This course is designed for gas plant or field operators, engineers, technologists, or workers who want to enhance their knowledge of gas plant operations and learn about gas processing equipment and gas field processing, including the duties and responsibilities of gas field operations.
Observational training takes place at the gas production training facility at Energy Safety Canada’s office in Nisku, Alberta. This course provides a 50% classroom theory portion and 50% observational training in the gas plant.
Topics Covered
- Field dehydration
- Gas sweetening
- Compression
- Mechanical refrigeration
- Pumps
- Metering and instrumentation
- Line heaters
- Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
- Chemical injection
- General safety
- Gas detection
- Understanding hydrocarbons
- Process drawings
- Wellhead equipment
- Hydrates
