Oilfield Processing of Petroleum, Volume 1: Natural Gas

This book describes oilfield processing and handling of natural gas in a direct, easy-to-follow format. Process descriptions, design methods, operating procedures and troubleshooting are covered in detail. This hands-on reference will be useful to field practitioners and is an ideal training text. Petroleum engineers will gain a better understanding of surface operations between the wellhead and the point of custody transfer or transport from the production facilities.

Contents

• Characterization of natural gas and its products
• Phase behavior of natural gas
• Water-hydrocarbon phase behavior
• Field processing of natural gas
• Prevention of hydrate formation
• Gas sweetening
• Gas dehydration using glycol
• Gas dehydration using solid desiccants, LTX, CaCl
• Compression
• Gas measurement
• Heat and cooling
• Transportation
• Natural gas liquids recovery
• Glossary
• Material balances
• Energy balances
• OPSIM: conversion of units
• Physical properties