Course Description:

The rapidly increasing worldwide demand for natural gas as an energy source requires expertise in gas engineering technology. Incorporating a balance between theory and application, this course presents an overview of the natural gas industry, from wellhead to marketplace, with emphasis on gas plant operations. The overall process flow diagram is used to illustrate how the various individual plant operations are integrated to create gas plants capable of handling feeds from gas fields around the world. Participants will gain a working knowledge of the major processes for gas compression, dehydration, acid gas removal and tailgas cleanup, sulfur recovery, cryogenic extraction of natural gas liquids (NGL), as well as LNG production, storage and transportation

Course Goal:

To enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to understand the major processes for gas compression, dehydration, acid gas removal and tailgas cleanup, sulfur recovery, cryogenic extraction of natural gas liquids (NGL), as well as LNG production, storage and transportation.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, participant will be able to:

1. Identify the types of Gas Plant Products
2. Be familiar with gas Production Facilities.
3. Understand the field processing system of natural gas.
4. Be familiar with gas processing equipment.
5. Understand LPG / NGL fractionation.
6. Understand gas handling & transmission systems.
7. Be familiar with safety & environmental aspects.

Course Outlines:

1. Introduction & Overview.
2. Types of Gas Plant Products

1. 1. Sales gas.
   2. LPG.
   3. Condensates.

3. Gas Production Facilities.

1. 1. Gas gathering system.
   2. Condensate Extraction facility.
   3. Gas transmission system.
   4. LPG facility.
   5. Sales gas Pipeline.
   6. Associated utilities.

4. Field Processing of Natural Gas.

1. 1. Typical gas Processing System.
   2. Treating.
   3. Dehydration Techniques Compression.
   4. Chilling (refrigeration, Turbo-Expander, J.T.).
   5. Separation of Condensate & acid gas Problems.

5. Gas Processing Equipment.

1. 1. General operating scheme.
   2. Absorption System.
   3. Stripping & Fractionation Columns.
   4. Amine regeneration tower.
   5. Purification.
   6. Gas Compression System.
   7. Heat exchangers & refrigeration package.
   8. Process vessels, piping, gas measuring and control.

6. LPG / NGL Fractionation.

1. 1. Feed / product streams & equipment items associated with the LPG/NGL Fractionation System.

7. Gas Handling & Transmission Systems.

1. 1. LPG storage, loading & unloading.
   2. LPG products refrigeration.
   3. Gas transmission pipeline system, Dispatching & gas control.

8. Safety & Environmental Aspects.

Who Can Benefit?

1. Shift engineers.
2. Chemical engineers.
3. Forman’s.