Course Description

Most natural gas streams leaving the reservoir contain water vapor. In many cases, free water is also produced along with the natural gas. Natural gas cools as it travels up the well bore to the surface due to pressure reduction and conduction of heat through the pipe to cooler formation walls since the ability of gas to hold water vapor decreases as gas temperature decreases produced natural gas is nearly always saturated with water vapor when it reaches the surface. Additional cooling of saturated gas will cause free water to form. If the gas is further cooled, hydrates will form and serious equipment damage or flow restrictions will result. This is why it is so important to remove water vapor from natural gas. There are several methods for dehydrating natural gas which will be covered in this course?

Course Goal: 

To enhance the participants’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to understand and use methods of dehydrating natural gas

Course Objectives

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

• Be familiar with natural gas handling and processing.
• Predict of formation conditions 
• Estimate of quantity of water to remove from gas 
• Be familiar with of main gas dehydration methods.
• Select of dehydration method.
• Be familiar with glycol dehydration process.
• Understand principles and types and selection of adsorbing materials.

Course Outlines

• Overview of natural gas handling and processing.
• Gas composition and properties.
• Gas measurement.
• Water in natural gas.

• Formation and characteristics.
• Prediction of formation conditions (Temperature and Pressure).
• Inhibition of hydrates formation.

• Incentives for gas dehydration.
• Initial and final water dew points.
• Estimation of quantity of water to remove from gas (Absorption and Adsorption).
• Overview of main gas dehydration methods.
• Selection of dehydration method.

• Principles of process.
• Types and selection of glycols.
• Process equipment.
• Plant operations and troubleshooting.

• Principles and types and selection of adsorbing materials.
• Process equipment.
• Plant operations and trouble shooting.

Who Can Benefit? 

• Operators.
• Shift engineers.