Natural gases are generally burned to produce heat. Only the constituents of these gases which participate in combustion are of interest. The others are either economically undesirable to the extent that they unnecessarily increase the volume of gas transported, or harmful to the extent that they are the cause of gas transportation problems by pipeline, delivery problems in distribution or combustion networks. at the level of user devices.
As these undesirable or harmful constituents cannot be completely eliminated, their content must be lowered to a value below a tolerance threshold.
As some of these constituents have an influence on the safety of consumers, the environment and installations, administrative texts regulate their content in gases transported or distributed for consumption.
Why process facilities on oil or natural gas production fields
For
1. Ensure the safe transport and regular supply of produced hydrocarbons,
2. Reject constituents of no commercial value into the surrounding environment without pollution,
3. Optimize the extraction of hydrocarbons contained in natural oil and natural gas reservoirs.
I. Course Overview
This Surface Production and Gas Processing course is a concise synthesis of material gathered from several publications (see bibliography), enabling students to gain a thorough understanding of processing facilities in oil and natural gas production fields. Its role is to ensure the safe transport and regular supply of produced hydrocarbons, to release commercially worthless components into the environment without pollution, and to optimize the extraction of hydrocarbons from natural oil and gas reservoirs.
Through this module, students will discover the techniques for various processing operations in crude oil and natural gas production fields to make them commercially viable according to international standards.
This course is structured into four chapters or learning units and a general introduction. The learning units are described below, and the detailed course outline is available online.
II. Course Content
Chapter I: Problems posed by the presence of certain constituents in gases distributed for consumption
Chapter II: General information on treatment
Chapter III: Oil treatment
Chapter IV: Gas treatment