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Surface Separators & Production Facilities
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- State that the surface job is to separate and condition the produced stream of oil, water, and gas
- Explain how separators split gas from liquid (two-phase) or oil, water, and gas (three-phase) using gravity settling, retention time, and momentum or mist extraction
- Describe stage separation as a train of separators at falling pressures that stabilizes the oil and recovers more liquids
- Outline downstream conditioning: oil treating and dehydration (heater-treaters, desalting), custody metering (LACT unit), gas dehydration, and produced-water handling
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Educational content covering topics typical of an undergraduate petroleum-engineering curriculum. Not a substitute for accredited coursework, and not suitable for real well, reservoir, or field decisions without review by a licensed professional engineer. Well-control content is conceptual awareness only and is not IWCF/IADC training. References to reserves or resource classifications are descriptive context only, not regulatory disclosure or booking guidance.