Advanced Oil & Gas Field Processing - IFP Training Certificate

Advanced Certificate
ADV-EN-P

Who should attend?

  • This course aims to deepen understanding of Oil & Gas field processing techniques.
Public :
  • Engineers involved in operating or designing Oil & Gas field processing facilities.

Level :Skilled

Prerequisite :
  • Engineer degree or equivalent experience in Oil & Gas industry.

Course Content

  • Module 1: THERMODYNAMICS APPLIED TO WELL EFFLUENT PROCESSING - Duration : 5 Days

      • Well effluent.
      • Ideal and real fluid behavior.
      • Liquid-vapor equilibrium of pure substances:
      • Vapor pressure curves.
      • Enthalpy diagrams.
      • PRO/II™ simulation exercises.
      • Liquid-vapor equilibrium of mixtures - Mixture separation processes:
      • Phase envelopes.
      • Flash, distillation, absorption, stripping.
      • PRO/II™ simulation exercises.
      • Heat transfer, heat balance and thermal equipment.
  • Module 2: OIL & WATER TREATMENT - Duration : 5 Days

      • Need for field processing of oil - Quality requirements.
      • Crude oil treatment:
      • Crude stabilization.
      • Crude dehydration.
      • Acid crude sweetening.
      • Crude oil treatment process simulation using PRO/II™.
      • Storage tanks: technology, operations and maintenance.
      • Production water treatment:
      • Regulation for disposal.
      • Main treatments.
      • Injection water treatment:
      • Quality requirements.
      • Main treatments.
  • Module 3: GAS PROCESSING & CONDITIONING - Duration : 5 Days

      • Need for field processing of gas - Quality requirements.
      • Gas processing:
      • Gas dehydration.
      • Gas sweetening.
      • NGL extraction.
      • Simulation of a gas processing chain using PRO/II™.
      • Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).

Learning Objectives

  • Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
  • Understand main thermodynamic transformations involved in Oil & Gas processing,
  • Grasp a comprehensive picture of Oil & Gas processing facilities,
  • Simulate main Oil & Gas facilities,
  • Master operating variables and conditions of processing facilities.

Ways & Means

  • Highly interactive training with industry-specialist lecturers.
  • Numerous applications and illustrations.
  • Extensive practice of PRO/II™ process simulation software: a case study will be developed all along these 3 weeks (simulation of a crude oil and associated gas treatment process).

Learning assessment

  • Assessment by test at the end of each module.

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Additional information :This course is a combination of three separate modules. Refer to next pages for detailed content.

Coordinator :IFP Training trainer (permanent or contracted) having a good expertise and/or experience of the related topics, trained to adult teaching methods, and whose competencies are kept up-to-date.

To French entities : IFP Training is referenced to DataDock ; you may contact your OPCO about potential funding. Please contact our disabled persons referent to check the accessibility of this training program : referent.handicap@ifptraining.com