech Hose
• Conbraco Actuators
• Dynamic Fluids Flow Computers and V-cone Meters
• Elster AMCO Water
• Elster American Gas Meters and Regulators
• Fisher Valves and Components
• FMC Chicksan
• ​FMC Smith Meter Equipment & Parts 

• Good Year Positioners 
• Islip Strainers 
• Leslie Controls 
• LMI Pumps 
• Low Pro Positioners 
• Meggit Nozzles 
• MEI Prover Spheres 
• OMNI Flow Computers 
• Pulsa Feeder Pumps 
• Rentals: Pressure Recorders, Temperature Recorders
• Sensus Water & Gas Products
• Varec Tank Gauging Equipment 
• Zomox Actuators, Valves, & Positioners 

Fabrication

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​PFT-Alexander, Inc.’s fabrication facility is a 10,000 square foot building with an additional 4000 square feet of covered area for large outdoor projects and is located on five acres in Bakersfield, California. 

PFT-Alexander, Inc’s Fabrication Division has built many different types of Skids for both Liquid and Gas Service and is renowned in the industry for a history of on time on budget project completions. PFT-Alexander, Inc. Skids have been shipped all over the world.
PFT-Alexander, Inc. incorporates the latest techniques to Design and Fabricate Skid Mounted Equipment. This facility handles all X-Rays, Hydro-Tests, Wiring & Painting and performs Factory Acceptance Testing of all equipment manufactured by PFT-Alexander, Inc. 

Examples of PFT-Alexander, Inc. Manufactured Skids & Products

• Pipeline Liquid and Gas Custody Transfer Skids 
• Multi Stream Product, Asphalt and NGL Blending Systems 
• Gas Metering Skid Systems 
• Gas Measurement and Pressure Reducing Stations 
• Truck Loading and Unloading Racks, complete with Blending, Additives & Multiple Positions
• Rail Car Loading and Off Loading Skids 
• Crude Oil Custody Transfer systems ​

• Crude Oil and Product Sampling Systems 
• Portable and skid mounted Pumping Systems 
• Provers – Volumetric and Ballistic Small Volume Units 
• Aircraft Fuel Carts and Fuel Systems 
• Gas Regulator Stations 
• Control Panels 

Service

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PFT-Alexander, Inc. services include scheduled maintenance contracts to one-off service calls and our technicians are frequently called upon to provide emergency on-site assistance at customer facilities.   Our Technicians can quickly resolve most metering & instrumentation problems. We troubleshoot & repair Control Panels, Flow Computers, Measurement Devices, Load Rack Presets, Pipeline Metering Systems, SCADA Systems, Control Valves and all Equipment related to Truck Loading & Off-Loading.

PFT-Alexander, Inc.’s Certifications

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• PFT-Alexander, Inc. is fully compliant with Federal & State safety regulations & our technicians are Refinery Safety Overview (RSO) Certified
• Weights & Measures 
• NIST Traceable 
• Certified to perform calibrations in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Washington, and Wyoming
• Operator Qualification (OQ) Certified 
• Department of Transportation (DOT) Certified 
• DISA / Los Angeles Clean Card D&A Programs
• Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) 
• TWIC Card Ready
• OSHA 10 Certified
• Safety Certified 

​Affiliates

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Calibration Services

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Registered Members

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• National Conference on Weights and Measures 
• Western Petroleum Marketers Association 
• California Division of Measurement Standards 
• American Petroleum Institute (API) 
• Petroleum Equipment Institute (PEI) 
• Professional Aviation Maintenance Association 
• National Air Transportation Association (NATA) 
• International Society of Automation (ISA) 
• Independent Liquid Terminals Association for the Bulk Liquid Storage & Transportation Industry (ILTA) 

• Small Volume Provers 
• Volumetric Provers 
• Seraphin Cans 

• ISNetworld 
• PICS Auditing 
• National Compliance Management Service
• BROWZ

Customers

PFT-Alexander, Inc. has numerous customers throughout the United States and the world, below are some of the more high profile names of our customers. ​​

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• ​Airgas
• Alon 
• Alyeska Pipeline 
• Amerigas
• ASIG
• Atlantic Aviation
• Bayer
• BP 
• Brentag
• Buckeye Pipeline 
• Canadian Oil Company –Tar Sands
• Chevron USA 
• Chevron Overseas 
• Clorox
• CNRL - Canada

• Conoco Phillips 
• Dept. of Oil and Gas –Korea 
• ExxonMobil 
• General Petroleum
• Hyundai Oil 
• Kinder Morgan 
• Lee Kum Kee
• Nalco
• Oil Tanking 
• OXY – Occidental Petroleum
• Pacific Fruit Processors
• Plains Pipeline, E&P 
• Proportion Foods
• Remet
• Royal Dutch Shell 

• Signature Flight
• Sinopec China 
• SoCo Group
• Southern California Edison
• Southwest Gas 
• Stepan
• Suburban Propane
• Swissport
• Tesoro 
• Total Fina 
• Univar
• Union Carbid
• Valero 
• Vopak ​

Engineering Companies

Not only have we worked with many Major Oil companies but also with many engineering companies over the years ​

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• ​Anvil 
• Barghausen
• Bechtel 
• Black & Veatch 
• Cash Associates 
• CH2M Hill 
• ConneXsys Engineering Inc. 
• Eichleay Engineers 
• EN Engineering
• Flour Daniel 
• Harris Group, Inc. 
• Kiewit 
• Maramac

• Mustang Engineering (MEI)
• Parsons 
• PRC Engineering 
• Quoia Engineering 
• Spec Services Engineering 
• Stantek 
• Sun Engineering 
• TJ Cross
• University Mechanical 
• URS Engineering
• Veco Engineering
• Worley Parsons

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