Many crude oil production processes present a significant challenge to crude oil treating equipment design and operations.  The nature of crude oil emulsions changes continuously as the producing field depletes and conditions change with time.  These changes create the need to consider future performance when designing treatment systems and those changes require an understanding of scale and upscaling.

This course will explore all the theories, practical exercises and technologies involved in crude oil and treatment, starting with emulsion theory formation, stabilization and the mechanism, through the technology to destabilize and separate water from oil.  After the oil has been dehydrated, some oil will still not meet contract specifications due to the amount of salt present.  For this reason, the course will also discuss desalting technologies and processes needed to achieve the required oil specifications. 

Upon successful completion of this course, the delegates will be able to:

• Understand the various the various types of crude oil and associated emulsions, their problems and how to treat them.
• Understand the process of selecting the best treatment chemicals and how to optimize the treatment process
• Understand the technologies and processes for a typical oilfield, operating center concepts, and production fluid treatment objectives
• Understand the processes, design, and potential operation problems
• Learn about the oil treatment basics
• Learn the dehydration technologies and processes, desalting, Stoke’s Law of Settling, variable affecting crude oil dehydration, and electrostatic theory

This course is intended for all integrity and surface facilities operation engineers, production chemistry engineers, production engineers, flow assurance engineers, production engineers, field operation personnel, technicians, operators in oil field.

Day 1:

Oilfield Processing, Production Fluid Separation, and Emulsion 

• Typical oilfield processing
• Production fluid separation
• Potential operation problems
• Emulsion

Day 2:

Oil Treatment Basics, Treaters, and Dehydration Performance Factors 

• Oil treatment basics
• Oil dehydration technologies and processes
• Dehydration performance factors

Day 3:

Crude Oil Desalting 

• Main problems of salty crude oil
• Desalters: equipment and technology
• Operation and design considerations
• Life cycle costing for selection considerations

Day 4:

Crude Oil & Water Treatment

• Oil Chemistry
• Crude of types
• Oil and gas production and separation process
• Emulsions and their formation
• Implications of Emulsion
• Selecting treatment chemicals
• The laboratory tests & Oil export specifications
• Other treatment chemicals

Corrosion Control

• The origin of corrosion
• Types of Corrosion
• Corrosion prevention techniques

Day 5:

• Chemical option
• Impress current
• Cathodic protection
• Corrosion monitoring techniques
• Development a corrosion control plan

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:

·         (30%) Based on Case Studies

·         (30%) Techniques 

·         (30%) Role Play

·         (10%) Concepts

·         Pre-test and Post-test

·         Variety of Learning Methods

·         Lectures

·         Case Studies and Self Questionaires

·         Group Work

·         Discussion

·         Presentation

This rate includes participant’s manual, Hand-Outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.

Daily Course Timings:

    08:00 - 08:20       Morning Coffee / Tea

    08:20 - 10:00       First Session

    10:00 - 10:20       Coffee / Tea / Snacks

    10:20 - 12:20       Second Session

    12:20 - 13:30       Lunch Break & Prayer Break

    13:30 - 15:00       Last Session