Target Audience
Engineers, geoscientists, technicians, field supervisors and others interested surface operations.

Course Objectives
After completing this course, participants will be able the mechanisms of phase behavior and fluid properties that influence the performance of surface treatment facilities, determine pressure drop in pipes and fittings, understand the working mechanism of separators, pumps and compressors, understand the principles behind gas and liquid measurements.

Course Syllabus
Single components phase behavior, ideal gas properties, gas mixture properties, ideal liquids properties, water properties, multiphase mixtures phase behavior, equations of state, black-oil model, liquid properties, gas properties, single phase flow in flow lines and fittings, manifolds, gas-liquid separation and treatment, gas compression and transport, oil and water separation and treatment, fluid measurement, pumps and compressors, hydrates and acid gases.

Course Duration
5 Days (40 hours)

Course Format
The course consists of formal lectures followed by practical sessions where participants have a chance to work with the concepts learned in solving practical problems using MGP Technologies software and Excel spreadsheets.