Course Description
More and more oil and natural gas resources are being discovered here and there, and existing fields are being re-evaluated. This leads to an increased number of production projects, thus, increased need for trained staff. New technologies appear every day, and the global oil and gas market continues to develop. This course provides a guide for participants in troubleshooting oil and gas processing facilities.
Course Objectives
- Recognizing trouble when it occurs
- Developing a methodical approach to troubleshooting
- Understanding the basics of root cause analysis
- Examining basic oil treatment methods
- Demonstrating an understanding of Amine sweetening
Who Should Attend?
- Process/Facilities engineers
- Facilities engineering team leaders/supervisors
- Senior facilities operational personnel
Course Details/Schedule
- Typical processing facility block flow diagrams
- System trouble
- Component/Equipment-Specific trouble
- Fundamentals of root cause analysis
- Troubleshooting methodology fundamentals
- Data reconciliation
- Gas - Liquid separators
- Reciprocating compressors
- Amine gas sweetening
- Chemistry of amine gas sweetening
- Design procedures for amine systems
- Design procedures for amine systems
- Glycol dehydration units
- Three-phase separators
- Features
- Advantages
- Flow pattern at separator inlet
- Centrifugal pumps
- Impeller - The Heart of Centrifugal Pumps
- Mechanical Design Aspects
- Oil treating
- Chemical treatment
- Heat treatment
- Electrical treatment
- Gravity separation
- Separation through movement
- Produced water treating systems
- Shell and tube heat exchangers
- Centrifugal compressors
- Molecular sieve dehydration units
- NGL recovery processes
