This course provides a comprehensive understanding of oil and water treatment processes, operation and troubleshooting.
Public :
Engineers involved in operating or designing oil and water field processing facilities.
Level :Skilled
Prerequisite :
To attend Module 1 or engineer degree or equivalent experience in Oil & Gas industry.
Course Content
NEED FOR OIL FIELD PROCESSING - QUALITY REQUIREMENTS
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Duration : 0.25 Day
Constituents raising problems for storage, transport, or crude oil sale.
Different specifications and quality requirements of crude oils.
Necessary treatments to reach these specifications.
Examples of compositions of commercialized crude oils.
CRUDE OIL TREATMENT
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Duration : 2.75 Days
Crude stabilization by Multi Stage Separation (MSS):
Process principle.
Operating parameters: number of separation stages, pressures, heating and cooling needs… - Influence on the quantity and quality (API grade) of the produced oil.
Foaming problems and main available solutions.
Associated gas recompression - Typical associated gas compression schemes.
Applications: practice of separator summary design methods.
PRO/II™ simulation: study of the influence of separation stage number on the performances of a MSS process.
Crude dehydration and desalting:
Emulsion problems.
Main dehydration processes.
Crude oil desalting.
Applications: practice of desalter summary design methods.
Acid crude sweetening (H2S removal):
Cold stripping: origin of stripping gas, need for sweetening of stripping gas.
Hot stripping.
Applications: practice of stripping column summary design methods.
PRO/II™ simulation: simulation of a crude oil stripping units case study.
Case study: simulation of a whole crude oil field treatment plant; study of an offshore crude oil field treatment unit, based on a Multiple Stage Separation (MSS) process scheme; optimization of the operating parameters.
STORAGE EQUIPMENT
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Atmospherics tanks.
Case of floating storage vessels (FSO, FPSO).
Maintenance and operation.
PRODUCTION WATER TREATMENT
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Duration : 0.5 Day
Regulations for disposal.
Main treatments. Operating principle and required performances.
Comparison of the different available techniques. Selection criteria.
Examples of production water treatment block flow diagrams.
INJECTION WATER TREATMENT
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Duration : 1 Day
Reasons for water injection.
Quality requirements and necessary treatments.
Main operating conditions of each treatment and required performances.
Examples of injection water treatment block flow diagrams.
Learning Objectives
Attendees will be able to implement the following skills:
Master oil and water treatment processes, operations and related operating conditions,
Design main equipment used for oil processing,
Troubleshoot main operating problems encountered in oil and water processing and related solutions,
Simulate crude oil treatment processes using the PRO/II™ software.
Ways & Means
Highly interactive training with industry-specialist lecturers.
Numerous applications and illustrations.
Extensive practice of PRO/II™ process simulation software.
Learning assessment
Assessment by test at the end of the course.
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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.
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