When the fluid release gas bubbles, foam may appears on the surface. To stabilize this foam we may add some chemicals or we can use…
Fluids outputted by the wellhead are made of form many different compounds of hydrocarbon and each compound has its own physical characteristic. The fluids flow…
Wet gas enters the glycol contact tower through an inlet which located in base and flows upwards through the bubble caps. Dry glycol will flow…
Before gas can be sold the gas need to be dehydrated from its water content. This efforts need to be done to prevents hydrates and…
As we can see on the schematic, the first stage of Lease Automatic Custody Transfer (LACT) system is a strainer/gas eliminator. The strainer is needed to…
The tube inside flame arrestor will prevent a vent flame traveling back into the tank as we can see in the figure above. The common…
Crude oil outputted from the production separator still contain some water, before it goes to the storage the water-oil emulsion must be broken to reduce…
High initial pressure is needed to obtain maximum liquid output in production separator. The incoming liquid stream may contains many light components. These light components…
Wire mesh mist extractor is made of stainless steel wire which form a woven mats wrapped into cylinder pack. The working principle is simple, liquid…
There are two main types of inlet diverter, baffle plates and centrifugal diverter. Baffle plate is simply a plate to change the liquid direction and…