Oil and Gas Engineering Training Courses


Field Processing & Surface Production Facilities

Introduction:

This field processing and surface production facilities course focuses on a comprehensive understanding of onshore and offshore oil and gas field processing techniques and knowledge of surface production facility equipment's technology and operating principles.

The field processing and surface production facilities course aims to provide an overview and fundamental understanding of the wide range of oilfield production handling and treatment equipment and showcase new technologies in the field processing and surface production facilities domain.

Targeted Groups:

  • Chemical, Mechanical Engineers, and Process Technologists.
  • Facility and Inspection engineers.
  • Maintenance or Project Engineers.
  • Operations and Laboratory Chemists.
  • Technicians, Support Engineers, and Engineering Trainees.
  • Consultants and Sales Professionals.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this field processing and surface production facilities course, participants will be able to:

  • Learn the origins and chemical characteristics of Oil and Gas.
  • Understand the challenges associated with offshore operations, horizontal drilling, and other safety concerns.
  • Familiarize the participants with various methods and techniques for exploring, drilling, producing, treating, and transporting Oil, Gas, and their products.
  • Introduce the participants to upstream, midstream, and downstream operations.
  • Appreciate Oil and Natural Gas treatment technologies and processes, including produced water treatment.
  • Learn the many processes involved in crude oil refining and how these contribute to refinery complexity and profitability.
  • Gain valuable knowledge of Gas Sweetening and Physical Solvents Unit Troubleshooting.

Targeted Competencies:

Upon the end of this field processing and surface production facilities training, participants' competencies will:

  • Exploration activities.
  • Gathering and separation.
  • Gas injection.
  • Hydrates and Gas Dehydration.
  • Know the specifications and process selection.
  • Downstream Operations.
  • Oil and Gas pricing.

Surface Production Equipment and Technologies:

As we delve deeper into the specifics of field processing and surface production operations, we must recognize the significance of surface production equipment and technologies. These systems provide:

  • Understand Essential functions in oil and gas surface production facilities.
  • Aid in separating.
  • Treat.
  • Handle hydrocarbons once they reach the surface.

Understanding the different surface production systems, including their design and operational efficiencies, is crucial for optimizing production and ensuring safe, environmentally compliant operations in oil field processing.

Course Content:

Unit 1: Fundamentals of Reservoir & Drive Mechanism:

  • Reservoir types.
  • Exploration techniques.
  • Drive mechanisms.
  • Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR).

Unit 2: Fundamentals of Drilling, Completion & Well Performance:

  • Drilling principle.
  • Offshore drilling.
  • Main completion equipment.
  • Principle of artificial lift.

Unit 3: Well Effluent Transportation, Flow-Assurance & Gas Hydrates Prevention:

  • Network design and operation.
  • Lead flow assurance multiphase flow, and flow patterns.
  • Hydrates formation prevention strategies, hydrates inhibition.
  • Gas condensate field development deep-offshore production.

Unit 4: Crude Oil Processing:

  • Multi-Stage Separation (MSS).
  • Management of foam issues.
  • Crude dehydration and desalting.
  • Emulsion treatment.
  • Crude sweetening (H2S removal).

Unit 5: Production & Injection Water Treatment:

  • Quality requirements for the production of water.
  • Environment-related constraints.
  • API oil-water separators, plate separators, flotation, hydro cyclones.
  • Reasons for water injection.
  • Quality requirements and necessary treatments.

Unit 6: Offshore Developments:

  • Offshore production structures.
  • Storage and offloading vessels.
  • Flow assurance.
  • Preservation techniques and pigging solutions.

Unit 7: Fundamentals of Corrosion:

  • Types of corrosion.
  • Prevention and Monitoring.

Unit 8: Electrical Systems - Instrumentation & Process Control - Safety Systems:

  • Electrical power generation.
  • Electrical power distribution network and equipment.
  • Field instrumentation controllers control loop structures.
  • Distributed Control System (DCS).
  • Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS): ESD, HIPS, fire and gas system.

Unit 9: Metering & Allocation:

  • Meter and production allocation.
  • Production accounting and material balance.
  • Transactional metering of liquids and gas.
  • Multiphase metering: advantage, principle, and fields of application.

Amman (Jordan)
29 Jun - 10 Jul 2025
6000 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
30 Jun - 11 Jul 2025
10500 Euro
Munich (Germany)
30 Jun - 11 Jul 2025
9500 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
14 - 25 Jul 2025
10500 Euro
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt)
20 - 31 Jul 2025
9000 Euro
Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt)
27 Jul - 07 Aug 2025
9000 Euro
Madrid (Spain)
28 Jul - 08 Aug 2025
9500 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
03 - 14 Aug 2025
8500 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
10 - 21 Aug 2025
8500 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
31 Aug - 11 Sep 2025
8500 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
31 Aug - 11 Sep 2025
8500 Euro
Madrid (Spain)
15 - 26 Sep 2025
9500 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
21 Sep - 02 Oct 2025
6500 Euro
Paris (France)
06 - 17 Oct 2025
10500 Euro
Brussels (Belgium)
06 - 17 Oct 2025
9500 Euro
Rome (Italy)
13 - 24 Oct 2025
10500 Euro
Casablanca (Morocco)
20 - 31 Oct 2025
8500 Euro
London (UK)
20 - 31 Oct 2025
9500 Euro
Boston (USA)
27 Oct - 07 Nov 2025
16000 Euro
Lisbon (Portugal)
27 Oct - 07 Nov 2025
9500 Euro
London (UK)
17 - 28 Nov 2025
9500 Euro
Manama (Bahrain)
07 - 18 Dec 2025
8000 Euro
Online
21 Dec 2025 - 01 Jan 2026
5200 Euro
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
29 Dec 2025 - 09 Jan 2026
9500 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
04 - 15 Jan 2026
9000 Euro
Barcelona (Spain)
05 - 16 Jan 2026
10500 Euro
Amman (Jordan)
11 - 22 Jan 2026
6000 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
11 - 22 Jan 2026
9000 Euro
Istanbul (Turkey)
18 - 29 Jan 2026
9000 Euro
Paris (France)
19 - 30 Jan 2026
10500 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
25 Jan - 05 Feb 2026
6500 Euro
London (UK)
02 - 13 Feb 2026
9500 Euro
Vienna (Austria)
09 - 20 Feb 2026
10500 Euro
Geneva (Switzerland)
16 - 27 Feb 2026
12500 Euro
Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
22 Feb - 05 Mar 2026
8500 Euro
Online
22 Feb - 05 Mar 2026
5200 Euro
Amsterdam (Netherlands)
23 Feb - 06 Mar 2026
9500 Euro
Milan (Italy)
09 - 20 Mar 2026
10500 Euro
Vienna (Austria)
09 - 20 Mar 2026
10500 Euro
Rome (Italy)
16 - 27 Mar 2026
10500 Euro
Online
22 Mar - 02 Apr 2026
5200 Euro
Cairo (Egypt)
05 - 16 Apr 2026
6500 Euro
Dubai (UAE)
03 - 14 May 2026
8500 Euro
Manama (Bahrain)
10 - 21 May 2026
8000 Euro

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