Oil and Gas Production Handbook

by Abb

This handbook is has been compiled to give readers with an interested in the oil and gas production industry an overview of the main processes and equipment. When I started to search for a suitable introduction to be used for new engineers,I discovered that much of this equipment is described in standards, equipment manuals and project documentation. But little material was found to quickly give the reader
an overview of the entire upstream area, while still preserving enough detail to let the engineer get an appreciation of the main characteristics and design issues.

This book is by no means a comprehensive description on the detailed design of any part of this process, and many details have been omitted in the interest of overview. I have included some comments on the control issues, since that is part of my own background. For the same reason, the description will be somewhat biased toward the offshore installations.

The material has been compiled form various online sources as well as ABB and customer documents. I am thankful to my colleagues in the industry for providing valuable input, in particular Erik Solbu of Norsk Hydro for the Njord process and
valuable comments. I have included many photos to give the reader an impression what typical facilities or equipment look like. Non-ABB photo source given below picture other pictures and illustrations are ABB.

Reviews

[Meera · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a brief summary of oil and gas production. As a chemical engineering graduate, I recommend this book to people who have interest in oil and gas industry or students who intend to study this field as it gives a complete introduction/description of the main processes of oil and gas production.

[Jun Wang · Rating 3 out of 5]

i can finish a 162 pages book in 2hours, because i always skip exploration part, to understand which, lots of geological background is required, i also skip gas and refinery(downstream) on which i have no experience.
they actually, as far as gas is concerned in post-production phase, have sort of FGS- field gathering station-fgs to connect the flowlines, and transport gas to CPF-central processing facilities. gas is processed in field, this is different from oil midstream(post-production gathering, transportation and storage).
in addition, well intervention with the absence of a workover rig that performs workover on a rig to improve the production and without pulling the tubing out or killing the well with the heavy kill mud pumped into the middle of the drill string comes to my knowledge. i just have no idea how well-intervention, for instance wireline operation, is performed? i need more field experience.

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great introduction for oil and gas production.
Easily understandable, full of diagrams and illustrations.