The Facility, Part 6: Production Separators

Deep End Era. Engineering with Sankalp · Oct 11, 2026 · 56m

Condensate water content has been creeping up for months. Inside the three-phase separator, explore droplet settling, gas capacity, retention time and vessel internals. Interacting pressure and level loops, interface measurement, emulsions, sand and changing field conditions explain why gravity needs good instrumentation and enough time. Part 6 of 16 in The Facility. Corran Point, its characters, companies and story figures are fictional and illustrative.

Chapters

00:00:00 Cold open: a little too much water

00:03:34 Gravity, time and Stokes' law

00:08:42 Anatomy of a three phase separator…