Course Description

This course is intended to provide knowledge to the participants in the following aspects: Heavy and extra heavy Oil properties, Requirements for Heavy and extra heavy Oil storage, Requirements for Heavy and extra heavy Oil transport, Requirements for Heavy and extra heavy Oil treatment, Analysis of technologies to transport Heavy and extra heavy Oil in pipelines, Analysis emerging technologies to transport and store heavy crude oil, Operations on Heavy and extra heavy Oil pipelines, Gathering and Handling Schemes for Heavy and extra heavy Oil, PIPESIM Applications in Heavy and extra heavy Oil, Measurements techniques for storage farms basic.

Who Should Attend?

·         Engineers 

·         Managers

·         Surface facilities design and operation engineers

·         Production staff 

·         Anyone who is or will be responsible for heavy oil gathering and transport system 

PROGRAM TOPICS

Heavy Oil field process 

·         Field process 

·         Production process and transport

·         Production system 

·         Nodal analysis 

Single phase equation in pipelines 

·         Reynolds transport principles

·         Continuity Equation 

·         Momentum’s equation 

·         Single phase flow 

·         Fluid flow equations

Isothermal flow in pipeline 

·         Incompressible single phase flow 

·         Flow parameter estimation: pressure, flow, and diameter 

·         Minor pressure loss in accessories and valves 

·         Impact of some parameter in the energy requirement 

·         Pumps in the pipeline system 

Temperature profile in pipeline 

·         Explicit model 

·         For incompressible fluid 

·         For compressible fluid 

·         For Multiphase flow 21 

·         Implicit model 

·         Peng – Robinson Equation of State

Crude oil diluents 

·         Impact of the dilution on the density and viscosity 

·         Impact f the dilution on density and viscosity of the mixture 

·         Impact of the dilution on the pressure requirement 

·         Optimum amount of diluents based on hydraulic analysis 

·         Booster stations 

·         Impact on pipeline diameter 

·         Effect of the mixture quality 

·         Effect of the topography of the terrain 

Heavy oil transport using heat 

·         Hydraulic behavior on heated pipeline 

·         Characteristic behavior of some heavy oil 

·         Study case and premises for hydraulic study 

·         Thermal- hydraulic analysis to the pipeline

Water-crude oil transport 

·         Water distributed in crude oil phase 

·         Physical properties and pressure drop 

·         Two phase flow: different model

Gas-liquid flow in gathering system 

·         Correlations: Flanigan, Dukler et al, Beggs y Brill, Oliemans, etc 

·         Effect of gas on the properties of the liquid phase 

·         Flow effect on the gas phase 

·         Mechanistic models: Xio’s Method 

·         Gas-Liquid flow in the production system

Basic equations for gathering network 

·         Series system 

·         Parallel system 

·         Branched system 

·         Gathering network: open, closed, 

·         Equations for gathering network 

Gathering network structure 

·         Introduction to the gathering network 

·         Topography of the network 

·         Generation of dendrite in the network