Summary
Corrosion control focuses on strategies to control and prevent corrosion in the mechanics of operations. For oil and gas infrastructures, pipelines are a particular area of concern. Unmanaged corrosion can have significant economic impacts, incurring billions and trillions in cost at a global level. Typically corrosion is associated with metallic alloys and can impact their chemical and physical properties, and their mechanical behaviours.
This course provides you with an overview of managing and mitigating corrosion in the oil and gas sector. You will review the basics of corrosion engineering, examine corrosion damage and types, and explore different strategies to prevent and control corrosion. Corrosion can never be entirely prevented, however, with a comprehensive corrosion management strategy you can reduce damage-related costs and unexpected failures.
- Outline the fundamentals of corrosion engineering.
- Identify the key corrosion issues in upstream oil and gas operations.
- Determine the corrosion types that impact crucial infrastructure points in your operations.
- Describe corrosion monitoring and inspection systems.
- Develop a corrosion management plan that includes monitoring, inspection, reporting, and mitigation strategies.
- Petroleum, Welding, and Process Engineers
- Design Engineers
- Maintenance Engineers and Planners
- Inspection and Maintenance professionals
This course uses a variety of adult learning styles to aid full understanding and comprehension.
Participants will review case studies to highlight key areas of importance and possible areas for faults.
They will be supplied with the best tools required to carry out learning exercises to improve their skills. Participants will analyse the examples to gain a thorough understanding of how these skills, techniques and methods apply in the workplace.
Course Content & Outline
- Review the key aspects of metallurgy, including the metallurgy of oil field equipment.
- Identify the properties of common oil field production fluids.
- Outline the API 5L specifications and ASME codes and standards for pipelines and related infrastructure.
- Examine the components of corrosion theory.
- Describe methods of corrosion measurement and calculating corrosion rates.
- Calculate the rate of corrosion for different materials.
- Discuss the economic consequences of corrosion.
- Describe the fundamentals of corrosion.
- Identify common types of corrosion.
- Outline the 5 types of materials testing: mechanical, thermal, electrical, resistance, and non-destructive.
- Explore materials testing for resistance to corrosion.
- Outline the process and main components of corrosion monitoring.
- Examine how to conduct a corrosion failure analysis.
- Describe the key types of corrosion:
- CO2 corrosion
- H2S corrosion
- Crevice corrosion
- Erosion corrosion
- Microbiologically induced corrosion (MIC)
- Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI)
- Corrosion Under Supports (CUS)
- Chloride stress corrosion
- Review additional corrosion types that can impact oil and gas production: galvanic, stray current, pitting, intergranular, soil, water, and atmospheric corrosion.
- Identify points of corrosion control: operations, processes, design, and material selection.
- Examine cathodic protection systems (CPS).
- Review the passive protections provided by coatings and linings.
- Describe the performance of chemical corrosion inhibitors.
- Discuss biocide treatment options.
- Explore the use of non-metallic materials.
- Describe the different monitoring systems: intelligent pigging, corrosion coupons, ultrasonic measurements, electrical probes, and radiographic examination.
- Outline the process of Risk Based Inspection (RBI).
- List Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for corrosion.
- Discuss asset integrity management with a focus on corrosion.
- Examine the ISO 12944 standard for corrosion prevention.
- Review strategies for managing corrosion inspection data.
- Identify key strategies to manage equipment corrosion at your organisation.
- Develop a comprehensive corrosion management strategy.
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