Courses

Process diagrams are the language of every oil and gas facility. This course teaches you, step by step, to distinguish block diagrams, process flow diagrams (PFDs) and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs), to recognise the symbols for vessels, pumps, compressors, heat exchangers and tanks, to read line numbers and the piping class, to identify valves, their normal position and the safety devices (PSVs, rupture discs, ESDVs, blind flanges and spectacle blinds), and to interpret instrument bubbles and letter codes and a simple control loop, with alarms and trips. In the final exercise, you read the simplified P&ID of a production separator on a fictitious FPSO and mark the isolations for a maintenance job. Aligned with ISO 10628-1/-2 and ANSI/ISA-5.1-2024. The course is delivered in Portuguese.

What you will learn

• Distinguish the types of process diagram and explain who uses them and when.
• Identify the symbols for the main equipment and read a line number.
• Recognise valve types, their normal position and the safety devices on a P&ID.
• Interpret instrument tags and a simple control loop, distinguishing alarms from trips.
• Follow the path of the fluids on a P&ID and identify the isolation points for a piece of equipment.

Modules

1. What PFDs and P&IDs are for41 min
2. Equipment and lines38 min
3. Valves and safety devices39 min
4. Instruments and control loops38 min
5. Reading a P&ID: the production separator39 min

Who it is for

Operators, technicians, junior engineers and project staff