Oil & Gas Processing Facilities for Operations & Maintenance - OT-1
This course will provide the basic knowledge required for understanding processes and operating issues common to oil and gas processing facilities. See Course Content tab for customized content for each location.
Production and processing operations and maintenance technicians, supervisors and managers, as well as other non-engineering personnel requiring a broad introduction to production and processing facilities, including the separation, conditioning and disposition of produced oil, gas and water; including the common operational difficulties that may arise, as well as the operational tactics used to resolve them.
You will Learn:
- About the effects of produced fluid (OGW) compositions on facility design and operation
- About various separation and conditioning processes for meeting specifications on Oil, Gas and Produced Water streams
- How to determine the water vapor content of produced natural gas
- How to recognize problems and dangers of hydrate formation
- About methods and issues in hydrate prevention/inhibition
Course Content:
- Produced Hydrocarbon Fluids
- Process Drawings
- Production Facility Operations
- Basic Physical Principles
- Oil and Condensate Processing
- Produced Water Treating
- Gas Conditioning and Processing
- Auxiliary Systems (Gas Lift, Sea Water Treating)
- STAVANGER / ABERDEEN – Typical North Sea oil and gas producing operations, produced water treating, seawater treating, other offshore topics of general interest
- BRISBANE – Gas processing, introduction to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processes
- MIDLAND – Gas conditioning and processing, sour gas treating, sulfur recovery
- PITTSBURGH – Mechanical refrigeration principles and equipment, NGL fractionation and cryogenic NGL recovery
