John Carroll and Gas Liquids Engineering ltd. are please to offer the one-day course Understanding Natural Gas Hydrates. This course is designed for engineers and scientists working in the petroleum industry. Senior operators will benefit from attending as well. The program includes a basic theoretical treatment of hydrates and practical applications. To obtain full benefit, participants in this course should have some knowledge of the background chemistry.
The course includes a copy of the new book Natural Gas Hydrates: A Guide for Engineers and a complementary set of course notes both written by the course instructor. Also included are some informative video presentations. Depending on the location, the course includes a demonstration of the formation of a hydrate. Unfortunately this requires special equipment that is not available everywhere.
The details are as follows:
- Instructor: John Carroll, Ph.D., P.Eng.
- Cost: $400 (Canadian) per person plus GST (7%), where applicable
- Group rates are also available - currently the base cost is $1500 (Cdn) or $1000 (US) and then add the instructor's expenses, plus $130 (Cdn) per person for the textbook, plus GST (7%), where applicable.
- Depending upon the location, it is cost effective for groups of 7 to 10 or more to pursue the group rate.
- NEW - Each attendee will receive a copy of the book Natural Gas Hydrates: A Guide for Engineers
- Notes:
- $400 (Cdn) ~ $260 (US)
- $130 (Cdn) ~ $80 (US)
- Prices are subject to change without notice.
- Prices at remote locations (i.e. outside of Calgary) are usually higher reflecting additional costs incurred by the instructor.
Upcoming dates:
- Date: May 21, 2003
- Place: Gas Liquids Engineering
#100, 2749 - 39 Avenue NE
Calgary, Alberta, CANADA
Course registration for the Calgary Session in PDF format.
- Date: June 9, 2003
- Place: Aberdeen, UK
- Contact: Enterprise Corporation for more information.
Or by E-mmail at projects@enterprise-corp.co.uk
- Date: June 25, 2003
- Place: Houston, Texas, USA
- Additional details to follow.
- Date: September 17, 2003
- Place: Northern Lights College
Fort St. John, British Columbia, CANADA- For more information about this session, contact Ms. Lucie Janosek at Northern Lights College.
Please check this site for updates on the time and location of the next course.
Previous sessions have been held in:
- Canada:
- Calgary, Alberta
- Edmonton, Alberta
- Sussex, New Brunswick
- Fort St. John, British Columbia
- Rest of the World:
- Caracus, Venezuela
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
- Bangkok, Thailand
Previous Sponsors:
- Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering (CSChE) - Edmonton Section
- Shell Canada
- Potash Corporation of Saskachewan
- National Energy Board of Canada (NEB)
- Northern Lights College
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
- Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA)
- Petroleum Authority of Thailand (PTT)
If you company or group would like to sponsor the course in your location please contact us for additional details. To some extent, the course can be tailored to fit the needs of your company or group.
The course outline is provided below, however, for more information about the course, and in particular its content and schedule, contact John Carroll at FlowPhase - AQUAlibrium or at Gas Liquids Engineering. To enroll in the course contact John Carroll or via regular mail at:
John Carroll
Gas Liquids Engineering
#300, 2749 - 39th Avenue NE
Calgary, Alberta, CANADA T1Y 4T8
In addition, throughout the course the controversy over the need for free-water in order to form a hydrate is addressed. By the end of the day, participants will be convinced that free water is not required in order to form hydrates.
- the water molecule and the hydrogen bond
- water is different (Periodic Table)
- boiling point
- enthalpy of vaporization
- expansion upon freezing
- the structure of ice
- hydrate formers and non-hydrate formers
- Type I
- Type II
- Type H
- structures of the hydrates
- hydrate compositions
- theoretical composition
- actual compositions
- calculation of hydrate forming conditions
- hand calculation methods
- gas gravity method
- K-factor method
- sample calculations
- advanced calculation methods
- van der Waals and Platteeuw
- Parrish and Prausnitz
- Ng and Robinson
- software demonstrations
- combating hydrate formation
- chemicals
- inhibitors
- Hammerschmidt equation
- estimating injection inhibitor rates
- heat
- line heaters
- heat tracing
- dehydration
- glycol dehydration
- refrigeration
- molecular sieves
- water content of gas
- phase diagrams
- phase loci
- triple points
- quadruple points
- pressure-temperature diagrams
- pressure-composition diagrams
- temperature-composition diagrams
- natural occurrence of hydrates