Classify and meter flaring accurately enough to build a defensible routine flaring baseline for a facility.
Oil, Gas & Energy
Routine Flaring Elimination and Flare Gas Recovery Systems
Equips engineers and HSE professionals to measure routine flaring accurately, design flare gas recovery and utilisation systems, and build a verifiable reduction programme toward zero routine flaring.
🗓️Duration5 training days
📚Content4 modules · 8 sessions
🎓On completionAccredited attendance certificate
About the programme
Course Overview
Routine flaring persists on many production facilities not because there is no way to stop it, but because the gas involved is small in volume, variable in supply, or awkward to route anywhere useful. This course works through the practical steps of an elimination programme: distinguishing routine flaring from the safety flaring a facility must retain, metering it accurately enough to trust the baseline, and estimating the methane slip that default combustion assumptions usually miss. From there, participants design flare gas recovery units, compare compressor technologies for low-pressure recovery duty, and evaluate utilisation routes ranging from fuel gas and gas lift through to small-scale monetisation options such as mini-LNG or gas-to-wire power. The course also covers the purge and pilot gas losses that quietly add up across a facility, and closes with the governance needed to set a credible reduction target, verify results against satellite and third-party observation, and report methane and carbon dioxide figures that regulators and investors can trust. Exercises use representative facility data rather than any single operator's figures.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Estimate methane slip and emissions from flaring using recognised destruction and removal efficiency methods.
Design a flare gas recovery unit, including compressor selection, sized to the site's low-pressure flare header.
Evaluate on-site utilisation and off-take monetisation routes for recovered and stranded associated gas.
Identify and reduce purge and pilot gas losses without compromising flare ignition reliability.
Build a flare minimisation study that ranks reduction projects by volume impact, cost and schedule.
Verify flaring reduction results and prepare methane disclosures that withstand external scrutiny.
Who Should Attend
Production and process engineers responsible for flare systems on oil and gas facilities.
HSE and emissions specialists building methane and flaring disclosures for regulators and investors.
Facility engineers evaluating flare gas recovery and associated gas monetisation projects.
Asset teams setting flaring reduction targets aligned with zero routine flaring commitments.
Measurement and instrumentation engineers specifying flare metering technology.
Sustainability and reporting teams reconciling internal flaring data against satellite observation.
Course Modules
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01Flaring Sources, Regulation and Measurement
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Distinguishing Routine, Safety and Non-Routine Flaring
- Classify flare events into routine, safety and non-routine categories to target elimination effort at the flows that do not require a flare for safe operation.
- Map associated gas volumes across production facilities to quantify the routine flaring baseline against zero routine flaring commitments.
- Identify recurring causes of non-routine flaring, such as compressor trips and gas plant upsets, from incident and flare event logs.
- Distinguish flare pilot and purge gas consumption from process relief volumes when building the facility flaring inventory.
Session 2Flare Metering, Monitoring and Emissions Reporting
- Specify flare gas metering technology, including ultrasonic and thermal mass flow meters, suited to the low-pressure and variable-composition conditions at a flare header.
- Estimate flaring efficiency and unburned methane slip using recognised destruction and removal efficiency assumptions rather than default combustion values.
- Reconcile site flare metering data against satellite-based flare detection to identify gaps in reported flaring volumes.
- Prepare methane and carbon dioxide emissions estimates from flaring data consistent with OGMP 2.0 reporting levels.
02Flare Gas Recovery System Design
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Flare Gas Recovery Unit Configuration
- Size a flare gas recovery unit, including knockout drum, compressor and seal gas system, against the low-pressure flare header flow and composition range.
- Compare liquid ring, screw and reciprocating compressor options for flare gas recovery against turndown, reliability and maintenance requirements.
- Design the water seal or flare gas recovery control system so the flare still receives gas safely during recovery compressor trips or turndown limits.
- Integrate recovered gas into fuel gas, gas lift or reinjection systems without exceeding downstream composition or pressure limits.
Session 2Minimising Purge and Pilot Gas Losses
- Evaluate low or ultra-low purge gas technologies, including flow-metered purge reduction devices, to cut continuous flare header losses.
- Assess flare tip and pilot design changes that maintain reliable ignition while reducing continuous gas consumption.
- Review relief valve and blowdown valve condition to identify passing valves that add unmeasured continuous flow to the flare header.
- Prioritise purge and pilot gas reduction projects by combining expected volume savings with implementation cost and complexity.
03Gas Monetisation and Utilisation Pathways
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1On-Site Utilisation and Reinjection Options
- Evaluate recovered gas use as fuel gas, gas lift supply or reinjection against existing facility compression and processing capacity.
- Assess natural gas liquids extraction from recovered gas as a value-adding step where liquids content and market access justify the investment.
- Compare gas reinjection for pressure maintenance against surface utilisation options on a net present value basis for a specific field.
- Screen candidate recovery projects against facility layout and tie-in constraints to shortlist practically deliverable options.
Session 2Off-Take, Small-Scale Monetisation and Commercial Structuring
- Compare small-scale monetisation pathways, including mini-LNG, compressed natural gas and gas-to-wire power generation, for stranded associated gas volumes.
- Structure commercial agreements for third-party gas off-take or power sale that reflect the intermittent nature of associated gas supply.
- Assess logistics and market access constraints that determine whether a monetisation pathway is viable for a remote or offshore location.
- Build a phased monetisation plan that sequences flare gas recovery ahead of downstream utilisation investment to de-risk the programme.
04Programme Governance, Reporting and Continuous Reduction
2 sessions · 8 points
Session 1Building a Flaring Reduction Programme
- Set a facility-level flaring reduction target and trajectory consistent with corporate zero routine flaring commitments and regulatory deadlines.
- Build a flare minimisation study that ranks reduction options by volume impact, cost and implementation schedule across the asset.
- Coordinate flare gas recovery projects with turnaround planning so tie-ins are executed without extending shutdown duration.
- Assign accountability for flaring performance to facility operations teams with clear reporting lines into the reduction programme.
Session 2Verification, Reporting and Stakeholder Communication
- Verify flaring reduction results against the metered baseline using consistent measurement and reporting methods before claiming performance improvement.
- Prepare flaring and methane disclosures for regulators and investors that are traceable back to underlying meter and estimation data.
- Respond to satellite or third-party flaring observations that differ from internal reporting with a documented reconciliation process.
- Embed flaring performance into routine management reviews so new projects are screened for flaring impact before sanction.
What the participant receives
4 course modules
A structured syllabus
8 training sessions
across 5 days
32 detailed points
Applied, detailed content
Accredited attendance certificate
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