Surface Production Operation-v1 Design of Oil-Handing System and Faci...

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Surface Production Operations: Design of Oil Handling Systems and Facilities

Surface Production Operation

Ken Arnold, AMEC Paragon, Houston, Texas
Maurice Stewart, President, Stewart Training Company
THIRD EDITION


The job of a production facility is to separate the well stream into three
components, typically called “phases” (oil, gas, and water), and process
these phases into some marketable product(s) or dispose of them in an
environmentally acceptable manner. In mechanical devices called “separators,”
gas is flashed from the liquids and “free water” is separated
from the oil. These steps remove enough light hydrocarbons to produce a
stable crude oil with the volatility (vapor pressure) to meet sales criteria.