Abstract
Corrosion within the context of integrity management remains a key obstacle to sustaining operational success in hydrocarbon production. Its continued occurrence affects economy with consequences on safety and security of people, damage to the environment and integrity of facilities.
This presentation covers three principal themes including (i) the future of hydrocarbon production, (ii) the economic impact of corrosion and (iii) challenges, achievements and step out activities in addressing corrosion, materials and integrity management in hydrocarbon production.
For the foreseeable future, hydrocarbon remains the principal source of global energy in which knowledge of materials degradation and integrity management are key technology enablers. Increase in hydrocarbon production requires advance technology with timely delivery to meet and transform business performance imposing major challenges on corrosion and materials discipline area.
Quantification of economic impact of corrosion is a significant step to identifying the extent of damage allowing development of focused programmes of technology investment and activity to minimise its impact. Here, the economic impact is viewed in terms of both capital and operational expenditures (CAPEX and OPEX), and health, safety and the environment (HSE) focusing on the upstream operations. Quantifying the cost of corrosion in these categories is not an easy task. Nevertheless, a comprehensive examination of such costs is made to provide a valuable insight into the relative breakdown of likely corrosion costs affecting the industry sector.
Finally, challenges facing the industry sector are shared. Achievements and progress made in provision of more corrosion resistant alloys, better guidelines in selecting appropriate and cost effective materials and predictive models are described. CO2 corrosion, H2S corrosion and oxygen corrosion constitute principal types of damage. Guidelines to tackle these damage mechanisms in the selection of appropriate and cost effective materials and corrosion mitigation methods are portrayed.
In conclusion, the framework for seamless and progressive interface between industry and university is described. Such relationship offers radical progress to enable optimization allowing cost reduction without undermining safety or integrity.
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