This course will provide the basic knowledge required for understanding processes and operating issues common to gas processing facilities. Course content is customizable to client needs.
Designed For:
Facility operators who require a working knowledge of the various processes used in production fluid conditioning and processing, including the common operational difficulties that may arise and operational tactics used to resolve them. Also suitable for maintenance technicians, supervisors, and managers, as well as other non-engineering personnel who would benefit in an understanding of gas processing techniques that can be applied to their daily work activities.
You Will Learn:
- About the effects of produced fluid compositions (oil/gas/water) on facility operation
- About separation, conditioning, and processing operations to meet product specifications on oil, gas, and produced water streams for disposal/re-use
- How to operate facilities to minimize operating costs
- How to apply course material to troubleshooting equipment and unit operations
Course Content:
- Basic chemistry and physical principles related to hydrocarbons
- Quick overview of gas processing
- Phase behaviour fundamentals
- Mass transfer operations
- Amine gas sweetening
- Water-hydrocarbon behaviour, including hydrate formation
- TEG gas dehydration
- Solid bed adsorbers
- Mechanical refrigeration
- Gas expansion NGL recovery (turbo expanders and Joule-Thompson effect)
- NGL stabilization and fractionation
- Claus sulfur recovery
