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    3. Surface Facility Production Operations-RILS

    Surface Facility Production Operations-RILS

    • Foundation
    • 10 Days
    • Remote Instructor Led SeriesRemote Instructor Led Series
      • Average client rating (based on 27 attendee reviews)

    This remote, live instructor-led program builds a practical, end-to-end understanding of surface production operations—from the wellhead to custody transfer—tailored for distributed teams. Across ten focused, four-hour sessions, participants learn the principles governing production-fluid behavior and the design/operation of the equipment and processes used to condition, treat, measure, and transport oil, gas, and water. The series blends short lectures with worked examples, quizzes, and daily exercises so learners can design operating envelopes, troubleshoot upsets, and make confident field decisions in real time. Topics span production fluids and properties; gathering systems and manifolds; single- and multiphase flow and its link to corrosion; pigging; separation; oil treatment (dehydration, desalting, stabilization); produced-water treatment; gas sweetening/dehydration and dew-point control; and rotating equipment for pumping and compression. A pre-test benchmarks starting points and a final test confirms competency gains.
    • Pre-test
    • Introduction
    • Production Systems Analysis
    • Subsurface-surface Integrated system
    • Operational data acquisitions
    • Production optimization process
    • Production processing facilities

    • Production fluids properties (Oil, gas, and water)
      • Solubility ratio
      • Oil volumetric factor
      • Viscosity
      • Density
      • GOR
      • Exercises on properties estimations


    • Manifolds and gathering system
      • Function of the gathering system
      • Terminology
      • Gathering system arrangement
    • Production manifold
      • Conventional 
      • Multi selector valve
      • Subsea manifold
      • Onshore and offshore configurations
    • Single phase flow: Hydraulic analysis
      • Single gas phase
      • Single liquid phase

    • Multiphase flow
      • Component and definitions
      • Multiphase flow pattern
      • Pressure drop correlations
      • Predictions
      • Effect of the flow pattern on pipeline corrosion
    • Slug flow 
      • Formation methods
      • Prediction
      • Consequences
    • Pigging
      • Function
      • How to select a pig
      • Operations
      • Smart pig
    • Quiz and exercises

    • Production fluids Separation
      • Principle of separations
      • Type of separations
      • Types of separators
      • Separator internal type and function
      • Separation design
      • Separator operations
      • Separators problems and troubleshooting
      • Quiz and exercises

    • Oil treatment
      • Dehydration
        • Emulsion theory
        • Destabilization of W/O emulsions
      • Dehydration equipment
      • Desalting
        • Why to desalt the crude oil
        • Crude oil desalting principle
        • Equipment used in desalting
        • Sages of desalting and requirements
      • Stabilization
        • Why to stabilize crude oil
        • Process used in the stabilization
        • Problems and troubleshoot stabilization
      • Quiz and exercises

    • Water Treatment
      • Why to treat the water
      • Produced water characteristics
      • Water treatment specifications
      • Water treatment processes
      • Water treatment equipment and technologies
      • Water treatment operation and monitoring
      • Quiz and exercise


    • Gas Treatment
      • Source of gas
      • Gas composition and contaminants
      • Gas terminologies
      • Gas specifications
      • Hydrate formation issues
      • How to prevent hydrates
    • Gas Sweetening
      • Reason to sweet the gas
      • Gas sweetening processes and technologies
      • Absorption processes and technologies
      • Adsorption processes and technologies
      • Membranes
      • Process selection criteria
      • Operation issues

    • Gas dehydration
      • Why gas should be dehydrated
      • Gas dehydrated processes and technologies
      • Gas dehydration with glycol: technologies and processes
      • Molecular sieve processes and operations
    • Dew point control
      • Why to control HC dew point and water dew point
      • Technologies and processes to control the dew point of the gas
      • Quiz and exercises

    • Pump
      • Centrifugal pumps
        • Types
        • Operation
        • Maintenance
      • Positive displacement pumps
        • Types
        • Operation
        • Maintenance
      • Pump selection criteria
    • Compressor
      • Types of compressor
      • Operation
      • Maintenance
      • Compressor selection criteria
      • Quizzes
    • Final test

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