Comprehensive Overview of the Oil & Gas Industry
From hydrocarbon basics to refineries, petrochemicals and utilities: the whole industry in 7 structured sessions.
Are you an engineering student, a graduate engineer, or a professional moving into oil and gas? This illustrated study guide walks you through how the whole industry fits together, from what a hydrocarbon is to how crude oil and natural gas are produced, treated, refined and turned into fuels, petrochemicals and fertilisers.
Each session uses process flow diagrams, tables and plain-language explanations drawn from more than 25 years of training operators at major producers. It finishes with the main engineering disciplines in the industry and the major oil and gas companies across the Middle East, so you know where your skills fit.
You will learn
- Hydrocarbon basics and properties
- Upstream, midstream and downstream explained
- Wells, Christmas trees, flow lines and gathering centres
- Crude oil separation, desalting, storage and metering
- Gas sweetening, dehydration, NGL, LPG and LNG
- Refinery units: CDU, FCC, hydrocracking, reforming
- Petrochemicals, fertilisers, power and utilities
- Engineering roles and Middle East employers
Course contents
- 1
Session 1: Hydrocarbon Basics
Alkanes, physical and chemical properties, gas conditioning and processing, and the upstream / midstream / downstream / petrochemical classification.
- 2
Session 2: Oil & Gas Production Process
Exploration and seismic surveys, well development and casing, well completion, Christmas tree and wellhead, flow lines, manifolds and gathering centres.
- 3
Session 3: Crude Oil Treatment & Stabilization
Gas-liquid separators, desalting, storage tanks, crude metering and export / shipping pumps.
- 4
Session 4: Natural Gas Treatment
Amine (DEA) sweetening and regeneration, TEG dehydration, NGL recovery and fractionation, LPG and LNG.
- 5
Session 5: Refinery Operation
Atmospheric crude distillation, fluidized catalytic cracking, hydrocracking and catalytic reforming.
- 6
Session 6: Petrochemical & Fertiliser
How hydrocarbons become plastics, chemicals and ammonia-based fertilisers.
- 7
Session 7: Power & Utilities
Power systems, steam and heat generation, instrument and plant air, and other utility systems.
- 8
Bonus: Careers in Oil & Gas
Roles of civil, mechanical, electrical, instrumentation, HSE, inspection, corrosion and specialty-chemical professionals, and the major operators in KSA, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Oman.
What you'll get
- Number of resources
- 1
- Resource content
- PDF, 83 illustrated slides
- Sessions
- 7 + careers bonus
- Total file size
- 4.5 MB
- Access
- Lifetime download
- Language
- English
Who this is for
- Engineering students and fresh graduates
- Early-career operators and technicians
- Professionals from other industries moving into oil & gas
- Anyone preparing for oil & gas job interviews
Your trainer: Hamsa V Bava
Oil & Gas process trainer with 25+ years of experience at ADNOC, QP, PDO and Oxy. LinkedIn
Contact for any issues or queries
Educational resources only. These materials do not guarantee employment or constitute an accredited qualification.
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