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Troubleshooting Oil Processing Facilities
This course teaches a general troubleshooting framework and its application to the processes and equipment specific to oil production and processing facilities. It covers what good performance looks like, how to collect and validate operating data, and how to weigh possible fixes, with practical exercises throughout.
- Discipline
- Facilities
- Level
- Intermediate
- Duration
- 5 days
- Formats
- Classroom, In-house
Every course can be delivered in-house and tailored to your organisation.
Who should attend
Process and facilities engineers with several years of experience, facilities team leaders and supervisors, and senior operations staff working on oil facilities.
What participants will be able to do
- Differentiate troubleshooting, optimisation and debottlenecking
- Recognise when an oil processing system is underperforming
- Apply a systematic approach to diagnosing problems
- Analyse interactions between facility components
- Evaluate and choose among candidate solutions
Topics covered
- Troubleshooting methodology
- Oil treating problems
- Data gathering and validation
- Component interactions
- Solution criteria
- Real-world case exercises