ELVE3615 Oil & Gas, Separation and Stabilisation Process Course description

Start-up is dependent on a sufficient number of students registering for the course.

The course builds on MEK1000 Mathematics 1000.

No requirements over and above the admission requirements.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student is familiar with

• the Plan for Development and Operation of a petroleum deposit (PDO)
• seismology, surveying for potential oil deposits below the seabed
• the drilling process, drilling in test wells and production wells
• field tests, the composition of oil
• the design of a production platform, jack-up, GBS, floater or ship
• the design of the process
• wellheads/chokes
• sand traps in processed oil and gas
• separation trains, separation of oil and the gas phases
• stabilisation and gas processing trains
• water cleaning facility for produced water
• utility systems
• power generation
• the metering system, fiscal metering of oil and gas production
• export systems, compressors, pumps and pig launchers
• stranded gas, processing deposits without pipe infrastructure
• the control system, all control and security systems on-board a production platform
• communication, on the platform, between platforms, and to land remote control
• refineries or processing of petroleum products

Skills

The student

• is familiar with the principles relating to conferring licenses and the use of these
• can differentiate between the major equipment units
• can differentiate between processing equipment and safety equipment
• can evaluate safety and risks

General competence

The student

• recognises all the modules on a platform
• can differentiate between the various platform types
• has basic knowledge in the field of oil and gas

Lectures covering theory and project work.

None.

Portfolio assessment subject to the following requirements:

Four individual project assignments. The scope of the assignments is between 10-20 pages.

One overall grade is awarded for the portfolio.

The exam results can be appealed.

All aids are permitted.

Grade scale A-F.

Two internal examiners. External examiners are used regularly.