Surface Facilities for Oil and Gas Handling

ABOUT THE COURSE :This course is designed to teach students about the process of separating crude oil and natural gas into their individual components at surface facilities. The extracted water and oil byproduct also need to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way. Throughout the course, students will learn the fundamental principles of separating oil, gas, water, and sand, as well as the technologies and mechanical aspects of the facilities used in the industry. The course will equip students with the knowledge needed to safely handle and dispose of oil and gas byproducts, while also meeting industry standards and regulations.INTENDED AUDIENCE : UG/PG students in Petroleum, Mechanical and Chemical engineering students.PREREQUISITES : Concept of petroleum drilling, completion and production along with the basic engineering and applied mathematics.INDUSTRY SUPPORT : ONGC, Upstream, Baker Hughes, O&G companies.

Week 1:Introduction to drilling, completion, production, surface facilities, fluid properties and units.
Week 2:Oil, water, sand and gas separation, coalescence, coalescing media, electrostatic coalescers. Settling.
Week 3:Two-phase separators, vertical and horizontal separators, separator sizing.
Week 4:Three-phase separators, Oil and water separation, vessel internals, emulsion, heater treater.
Week 5:Water-in-oil and oil-in-water separation, droplet size, separator sizing calculations.
Week 6:Crude oil treating equipment, heater treater, droplet size, sizing calculations.
Week 7:Produced water treating system, treating equipment, hydro-cyclone.
Week 8:Natural gas dehydration, glycol process, natural gas sweetening, amine process, desalting.
Week 9:Storage facilities, metering systems, sampling, evaporative emissions, strategic storage.
Week 10:Mechanism of heat transfer, process heat duty, heat transfer from a fire-tube, heat exchangers- types, sizing.
Week 11:Pressure vessel design, wall thickness, valves, fittings, and piping
Week 12:Compressors and pumps on the surface facilities, internal combustion engines.