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Questions Asked in Production Engineer Interview: Surface Facilities Questions & Answers: Q: Why Water is unwanted in crude oil? A: We have to reduce the water & salt content because there are many bad effects for the existence of water and salt in crude oil, they are: 1. Salt Sedimentation in heat exchangers and furnaces, […]
Wet Crude Treatment in Brief as we mentioned in previous articles, it is required to remove water and salts from crude oil for its bad effects on oil treatment equipment and processes, and we said that wet crude has to be dehydrated and desalted in Wet Crude Treatment Plant and talked lengthily about Optimizing Wet Crude […]
what is Wet Crude? Raed Al-Obaidi in the beginning of the production from any reservoir the crude oil contains no water and salt; with time it begins to produce large amounts of water and salt, although the density difference guarantee that water stays bellow crude oil in the reservoir, but sometimes water content will with time. […]
Emulsion Treatment Steps Raed Al-Obaidi In general, the treatment of water emulsions in crude oil consists of 3 stages: emulsion breaking: includes breaking the film that surrounds the water droplet, by the aid of heat and demulsifier. water droplet coalescence: water droplets combine with each other after breaking the emulsion and being free forming big […]
