COURSE OVERVIEW:

This comprehensive course, focusing on Oil Treatment - Stabilization and Sweetening Design, delves deep into the design, optimization, and specification of systems used to stabilize crude oil and condensate and to sweeten sour streams by removing hydrogen sulfide and other contaminants. Participants will interpret, review, and enhance design specifications related to oil treatment, including stabilization columns, flash drums, gas handling systems, and sweetening units, ensuring that product vapor pressure, hydrogen sulfide content, and other quality parameters comply with pipeline, storage, and export specifications. The course addresses process configurations, equipment sizing, thermodynamic considerations, control strategies, and safety aspects. Participants will engage in practical exercises, design reviews, and case studies to apply the concepts learned to real oil treatment facilities.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

After completion of this course, the participants will be able to:

1. Explain the purpose of oil stabilization and sweetening in upstream and midstream oil facilities.
2. Interpret key design specifications and process data for oil treatment, stabilization, and sweetening systems.
3. Describe the thermodynamic principles governing vapor liquid equilibria, Reid vapor pressure, and light end removal in stabilization systems.
4. Evaluate and compare different process configurations for oil stabilization, including flash systems and multistage stabilizer columns.
5. Review and enhance design specifications for stabilizer columns, flash drums, associated heat exchangers, and gas handling systems.
6. Describe the principles and design considerations of sweetening technologies for hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide removal from oil and associated gas.
7. Identify design and operating parameters affecting hydrogen sulfide content, product specifications, and emissions.
8. Define requirements for off gas, flare, and vapor recovery systems associated with stabilization and sweetening facilities.
9. Specify appropriate instrumentation, control schemes, and safety systems for oil treatment units.
10. Analyze operating data to diagnose performance problems in stabilization and sweetening systems and propose design or operational improvements.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

-Process Engineers

-Production and Operations Engineers

-Facilities and Project Engineers involved in oil treatment and export systems

-Operations Supervisors and Technical Support Staff in terminals and processing plants

-Engineering Consultants and EPC Engineers working on oil treatment projects

TRAINING COURSE METHODOLOGY:

A highly interactive combination of lectures and discussion sessions, as well as case studies, will be managed to maximize the amount and quality of information, knowledge, and experience transfer. The course will be intensive but practical and highly interactive. The sessions will start by raising the most relevant questions and motivating everybody to find the right answers. The attendants will also be encouraged to raise more of their questions and to share in developing the right answers using their analysis and experience. There will also be some indoor experiential activities to enhance learning. Course material will be provided in PowerPoint, with necessary animations, learning videos, and general discussions.

The course participants shall be evaluated before, during, and at the end of the course.

COURSE CERTIFICATE:

National Consultant Centre for Training LLC (NCC) will issue an Attendance Certificate to all participants completing a minimum of 80% of the total attendance time requirement.