Wednesday, November 29, 2023

TP Sharing Session - Understanding Hydrocarbon Phase Envelopes & How they affect Upstream Process & Operations (28 Nov 2023, MTeams): Be the Change.

 


Alhamdulillah, today I was granted the opportunity to conduct a Knowledge sharing session, on Phase Behavior.


The topic of hydrocarbon phase envelopes are one of the most important underlying concepts that are the bread and butter of upstream process engineering. Once I understood this concept, a lot of operational problems started to make more sense, seeing them through a new lens. Wet gas, crude stabilization, sampling problems, CV flashing, PVT fluid characterization - suddenly, they began to click!


But throughout the years, I realized that although there were lots of training materials, classroom sessions and textbooks on the subject, I've never really found many resources that fleshed out the topic from the perspective of practical application in day-to-day operational challenges. For many of us, we learnt the concept through trial and error (mostly error), and we didn't really understand the "big picture" of how they were related. I've always thought, wouldn't it be nice if we had training material that linked these concepts together in our daily work? 


Then it dawned on me: Create our own content lah, bro!

 

Now that I'm in a position of experience, have some knowledge and a platform to share, might as well seize the opportunity: Stop whining, step up & be the change we want to see. To carve out the kind of content that we wished we learnt back in our early years and boost the development of those around us. 


I challenged myself to go one step further: Simplify the concepts and make it easy enough so that even non-engineers (like HR or Finance) could also understand and appreciate. Just as Albert Einstein used to say, "you do not really understand something, unless you can explain it to your grandmother"


The session went a bit over time, at 2.5 hours, but Alhamdulillah we got an overwhelmingly positive participation, with over 150 participants joining the session.


Hope the participants found it beneficial. May Allah make it a source of barakah and benefit for others.

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