Upon completion of this course, the attendant will be able to:
1- Understand the Physical Properties of Hydrocarbons and its effect on operation.
2- Understand the fundamental of separation and dehydration process.
3- Minimize the chemical injection
4- Understand the water treatment plant.
5- Make the necessary changes or modification in order to improve the efficiency of the system.
6- Understand the rotating equipment operation and troubleshooting.
7- Evaluate the tanks measuring and cleaning.
This course is recommended for Production Engineers, Operator, production supervisors & process supervisors.
Chapter 1:
1.1 Natural Gas Composition
1.2 Crude Oil Specification
Chapter 2:
2.1 Production System
2.2 Production Types
2.3 Production Control
Chapter 3:
3.1 Wellhead and Flow Control Equipment
3.2 Flow Lines
3.3 Inlet Manifolds
3.4 Safety Devices and Trouble Shooting
Chapter 4
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Separation Process
4.3 Principles of Separation
4.4 Phases Separation
4.5 Terminology and Applications
4.6 Stage Separation
4.7 Separation Classification
4.8 Separation Internals
4.9 Separation Operation and Troubleshooting
4.10 Operating Problems
Chapter 5
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Emulsions
5.3 Emulsifying Agents
5.4 Emulsion Terminology
5.5 Demulsifies
5.6 Factors Affecting Emulsion Breakdown
5.7 Treating Emulsion
5.8 Factors that Affect Treating
5.9 General Process Descriptions
5.10 Emulsion Treating Equipment
Chapter 6:
6.1 Overview
6.2 Water Hydrocarbon System Behaviors
6.3 Gas Dehydration System
6.4 Absorption using liquid Desiccants
6.5 Hydrate Inhibition in Low Temperature Processing Plant
6.6 Hydrate Inhibition in Gas Pipeline
Chapter 7:
7.1 Oily Water Treatment
7.2 Induced Gas Flotation units
7.3 Hydro Cyclone units
7.4 CPI units
Chapter 8:
8.1 Chemicals Treatment
8.2 Chemicals Types
8.3 Chemicals Selection
8.4 Chemicals Control
Chapter 9:
9.1 Basic Pump Hydraulics
9.2 Centrifugal Pumps
9.3 Positive Displacement Pump
Chapter 10:
10.1 Types of storage tanks
10.2 Maintenance of storage tanks (basic introduction)
10.3 Tank Maintenance
10.4 hazardous conditions and Safety procedures
10.5 Safety procedures
Chapter 11:
11.1 Heat Transfer Mechanize
11.2 Heat Exchanger
11.3 Furnace and Heaters
Chapter 12:
12.1 Pigging Operation
12.2 Type of Piping
12.3 Safety of Piping
Chapter 13:
13.1 Pressure Measurement
13.2 Temperature Measurement
13.3 Level Measurement
13.4 Flow Measurement
