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Part II

Equipment
Design and
Selection

The role of a petroleum production engineer is to maximize oil and gas production in a costeffective manner. Design and selection of the right equipment for production systems is essential for
a production engineer to achieve his or her job objective. To perform their design work correctly,
production engineers should have thorough knowledge of the principles and rules used in the
industry for equipment design and selection. This part of the book provides graduating production
engineers with principles and rules used in the petroleum production engineering practice. Materials
are presented in the following three chapters:
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11

Well Tubing 9/109

Separation Systems 10/117
Transportation Systems 11/133