Surface Production Operations Engineering

Level: Intermediate

Upcoming Sessions:

To Be Determined
Please Contact Us at tahmed@mtech.edu for more information
Instructors: Dr. Samuel Osisanya

Designed for:

This course is oriented toward operation and production engineers, and other technical personnel.

Course Overview:

This course focuses on the processes and equipment used to produce oil and gas. The principles governing the flow of oil, gas and water from the wellhead to the storage tanks will be covered. Understanding movement of these fluids will help engineers comprehend the interaction between the various processes and the equipment involved in producing a well at the surface.

Course Content:
  • Introduction to Basic Well Flow Systems and Surface Production facilities
    • Overview of Petroleum Production Engineering
    • Duties of a Field Engineer/Operator and Production Engineer
    • Main and Auxiliary Functions of Production Facilities
    • Types of Production Facilities
    • Basic Production System Configuration
  • Wellhead and Manifold
    • Functions
    • Types of Wellheads (Casing & Tubing Heads)
    • Christmas Trees
    • Chokes
    • Types of Manifolds
  • Oil and Gas Separation
    • Functions
    • Review of Well Fluids and their Characteristics
    • Mechanism of Separation
    • Types of Separators
    • Factors Affecting Choice of Separators
    • Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Separators
    • Stage Separation
    • Separator Design Considerations
    • Problems Associated with the Separator
  • Crude Oil Treatment Systems
    • Emulsion Theory
    • Principles of Emulsion Resolution
    • Resolution Methods of Oil Field Emulsions
    • Emulsion Treating Equipment
    • Treating Equipment Sizing Theory and Design Procedure
    • Produced Water Treatment
  • Crude Oil Metering
    • Stock-Tank Measurement
    • Types of Liquid Meter
    • Metering Assemblies and Meter Proving Systems
    • Pipeline Metering Systems
    • Automatic Quantitative Measurement
  • Gas Metering
    • Principles of Gas Metering
    • Types of Gas Meters
    • Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Gas Meters
      • Orifice Gas Meters
      • Gas Meter Charts
      • Planimetering of Gas Charts
      • Derivation of Orifice Gas Meter Equation
      • Computation of Gas Volume
  • Crude Oil Storage
    • Types of Storage Tanks
    • Advantages and Disadvantages of Various Storage Tanks
    • Tank accessories
    • Tank Farm Operations
  • Surface Production Problems and Solutions – Operational and Environmental