An Interactive 5-Day Training Course
Decarbonizing Production Facilities: Flaring, Methane, Energy and Electrification
Practical emissions reduction for oil and gas facilities.
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Duration
5 Days
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$ 4,000
Starting From
18 Jan 2027
Decarbonizing Production Facilities: Flaring, Methane, Energy and Electrification
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Decarbonizing Production Facilities: Flaring, Methane, Energy and Electrification - SF-DPF-PEA27
| Code | Date | Time | Duration | Location | Currency | Early Bird Fee Per Person |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SF-DPF-PEA27 | 18 - 22 Jan 2027 | 10 AM CST | 5 Days - 4 Hours / Day |
Online |
USD |
4000 |
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Decarbonizing Production Facilities: Flaring, Methane, Energy and Electrification
This training covers the technical routes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions from producing facilities. It works through emissions source identification and quantification, flaring reduction and vapour recovery, methane leak detection and repair, energy efficiency and heat integration, power generation options and electrification, carbon intensity measurement and reporting, and the economic evaluation used to rank abatement options.
Description
Emissions from a producing facility come from a small number of identifiable sources: fuel combustion in turbines, engines and fired heaters; flaring, both routine and non-routine; venting; fugitive leaks from equipment and connections; and process vents from units such as glycol regenerators and tanks. Reducing them is an engineering exercise in the same sense as debottlenecking: identify the sources, quantify them accurately, evaluate the technical options for each, and rank them by cost and deliverability. This training covers that work.
Quantification is developed first, because emissions inventories built on generic factors are frequently wrong by large margins and produce abatement plans aimed at the wrong sources. Measurement-based approaches, including site-level and source-level methane measurement, are covered alongside the reconciliation of measured and calculated inventories. Flaring is then addressed: routine flare elimination through gas recovery and utilisation, flare gas recovery systems, non-routine flaring reduction through reliability improvement, and flare measurement and efficiency. Methane is covered through leak detection and repair programmes, equipment replacement, vent elimination and the specific high-emitting sources found in facilities. Energy efficiency and heat integration follow, then power generation options including waste heat recovery, combined cycle, electrification and power from shore. The training closes with carbon intensity metrics, reporting frameworks and the economic evaluation of abatement.
Methane emissions have moved from an environmental reporting item to a commercial and regulatory one. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas over short timescales, it is the product the facility exists to sell, and measurement campaigns have repeatedly found actual emissions well above inventory estimates built from generic factors. The gap is usually concentrated in a small number of large sources: a stuck vent, a failed seal, an unlit flare, a tank hatch left open. Finding those sources requires measurement rather than calculation.
Flaring divides into routine and non-routine, and the two require different solutions. Routine flaring, where there is no route for the gas, is eliminated by providing one: compression, recovery, utilisation as fuel, reinjection or export. Non-routine flaring, driven by trips, upsets and start-ups, is reduced by improving reliability, which means the emissions case and the production case point the same way. Facilities that measure flare volumes properly usually find that non-routine flaring is larger than assumed.
Energy efficiency is the least visible and often the cheapest abatement available. Fired heater excess air, compressor recycle, pump throttling, poor heat integration, unnecessary cooling and unrecovered waste heat all consume fuel that produces emissions without producing anything. Most facilities carry a substantial efficiency opportunity that has never been quantified because fuel gas has been treated as free.
Electrification changes the emissions profile fundamentally but is constrained by power availability. Replacing gas turbine drivers with electric motors removes combustion from the facility, and where the power comes from a low carbon grid or from renewable generation the emissions reduction is large. Where it comes from local gas generation the benefit is smaller and depends on generation efficiency. Power from shore for offshore facilities is technically demanding and capital intensive but delivers the largest single reduction available on many assets.
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify and categorise greenhouse gas emission sources across a producing facility
- Quantify emissions using measurement-based and calculation-based methods and reconcile the two
- Evaluate flare gas recovery, utilisation and reinjection options for routine flaring elimination
- Reduce non-routine flaring through reliability improvement and operating practice
- Design methane leak detection and repair programmes and select detection technologies
- Identify and eliminate vent sources including tanks, glycol regenerators and pneumatic devices
- Assess facility energy efficiency and identify heat integration and fuel reduction opportunities
- Compare power generation and electrification options on emissions, cost and feasibility
- Calculate carbon intensity metrics and apply reporting framework requirements
- Rank abatement options by marginal abatement cost and deliverability
The training begins with emissions quantification, since every subsequent decision depends on knowing where the emissions actually are, and then works through each abatement route with its technical basis, applicability and cost. Emissions inventory construction, flare volume determination, energy balance and efficiency calculations and abatement cost calculations are worked through numerically for a representative facility. Measurement campaign results are compared against factor-based inventories to demonstrate the typical discrepancy. Abatement projects from operating assets are examined with their delivered reductions and costs.
Organisations sending participants to this training will:
- Reduce reported and actual greenhouse gas emissions from producing assets
- Recover gas currently flared or vented and convert it into fuel, sales or injection volume
- Improve the accuracy of emissions inventories and the credibility of reported figures
- Reduce fuel consumption and operating cost through energy efficiency improvement
- Prepare assets for tightening regulatory and reporting requirements
- Build internal capability to evaluate decarbonisation options rather than commissioning studies
Participants will:
- Identify where a facility's emissions actually come from rather than where the inventory says
- Evaluate abatement options technically and economically
- Design and assess flare recovery and leak detection programmes
- Quantify energy efficiency opportunities and their emissions and cost value
- Understand electrification options and their real constraints
- Build capability in an area of increasing regulatory and commercial importance
- Facilities, process and production engineers
- Operations engineers and supervisors responsible for flaring and fuel consumption
- Energy efficiency, sustainability and emissions engineers
- Environmental and regulatory compliance staff
- Project engineers evaluating abatement and electrification projects
- Maintenance and reliability engineers whose work affects non-routine flaring
- Technical and commercial staff preparing emissions reporting and decarbonisation plans
Module 1 - Emissions Sources and Framework
- Greenhouse gases relevant to oil and gas production and their warming potential
- Scope one, two and three emissions definitions
- Emission sources in a producing facility: combustion, flaring, venting, fugitive, process
- Typical source distribution and where the largest contributions lie
- Regulatory frameworks, reporting obligations and voluntary initiatives
- Carbon pricing, credits and their effect on project economics
- Emissions targets and their translation into facility engineering work
- Relationship between emissions reduction and production efficiency
Module 2 - Emissions Quantification and Measurement
- Calculation-based inventories and emission factor sources
- Limitations of generic emission factors
- Measurement-based quantification approaches
- Source-level measurement: optical gas imaging, flux chambers, high flow sampling
- Site-level measurement: aircraft, drone, satellite, tower-based
- Continuous monitoring systems and their application
- Reconciling measured and calculated inventories
- Super-emitters and their contribution to total emissions
- Uncertainty in emissions quantification
- Building a credible facility emissions inventory
Module 3 - Flaring: Sources, Measurement and Reduction
- Routine, non-routine and safety flaring definitions
- Flare volume measurement and its typical inaccuracy
- Flare combustion efficiency and destruction removal efficiency
- Unlit and poorly performing flares and their detection
- Purge and pilot gas consumption
- Routine flare elimination through gas utilisation
- Flare gas recovery systems: compressors, ejectors, liquid ring machines
- Recovered gas destinations: fuel, sales, reinjection, power generation
- Non-routine flaring reduction through reliability improvement
- Start-up, shutdown and upset flaring reduction
- Flare minimisation in operating procedures and control philosophy
- Economic evaluation of flare recovery projects
Module 4 - Methane Emissions and Leak Reduction
- Methane emission sources in production facilities
- Fugitive emissions from valves, flanges, connectors and seals
- Vented sources: tanks, glycol regenerators, pneumatic devices, compressor seals
- Pneumatic controllers and their replacement with instrument air or electric actuation
- Compressor rod packing and seal vent emissions
- Storage tank vapour losses and vapour recovery
- Glycol dehydrator still vent emissions and their control
- Well venting, blowdown and maintenance venting
- Leak detection and repair programme design
- Detection technologies and survey frequency selection
- Repair prioritisation and verification
- Methane intensity metrics and target setting
Module 5 - Energy Efficiency and Fuel Reduction
- Facility energy balance and fuel consumption breakdown
- Fired heater efficiency: excess air, stack temperature, heat recovery
- Gas turbine efficiency and part load operation
- Compressor energy: recycle, anti-surge margin, staging, machine efficiency
- Pump energy: throttling losses, oversizing, variable speed opportunities
- Heat integration and pinch analysis opportunities
- Waste heat recovery: process heating, power generation, absorption cooling
- Cooling system efficiency and unnecessary cooling
- Insulation condition and heat loss
- Process condition optimisation for energy reduction
- Energy management systems and monitoring
- Identifying and quantifying efficiency opportunities
Module 6 - Power Generation and Electrification
- Facility power demand profile and load characteristics
- Simple cycle gas turbine generation and its efficiency
- Combined cycle and combined heat and power configurations
- Waste heat recovery for power generation
- Grid connection and power import options
- Power from shore for offshore facilities: cable, converter and system requirements
- Electrification of drivers: compressors, pumps, and their conversion
- Electric heating replacing fired heating
- Renewable generation integration: wind, solar and their intermittency
- Energy storage and hybrid system configurations
- Power system stability and reliability with electrification
- Emissions benefit dependence on the power source carbon intensity
Module 7 - Process and Facility Design Changes
- Vapour recovery unit design and reliability
- Zero-emission tank blanketing and vapour handling
- Instrument air replacing gas-driven pneumatics
- Dry gas seals and seal gas recovery on compressors
- Closed loop sampling and connection systems
- Blowdown and depressurisation to recovery rather than flare
- Pigging and maintenance venting reduction
- Design specifications for new facilities to minimise emissions
- Brownfield modification opportunities and their execution
- Facility design for future electrification and carbon capture readiness
Module 8 - Carbon Capture and Offsetting Options
- Carbon capture applicability to production facility emission sources
- Post-combustion capture on turbine exhaust and fired heater flue gas
- CO2 removal from produced gas and its reinjection
- Acid gas reinjection as an emissions measure
- Capture readiness in facility design
- Cost and energy penalty of capture at facility scale
- Offsetting mechanisms and their role and limitations
- Comparing capture against source reduction on cost and certainty
- Integration of capture with existing facility utilities
Module 9 - Metrics, Reporting and Verification
- Carbon intensity metrics: per barrel, per unit energy, per unit revenue
- Methane intensity definitions and target frameworks
- Emissions reporting frameworks and their requirements
- Data collection, quality control and audit trail
- Third party verification and assurance
- Benchmarking against industry and peer performance
- Disclosure requirements and stakeholder expectations
- Avoiding double counting and boundary errors
- Building a reporting system that withstands scrutiny
Module 10 - Evaluation, Prioritisation and Implementation
- Marginal abatement cost curve construction
- Capital and operating cost of abatement options
- Value of recovered gas and its effect on project economics
- Carbon price sensitivity and regulatory risk
- Deliverability, execution risk and shutdown requirement
- Quick wins against capital projects
- Building a facility decarbonisation roadmap
- Integrating abatement into turnaround and modification planning
- Measuring and verifying delivered reductions
- Sustaining reductions through operating practice and organisation
Upon successful completion of this training course, delegates will be awarded an official Certificate of Completion issued by the Petroleum Engineers Association (PEA), an ISO 9001:2015 certified training organization. The certificate carries 10 Credits and formally records the total learning hours completed.
Each certificate is signed by the Course Facilitator and the CEO of the Petroleum Engineers Association, and serves as verifiable proof of professional training that delegates can present to employers and professional bodies worldwide.
This course is led by an emissions reduction and energy specialist with more than 20 years in the oil and gas industry, built on cutting emissions from producing assets without cutting production.
He currently holds decarbonization and energy management leadership responsibility with a major operator managing producing assets, covering flaring reduction, methane detection and power generation strategy — the disciplines that turn emissions targets into operating reality. Earlier in his career he served as a production engineer on major oil and gas developments, leading gas recovery and energy efficiency initiatives that reduced flaring and methane losses on some of the industry's most closely scrutinised assets. Across two decades he has taken several decarbonization projects from concept through implementation into measurable, sustained reduction.
That operating background shapes how he teaches. Delegates learn not only how abatement technologies are designed to work, but how they perform in the field — where flaring actually originates, why methane leaks go undetected, what makes electrification projects succeed or stall, how carbon intensity is measured and reported, and how engineering and commercial teams evaluate abatement options together. Every module is anchored in real emissions data, field decisions and trade-offs made under commercial pressure.
His subject coverage spans the full decarbonization chain: emissions sources and quantification, flaring reduction and gas recovery, methane detection and leak reduction, energy efficiency, power generation and electrification, carbon intensity measurement, and the economic evaluation of abatement options.
He has delivered emissions reduction and energy training for many years across the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia, working with mixed groups of engineers, operations staff and commercial teams at every level of experience. He is an active contributor to industry forums on decarbonization and energy transition in oil and gas.
His approach is practical, discussion-led and grounded in real asset performance — not the textbook.
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