The course will cover all aspects of gas plant Operation including: review of the gas laws,natural gas properties, inlet separation, condensate stabilization, sweetening processes,dehydration processes, refrigeration, LPG fractionation and gas sweetening processes,the focus will be on important operating principles, and operating problems .

Gas Plant Operation2

    Gas Plant Operation
    Introduction
    Basic Terminology
    Elements and Atoms Chemical Compounds and Molecules
    Physical Compounds Relative Atomic Mass (Weight)
    Relative Molecular Mass (Weight) The Mole
    Valence
    Mixture

1. HYDROCARBON NOMENCLATURE

1.2.2 Paraffin Series 1.2.3 Olefin or Ethylene Series

    PARAFFIN HYDROCARBON COMPOUNDS

1.4 Hydrocarbon Fluids

1.4.1 Types of Fluids 1.4.2 Volume

1.4.3 Pressure 1.4.4 Temperature

1.4.5 Basic Gas Laws

Natural Gas

    Molecular Weight Critical Pressure and Temperature
    Heating Value Density versus Specific Gravity
    Vapor Pressure Liquid Content
    Hydrocarbon Dew Point Water Dew Point:
    Delivery Temperature: Delivery Pressure:
    Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
    HYDROGEN SULPHIDE (H2S)
    CARBONYL SULPHIDE (COS)
    Mercaptans
    Total Sulphur
    Water Content:
    Methane (CH4 or C1):
    Ethane (C2H6 or C2):
    Propane (C2H8 or C2)
    Isobutene (i.C4H10 or i.C4)
    N. Butane (n.C4H10 or n.C4)
    Pentane and Heavier (C5H12 or C5 and Heavier)

Wellheads and Gathering System

    Well Completion

Gas Plant Operation3

    Wellhead
    Manifolds and gathering
    Introduction to Natural Gas Processing Industry
    Field processing
    Purposes of Natural Gas Plants
    Types of Gas Plants
    General Gas Plant Process Schemes
    Sales Gas Specifications
    Separation
    .1 Overview
    .2 Principles of Separation
    .3 Phases Separation
    .4 Separators Classification
    5 Separator Operations and Troubleshooting

Natural Gas Sweetening

        Types of contaminants
        sweetening processes
    Factors for Process Selection
    Process Classification
    Regenerative or Non-regenerative
    Batch or Continuous,
    Dry or Wet system.
    Chemical solvent, Physical solvent, or
    Direct conversion processes.
    ow to Select a Gas Sweetening Process

4-Safety Precautions

5-AMINE PROCESSES

o                                 Natural gas treating plant material of construction

Natural Gas Dehydration

o                                 Overview

    .Water Hydrocarbon System Behaviors
    ADSORPTION USING SOLID DESICCANT
    Hydrate Inhibitions in Low Temperature Processing Plant
     Hydrate Inhibitions in Gas Pipeline

Natural Gas Refrigeration

    Overview
    Economic of Liquid Separation
    Gas Plant Operation
    Gases Chilling
     Cryogenic Processes
     Refrigeraon Systems
     Single Component Refrigeration (Propane)

Natural Gas Fractionation

     Fundamentals of Separaon in Towe r s
    6.2.2 Tower Hardware
    Recovery, Separation of Natural Gas Liquid
    DEW POINT CONTROL
    Condensate Stabilization

Drain and Water Treatment Systems

    Overview
    PRODUCED AND TREATED WATER QUALITY
    PRODUCED WATER TREATMENT SYSTEM
    WATER TREATMENT EQUIPMENT
    OFFSHORE WATER DISPOSAL EQUIPMENT
    Plant Safty
    Appendix
    Rules of Thumb
    Overview for Gas Future -Statistics
    Glossary of Terms
    Units of Measurements

Work shop and program evaluation

process engineers ,Production, Petroleum, Mechanical and Chemical Engineers associated with he gas industry, process supervisor, personnel involved in refinery process operations, , and

technical services

 This course aims to enhance the participant's ability to understanding the physical and hemical properties of natural gas, sweeting, treating,& operation process