Course Title:
Surface Facilities Design
Discipline: Production
Level: Basic-Intermediate
Duration: 5 Days
Instructor: Dr. Boyun Guo
About the course:
This 5-day course consists of lectures and hand-on exercises to perform designing
of gathering system, fluid treatment, transportation, measurements and storage
using computer software. Starting from an introduction to the natural gas and oil
physics characteristics, the lectures provide fundamentals to industry personnel
working indirectly with surface facility systems and equipment. The course is
equally ideal for engineers-in-training or technical professionals from different
specialist disciplines who wish to gain additional insights into surface facilities
systems. The course provides an overview of the factors which influence the
efficiency of surface facilities and a fundamental explanation of the most
commonly used equipment and operations. Technical explanations of common
practices are given, along with trouble shooting hints, strategies for getting
smooth operation of equipment. A complete set of course materials and computer
programs are provided.
Audience:
Production Engineers, Reservoir Engineers
Agenda:
Day 1
1. OIL AND GAS PROPERTIES
- Oil Properties

Solution Gas Ratio

Oil Formation Volume Factor

Oil API Gravity

Oil Density

Oil Viscosity
- Gas Properties

Gas Specific Gravity

Gas Pseudo-Critical Pressure

Gas Pseudo-Critical Temperature

Gas Compressibility Factor

Gas Density

Gas Viscosity

Real Gas Pseudo-Pressure
2. WELL DELIVERABILITY
- Deliverability of Oil Wells

Inflow Performance Relationship (IPR)

Tubing Performance Relationship (TPR)

Nodal Analysis of Oil Wells
- Deliverability of Gas Wells

Gas Well IPR

Gas Well TPR

Nodal Analysis of Gas Wells

Back-Pressure Testing
Day 2
3. OIL AND GAS GATHERING SYSTEMS
- Production Control with Wellhead Chokes

Oil Wellhead Choke Performance

Gas Wellhead Choke Performance

Oil Flow Lines

Gas Flow Lines
- Gas-Liquid Separation

Horizontal vs. Vertical Separators

Selection of Horizontal Separators

Selection of Vertical Separators

Spherical Separators

Gas-Oil-Water Separators

Day 3
4. OIL AND GAS TREATMENT
- Gas Hydrates Forming Conditions

Water Contents in Natural Gas

Permissible Expansion
- Gas Dehydration Systems

Adsorption Dehydrators

Absorption Dehydrators

Design Example
- Systems for Removal of CO2 and H2S
Day 4
5. OIL AND GAS TRANSPORTATION
- Pumps and Compressors

Reciprocating Pumps

Centrifugal Pumps

Reciprocating Compressors

Centrifugal Compressors
- Pipelines

Piping Systems

Pressure Ratings

Flow Capacity

Pipe Sizing

Pipe Wall Thickness Design

Pipeline Modification

Hydrate Control

Pipeline Pigging
Day 5
6. MEASUREMENTS OF OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION RATES
- Liquid Production Rate Measurements
- Gas Metering and Data Correction
7. OIL AND GAS STORAGE SYSTEMS
- Oil Flash Point
- Gas Ignition Point
- Facilities Safety Systems
- Safety Systems Design