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Modern Surface Production Operations and Facilities in the Oil and Gas Industry

Introduction

Modern Surface Production Operations and Facilities in the Oil and Gas Industry

Course Objectives

Some of the objectives of this course include equipping the participants with the knowledge to:

• Review different parts of surface flowing well scenarios with the main aim of optimising the production process
• Promote safe and hazard free production process
• Understand and describe with great understanding the basic layout of any existing upstream producing facility and the main aim of its major equipment
• Describe a detailed facility design by clearly stating and giving the general outline requirements for treating and separating produced oil
• Have the ability to plan, design, and run an oversee routine operations maintenance work
• Carefully control site activities and control while maintaining safe operations by using good work practices
• Recognise and understand what to watch for in production operations practice

Who Should Attend?

• Reservoir engineer
• Production operators
• Process engineers
• Planning engineers
• Asset manager
• Production engineers
• Field production personnel

Course Outline

Module 1: Mechanical design of pressure equipment

• Design main considerations
  • Determining vessels wall thickness
  • Design temperature
  • Corrosion considerations
  • Design pressure
  • Allowable stress
• Pressure equipment specifications
  • Pressure relief equipment
  • Shop drawings
  • Nozzles
  • Corrosion protection
  • Case study

Module 2: System configuration

• Separation
  • Field with varying flowing tubing pressures
  • Two-phase separators
  • Initial separation pressure
  • Three-phase separators
  • Operating pressure
  • Selection of stages
• Wellhead and manifolds
• Gas dehydration
• Pumps
• Oil treating and storage
• Compressors
• Process flowsheet
• Offshore platforms
  • Equipment configurations
  • Modular construction

Module 3: Principles in oil and gas surface production

• Physical properties
  • Molecular weight calculations
  • Apparent weight calculations
  • Case studies
  • Dry air molecular and apparent weight determination
  • Gas specific gravity and density
  • Getting volume of 1lb mole of the natural gas stream
• Basic oil-field chemistry
  • Elements, compounds, and mixtures
  • Atomic and molecular weights
• Hydrocarbon naming nomenclature
• Known liquid density and specific density
• Phase behaviour
• Multicomponent system
• Retrograde systems
• System components
• Lean gas systems
• Wet gas reservoir
• Dry gas reservoir

Module 4: Three-phase oil and water separation

• Horizontal separators
• Liquid “boot” horizontal separators
• Free-water knockout
• Vertical separators
• Coalescing plates
• Turbulent coalescers flow
• Design theory
• Oil-water settling
• Gas separation
• Retention time
• Water droplet size in oil

Module 5: Separator design

• Hall-full sizing in horizontal separators
• Gas capacity constraints
• Retention time constraints
• Oil droplets separation from water
• Seam-to-seam length
• Gas capacity constraint
• Retention time constraint
• Settling equation constraint

Module 6: Surface production operations

• Operations integration
• Tools supporting operations management
• Metering systems
• Introduction to surface production operations
• Overview of Well, reservoir & facility management process
• HCA applications
• Deferment coding
• Measurements
• General principles of deferment administration
• Principles of production allocation & reconciliation
• Populating and verification/validating process of data

Module 7: Crude oil stabilisation

• Principles of crude oil stabilisation
• Flash calculations
• Equilibrium considerations
• Stabiliser with reflux
• Cold-feed stabiliser
• Liquid hydrocarbon stabiliser
• Oil heater-treaters
• Trays and packing
  • Packing
  • Trays
  • Trays or packing
• Stabiliser reboilers
• Stabiliser feed cooler
• Stabiliser-heater

Module 8: Produced water treatment

• Disposal standards and requirement
  • Onshore disposal
  • Offshore disposal
• Scale removal
• Characteristics of produced water
  • Dissolved solids
  • Calcium carbonate
  • Iron sulphide
  • Barium and strontium sulphate
• Dispersion
• Gravity separation
• Floatation
• Filtration
• Skimmer sizing

Module 9: Injection system

• Introduction
• Solid removal techniques
  • Suspended solids removal
  • Gravity settling
  • Flotation units
  • Filtration
  • Diffusional interception
• Filter types
  • Surface media
  • Nonfixed-pore structure media
• Removal rating
  • Beta rating system
  • Nominal ratings
  • Absolute rating
• How to choose the proper filter
  • Pressure drops
  • Void volume
  • Coagulants and flocculation
  • Temperature
  • Nature of fluid
• Diatomaceous earth filters
• Vertical cylindrical gravity settlers

Module 10: Integrated production

• Integrated production workflow
• Business objectives for integrated production
• General and specific principles of production
• Strategy in generating robust plan linked to the business