This document outlines the table of contents for a course on oil and gas chemistry and production. It covers topics such as surface facilities, offshore and onshore production systems, static and rotating equipment, cargo properties, and safety and risk management. Specific topics include multi-phase separation, water treatment, gas processing, pipeline infrastructure, storage tanks, pumps and compressors, properties of hydrocarbon cargos, fires and explosions, and risk assessment techniques. The course provides an overview of the key elements of oil and gas production facilities and operations.

1. Table of Content:
1. Introduction to oil and gas chemistry
2. Surface facilities:
 Properties of fluids at surface
 Oil – water- gas – solids – contaminants
 Flowlines, piping, gathering systems; solids and liquid limits
 Storage tanks, gun barrels, pressure/vacuum relief and flame arrestors
 Integrated surface production system; separation and treatment (multi-phase separators, Stabilizers)
 Removal of foams, emulsions, paraffins, asphaltenes, hydrates and salts
 Water management: SP packs, plate interceptors
3. Advanced surface facilities:
 Primary production systems
 Oil processing (stabilisation, dehydration, desalting)
 Water processing
 Water injection
 Gas processing

2. Table of Content:
4. Offshore Production Systems
 Offshore structures
 Floating systems
 Basics of flow assurance
 Subsea engineering
5. Onshore Systems and Project Development
 Onshore plants
 Export systems Pipelines
 Export terminals
 Tankers
 Project development Health safety & environment
 Handling uncertainties
 Managing risk
 Introduction to operations & maintenance
 Introduction to well & reservoir management
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3. Table of Content:
6. System Design
 Process Flow Schemes & Process Engineering Flow Schemes
 Overview
 DEP requirements
 Process design & instrumentation
 Commissioning
 Preparatory checks
 Protocol development
 Startup/Shutdown/Handover
 Plant & Equipment Operability
 Operations consideration
 Maintenance considerations
 Specifications
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 Procurement Requirements
 Material & Performance specifications
 Supporting Standards: regulatory & in-house
 Project schedule
 Measure the Success
 KPIs for the mechanical engineer
 Benchmarking
 Operating wells
 Oil/Gas process and export
 Gas processing, gas lift injection, glycol regeneration and export
 Produced water treatment
 Water injection
 Utilities/Supporting functions
 Documentation

4. Table of Content:
6. Production Assurance - Troubleshooting and Guidelines in Oil & Gas
Operations
 Elimination of organic precipitates in oil production
 Inhibitor and tracer screening and its application
 Water quality and impact on re-injection systems
 Main causes of non-effective treatment plants
 Impact of retention time on separation processes
 Methods for getting reliable samples for further analyses
 SRB’s activity and MIC in oil and gas production
 Evaluation of different gas dehydration processes
 Rules of sulphate, carbonate and NORM scale formation
 Overview of scale calculating programs
 How to control corrosion in production operation
 Production operation in the tail-end phase of oil fields
 Troubleshooting in gas dehydration systems
 Formation of halite scale in gas production and storage
 Troubleshooting in treatment plants for tail-end production
 Modern aspects in screening corrosion inhibitors
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5. Table of Content:
7. Static Plant
 Piping, Pipelines & Pressure Vessels
 ASME B31 codes for piping
 ASME BPVC VIII for pressure vessels
 Pressure relieving devices
 Above Ground Storage Tanks
 API 650 for ASTs
 AST construction
 General Construction Considerations
 Fabrication techniques
 Resource logistics
 Working with contractor
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6. Table of Content:
8. Rotating Equipment
 Pumps & Compressors
 Positive displacement
 Centrifugal action
 Pump & Compressor Performance
 Pump curves
 Compressor maps
 System curves
 Selection & Specification
 Fulfilling process requirements
 System integration
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7. Table of Content:
8. Cargo Properties
 Seminar Overview and Introductions
 Dangerous Cargos
 Toxicity
 Confined spaces
 Breathable atmospheres
 Hydrocarbon properties
 Crude oil
 Liquified Petroleum Gas
 Liquified Natural Gas
 Fires & Explosions
 UEL & LEL
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 BLEVE
 Pancake cloud explosions
 Storage Tanks
 Atmospheric aboveground storage tanks
 Floating roof, fixed roof, variable vapor space and pressurized tanks
 Tank inspections & cleaning
 Transfer Systems
 Centrifugal pumps design and operation
 Piping systems
 Flow and pressure matching
 Ship-shore Transfers
 Marine Loading Arms
 Lightering
 The Ship/Shore Safety Checklist
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8. Table of Content:
9. Safety and Risk
 Ignition sources
 Electrostatic charge
 Hazardous zone classification
 Intrinsically safe equipment
 Fire fighting & protection
 Fire detection systems
 Shipboard firefighting systems
 Risk assessments
 Qualitative and quantitative risk assessment techniques
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