Oil Production and Processing Facilities Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Analyze the overall configuration and operating principles of oil production and processing facilities.
• Explain the major stages involved in crude oil gathering, separation, treatment, stabilization, storage, and transfer.
• Identify the functions and operating requirements of major production and processing equipment.
• Evaluate key operating parameters affecting facility capacity, efficiency, and production quality.
• Analyze separation, dehydration, desalting, compression, pumping, and produced water treatment processes.
• Evaluate common operational problems and identify their potential causes.
• Apply practical troubleshooting approaches to production and processing facility problems.
• Assess the impact of corrosion, erosion, scaling, fouling, sand, and process instability on facility performance.
• Identify production bottlenecks and opportunities for process optimization.
• Integrate process monitoring, maintenance, inspection, and asset integrity requirements.
• Strengthen process safety and operational risk management within oil production facilities.
• Develop strategies for improving facility reliability, production efficiency, and operational continuity.

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Learning Outcomes

• Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
• Describe the complete oil production and processing facility flow from well fluids to crude oil export.
• Identify major process systems and their functions within an oil production facility.
• Explain the operating principles of separators, heaters, treaters, dehydrators, desalters, compressors, pumps, tanks, and metering systems.
• Evaluate pressure, temperature, flow, level, water cut, and other critical operating parameters.
• Analyze separation and crude oil treatment performance.
• Evaluate dehydration, desalting, stabilization, gas handling, and produced water treatment operations.
• Identify process bottlenecks, equipment constraints, and operating inefficiencies.
• Diagnose common facility operating problems and recommend corrective actions.
• Assess corrosion, erosion, scaling, fouling, sand, and other threats to facility performance.
• Apply production optimization principles to improve throughput and process stability.
• Integrate facility operations with maintenance, inspection, reliability, and asset integrity requirements.
• Strengthen process safety and emergency response awareness within production facilities.
• Interpret facility performance indicators and operating trends.
• Develop practical improvement opportunities for production efficiency and equipment reliability.
• Support safe, stable, and cost-effective operation of oil production and processing facilities.

Course Outline