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Surface Production Operations: Design of Oil Handling Systems and Facilities
Ken Arnold, AMEC Paragon, Houston, Texas Maurice Stewart, President, Stewart Training Company THIRD EDITION
The job of a production facility is to separate the well stream into three components, typically called “phases” (oil, gas, and water), and process these phases into some marketable product(s) or dispose of them in an environmentally acceptable manner. In mechanical devices called “separators,” gas is flashed from the liquids and “free water” is separated from the oil. These steps remove enough light hydrocarbons to produce a stable crude oil with the volatility (vapor pressure) to meet sales criteria.
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