SURFACE PRODUCTION OPERATIONS

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UNIT-I
The production facility: Various types of facilities
Process selection: Controlling the process-Operation of a control valve: Pressure control- Level
control- Temperature control- Flow Control- Basic system configuration: Wellhead and
manifold- Separation- initial separation pressure- Stage Separation, Selection of Stages, Process
flow sheet- Oil treating and storage- Lease automatic custody transfer- Water treating –
Compressors- Gas dehydration- Well testing- Gas lift- Offshore platform considerations.
UNIT-II
Two phase oil and gas separation: Functional sections of a gas-liquid separator- Inlet diverter
section- Liquid collection section- Gravity settling section- Mist extractor section- Equipment
description of different separators- Scrubbers- Slug catchers- Selection considerations- Vessel
internals- Mist extractors- Potential operating problems-Design of Two Phase Separators.
UNIT-III
Three phase oil and water separation: Equipment description- Horizontal separators-
Derivation of equation- Free-water knockout- Flow splitter- Horizontal three-phase separator
with a liquid “Boot”-Vertical separator- Selection considerations- Vessel internals- Coalescing
plates- Turbulent flow coalescers and potential operating problems-Design of Three phase
Separators.
UNIT-IV
Crude oil treating: Equipment description of various treaters and heaters- Indirect and fired
heaters- Waste heat recovery- Heater sizing- Vertical heater-treaters- Coalescing media-
Horizontal heater treaters- Electrostatic heater-treaters- Oil dehydrators- Emulsion treating
theory- Age of the emulsion- Agitation- Emulsifying agents- Demulsifiers- Field optimization-
Changing the demulsifier- Demulsifier troubleshooting- Emulsion treating methods- General
considerations- Chemical addition- Amount of chemical- Bottle test considerations- Chemical selection-Design of crude oil treaters.
UNIT-V
Oil desalting systems: Oil desalting systems-Equipment description of desalters- Mixing
equipment- Globe valves- Spray nozzles- Static mixers- Process description- Single stage desalting- Two stage desalting.
UNIT-VI
Produced water treating systems: Disposal standards- offshore & onshore operations-
Characteristics of produced water- Scale removal- Controlling scale using chemical inhibitors-
Sand and other suspended solids- Dissolved gases- Oil in water emulsions- Dissolved oil
concentrations- Dispersed oil- Toxicants- Gravity separation- Coalescence- Dispersion-
Flotation- Filtration- Equipment description-Skim tanks and vessels- Types of configurations-
Pressure vs atmospheric vessels- Retention time and performance considerations-Design of Produced Water Treating Systems.

📚TEXT BOOKS(click on links to download):

1. Surface Production Operations, Ken Arnold & Maurice Stewart, Vol. 1 & 2 3
rd
edition,
Gulf Professional Publishing, 2008.
   📘 Volume 1 3rd edition 💾15.4mb
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   📘 Volume 2 3rd edition(coming soon)

2.📘 Petroleum and Gas Field Processing, H.K.Abdel-Aal and Mohamed Aggour and M.A.
Fahim, Marcel Dekkar Inc., 2003.
   📖 First page


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