Oil Production and Processing Facilities: Operations and Management

Introduction:

This course on oil production and processing facilities provides a comprehensive overview of the entire oil and gas production cycle, from exploration to downstream marketing. It covers both onshore and offshore operations, including surface facilities and processes critical for the production and treatment of oil and gas.

Participants will gain insights into various production and handling equipment, as well as emerging technologies in oil and gas processing. The course addresses practical aspects such as emulsification, solids disposal, and gas treatment, and includes an overview of produced water treatment and water injection systems.

Objectives:

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the formation and chemical characteristics of oil and gas.
• Comprehend the challenges associated with offshore operations, horizontal drilling, and safety.
• Learn methods and techniques for exploring, drilling, producing, treating, and transporting oil and gas.
• Familiarize themselves with upstream, midstream, and downstream activities in the oil and gas industry.
• Apply knowledge of oil and gas treatment technologies, including produced water treatment.
• Understand crude oil refining processes and their impact on refinery complexity and profitability.
• Utilize information on gas sweetening and physical solvent unit troubleshooting.

Training Methodology:

• Interactive lectures
• Case studies
• Hands-on simulations
• Group discussions
• Equipment demonstrations
• Site visits
• Problem-solving exercises
• Technical workshops

Course Outline:

Unit 1: The Oil and Gas Production Life Cycle

• Formation of fossil fuels and oil reserves
• Petroleum geology and crude oil reserves: Onshore/offshore
• Types of wells and reservoirs
• Exploration operations: Exploration wells, directional drilling, offshore drilling, well testing and completion, well stimulation and workover

Unit 2: Activities Related to Oil and Gas Management

• Fossil fuel and petroleum petrochemistry
• Hydrocarbons physical properties
• Oil gathering and separation
• On-site surface processing
• Produced water management
• Liquid collapse control and recovery
• Acid gas injection
• Oil recovery methods

Unit 3: Reaction Engineering and Processes

• Contaminants and safety measures
• Process selection criteria
• Hydrates and natural gas dehydration
• Gas sweetening with amines
• Alkanolamine process classification
• Acid gas removal system selection
• Process flow charts
• Design criteria and operational issues

Unit 4: Unit Operations in Gas Plants

• Physical operations: Selexol, Fluor, Rectisol, Purisol
• Process types: Hot potassium carbonate, Benfield, Catacarb
• High purity methods: Sulfinol, HiPure
• Batch treatments: Chemsweet, Sulfa-check, Sulfatreat, Puraspec, Molecular sieve
• Hydro-iron processes: LO-CAT, SulFerox
• Liquid hydrocarbon treatment facilities

Unit 5: Downstream

• Downstream operations in the oil and gas sector
• Storage and transportation of oil
• Preparing crude oil for refining
• Oil refining products and fractions processing
• Petrochemical sector
• Pricing of oil and gas
• World energy review and statistics