Oil Water Treatment Technology

Overview:

Introduction:

The Oil Water Treatment Technology training program provides participants with practical skills for treating oil-contaminated water efficiently. Through hands-on training, attendees learn about separation techniques, filtration processes, and chemical treatments, enabling them to address oil-water treatment challenges effectively.

Program Objectives:

At the end of this program, participants will be able to:

• Learn the details of the impact of effective oilfield water chemistry.

• Comprehend how to assess the oilfield production liquid separation principles.

• Understand the importance of proper water treatment.

• Appreciate the importance of reusing produced water.

• Develop skills necessary to evaluate the technologies used in oil and water separation.

Targeted Audience:

• Engineering and Technical Personnel involved in water treatment.

• Maintenance Coordinators.

• Operations and Manufacturing Managers and Supervisors.

• Foremen and Team Leaders.

• Plant and Field Engineers.

Program Outlines:

Unit 1:

Oilfield Water Chemistry: 

• The Nature, Chemistry and Composition of Hydrocarbons.

• Water Chemistry Fundamentals.

• Environmental Regulations and Water Specifications.

• Environmental Impacts Caused by Produced Water.

• Water Sampling and Analysis: Test Methods for Oil and Grease in Water, Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD).

Unit 2: 

Oilfield Production Liquid Separation Principles 

• Produced Water Generation and Production and Management Practices.

• Wastewater recycle/reuse.

• Water Scaling, Corrosion Control and Microbiology of Water.

• Emulsions / Stabilization, Destabilization.

• Simulation Software to predict water quality for injection.

• Case Study Scaling Software demonstration.

Unit 3: 

Crude Oil Desalting: 

• Principles of flotation: Dissolved/ Induced/ dispersed Air/ Gas Flotation.

• Key Design Parameters of Flotation: Air-To-Solids Ratio.

• Henrys & Stokes Laws.

• Nucleus & Rate of Rise Theory.

Unit 4: 

Separation and Treatment (I): 

• Mechanical Filters & Filtration Technologies.

• Gravity Separation Systems.

• Skim Tanks & Piles.

• API Separators.

• Plate Coalescers.

• Evaporative processes.

Unit 5:

Separation and Treatment (II):

• Desalting Technologies.

• Electro deionization.

• Ion exchange.

• Membrane processes.

• Desalination.