Production Surface Operation
Designed for: Beginning level production, operations, facilities and petroleum engineers; production managers and field production supervisors; surface equipment technicians; and technical or supervisory personnel who interact with field facility engineers / operators.
Course Content:
- Properties of produced fluids: Impact of pressure, temperature and fluid on key hydrocarbon parameters and fluid behavior.
- Valves: API valves, chokes, regulators, and flow control devices; principle of operation and effect on fluid condition.
- Safety systems: surface safety control systems; relief valves; pressure ratings; API recommended practices.
- Flowlines, manifolds and gathering systems: material selection, pressure drop considerations, line sizing, corrosion, noise and erosion concerns, full wellstream production, two and three phase fluid flow, pigging, slugs, foam and emulsions.
- Mechanical equipment: Pumps, compressors, heaters, sour and acid gas treating, pressured vessels, storage facilities and other surface and subsurface treating/fluid handling equipment.
- Gas separation / treating: two and three phase separation, free water removal, treatment of emulsions, hydrate prevention and treatment, vapor recovery, gas conditioning for sales, injection or field usage.
- Oil / water separation and treatment: two and three phase separation, emulsion breaking, asphaltenes, solids control, removal of residual oil-in-water and water-in-oil to meet pipeline specifications or injection / disposal requirements, hydrocyclones and new water / oil treating equipment.
- Fluid measurement and instrumentation: Liquid and gas metering using positive displacement meters, orifices, sonic meters, mass measurement meters, three phase flow measurement and new metering devices.
- Acid gas treatment: field handling and treatment of sour and acid gases, safety considerations, API standards.
- Corrosion: fundamental principles; detection, prevention and treatment.
- Treating facility innovations: up-to-date description of new equipment for handling high pressure/temperature, three phase flow from subsea and remote locations.
Course Content:
- Properties of produced fluids: Impact of pressure, temperature and fluid on key hydrocarbon parameters and fluid behavior.
- Valves: API valves, chokes, regulators, and flow control devices; principle of operation and effect on fluid condition.
- Safety systems: surface safety control systems; relief valves; pressure ratings; API recommended practices.
- Flowlines, manifolds and gathering systems: material selection, pressure drop considerations, line sizing, corrosion, noise and erosion concerns, full wellstream production, two and three phase fluid flow, pigging, slugs, foam and emulsions.
- Mechanical equipment: Pumps, compressors, heaters, sour and acid gas treating, pressured vessels, storage facilities and other surface and subsurface treating/fluid handling equipment.
- Gas separation / treating: two and three phase separation, free water removal, treatment of emulsions, hydrate prevention and treatment, vapor recovery, gas conditioning for sales, injection or field usage.
- Oil / water separation and treatment: two and three phase separation, emulsion breaking, asphaltenes, solids control, removal of residual oil-in-water and water-in-oil to meet pipeline specifications or injection / disposal requirements, hydrocyclones and new water / oil treating equipment.
- Fluid measurement and instrumentation: Liquid and gas metering using positive displacement meters, orifices, sonic meters, mass measurement meters, three phase flow measurement and new metering devices.
- Acid gas treatment: field handling and treatment of sour and acid gases, safety considerations, API standards.
- Corrosion: fundamental principles; detection, prevention and treatment.
- Treating facility innovations: up-to-date description of new equipment for handling high pressure/temperature, three phase flow from subsea and remote locations.