ABSTRACT

Many oil production processes present a significant challenge to the oil and gas field processing facilities and equipment design. The optimization of the sequential operations of handling the oil–gas mixture can be a major factor in increasing oil and gas production rates and reducing operating costs.

Petroleum and Gas Field Processing provides an all-inclusive guide to surface petroleum operations and solves these and other problems encountered in the field processing of oil and gas. Fully revised and updated to reflect major changes over the past decade or so, this second edition builds on the success attained in the first edition. It delivers an expanded and updated treatment that covers the principles and procedures related to the processing of reservoir fluids for the separation, handling, treatment, and production of quality petroleum oil and gas products.

With five new chapters, this second edition covers additional subjects, in particular natural gas, economics and profitability, oil field chemicals, and piping and pumps. The book also contains worked-out examples and case studies from a variety of oil field operations.

chapter 1|40 pages

Oil and Gas from Formation to Production

chapter 6|50 pages

Two-Phase Gas–Oil Separation

chapter 7|26 pages

Three-Phase Oil–Water–Gas Separators

chapter 9|14 pages

Desalting of Crude Oil

chapter 10|12 pages

Stabilization and Sweetening of Crude Oil

chapter 11|10 pages

Other Treatment Options

chapter 12|32 pages

Sour Gas Treatment

chapter 13|32 pages

Gas Dehydration

chapter 15|30 pages

Produced Water Management and Disposal

chapter 17|8 pages

Oil Field Chemicals (OFC)

chapter 18|14 pages

Piping and Pumps