The Comprehensive course on Production Operations: Module 2

Objectives

By joining this course participants will develop a very good understanding of the following;

• Transportation of oil and gas
• Design and operation of pipelines
• Gas processing
• Liquid storage tanks
• Different types of separators

Target Audience

• Petroleum engineers
• Production engineers
• Project engineers
• Field Operators
• Chemical engineers
• Production facilities supervisors

Production Operations Outline

The course covers the following topics:

Transportation of oil and gas

• Design and operation of pipelines

Gas processing

• Two-phase separators
• Test separators
• Different separator types
• Stage separators
• Dehydrators
• Gas compressor
• Gas sweetening process
• sulfur recovery from gas
• Condensate separation

Liquid processing

• Oil-water emulsions
• Free-water knockout
• Treating emulsions- gravity separation
• Heating separation
• Chemical treating- vertical treaters and horizontal treaters
• Electrostatic separation- electrostatic treaters
• Safety precautions with treaters

Surface handling of gas, oil, and water

• Underground storage of natural gas,
• Liquid storage tanks
• Liquid pumps
• Vapor recovery from storage tanks
• Equipment associated with liquid storage tanks
• Final water treatment
• Saltwater disposal

Gas potential and gas well design

• Big bore well design for economic and early recovery
• Gas well testing
• Protection formation damage
• Full bore production with a positive impact on reservoir