Description
Course Length: 5 days
Course Description
This course provides comprehensive knowledge and develops practical skills in conducting reliable and safe laboratory analyzes for the Oil & Gas industry.
Who should Attend
Laboratory personnel, operational staff and other professionals interested in a laboratory analyze dedicated to Oil & Gas operations.
What you will Learn
- Grasp the physical and chemical concepts involved in various analyzes, comprehend issues requiring special attention in various analyzes.
- Assess the results of an analysis and decide whether to carry out the analysis over again, review main Occupational Health and Safety rules within the framework of laboratory activities
Course Outline
Role & Responsibilities of laboratory staff
- Member of production staff. Equipment yields controls/monitoring.
- Final product quality controls/monitoring. Recommendations to improve treatments.
Analyzes Specific to Crude Oil
- Specific gravity or density
- Vapor Pressure (Reid VP).
- Water content: Basic Sediment & Water (BSW), dean stark distillation
- Salt content: chlorides content, conductimetry
- Acid components content
- H2S content (methylene blue).
- H2S and mercaptans by potentiometry
- Total Acid Number (TAN) of liquid hydrocarbons
- Fluid rheology: pour point, kinematic viscosity, wax content.
Analyzes Specific to Gas
- Gas Characterization
- Dew Point (HC and Water)
- Gas composition by Gas Phase Chromatography (GPC)
- Gas specific gravity estimate from composition
- Acid components content
- H2S content (Dräger), H2S and mercaptans content (potentiometry, iodometry)
- CO2 content (Dräger and acidimetry)
Analyzes for the Follow-Up of Effluent treatment Operations
- Demulsifies evaluation and selection (bottle tests, field tests).
- Quality controls/monitoring of poor and rich Triethyleneglycol (TEG)
- Water content, pH
- Hydrocarbon content.
- Follow-up of equipment performances: water content, residual emulsion
Laboratory Visit
- Equipment Visualization
- Discussions on practices, difficulties
Analyzes Done to Optimize Anticorrosion Treatments
- Deposits and scale analysis.
- Chemical corrosion and bacterial corrosion appraisal.
- Recommendations for chemical additives and treatments.
Hse In Laboratory Activities
- Laboratory facilities design and implementation.
- Chemicals management (storage, use…).
- Occupational health and safety behavior
