Reading / Creating / Understanding P&ID's
Reading / Creating / Understanding P&ID's
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I am currently in the capacity of EPCM within the natural Gas Sector. I am looking for two things.
1) Book/article that would help me understand the processes from drilling to final product.
2) Understanding the placement of valves,pumps (and types) etc; and understanding spec breaks and where they should occur.
Any insight would be great.
Thanks
1) Book/article that would help me understand the processes from drilling to final product.
2) Understanding the placement of valves,pumps (and types) etc; and understanding spec breaks and where they should occur.
Any insight would be great.
Thanks





RE: Reading / Creating / Understanding P&ID's
If it stands for "Extra Pure Consulting Minion" then a comic book would do (Amoco actually published a pretty good one in the early '80s for high school students).
If it stands for "Exploration Project Consulting Manager" I'd suggest 4 years in Lubbock, TX; Norman, OK; Golden, CO; or Bryant Park, TX.
David
RE: Reading / Creating / Understanding P&ID's
RE: Reading / Creating / Understanding P&ID's
If you need a boon dongle then, The Colorado School of Mines has a 1 week course, JM Campbell holds clases. The GPA is an organization the represents the industry and they have clases an seminars at their convention....
RE: Reading / Creating / Understanding P&ID's
It sounds as though you have familiarity with the mechanical machinery such as pumps and compressors. More on equipment if not. If you do not know devices such as pressure differentia (flow) and pressure transmitters visually, consider visiting a skid fabricator, plant, job site or instrument representative warehouse for that purpose. This applies more easily for valves. Many warehouses are available to get a grasp of ball or gate valves, flange classes, etc. If pipe sizes are not clear (NPS 1/2 has no relationship to 1/2-inch inside or outside) then any piping warehouse or even a hardware store can help.
I am least able to address drilling. However, API publishes some neat training material that is great for this end of the business. Exploration and drilling are known as upstream -- way up stream. Gas and oil gathering, separation, and treating in an oil-patch setting are still upstream. We all define upstream and downstream differently. Downstream includes gas processing, refining and all of the gas/liquid petro-chemical processes. Plastic pellots are way down stream.
RE: Reading / Creating / Understanding P&ID's
David
RE: Reading / Creating / Understanding P&ID's
There may be a book that will take you from downhole to delivery but it would either be so thick that it would take years to read or so vauge that you would know just enough to get yourself into trouble.
As to your second question. This will vary form producer to producer and area to area. Some areas have lots of oil, some gas, some both with a ton of water mixed in and then everything in between. Valves and equipment will vary with all of this.
My suggestion would be to find someone in your area that is very knowlageble in O&G and start asking questions. Some people can give you a great idea of what happens between the wellhead and the refinery, but it will change with the area and the company.
If you do find a book please let me know, I know I could use it.
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In fairness procurement activities include the buyer for stuff, subcontract administrator for services, expediter for both and invoice support, clerical support to see if folks are on the acceptable bid list.
Some of us seem to be a bit tough on manager types. We all had to learn what nozzles and nipples were some time.
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OK s89t3... there are some good books over at the Gulf Publishing Company at,
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If you're near Houston, Texas go downtown to Brown's Bookstore is a good place to get most any oil & gas learning book there is (or are?) xxx ...you want.
http://www.brownbookshop.com/HTMfiles/welcome.htm
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You can print it as a pdf (209 pages).
Some other stuff is what I collected over a year or so, but difficult to post.