About
This course will review basics of heavy oil extraction, characteristics, quantities, and typical ratios of waters in heavy oil extraction. It will review alternative discharge limitations, offshore discharge, and treatment for well injection. Suspended and oil/crude separation, with traditional and new equipment, will be covered. The course will review the scientific basis and principles of softening, lime softening (hot, warm, including sludge disposal), strong acid exchange (SAC), weak acid exchange (WAC), ion exchange, boiler feed water chemistry (including once through steam generator), and cooling tower cases. Technologies for produced water recovery will be discussed.
Target Audience
Central processing facility operators and process designers dealing with heavy oil produced water separation, recovery, and treatment for reuse or disposal. Personnel involved in establishing, improving, optimizing, or supervising the implementation of technology improvements. This course will be useful to managers in completion, production, and optimization of operations. The course is a great reference parameter for water technologies in mining and heavy industry, with some examples of cases and treatment for discharge and spills.
You Will Learn
Participants will learn how to:
- Understand and analyze technology options, advantages, and limitations
- Choose the most advantageous technology given the site conditions
- Design or specify the equipment capable of fulfilling the operations intended
- Optimize design conditions and operating efficiency
- Choose suppliers when comparing basic principles and design
- Synthetize and define the applicability conditions of technologies
- Troubleshoot field situations, learned from field cases, discussions, and debates in class
- Understand water mass and ionic/solids balance
- Estimate and calculate equipment requirements, predesign and specify equipment
- Predict efficiencies or performance of equipment, anticipate remediation of spills