E-534 - Oil & Gas Process Simulation

5 days

PROC/SIMULGB

Sessions

Dates	Location	Tuition	Register
Dec 10 - 14, 2018	Rueil	3,570 €	Online By email

Who should attend?

Audience

- Professionals involved or interested in Oil & Gas field treatment processes: operation or process personnel, engineering staff, R&D engineers…

Level

This course provides a comprehensive knowledge of all field treatments, and develops practical skills in simulation of Oil & Gas treatment processes using the software HYSYS™ and PRO/II™.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
understand Oil & Gas processing operations: flash separation, compression, expansion, heating or cooling, mixing, pumping, etc.,
grasp common Oil & Gas processing schemes and operating parameters,
build a Process Flow Diagram (PFD) and optimize existing processing schemes,
simulate an industrial unit at different operating stages,
extract thermodynamics data from the simulation software database (phase envelope, critical point parameters, hydrate formation risk area, different physical properties…).

Course Content

SOFTWARE PRESENTATION

0.25 day

Presentation of the different pieces of equipment: pumps, compressors, heat exchangers, turbines, turbo expanders, separators, valves, pipes.
Choice of the thermodynamic model: PR, SRK…
Definition of components, pseudo-components, heavy-cuts.

1 day

Main field treatments for crude oils: stabilization, sweetening, desalting and dehydration, associated gas compression and treatment.
Study of an offshore crude oil field treatment unit, based on Multiple Stage Separation (MSS).
Influence of the number of separators on the quality (API°, RVP…) and quantity of stabilized oil.
Optimization of the operating parameters: pressures and temperatures of separators, suction and discharge condition of compressors, pumping needs for export by pipe.
Identification and adjustment of the controlling parameters.

1 day

Main field treatments for natural gases: dehydration, sweetening, LNG extraction/recovery, compression and export…
Study of an offshore natural gas dehydration, liquids extraction and compression unit.
Optimization of the operating parameters: primary separator operating conditions, dehydration parameters, cooling temperature for a sufficient liquid extraction, compression needs upstream the export pipe.
Identification and adjustment of the controlling parameters.
Analysis of hydrate formation risks.

0.75 day

Simulation of the glycol loop: contactor, flash separator, regenerator (still), circulation pumps, glycol/glycol exchanger.
Adjustment of controlling parameters: dry gas residual moisture content versus purity of lean TEG, moisture flow to be removed versus TEG circulation flow.

0.75 day

Progressive build up of the PFD of a Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) extraction unit.
Three processes are studied:
External refrigeration loop (cryogenic loop).
Joule Thomson expansion valve.
Turbo Expander.
Illustration of the results on phase envelope diagram.

0.75 day

0.5 day

Principle of separation by distillation process and main operating parameters.
Simulation of a LNG fractionation unit using distillation columns.
Characteristics and operating conditions of the main equipment. Specific constraints.

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