This webinar is designed and conducted by Dr. Maurice Stewart on how to design, select, install, operate, and troubleshoot oil and water processing facilities.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
- Develop a “feel” for the important parameters in designing, selecting, specifying, operating and trouble-shooting surface production facilities
- Understand the uncertainties and assumptions inherent in designing and operating the equipment in these systems and the limitations, advantages, and disadvantages associated with their use
- How to size, select, specify, operate, maintain, test and trouble-shoot surface equipment used in gas/oil/water facilities such as separators, heater treaters, wash tanks, gun-barrels, storage tanks, pumps, ACT units and produced water disposal and injection equipment
- How to evaluate and choose the correct process for a given situation
COURSE OUTLINE
Basic Principles
Oilfield chemistry
Basic hydrocarbon chemistry
Physical properties
Phase behavior
Flash Calculations
Overview of Production Processes
Introduction to field facilities
Hydrocarbon reservoirs and reservoir fluid characteristics
Major operational functions
Equipment and facilities
Offshore considerations
Separation
Fundamentals
Separator construction
Factors affecting separation
Gas-liquid separation
Vessel operation
Vessel internals
Separator operation considerations
Liquid-liquid separation
Two-phase sizing
Three-phase sizing
Mechanical design using the ASME Code
Emulsions and Oil Treating
Emulsion theory
Factors affecting emulsion stability
Emulsion treating methods
Emulsion treating equipment
FWKO’s
Gun-barrels
Wash Tanks with external gas boots
Vertical/horizontal heater treaters
Electrostatic heater treaters
Oil Dehydrators and Desalters
Emulsion treating equipment sizing
The practical design of an oil treating system
Water Treating
Basic considerations
Pre-treatment considerations
Upstream equipment considerations
Process considerations
Water treating equipment
API Separators
Skimmer Tanks and Vessels
Plate Separators (Downflow/Upflow/Crossflow)
Free-flow Turbulent Coalescers
Induced Gas Flotation Units (Mechanical/Hydraulic)
Sparger Units
Hydrocyclones
Combination Units
Information required for design
Influent water quality
Equipment selection and performance
Filtration
Solids removal principles
Water injection system treatment steps
Solids removal equipment
Equipment selection and performance
Pumps
Fluid principles and hydraulics
Hydrostatics
Hydrodynamics
NPSH requirements
Power requirements
Pump selection
Measurement
Oil and Water Metering
Accuracy
Positive Displacement Meters
Turbine meters
ACT Unit Components and Operation
Basis of meter proving
Requirements for proving
Process Control and Safety Systems
Process control
Elements of a process control system
Control loops
Automatic control loops
Closed-loop control
Automatic control loops
Control modes
Advanced control
Algorithms
Controller tuning
Control philosophy
Undesirable Events
Webinar Date : To be announced
For more information about this course and in-house training please contact LDI Training at lditrain@singnet.com.sg.