Produced fluid from the production wells will be channeled through the flowline to the Gathering Station / Gathering Test station. Gathering Station is a production facility that serves as a gathering place of some produced fluid from production wells to measure Production flow rate.
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| Illustration, doc. IndustriMigas |
Equipment and Production Facility Inside Gathering Station
There are some equipment in gathering Station :
- Manifold
- Header
- Piping system
- Test separator
- Production separator
- Test tank
- Production tank
- Oil Transfer pump
- Flare stack system
- Control room (optional)
Produced fluid from well come into test separator to separate liquid and gasProduction flow rate is the amount of produced fluid by a production wells within 1 day. Usually the amount of produced oil is shown in units of barrels per day / barrels oil per day (BOPD). In addition to the test flow rate of production, in the Gathering Station also as a temporary storage. All of produced fluid will be transfer to the Main Gathering Station for next step process.