Date: Monday, 09 September 2024, JW Marriott, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Instructor: Wally Georgie

Description: This course provides a fundamental understanding of water treating with a specific focus on upstream production and processing operations. It presents the fundamental mechanisms behind various water treating equipment and processes and gives practical experience from dozens of water treating facilities from around the globe for improved equipment performance.

Throughout the course, field experiences, practical issues, and performance of equipment is analyzed and explained in terms of chemistry and engineering principles. The scientific aspects of water treating are presented in a practical down-to-earth manner that can be understood with little prior study, and can be immediately implemented in the field.

Topics:

• Characterization of oil/water/gas for water treating
  • Produced Water
  • Non-produced Fluids
  • Facility drainage systems
  • Flow back fluids
• Equipment description, selection, performance, and challenges
• Process engineering and process line-ups
• Chemical treating
• Operations – sampling, monitoring, and surveillance
  • Water-flooding, Injectivity Decline, Remediation
• Process Troubleshooting, Total System Approach
• Water treatment for fracturing operations

As indicated by these topics, the full project life cycle is covered from concept selection to front end engineering, detailed design, operation, and trouble shooting. Also indicated is a balanced approach toward chemical versus mechanical treating. A rigorous approach toward troubleshooting is presented with several examples.
Lessons learned and best practices are presented from essentially all major hydrocarbon production regions of the world. Applications include both onshore and offshore systems, as well as water treating for injection disposal, water flood, polymer make-up, polymer flooding, steam flooding, and hydraulic fracturing.

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