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LNG Facilities for Operations and Maintenance - OT-43

Discipline: Operations & Maintenance
Level: Foundation
Instructors who teach this course:


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This 5-day, LNG facilities course provides an overview of field operations, and an in-depth review of the in-plant equipment and processes. The course includes the two most common types of LNG liquefaction processes, the AP-C3MR and ConocoPhillips Optimized Cascade Process. Class exercises/problems focus on the application of theory to operational trends, so operators can understand their processes and become more proficient at identifying issues and troubleshooting problems before production suffers. Course content is customizable to client needs at no additional cost.


"The real problem solutions as exercises in the class was very helpful to understand the application. Very good instructor and material. Definitely was good material to understand the LNG process." - Participant, Mexico
LNG facility operators who require a working knowledge of the various processes used in LNG facilities, including the common operational difficulties that may arise and operational tactics used to resolve them. Also suitable for maintenance technicians, supervisors, and managers, as well as other non-engineering personnel who would benefit from an understanding of gas processing techniques that can be applied in their daily work activities.
  • Overview of oil and gas processing, including typical field operations
  • The required feed quality specifications for LNG facilities, including issues with common contaminants
  • Separation equipment with a focus on critical separation equipment in LNG facilities
  • Operational aspects of acid gas removal units (AGRU) for LNG facilities
  • Gas dehydration processes for LNG (including pre-cooling and molecular sieve)
  • Mercury removal processes for LNG, and location/performance in the facility
  • Centrifugal compressor operations and issues
  • Refrigeration system operational principles (propane, cascade and mixed refrigerant)
  • NGL stabilization and fractionation processes (regional)
  • LNG COP Cascade Process Overview
  • LNG AP-C3MR Process Overview
  • LNG storage operations and considerations
  • LNG ship loading and boil-off gas management issues and considerations
  • Application of hydrocarbon physical properties and phase behavior to understand the process operational issues within the overall facility
  • Gas turbine operations and issues
  • Hydrocarbon physical properties and phase behavior as the natural gas flows through the plant
  • Overview of oil and gas processing
  • Separation equipment
  • LNG feed quality requirements
  • LNG pre-treatment systems (AGRU / molecular sieve / Hg removal)
  • Fundamentals of centrifugal compression
  • Refrigeration principles (propane, cascade and mixed refrigerant)
  • NGL stabilization and fractionation (regional)
  • LNG COP Cascade Process Overview
  • LNG APCI C3MR Process Overview
  • LNG storage operations and considerations
  • LNG shiploading operations and considerations
  • Boil-off gas management methods
  • Gas turbine fundamentals
  • Hydrocarbon physical properties
  • Phase behavior fundamentals
  • Water / hydrocarbon behavior
Related courses
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LNG Short Course: Technology and the LNG Chain - G-29
Oil and Gas Processing Facilities for Operations and Maintenance - OT-1
Process Safety Engineering - PS-4
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LNG Facilities for Operations and Maintenance - OT-43
Discipline: Operations & Maintenance
Level: Foundation
Duration: 5 days
Instructor(s): Frank Ashford, William (Bill) Finch, Kindra Snow-McGregor
This 5-day, LNG facilities course provides an overview of field operations, and an in-depth review of the in-plant equipment and processes. The course includes the two most common types of LNG liquefaction processes, the AP-C3MR and ConocoPhillips Optimized Cascade Process. Class exercises/problems focus on the application of theory to operational trends, so operators can understand their processes and become more proficient at identifying issues and troubleshooting problems before production suffers. Course content is customizable to client needs at no additional cost.


"The real problem solutions as exercises in the class was very helpful to understand the application. Very good instructor and material. Definitely was good material to understand the LNG process." - Participant, Mexico
Designed For:
LNG facility operators who require a working knowledge of the various processes used in LNG facilities, including the common operational difficulties that may arise and operational tactics used to resolve them. Also suitable for maintenance technicians, supervisors, and managers, as well as other non-engineering personnel who would benefit from an understanding of gas processing techniques that can be applied in their daily work activities.
You Will Learn:
  • Overview of oil and gas processing, including typical field operations
  • The required feed quality specifications for LNG facilities, including issues with common contaminants
  • Separation equipment with a focus on critical separation equipment in LNG facilities
  • Operational aspects of acid gas removal units (AGRU) for LNG facilities
  • Gas dehydration processes for LNG (including pre-cooling and molecular sieve)
  • Mercury removal processes for LNG, and location/performance in the facility
  • Centrifugal compressor operations and issues
  • Refrigeration system operational principles (propane, cascade and mixed refrigerant)
  • NGL stabilization and fractionation processes (regional)
  • LNG COP Cascade Process Overview
  • LNG AP-C3MR Process Overview
  • LNG storage operations and considerations
  • LNG ship loading and boil-off gas management issues and considerations
  • Application of hydrocarbon physical properties and phase behavior to understand the process operational issues within the overall facility
  • Gas turbine operations and issues
  • Hydrocarbon physical properties and phase behavior as the natural gas flows through the plant
Course Content:
  • Overview of oil and gas processing
  • Separation equipment
  • LNG feed quality requirements
  • LNG pre-treatment systems (AGRU / molecular sieve / Hg removal)
  • Fundamentals of centrifugal compression
  • Refrigeration principles (propane, cascade and mixed refrigerant)
  • NGL stabilization and fractionation (regional)
  • LNG COP Cascade Process Overview
  • LNG APCI C3MR Process Overview
  • LNG storage operations and considerations
  • LNG shiploading operations and considerations
  • Boil-off gas management methods
  • Gas turbine fundamentals
  • Hydrocarbon physical properties
  • Phase behavior fundamentals
  • Water / hydrocarbon behavior
Instructors:

DR. FRANK E. ASHFORD has over 50 years' experience in oil and gas reservoir engineering, downhole and surface design and operations, as well as oil and gas conditioning and producing facilities. He has been with PetroSkills since 1988 and has worked extensively in most energy producing countries throughout the world. He provides instruction fluently in either English, Spanish, or Portuguese based on material originally prepared in English or Spanish, but presented in the native language requested. He worked with Gulf Research (GR&DC) in Houston, Texas where he developed many reservoir engineering laboratory techniques for the determination of applicable oil/gas/water relative permeability correlations, and choke performance prediction techniques still in application today. Previously, Dr. Ashford was a Professor of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas, where he taught various courses in natural gas engineering technology. He was a founder of the Petroleum Engineering Department in INTEVEP, the research Institute for PDVSA (Venezuela). He was a participant in the initial gas lift optimization operations held in Venezuela, and developed many field, and numerical techniques and correlations for downhole, and surface choke performance with Otis Engineering (US, and Venezuela), and Compania Shell de Venezuela (CSV). He has authored technical articles published in World Oil, JPT, SPE, Intevep Pub., PDVSA, Pacific Oil World, AAPG, SPELAC, and GPA. He holds a BS (1961) and MS (1963) in Petroleum Engineering and a PhD in Engineering Sciences (1970) from the University of Oklahoma. He was one of Dr. John M. Campbell's graduate students from 1962-1968, and participated in the initial data collection and organization for the original John M. Campbell technical textbooks Gas Conditioning and Processing, Volumes I and II. These books provided the basis for a worldwide and extensive training organization initiated by Dr. John M. Campbell during the late1960's, and are still applied by PetroSkills | John M. Campbell for worldwide engineering training to this date.

Bill Finch is a passionate operations leader for onshore oilfield, gas plant, and pipeline operations. He is driven to deliver results through an action bias, is committed to safety, and strongly believes in engineering and leadership operational presence in the field or plant. Bill's strengths include engaging people in the workplace and building competencies. He uses a pragmatic, practical approach to engineering support and work processes. Regarding operational discipline, Bill uses continuous improvement principles that often exceed business goals. His core competencies include a strong process engineering background, leveraging human capacity, operational know-how, building competency, decision making, translating strategy to delivery, system integration, teacher/coach, and risk management. Bill is a registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana, Montana, and Texas. He has a BS in Chemical Engineering from Montana State University and post graduate work toward a MChE at University of Houston.

MRS. KINDRA SNOW-MCGREGOR is the Technical Director of Oil and Gas Processing with PetroSkills | John M Campbell. She has a master's and bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and Petroleum Refining from the Colorado School of Mines, and over 22 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. She has served as the technical lead on several significant projects in the industry for clients such as BP, ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Occidental, QatarGas, and XTO. Mrs. Snow-McGregor has been active in the gas processing / midstream industry for many years and is on the Board of Directors for the GPSA. In addition, she serves on the GPSA Engineering Data Book Editorial Review Board. She has published 9 technical papers at international conferences and is a coinventor on two technology patents in the gas processing industry.


In-House Course Presentations
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