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Well Control Questions and Answers unfortunately, some of the questions have NO answers here, if possible leave an answer in your comment. َQ32) Assuming a gas kick, which of the following increases the risk of exceeding MAASP during a well kill operation? a) A small difference between the formation fraction pressure and the hydrostatic pressure. […]
31 questions and answer about drilling well control, collected from IWCF course.
what is produced water? why removing it? how it is treated? How Much Produced Water we produce?
How to purify natural gas, the ways used to do this, process description of each one, and the most common sweetening processes
a collection of many terms and expressions used in oilfield, necessary for all oilfield engineers and technicians.
what is The catalytic reforming? and how does it work? a detailed explanation about this process, with a detailed sketch of it.
what is Fluid Catalytic Cracking which is known as FCC, and what are the steps and details of this process, and how it works.
What is Steam Cracking? by: Souad LOUSDAD Alongside with the “Conversion Processes “and the “thermal cracking”, there is the “steam cracking” or “Pyrolysis”. Hydrocarbon steam cracking is one of the most important processes in the petrochemical industry, as it is able to produce highly valuable olefins such as ethylene, propylene and butadiene from lower value […]
what is Thermal Cracking? what is Delayed Cocking?
a brief discussion of these concepts
Vaccum Distillation Written By: Souad LOUSDAD The next step in the process of crude oil separation is the vacuum distillation of the atmospheric residue that was drawn off from the bottom of the atmospheric column. Let’s start with some simple questions: Why is it called vacuum fractioning? What is the main advantage of it? And […]
Atmospheric Distillation Written By: Souad LOUSDAD We have already mentioned « Atmospheric Distillation” in the previous article An Introduction to Crude Oil Refining we said that it ranges with the “Separation Processes” as the first process the crude oil goes through. Before we dive in the details, let’s start with simple questions to clarify the global […]
What is Crude Oil Refining? Written By: Souad LOUSDAD Do you ever stop on the highway to get gas and ask yourself where does it come from? Or buy a plastic cup of coffee and wonder how did it end up this way? Well, the gas does not come up from the ground this way […]
