Refinery desalting

Singapore, 11 March 2010

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Course Topics:

• Desalting fundamentals
• Opportunity crude processing
• Tank farm management
• Crude oil quality impact
• Desalter equipment
• Desalter designs
• Heavy crude oil desalting
• Best practices and case studies
• Field testing
• Troubleshooting process

Course dates & venues

Course tutors

Brad Mason has over 14 years of water and process experience with Nalco.

For the past three years he has been a Global Industry Development Manager, based in Texas, focusing on the development of new desalting technologies.

Prior to this his marketing focus was fouling control and energy management programs for crude preheats, hydrotreaters, and other applications.

After receiving a B.Technology degree in Geochemistry from Macquarie University (Sydney) he started with Nalco as an analytical chemist before working as a field representative for the water, oilfield, and refining groups in Australia.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the course participants will have increased their
knowledge of the key desalter operating practices. They will have
improved their understanding of desalter performance impacts related
to design and equipment differences on their individual sites, and
should also have a better ability in troubleshooting operational issues
using mechanical, operational, and chemical solutions.

They should also take with them the realisation of how critical the desalting process is:

• Protecting the downstream operations
• Improving equipment reliability in terms of reducing corrosion
• Fouling
• Energy consumption
• Waste water treatment impacts
• Reduce total cost of operation