Gas Processing and Handling

Course Objectives

This introduction to the principles and tools used to assess production fluid separation and equipment design also addresses the optimal conditions for efficient operations. Topics include gas sweetening, dehydration, compression, and transportation. Through class exercises, identify key parameters for an optimal operation and improvements that increase the effectiveness of personnel, reduce operational costs, and optimize the gas conditioning and handling.

Who Should Attend

Production and processing personnel involved with natural gas and associated liquids to acquaint or reacquaint themselves with gas conditioning and processing unit operations. This course is for facilities engineers, process engineers, operations personnel, field supervisors and others that select, design, install, evaluate or operate gas processing plants and related facilities.

Course Content

• Natural gas Value chain, characteristics, quality, and specifications
• Production fluids separation: Two and three phases, horizontal and vertical, design criteria, operational condition and criteria
• Gas sweetening: Processes, advantages and disadvantages, design and operation criteria, typical operating problems, and troubleshooting
• Gas dehydration: Processes, advantages and disadvantages, selection criteria, design and operation criteria, typical operating problems, and troubleshooting
• Liquid removal
• Gas transportation
• Process equipment: Compressor design and operation criteria; and heat exchanger types, design and operation criteria, and selection