COURSE OVERVIEW:

This course provides participants with the fundamental principles of production fluid behavior, conditioning and processing from the wellhead to custody transfer. It introduces the full surface production system, explaining how multiphase fluids are gathered, transported, separated and treated to meet specifications for oil, gas and water streams.

Participants will learn how oilfield production is handled at the surface, including the function and operation of wellhead equipment, manifolds, gathering systems, pigging facilities, separators, treaters, heaters, dehydration units, pumps and compressors. Emphasis is placed on understanding how fluid properties affect equipment selection and process performance, and how operating conditions influence production efficiency, reliability and safety.

Through practical examples and case discussions, the course shows how to diagnose common operating problems in surface facilities, optimize separation and treatment performance, and support safe, efficient day to day operation of production systems up to the custody transfer point.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

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

1. Describe the main components of surface production systems from the wellhead to custody transfer and explain how they interact.
2. Explain the basic behavior and properties of production fluids (oil, gas and water) and how these influence surface facility design and operation.
3. Identify the functions and key design considerations of manifolds, gathering systems and flowlines.
4. Understand the purposes and operating principles of pigging operations and their role in maintaining flow assurance.
5. Describe the different types of separation equipment used in surface facilities and the factors that affect separation performance.
6. Explain the main processes and equipment used for oil treatment and stabilization to meet export specifications.
7. Describe the principles and equipment used for produced water treatment and disposal or reinjection.
8. Understand the fundamentals of gas treatment, dehydration, compression and pumping in surface facilities.
9. Recognize common operational problems in surface facilities and outline basic troubleshooting and optimization approaches.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

-Surface facility operation engineers

-Surface facility design engineers

-Production operation engineers

-Production and field supervisors

-Production managers and asset operations leaders

-Technical support staff involved in surface facilities and production operations

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 after 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.