Course Description
This course presents a basic overview of all typical oilfield treating and processing equipment. Participants should learn not only the purpose of each piece of equipment but how each works. Emphasis is on gaining a basic understanding of the purpose and internal workings of all types of surface facilities and treating equipment. A major goal of this course is to improve communication among all disciplines, the field, and the office. Better communication should enhance operational efficiencies, lower costs and improve production economics.
What Do Participants Learn?
- A practical understanding of all the fundamental field treating facilities: what they are, why they are needed, how they work
- The properties and behavior of crude oil and natural gas that govern production operations
- Field processes for treating and conditioning full well stream production for sales or final disposition
- The basics of oilfield corrosion prevention, detection, and treatment Internal workings of separators, pumps, compressors, valves, dehydrators, acid gas treatment towers, and other treating equipment
- A wide range of produced fluid measurement and metering devices
- A description of treating equipment whether located on the surface, offshore platform, or sea floor
Who Should Attend?
- All field, service, support, and supervisory personnel having interaction with Facilities Engineers and desiring to gain an awareness level understanding of the field processing of production fluids.
- This course is excellent for cross-training and delivers an understanding of all the fundamental field treating facilities.
What Will the Learning Experience Include?
Phase: 1
Introduce
- Comprehensive pre-program activities include:
- Web-based information forms & surveys completed by attendee.
- Direct consultation with the attendee about the expectations.
- During the training, participants engage in data, activities, and conversations that lead to insight and knowledge.
- Participants learn from expert trainers who have both academic and business experiences.
- Highly applicable training content & instructive activities for adding depth to training topics.
- **A half-day site visit for integrating the experience & plan next steps. Opportunities to provide connections, ideas & support.
Phase: 2
Explore & Practice
Phase: 3
Apply
- Apply & sustain the learning experience by using this ongoing support:
- To ensure participant has new skills or behavior progress.
- Optional, fee-based mentoring & coaching with the trainer.
- Training materials & additional documents (e-books, pdf files, presentations and articles)
- Evaluate your training experience by giving us feedbacks and help us to reach our organizational goals.
- Participant's Evaluation
- Trainer's Evaluation
Phase: 4
EVALUATE
Section One:
- Properties of fluids at surface
- Flowlines, piping, gathering systems; solids and liquid limits Oil - water- gas - solids - contaminants
- Separation and treatment 2-3 phase separators, free water knockouts, centrifugal, filter
- Storage tanks, gun barrels, pressure/vacuum relief, flame arrestors
- Stabilizers Foams, emulsions, paraffins, asphaltenes, hydrates, salts
- Dehydrators
- Water treaters: SP packs, plate interceptors, gas floatation, coalescers, hydrocyclones, membranes
- Acid gas treatment: coatings, closed system, chemicals, solvents, conversion; stress cracking
- Valves: all types; regulators
- Pumps/Compressors: centrifugal, positive displacement, rotary, reciprocating, ejectors
- Metering: orifice, head, turbine, and others
- Corrosion/Scales: inhibition and treatment