The emphasis of this oil and gas short course is on production optimization – from the reservoir to the wellhead. Both onshore and offshore facilities will be discussed. Solution gas handling processes and equipment will be discussed as well, though at a relatively high level. In addition to the engineering aspects of oil production facilities, practical operating problems will also be covered including emulsion treatment, sand handling, dealing with wax and asphaltenes, etc. .

1. Well inflow performance and its impact on processing facilities

2. About oil, gas, and water compositions and properties needed for equipment selection and sizing

3. How to select and evaluate processes and equipment used to meet sales or disposal specifications

4. How to apply physical and thermodynamic property correlations and principles to the design and evaluation of oil production and processing facilities

5. How to perform equipment sizing calculations for major production facility separation equipment

6. How to evaluate processing configurations for different applications

7. How to recognize and develop solutions to operating problems in oil/water processing facilities

1.      Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations;

2.      Fluid properties and phase behaviour;

3.      Overview of artificial lift;

4.      Processing configurations; Phase separation of gas, oil, and water;

5.      Emulsions; Sand, wax, and asphaltenes; Oil treating; Field desalting;

6.      Crude stabilization and sweetening;

7.      Crude oil storage and vapour recovery;

8.      Measurement and transportation of crude oil;

9.      Produced water treating; Compressors;

10.   Water injection systems;

11.   Relief and flare systems;

12.   Overview of solution gas processing (Sweetening, Dehydration, NGL Recovery)

Engineers (well completion engineer, production engineers, reservoir engineer and field engineer), and well-site geologist, and other staffs from an operating and/or service and/or consultant and/or engineering company involved in petroleum production operation process.