Surface Production Operations: Design of Oil-Handling Systems & Facilities by Ken Arnold, Maurice Stewart Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing Company; 2nd edition (April 1998) ISBN: 0884158217 Check price @ amazon.com , amazon.ca , amazon.co.uk

Book Description

In this new edition, experts Arnold and Stewart share their many years of in-the-field and classroom experience. Each chapter is right up to date with the latest industry information. New figures, photos, charts, and tables consolidate hours of details into at-a-glance illustrations. Example problems accompany the updated text. With this volume's clear presentation, you will understand the basic concepts and techniques needed to DESIGN, SPECIFY, and OPERATE oilfield surface production facilities and operations. This 470-page manual carefully describes the equipment and processes commonly used in oil-water separating and treating systems. It also shows you how to select the appropriate piping and pumping systems. The authors' insights and practical suggestions help you understand the art and science of handling produced liquids. With this book in hand, you can organize the project with a better grasp of the complex parameters needed to design and operate an efficient production facility.

Book Info

Volume 1: Design of Oil-Handling Systems and Facilities, carefully describes the equipment and processes commonly used in oil-water separating and treating systems. Understand the basic concepts and techniques needed to design, specify, and operate oilfield surface production facilities.

About the Author

Ken Arnold is founder and president of Paragon Engineering Services, Houston, Texas. He has more than 30 years of experience with Paragon and with Shell in project engineering, engineering management, and research management. He is actively involved in production-facility design and project management both in the United States and internationally. He has served on numerous SPE, API, and government-advisory committees as an expert on oil handling, produced-water treating, and safety aspects of producing operations.

Maurice Stewart, Ph.D., P.E., has more than 25 years of international consulting and teaching experience in project management; designing, operating, and troubleshooting oil-, water-, and gas-handling facilities; and conducting hazards reviews and risk assessments. He has taught more than 27,000 professionals in 63 countries in virtually every oil and gas production sector in the world. He has served on numerous API, SPE, ISA, and NACE committees responsible for developing or revising industry codes, standards, and recommended practices. He received the Engineer of the Year award from the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1985. He is an adjunct professor of petroleum engineering at Louisiana State University.

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Customer Reviews

Excellent text for a working Process Engineer, September 22, 2002
Reviewer: Ed Pickering from United Kingdom
As a Process Engineer, working in both operations and design in the upstream oil industry, it is pleasing to find a text that finally covers all the unit operations you are likely to encounter in oil processing. The book is an easy read that doesn't get weighed down in first principles. This means that you can quickly get the information you require and have confidence in your decisions. It's a must for anyone working in the industry, especially those who may be offshore, I always have my copy with me.

Surface Process Equipment, June 14, 2000
Reviewer: Richard Marcano Echeverría from Caracas, Venezuela
This book is very useful for both Process and non process engineers working in the field and finding all kinds of surface equipment. The relation between the equipment is also very important while customer advising because process engineering in Latin America is kind of a game each one plays by his own criteria and having a great weakness on equipment availability. Lets say that general rules does not apply, but with the guidance of this book is very easy to understand why things happen and how decisions affect production fields operations.