Introduction:
The natural gas consumed by end-users undergoes significant transformations compared to the gas extracted from underground reservoirs. Gas conditioning and processing are essential steps that involve separating contaminants to ensure its suitability for various applications. The specific process and equipment utilized in gas conditioning and processing vary depending on the desired gas specifications and intended uses. Natural gas has emerged as an indispensable fuel source globally since its discovery. Proficiency in managing challenges related to gas conditioning and processing plays a vital role in determining a company’s productivity, safety, and profitability.
Course Objectives:
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Learn the causes of overpressure and how to deal with them
- Enhance knowledge on sizing, specification, and selection of compressors and be able to integrate compressor systems into process facilities
- Identify water content and hydrate formation conditions for gas streams using hand calculation methods and gain techniques to inhibit hydrate formation
- Provide professionals with knowledge on how to design, operate and address issues on gas conditioning & processing
- Effectively select and evaluate processes used to dehydrate natural gas
- Maximize profitability thru proper techniques on gas conditioning and processing
- Improve and increase production with the use of new technology, proper design, and storage
- Gain insights from an expert on liquefaction and regasification of cryogenic gases
- Understand gas to liquids conversion and its economic value
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for all experienced Process, Productions and Operations Professionals who are involved in the design, installation, evaluation and operations of gas processing plants and related facilities such as; process engineers, production engineers, plant operators personnel, facilities engineers, field engineers, maintenance engineers & supervisors as well as mechanical engineers.
Course Outlines:
Gas and Liquid Hydraulics
- Calculation of pressure drop for single and two-phase systems
- Introduction to flow regimes
- Centrifugal and positive displacement pumps
- Concept of power and head
- Exercise: Interpretation and Use of Pump Curves
Relief and Flare Systems
- Causes of overpressure and how to deal with them
- Defining relief cases
- Introduction to and application of API 520 and 521
- Selection and sizing of relief devices
- Design and operation of the relief and flare systems
- Exercise: Hands-on Calculation on Relief Valve Sizing
- Compression Systems
- Types of compressors
- Centrifugal
- Reciprocating
- How to apply thermodynamics to compressor performance and operating characteristics
- How to size, specify, and select compressors
- Compressor auxiliary systems
- lube oil and seal oil systems
- suction and discharge vessels
- Group Discussion: How to Integrate Compressor Systems into Oil and Gas Process Facilities
Principles of Gas Hydrate Formation and Methods of Control
- How to determine the water content and hydrate formation conditions for gas streams using hand calculation methods
- Techniques to inhibit hydrate formation including injection of equilibrium inhibitors such as methanol and MEG
- Dew point control of sales gas stream and removal of natural gas liquids (NGL) using mechanical refrigeration processes
Principles of Gas Dehydration (GLYCOL)
- Advantages and disadvantages of various glycol species
- Discussion of water content and dew point specification
- Selection and evaluation of processes used to dehydrate natural gas
- Calculation methods of TEG dehydration processes
- Gas Treating
- Carbon dioxide removal
- Sulfur removal
- Mercury removal
- Principles of Gas Liquefaction and Storage (with emphasis on LNG and ethylene)
- Review of fundamentals of gas processing technology as applied to liquefaction and regasification of cryogenic gases.
- Overview of liquefaction technologies and the advantage and disadvantages of each
- Review of heat exchangers used in cryogenic processes
- Review of gas treatment, fractionation, and auto refrigeration
New Technology
- Floating LNG Units and storage
- Advantages and disadvantages over conventional land-based trains
- Status of the industry
- Processes employed
- Challenges
- Prospects for the future
- Gas-to-Liquids
- Why convert natural gas to liquids?
- Development and present status of the industry
- Overview of the processes used
- Economics of producing specialty paraffin’s from gas