Oil And Water Treatment, Separation, Stabilization And Gas Handling

Description :

The training is designed to provide the attendee with the necessary knowledge and tools understanding the best condition for an efficient operation and design of crude oil, water and gas treatment and handling system.

Outline :

Production Facilities Schemes

·         Separation Process

·         Two Phase Separators

·         Three Phase Separators

·         Separation Stages

Oil Treatment

·         Oil treatment basic concept

·         Emulsion stability and mechanism of stabilization

·         Crude oil emulsion stabilizer

·         Stoke's Law : Settling theory or gravity separation

·         Variables affecting crude oil dehydration

·         Demulsifier requirements and selections

·         Electrostatic Theory

·         Group discussion on the chemical used in the industry

Dehydration equipments

·         Vertical treater & Horizontal Treaters

·         Electrostatic coalescers

·         Dehydration performance factors

·         Design Procedures

·         Oil desalting principles

·         Desalters : equipments and technology

·         Operation and design considerations

·         Life cycle costing for selection considerations

Water Treatment

·         Properties of produced water

·         Environmental regulations

·         Water chemistry issue

·         Water treatment process

·         Suspended oil & solids removal

·         Backwash water treatment

·         Material selection issues

Gas Value Chain

·         Natural Gas Characteristics quality specifications

·         Typical components and contaminants

·         Remediation, inhibition, mitigation and prevention

·         Reasons for sweetening the gas

·         Gas Sweetening

·         Process Classification

·         Absorption & Adsorption

·         Direct conversion

·         Membranes

·         Design and operating aspects of amine gas sweetening plants

·         Gas Dehydration

·         Key Operating parameters for an optimal operation,

·         Most Common Operational Problems and possible solutions

·         Liquid Removal & Sulfur Removal

·         Gas Transportation

·         Gas Compression

Who should attend :

Surface Facility Design Engineers, Surface Facility Operation Engineers, Gas Processing Engineers, Field Production Operations