By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Be more able to master sub center operations, procedures and techniques
• Know separation techniques, technology and sub center operations
• Know about oil, water and gas treatment
• Well inflow performance and its impact on processing facilities
• Gain knowledge about oil, gas, and water compositions and properties needed for equipment selection and sizing
• Select and evaluate processes and equipment used to meet sales or disposal specifications
• Perform equipment sizing calculations for major production facility separation equipment
• Know the well and surface processing equipment
• Know the practical operating recommendations of equipment such as startup, shutdown and isolation
• Be more able to develop solutions to operating problems in oil and water processing facilities
• Learn about new state-of-the-art separation technology and the different types of separation equipment utilized in the oil and gas industry
• Learn about separator operation, control and process problems
• Learn about the separation performance capabilities of the different types of equipment
• Learn how to size the different types of separation equipment
• Learn about new developments in separation equipment design
• Learn how to troubleshoot all problems of separation equipment
• Learn about the instrumentation and controls used on separation equipment
• Be more familiar with safety issues and procedures
• Be more able to identify all hazardous and control them
• Be more able to actively respond in case of emergencies

Sub-center Coordinators, Production Coordinators, Sub-center Engineers and Supervisors, Production Engineers & Technologists, Production Operators II, Petroleum Engineers, Production operations personnel and all dealing with sub-center operations.

• Oil and water separation and treatment
• Gas separation and treating
• Flow lines, manifolds and gathering systems
• Gas and liquid separation equipment
• Overview of upstream oil and gas production operations
• Fluid properties and phase behaviour
• Overview of artificial lift
• Processing configurations
• Phase separation of gas, oil, and water
• Sand, wax, and asphalteness
• Field desalting
• Crude stabilization and sweetening
• Crude oil storage and vapour recovery
• Measurement of crude oil
• Transportation of crude oil
• Produced water treating
• Valves and safety systems
• Water injection systems
• Compression
• Dehydration
• Storage considerations
• Water handling and distribution
• Oil density in surface conditions
• Viscosity and thermal characteristics
• Composition of associated gas and dead oil
• Physical properties of methanol
• Injection of methanol into pipelines
• Pumpless methods of methanol injection

CDGA attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.