Oil & Gas Production & Process Operations
Oil & Gas Production & Process Operations
OBJECTIVES
- About well inflow performance and its impact on processing facilities
- About oil, gas, and water compositions and properties needed for equipment selection and sizing
- How to select and evaluate processes and equipment used to meet sales or disposal specifications
- How to apply physical and thermodynamic property correlations and principles to the design and evaluation of oil production and processing facilities
- How to perform equipment sizing calculations for major production facility separation equipment
- How to evaluate processing configurations for different applications
- How to recognize and develop solutions to operating problems in oil/water processing facilities
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Process/facilities engineers, senior operating personnel, and production chemists
COURSE OUTLINE
Fluid Properties
- Specific Gravity and Density
- Characterization of Petroleum fluids
- Oil, Water and Emulsion Viscosity
- Gas Solubility and Formation Volume Factor
- The ABC’s of H2S
- Properties of Naturally Occurring Fluids
- Transportation of petroleum fluids
Two Phase Separation
- Horizontal Vs. Vertical Vessels
- Introduction and Equipment Description
- Vessel Internals and Theory
- Oil / Water Separation and Treating
- Water Treating Measurement and Instrumentation
- Two-phase and Three-phase oil and gas systems
- Two phase and three separation operations selection and procedures
Three Phase Separators
- Introduction and Equipment Description
- Potential Operating Problems
Crude Oil Treating Systems
- Introduction and Emulsion Treating Theory
- Treating Equipment
- Equipment Sizing and Theory
Desalting of Lease Crude Oil
- When Salt must be removed ? Salt Occurrence.
- Controlling Amount of Salt in Crude
- The Desalting Process and Desalting Equipment
- The Electrostatic Desalted
- Measurements in oil and gas operations and integrated surface production system team.
Piping Systems and Design Criteria
- Introduction and Fluid Flow Equations
- Line Size Criteria, Well Thickness, Standards and Requirements
- Pressure Rating Classes
- Pumps and pumping system
- Compressors and compression systems
Gas Measurement
- Orifice Meters and Calculations
- Reservoir and Lift Review
- Valves
- Safety Systems
- Fowling, Manifolds, and Gathering Systems
- Mechanical Equipment
- Gathering and Processing Facilities
- Impact of Corrosion