PRE 112
Surface Facilities for Exploration and Production and Professionals
Surface Facilities for Exploration and Production and Professionals
COURSE SCHEDULE
| Code | Date | Location | price (€)* |
|---|---|---|---|
| PRE 112 | 16-18 March 2026 | Online | 2000 |
| PRE 112 | 29 Nov-1 Dec 2026 | Muscat | 2700 |
* Prices are subject to VAT and local terms. Ph.D. students, groups (≥ 3 persons) and early bird registrants (8 weeks in advance) are entitled to a DISCOUNT!
COURSE OVERVIEW
Surface facilities represent the operational bridge between what reservoir engineers design and what flows to market. Yet for most upstream professionals’ geologists, reservoir engineers, drilling engineers, and production engineers, the surface side of the operation may still be a black box. This course removes that black box.
Over three days, participants develop a working understanding of the principal surface facility systems encountered in onshore and offshore O&G production from wellhead equipment and separation trains to gas treatment, compression, crude oil stabilization, and produced water management.
The focus is operational and practical: how these systems work, how they interact, and what happens when they underperform.
By the end of the course, upstream professionals will speak the same language as surface engineers and facility operators enabling better integrated decision making across the full production system.
COURSE OUTLINE
5 days
Day 1: Well Effluents, Wellhead Systems, and Separation
o Phase Behavior of Well Effluents & Surface System Overview.
o Wellhead Equipment & Flow Lines.
o Separation Trains & Crude Stabilization.
o Crude Dehydration & Export Specification Compliance.
o Exercises:
• Exercise 01: Diagnose how reservoir pressure decline is undermining well deliverability and determine what surface adjustments keep production on target.
• Exercise 02: Track down the root cause of an off-spec crude condition and prescribe the fix before it becomes a commercial problem.
• Exercise 03: Master every wellhead component, what it does, why it matters, and which ones demand the most operator attention.
• Exercise 04: Determine whether the existing stabilization train can handle a tightened export specification or whether something needs to change.
Field Bravo Anchor Scenario: All case studies and exercises draw from a single onshore O&G field used progressively across all three days
Day 2: Produced Water, Gas Processing, and Compression
o Produced Water Treatment.
o Gas Processing & Conditioning.
o Compression Systems.
o Field Development Schemes.
o Exercises:
• Exercise 05: Find the bottleneck that is limiting produced water handling capacity and evaluate every option available before the problem outgrows the facility.
• Exercise 06: Build the complete case, timing, sizing, and economics for the compression investment that extends field life.
• Exercise 07: Track down why delivered gas is exceeding its H₂S limit and prescribe the operational correction before the buyer raises the flag.
• Exercise 08: Trace the ESD logic from trigger to final isolation and identify exactly what fails and what survives when each safeguarding layer is removed.
Day 3: Practical Workshop: Field Bravo Production System
o Morning Session, Field Bravo: Participants trace the complete fluid path from wellhead to export point, building the system reading capability that makes every upstream decision more technically defensible.
o Afternoon Session, Field Bravo: Participants diagnose a simultaneous reservoir pressure decline, rising GOR, and separator constraint and develop an integrated optimization recommendation that connects subsurface and surface thinking.
o Individual Quiz Assessment: 20 questions. Minimum passing score: 60%.
INSTRUCTOR
Petro Teach Instructor
The Instructor is a Petroleum Engineer, holds M.Sc in Mechanical Engineering, and is Specialist Natural Gas Engineering. He has over 20 years of hands-on O&G industry experience spanning gas processing, crude treatment, production operations, and technical training across onshore and offshore environments in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.
His operational background includes five years as OJT Instructor at production facilities in the Middle East, AGRU Package Leader roles, and extensive experience as Process Engineer across upstream and downstream O&G facilities.
Since 2015 he has been a Senior Lecturer on IFP Training’s international instructor roster, delivering advanced gas processing, thermodynamics, field processing, and operations training to engineers and operators across three continents.
FAQ
DESIGNED FOR
Upstream professionals who need a working understanding of surface facilities without being surface engineers themselves:
o Reservoir Engineers
o Production Engineers
o Drilling & Completion Engineers
o Petroleum Geologists and Geophysicists
o Well Operations Engineers
o Field Development Engineers
o Upstream Project Engineers
Recommended experience: Minimum 2 years in an upstream O&G role.
COURSE LEVEL
Intermediate
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
o Recognize the interaction between reservoir behavior, wellbore performance, and surface facility constraints
o Describe the function and operational logic of the main surface facility systems in an onshore or offshore production environment
o Identify the key equipment in a separation train and explain the operating principles governing oil, gas, and water separation
o Explain the purpose and main processes involved in crude oil stabilization, gas treatment, and compression
o Read and interpret a basic Process Flow Diagram (PFD) and Piping & Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) in the context of the Day 3 workshop
o Identify common operational problems in surface facilities and their upstream causes
o Apply a systems thinking approach to production optimization across the wellbore-surface interface
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