Flow-line treating:

Compare batch treating.

Terms Related to Flow-line treating

• Batch treating

  The process by which a single quantity of crude oil emulsion is broken into oil and water. The emulsion is gathered and stored in a ...

• Heater

  Container or vessel enclosing an arrangement of tubes and a firebox in which an emulsion is heated before further treating, or in which natural gas ...

• Boot

  1. A tubular device placed in a vertical position, either inside or outside a larger vessel, and through which well fluids are conducted before they ...

• Dehydrate

  To remove water from a substance. Dehydration of crude oil is normally accomplished by treating with emulsion breakers. The water vapor in natural gas must ...

• Oil-emulsion mud

  A water-base mud in which water is the continuous phase and oil is the dispersed phase. The oil is spread out, or dispersed, in the ...

• Emulsified water

  Water so thoroughly combined with oil that special treating methods must be applied to separate it from the oil. Compare free water.

• Emulsion

  A mixture in which one liquid, termed the dispersed phase, is uniformly distributed (usually as minute globules) in another liquid, called the continuous phase or ...