Many oil production processes present a significant challenge to oil and water treating equipment design and operations. The nature of crude oil emulsions changes continuously as the producing field depletes and conditions change with time.
By the end of this course delegates will be able to:
- Know about oil treatment basic concept
- Be familiar with desalting and dehydration theories and practices
- Know about dehydration equipments
- Be familiar with emulsion treating
- Be familiar with separation principles and theory
- How to size, select, specify, operate, maintain, test and trouble-shoot surface equipment used in gas/oil/water facilities such as separators, heater treaters, wash tanks, gun-barrels, storage tanks, pumps, ACT units and produced water disposal and injection equipment
- Safety procedure for isolation
- Tag out and lock out
- Prepare for shutdown and start up the unit
- How to evaluate and choose the correct process for a given situation
Oil Treatment Basic Concept
- Dehydration
- Desalting
- Water solubility
- Viscosity
- Emulsion
Overview of Desalting and Dehydration
- Salt contamination
- Measurement of salt related parameters
- Desalting systems schemes
- Electric field on desalting vessels (grid ) and the effect of this grid for processing
Dehydration Equipment
- Vertical treater
- Types and components
- Horizontal treaters
- Types and components
- Electrostatic coalescers
- Dehydration performance factors
- Design procedures
Emulsion Treating
- Theory
- Stabilization
- Destabilization
- De-emulsifier
- Test nurture and formation of emulsions
- Factors affecting emulsion stability viscosity water percentage
- Droplet size in emulsions
- Emulsion breaking
- Gravity settling
- Emulsion treating methods
- Emulsion treating equipment
- FWKO’s
- Gun-barrels
- Wash Tanks with external gas boots
- Emulsion treating equipment sizing
- Practical design of an oil treating system
Chemical Reaction
Deformer
Scale Habiter
Heating Reaction
Separation
- Separator design
- Principles of separation
- Fundamentals
- Separator construction
- Factors affecting separation
- Gas-liquid separation
- Vessel operation
- Vessel internals
- Separator operation considerations
- Liquid-liquid separation
- Two-phase sizing
- Three-phase sizing
- ASME Code
Surface Facilities Operation Engineers, MGC Supervisors and Key Personnel, Production Chemistry Engineers, Flow Assurance Engineers, Surface Facilities Engineers, Production Engineers.