Video Library for Operators
Individual Module Descriptions
Operations Fundamentals
OP110 Basic Principles of Pressure and Temperature
Videotape: 30 minutes Instructor Guide: 57 pages
Student Manual: 39 pages Transparencies: 13
Introduces the concepts of pressure and temperature. Explains temperature scales and measurement techniques. Illustrates effects of pressure and temperature changes in liquids and gases, and defines vapor pressure, surface tension, evaporation, condensation and compressibility.
OP120 Principles of Lubrication
Videotape: 30 minutes Instructor Guide: 62 pages
Student Manual: 48 pages Transparencies: 4
Discusses the purpose of lubrication, the types of friction and specific lubricant characteristics. Illustrates circulating, force-fed and stationary lubricating systems, along with typical fittings and seals. Outlines inspection procedures along with fire and accident prevention methods.
Operations Safety
OP210 Hydrogen Sulfide Principles
Videotape: 32 minutes Instructor Guide: 45 pages
Student Manual: 41 pages Transparencies: 5
Outlines the physical properties of hydrogen sulfide and its effects on humans. Explains exposure controls, monitors, respirators and safe operating practices, along with contingency plans and emergency procedures.
OP220 Safety Relief Valves and Rupture Discs
Videotape: 32 minutes Instructor Guide: 58 pages
Student Manual: 46 pages Transparencies: 9
Introduces pressure relief mechanisms. Describes pressure relief valves, including components, operation and installation procedures. Discusses and compares rupture discs and their construction and operation relative to relief valves.
OP230 Confined Space and Vessel Entry
Videotape: 38 minutes Instructor Guide: 39 pages
Student Manual: 68 pages Transparencies: 10
Highlights the hazards of confined space entry and presents a formal procedure for planning and carrying out cleaning and maintenance in such areas. Illustrates correct operating procedures and includes an appendix with sample checklists and permits.
OP240 Blinding
Videotape: 28 minutes Instructor Guide: 44 pages
Student Manual: 68 pages Transparencies: 15
Describes blinding principles, including types of blinds as well as equipment commonly mistaken for blinds. Describes preparations and procedures for installing and removing blinds.
OP260 Lockout/Tagout
Videotape: 15 minutes Instructor Guide: 33 pages
Student Manual: 33 pages Transparencies: 6
Describes the principles of lockout/tagout, focusing primarily on electrical systems and equipment. Demonstrates the proper procedures for lockout/tagout.
OP270 Fire and Safe Work Permit
Videotape: 22 minutes Instructor Guide: 40 pages
Student Manual: 58 pages Transparencies: 9
Explains criteria for establishing proper safety precautions when work in a "classified area" requires an open flame, welding, burning, grinding, blasting, opening energized electrical junction boxes or use of other spark-producing devices. Defines "in-service welding" and "hot tapping."
OP280 Excavating and Trenching
Videotape: 22 minutes Instructor Guide: 36 pages
Student Manual: 48 pages Transparencies: 8
Presents guidelines and requirements for excavating and trenching, including criteria for special precautions such as sloping, benching and shoring. Discusses respective responsibilities, a "competent person," different soil types and when a trench or excavation becomes a confined space.
Production Systems
OP340 Beam Pumping Unit Principles
Videotape: 24 minutes Instructor Guide: 49 pages
Student Manual: 45 pages Transparencies: 13
Explains the primary function of the beam pump surface unit and details the functions of each component. Illustrates the general categories of beam pumping units. Highlights the prime mover and power transmission elements. Lists key lubrication points for the unit.
OP341 Sucker Rod Pumping Principles
Videotape: 35 minutes Instructor Guide: 55 pages
Student Manual: 48 pages Transparencies: 15
Describes sucker rods and sucker rod pumps. Explains factors affecting the life of this equipment and the warning signs of incorrect or inefficient operations.
Oil Production Equipment
OP410 Production Separator Principles
Videotape: 30 minutes Instructor Guide: 49 pages
Student Manual: 37 pages Transparencies: 10
Presents the typical production separator. Illustrates the internal operation of vertical, horizontal, spherical, and multiphase separators. Describes liquid level controls and safety devices.
OP420 Emulsions and Vertical Heater Treater Principles
Videotape: 30 minutes Instructor Guide: 49 pages
Student Manual: 47 pages Transparencies: 9
Discusses the cause and treatment of emulsions. Illustrates the components of the vertical heater treater. Discusses operations specifications and troubleshooting techniques.
OP430 LACT Unit Principles
Videotape: 35 minutes Instructor Guide: 53 pages
Student Manual: 51 pages Transparencies: 12
Explains the function and components of a typical lease automatic custody transfer (LACT) unit. Demonstrates operations, including measuring, sampling, and monitoring functions. Also explains meter proving and routine maintenance.
OP431 LACT Unit Operations
Videotape: 55 minutes Instructor Guide: 41 pages
Student Manual: 80 pages Transparencies: 10
LACT Unit Operations presents the operation and actions necessary to keep a LACT unit measuring accurately. It reviews LACT unit components, details periodic operations checks and records, and suggests ways to troubleshoot a malfunctioning unit. It requires the completion of OP430 LACT Unit Principles
OP432 LACT Unit Witnessing
Videotape: 35 minutes Instructor Guide: 44 pages
Student Manual: 51 pages Transparencies: 11
Describes equipment, procedures and reporting requirements for LACT meter proving. Emphasis is on the role of the company representative responsible for witnessing proving operations and maintaining meter accuracy.
OP440 Lease Tank Gauging and Testing
Videotape: 25 minutes Instructor Guide: 43 pages
Student Manual: 41 pages Transparencies: 9
Emphasizes accurate oil measurements for revenue accounting. Describes the components of a typical tank battery and the equipment used in "working" a tank. Demonstrates the correct technique for gauging a tank and measuring oil temperature, gravity and BS&W content.
OP450 Emulsions and Horizontal Heater Treater Principles
Videotape: 30 minutes Instructor Guide: 49 pages
Student Manual: 51 pages Transparencies: 9
Explains the emulsion forming characteristics of oil and water. Discusses conventional treating methods such as settling time, heat, chemicals and electricity. Describes operation and components of the typical horizontal heater treater.
OP470 Vapor Recovery Unit Principles
Videotape: 20 minutes Instructor Guide: 41 pages
Student Manual: 32 pages Transparencies: 7
Introduces petroleum liquid storage and the release of hydrocarbon vapors. Describes the vapor recovery unit as a means of reclaiming lost hydrocarbons, and identifies each component of a typical unit. Illustrates operation of the unit in the field.
OP480 Emulsions and Electrostatic Treater Principles
Videotape: 26 minutes Instructor Guide: 49 pages
Student Manual: 53 pages Transparencies: 9
Explains the emulsion forming characteristics of produced oil and water. Describes the external and internal components of the typical electrostatic treater. Explains treater operation.
Natural Gas and NGL Measurement
OP510 Orifice Meter Station Fundamentals
Videotape: 35 minutes Instructor Guide: 65 pages
Student Manual: 52 pages Transparencies: 8
Emphasizes the importance of accurate gas volume measurement. Outlines the principles of gas flow and the basic elements of the orifice meter station. Demonstrates correct procedure for changing an orifice meter chart. Presents examples of field gas volume calculations.
OP520 Orifice Meter Station
Operations/Maintenance I
Videotape: 32 minutes Instructor Guide: 41 pages
Student Manual: 35 pages Transparencies: 10
Details the differences between pipe taps and flange taps. Describes the operation and maintenance of the orifice plate, orifice fitting, orifice meter recorder, manifold and associated piping.
OP530 NGL Measurement I
Videotape: 20 minutes Instructor Guide: 41 pages
Student Manual: 32 pages Transparencies: 10
Describes natural gas liquids and the principal elements of a metering station. Introduces and compares volume and mass measurement and sampling techniques. Discusses the importance of solids removal, single phase flow, pulsation dampening and turbulence reduction.
OP540 NGL Measurement II
Videotape: 30 minutes Instructor Guide: 39 pages
Student Manual: 40 pages Transparencies: 12
Describes the basic methods for measurement: orifice meters, turbine meters, positive displacement meters and density meters. Demonstrates the procedure for witnessing an orifice meter test in the field. Illustrates meter proving and calibration.
OP550 Natural Gas and NGL Sampling
Videotape: 20 minutes Instructor Guide: 47 pages
Student Manual: 56 pages Transparencies: 10
Introduces equipment and procedures involved in gas and NGL sampling. Illustrates sample cylinders, sampling points, sampling methods, and safety considerations at field locations. Emphasizes the importance of correct sampling techniques and safety precautions.
OP560 Electronic Flow Measurement
Videotape: 22 minutes Instructor Guide: 48 pages
Student Manual: 41 pages Transparencies: 7
Introduces the components and basic operating principles of Electronic Flow Computers, discusses their benefits and limitations, and describes fundamentals of data entry and collection.
Natural Gas Processing Equipment
OP610 Principles of Gas Processing
Videotape: 24 minutes Instructor Guide: 37 pages
Student Manual: 36 pages Transparencies: 7
Introduces gas processing. Outlines common contaminants, methods of contaminant removal, and methods of removal of natural gas liquids. Includes discussion of fractionation.
OP620 Principles of Glycol Dehydration
Videotape: 15 minutes Instructor Guide: 47 pages
Student Manual: 28 pages Transparencies: 7
Outlines the equipment and processes involved in glycol dehydration of natural gas streams. Describes all component of the typical dehydration system and how they work together in removing water from natural gas.
OP621 Glycol Dehydration Unit Operation
Videotape: 45 minutes Instructor Guide: 44 pages
Student Manual: 64 pages Transparencies: 13
Details the operation of the unit and its control instrumentation . Explains procedures and tests for maintaining the liquid glycol and reducing losses. Includes checklists for troubleshooting, startup and shutdown.
OP640 Principles of Amine Sweetening
Videotape: 20 minutes Instructor Guide: 43 pages
Student Manual: 31 pages Transparencies: 12
Describes the problems caused by acid gases in natural gas and the chemical processes used to remove them. Outlines the process flow of a typical amine sweetening unit and highlights the function of its components. Illustrates the internal workings of the closed vessels (contractor column, flash tank, heat exchanger, stripper column and rebailer).
OP641 Amine Sweetening Unit Operation
Videotape: 52 minutes Instructor Guide: 41 pages
Student Manual: 71 pages Transparencies: 12
Describes types of amine, the amine sweetening process and process variables. Details sweetening unit controls and operation. Discusses amine conditioning and reduction of amine losses.
OP650 Reciprocating Compressor Principles
Videotape: 25 minutes Instructor Guide: 59 pages
Student Manual: 32 pages Transparencies: 10
Introduces the concept of gas compression and the operation of a reciprocating piston. Describes the components of the compression unit and various classifications of drive units on a typical reciprocating compressor. Introduces auxiliary cooling and lubrication systems.
OP651 Reciprocating Compressor Operation
Videotape: 42 minutes Instructor Guide: 45 pages
Student Manual: 104 pages Transparencies: 11
Details operation of a reciprocating compressor. Discusses key controls, loading and unloading of the compressor, and common troubleshooting techniques.
OP660 Centrifugal Compressor Principles
Videotape: 42 minutes Instructor Guide: 54 pages
Student Manual: 31 pages Transparencies: 16
Describes the primary components of single and multistage centrifugal compressors and explains their fundamental operating principles. Details compressor components: casing, rotors, seals, bearings, lubricating system and cooling system. Illustrates various drivers and coupling methods. Introduces compressor capacity, surge control and safety sensors.
OP670 Cryogenic Process Principles
Videotape: 50 minutes Instructor Guide: 51 pages
Student Manual 57 pages Transparencies: 15
Presents the concepts and principles of cryogenics as used in gas processing. Includes the components of a typical cryogenic plant. Describes flow of the process gas and liquid streams.
Pumps
OP710 Centrifugal Pump Principles
Videotape: 35 minutes Instructor Guide: 59 pages
Student Manual 43 pages Transparencies: 9
Illustrates the external and internal components of centrifugal pumps and their functions. Describes each of the six major centrifugal pump classification features.
OP720 Positive Displacement Pump Principles
Videotape: 25 minutes Instructor Guide: 51 pages
Student Manual: 36 pages Transparencies: 10
Outlines positive displacement pump operating principles. Illustrates the principles of reciprocating pumps such as the piston, plunger and diaphragm pumps. Explains rotary pump principles using examples of gear, lobe and screw pumps. Illustrates the internal workings of each operating pump.
Instrumentation
OP810 Principles of Instrumentation and Process
Control I
Videotape: 48 minutes Instructor Guide: 53 pages
Student Manual: 53 pages Transparencies: 10
Introduces process control and the associated instrumentation used in oil and gas production and processing. Explains feedback and feedforward control systems, along with the workings of typical instruments used to measure petroleum temperature, pressure, level and flow.
Operations Specialties
OP911 Offshore Crane Operation I
Videotape: 30 minutes Instructor Guide: 35 pages
Student Manual: 60 pages Transparencies: 11
Introduces both hydraulic and mechanical crane components, controls and power flows. Illustrates fundamental crane operation principles. Emphasizes safe offshore crane operation.
OP912 Offshore Crane Operation II
Videotape: 30 minutes Instructor Guide: 37 pages
Student Manual: 48 pages Transparencies: 8
Continues discussion of offshore crane operation, covering inspection and maintenance of offshore cranes and wire rope. Illustrates safe rigging and lifting procedures. Modules I and II together provide comprehensive instruction in safe crane operation.
OP960 Heat Exchanger Principles
Videotape: 21 minutes Instructor Guide: 41 pages
Student Manual: 29 pages Transparencies: 8
Introduces the concept of heat transfer between fluids. Describes and explains basic heat transfer equipment (coolers, heaters, condensers, vaporizers, etc.) and primary exchanger configurations (double pipe, plate, shell and tube, aerial).
Illustrates internal functions and field applications.
OP980 Environmental Compliance Fundamentals
Videotape: 35 minutes Instructor Guide: 49 pages
Student Manual: 45 pages Transparencies: 7
Provides a basic overview of the philosophy and structure of environmental protection policies. Presents definitions of types of regulations, along with the materials and sites involved. Illustrates compliance with regulations during routine operations.