Oil Production Facilities

Oil Production Facilities

OBJECTIVES:

You will learn how to:

1. Apply physical and thermodynamic property correlations and principles to the design and evaluation of oil production and processing facilities.
2. Evaluate processing configurations for different applications.
3. Recognize and develop solutions to operating problems in oil production facilities.

Solution gas handling processes and equipment will be discussed as well, though at a relatively high level. In addition to the engineering aspects of oil production facilities, practical operating problems will also be covered including emulsion treatment, sand handling, dealing with wax and asphaltenes, etc

Course Outline: 

• Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations
• Fluid properties & phase behavior
• Overview of artificial lift
• Processing configurations (example PFD’s)
• Phase separation of gas, oil, and water
• Emulsions
• Sand, wax, & asphaltenes
• Oil treating
• Field desalting
• Crude stabilization & sweetening
• Crude oil storage & vapor recovery
• Measurement of crude oil
• Transportation of crude oil
• Produced water treating
• Water injection systems
• Overview of solution gas processing

1. Compressors
2. Sweetening
3. Dehydration
4. NGL recovery

• Relief & flare systems
• Separator
• Gas Scrubbers
• Control Valves
• Oil Testing Faculties
• SCADA System Facilities
• Exploration, Drilling, Production, Transportation
• Waste Stream
• Potential Emergencies

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Newly engaged Production Engineers and Petroleum Engineers. Technical and operations staff from other disciplines, which require a cross-training to or a basic understanding of surface production operations