Abstract
Oil leaving the gas-oil separators may or may not meet the purchaser’s specifications. As presented in Chapter 14, associated gas and most of the free water in the well stream are removed in the separators. The free water separated is normally limited to water droplets of 500 µm and larger. Oil stream leaving the separators would normally contain water droplets of smaller size along with water emulsified in the crude oil. This chapter deals first with the dehydration stage of crude oil to free it from the emulsified water. Depending on the original water content of the oil as well as its salinity, oil field treatment could produce oil with a remnant water content of 0.2 to 0.5 of 1%.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Petroleum Economics and Engineering, Third Edition |
| Publisher | CRC Press |
| Pages | 283-294 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781482241693 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781466506664 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jan 2013 |
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Chemistry
- General Chemical Engineering
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- General Environmental Science