Surface Facilities for Oil and Gas Handling

By Prof. Abdus Samad | IIT Madras

Learners enrolled: 500 | Exam registration: 72

ABOUT THE COURSE : This course is designed to teach students about the process of separating crude oil and natural gas into their individual components at surface facilities. The extracted water and oil byproduct also need to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly way. Throughout the course, students will learn the fundamental principles of separating oil, gas, water, and sand, as well as the technologies and mechanical aspects of the facilities used in the industry. The course will equip students with the knowledge needed to safely handle and dispose of oil and gas byproducts, while also meeting industry standards and regulations.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : UG/PG students in Petroleum, Mechanical and Chemical engineering students.

PREREQUISITES : Concept of petroleum drilling, completion and production along with the basic engineering and applied mathematics.

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : ONGC, Upstream, Baker Hughes, O&G companies.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Ocean Engineering
Credit Points :	3
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	22 Jan 2024
End Date :	12 Apr 2024
Enrollment Ends :	05 Feb 2024
Exam Registration Ends :	16 Feb 2024
Exam Date :	28 Apr 2024 IST

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1: Introduction to drilling, completion, production, surface facilities, fluid properties and units.

Week 2: Oil, water, sand and gas separation, coalescence, coalescing media, electrostatic coalescers. Settling.

Week 3: Two-phase separators, vertical and horizontal separators, separator sizing.

Week 4: Three-phase separators, Oil and water separation, vessel internals, emulsion, heater treater.

Week 5: Water-in-oil and oil-in-water separation, droplet size, separator sizing calculations.

Week 6: Crude oil treating equipment, heater treater, gun barrel, desaltation, sizing calculations.

Week 7: Produced water treating system, floatation unit, offshore disposal, hydro-cyclone.

Week 8: Natural gas processing, dehydration, sweetening.

Week 9: Storage facilities, metering systems, evaporative emissions, strategic storage.

Week 10: Mechanism of heat transfer, process heat duty, heat transfer from a fire-tube, heat exchangers- types, sizing.

Week 11: Pressure vessel design, wall thickness, line size, design calculations.

Week 12: Compressors and pumps on the surface facilities, internal combustion engines.

Books and references

Text books:
1. Surface production operations (Vol I & II), Maurice Stewart, Ken Arnold, Gulf Professional Publishing.2007.
2. Surface production operations (Vol III & IV), Maurice Stewart, Gulf Professional Publishing. 2018.
Reference books:
1. Standard Handbook of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, By William C. Lyons, Gary J Plisga, BS, Gulf Professional Publishing.2004, Book ISBN: 978-0750677851
2. Petroleum Engineering Handbook, Larry W. Lake, Editor-in-Chief, SPE publication, Vol-III, 2007.
3. Production and transportation of oil and gas, part B, A.P.Szilas, Elsevier, 1986.

Instructor bio

Prof. Abdus Samad

IIT Madras

Prof. Abdus Samad is a professor and has Mechanical Engineering undergrad and grad degrees from Indian and South Korea. worked with ZiLift Ltd (UK) to design novel artificial lifts for 2 years before joining IIT Madras in 2010. He is teaching petroleum Engineering subjects since then. He did ample work on fluid machinery and its applications to oil and gas and renewable energy. He holds 5 patents related to oil and gas and energy, authored a book on fluid machinery

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.

The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).

Date and Time of Exams: 28 April 2024 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.

Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.

The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.

Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

- NPTEL team

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