Crude Oil Treatment and Troubleshooting Course

Name: Crude Oil Treatment Operations and Troubleshooting Training Course
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Control crude quality from separation through stabilization using treatment evidence, operating envelopes, and structured fault diagnosis.

Crude Oil Treatment and Troubleshooting Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Trabzon, Doha, Singapore, Cairo, Istanbul, Sharm El-Sheikh and more
Next session: 8 – 12 November 2026, Trabzon
Average fee: 7,500 €

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Overview

Crude Oil Treatment Operations and Troubleshooting Training Course is a one-week course for production, process, operating, laboratory, flow-assurance, and technical-assurance functions who leave with a Crude Treatment Performance and Troubleshooting File. Participants connect crude properties, emulsion behavior, separation, dehydration, desalting, stabilization, quality evidence, and operating limits. The course resolves treatment failures through trend analysis, bottle-test decisions, electrostatic-treater checks, and structured upset diagnosis. Agile Leaders Training Center presents crude oil treatment operations and troubleshooting.

Who Should Attend

Production engineering functions responsible for crude-treatment performance and delivery specifications
Process engineering functions responsible for separation, heating, dehydration, desalting, and stabilization
Operations functions responsible for treatment trains, chemical injection, interfaces, and upset response
Laboratory and quality functions responsible for crude sampling, testing, and result validation
Flow-assurance functions responsible for wax, asphaltene, solids, foam, and emulsion behavior
Technical-assurance functions responsible for operating envelopes, evidence, and improvement actions

The course assumes participants already interpret process-flow diagrams, operating trends, laboratory results, or crude specifications, and it leaves out reservoir engineering, artificial lift, refinery-wide integration, detailed mechanical design, produced-water treatment as the primary subject, and gas processing.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that condition crude oil for transfer, transport, storage, or refining.

Upstream production and surface facilities
Crude gathering and central processing facilities
Oil terminals and storage operations
Refinery crude-receipt and feed-preparation functions
Process laboratories and product-quality assurance
Production chemicals and technical services

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Build a crude-treatment target and operating-envelope basis
Analyze emulsion stability, separation, heating, and retention effects
Apply dehydration, desalting, wash-water, and chemical controls
Evaluate stabilization, vapor-pressure, solids, wax, foam, and H2S risks
Diagnose quality excursions from samples, trends, interfaces, and equipment behavior
Prioritize energy, chemical, start-up, shutdown, and upset actions

Course Agenda

Day 1: Define Treatment Targets

Crude Characterization and Treatment Target Sheet
Wellstream Separation and Treatment Train Map
BS&W, Salt, Sediment, and Vapor-Pressure Evidence Register
ASTM D4057-22 Manual Sampling Practice Check
Crude Treatment Operating Envelope and Constraint Log

Day 2: Control Emulsions and Dehydration

Water-in-Oil Emulsion Stability Diagnosis Matrix
Gravity Settling, Temperature, and Retention-Time Assessment
Demulsifier Bottle-Test and Dosage Decision Sheet
Electrostatic Dehydrator Field and Interface Control Map
ASTM D4007-22 Water and Sediment Trend Review

Day 3: Operate Desalting and Stabilization

Wash-Water Quality, Rate, and Mixing Control Plan
Electrostatic Desalter Salt-Removal Performance Balance
ASTM D6470-26 Crude Salt Result Interpretation
Crude Stabilization and Vapor-Pressure Control Diagram
Produced-Water, Slop, and Recycle Interface Register

Day 4: Troubleshoot Treatment Performance

Solids, Wax, Asphaltene, Foam, and H2S Risk Matrix
High BS&W and Salt Excursion Fault Tree
Treater Interface, Carryover, Arcing, and Short-Circuit Check
Heat, Chemical, Wash-Water, and Residence-Time Optimization Sheet
Start-Up, Shutdown, and Treatment Upset Response Checklist

Day 5: Practice Treatment Assurance

Suggested Exercise: Diagnose an Emulsion and Select Treatment Controls
Suggested Exercise: Reconcile Dehydrator and Desalter Performance Trends
Suggested Exercise: Resolve Stabilization and Quality-Specification Deviations
Suggested Exercise: Optimize Heat, Chemical, and Wash-Water Decisions
Capstone Exercise: Complete the Crude Treatment Performance and Troubleshooting File

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities to convert crude properties, treatment conditions, test results, and failure evidence into controlled operating decisions.

Suggested activity: classify an emulsion and compare temperature, retention, chemical, and electrostatic treatment options.
Suggested activity: calculate a dehydration and desalting performance balance from inlet, outlet, water, and salt data.
Suggested activity: trace a quality excursion through sampling, interfaces, chemical dosage, heating, and equipment behavior.
Suggested activity: document start-up, shutdown, upset-response, and optimization actions inside an operating envelope.

FAQs

Who suits crude oil treatment operations training, and what does it assume?

Crude oil treatment operations training suits production, process, operating, laboratory, flow-assurance, and assurance functions. It assumes working familiarity with process diagrams, operating data, laboratory results, or crude specifications.

How does crude oil treatment training differ from produced-water treatment training?

Crude oil treatment training focuses on export-quality oil through separation, emulsion breaking, dehydration, desalting, stabilization, and quality control. Produced-water treatment training focuses on removing dispersed oil and solids from the water stream for discharge, reuse, or reinjection.

Why do crude oil emulsions resist dehydration?

Crude oil emulsions resist dehydration when small water droplets, interfacial films, fines, high viscosity, insufficient temperature, poor chemical selection, short residence time, or unstable electrostatic conditions prevent droplet coalescence and settling.

How is crude oil desalter performance monitored?

Crude oil desalter performance is monitored through inlet and outlet salt, water and sediment, wash-water quality and rate, mixing, temperature, pressure, interface level, electrical behavior, brine quality, and trend reconciliation.

How is a crude oil treatment quality excursion troubleshot?

A quality excursion is troubleshot by validating the sample, locating the first abnormal trend, checking feed properties and interfaces, testing chemical response, reviewing heat and residence time, examining electrical behavior, and recording corrective evidence.

Conclusion

Participants take back a Crude Treatment Performance and Troubleshooting File linking crude properties, targets, treatment stages, operating limits, test evidence, deviations, and corrective actions. The file changes isolated readings into a traceable treatment diagnosis. It supports more consistent quality decisions, controlled chemical and energy use, structured upset response, and documented operating assurance.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Trabzon	Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Doha	Week 46, 2026 15 – 19 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€7,000
Singapore	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Cairo	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Istanbul	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,200
Tashkent	Week 51, 2026 20 – 24 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Barcelona	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Langkawi	Week 52, 2026 27 – 31 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
New York	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€16,000
Phuket	Week 01, 2027 10 – 14 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€8,000
Paris	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Tokyo	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Rome	Week 06, 2027 8 – 12 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Porto	Week 06, 2027 8 – 12 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Kuala Lumpur	Week 07, 2027 15 – 19 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Lisbon	Week 07, 2027 15 – 19 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Casablanca	Week 08, 2027 22 – 26 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,000
Muscat	Week 08, 2027 28 February – 4 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500
Munich	Week 10, 2027 8 – 12 March 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,500

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewCrude Oil Treatment Operations and Troubleshooting Training Course is a one-week course for production, process, operating, laboratory, flow-assurance, and technical-assurance functions who leave with a Crude Treatment Performance and Troubleshooting File. Participants connect crude properties, emulsion behavior, separation, dehydration, desalting…

Are training dates available?

Yes. Available dates and destinations are listed in the course dates section on this page.

How can I register?

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Can I download the course brochure?

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Crude Oil Treatment and Troubleshooting Course