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    1. NExT
    2. Petrotechnical
    3. The Pipeline Transportation of Produced Hydrocarbons

    The Pipeline Transportation of Produced Hydrocarbons

    • Skill
    • 5 Days
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      • Average client rating (based on 53 attendee reviews)

    This intermediate course develops practical fluency in moving produced hydrocarbons—from light crudes to heavy and extra-heavy oils—through gathering systems and transmission pipelines with safe, reliable, and energy-efficient operation. Framed around flow-assurance challenges and cost reduction, the program connects fluid properties and rheology to hydraulics, pressure-loss/energy calculations, and field-proven transport strategies (mechanical, chemical, and thermal). Participants compare pseudo–single-phase and multiphase methods, evaluate sand-settling risks, and select optimization levers (surfactants, diluents, heating, operating envelopes) that reduce pump/compressor duty while maintaining throughput. Daily software demonstrations and exercises reinforce theory with hands-on prediction of pressure loss, energy requirements, and operating scenarios.

    Surface facilities production engineer, surface facilities design engineer, Operation engineer

    • Factors influencing the energy requirement for transporting oil through pipelines
    • Things that are in our control and relevant to process optimization
    • Oil transportation and gathering systems
    • Elementary nodal analysis
    • Heavy and extra heavy oil properties
    • Practical chemical and mechanical options for transporting oils
    • Relevant rheological principles supporting pipeline pressure loss and energy consumption calculations
    • Scaling issues
    • Physics of sand settling and engineering implications
    • Appropriate fluid mechanics and the physics of pipeline hydraulics
    • Pressure loss calculation methodologies
    • Surfactant and diluent based methodologies
    • Thermal methods
    • Methods suitable for multiphase flow calculations
    • Relevant literature

    Basic knowledge of production surface facilities

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