Course Description:  

Corrosion is recognized as one of the most serious problems in our modern societies and the resulting losses each year are in the hundreds of billions of dollars. Cost of corrosion studies have been undertaken by several countries This five day course is presented to help participants to learn basic of corrosion chemistry and all related topics about corrosion, and corrosion control systems. This course is presented to accomplish all experiences of who works in field of corrosion control and corrosion inspection.

Course Goal:

To enhance the participant’s knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to understand and apply recent technologies of corrosion control, inspection, and all different methods of corrosion monitoring for all types of corrosion

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course, participant will be able to:

1. Identify why corrosion occurs in oil and gas production.
2. Deal with problems of corrosion
3. Understand corrosion principles.
4. Recognize forms of corrosion
5. Be Familiar with methods used to detect corrosion in oilfield equipment

Course Outline:

• The occurrence of corrosion in oil and gas production.
• Problems of corrosion: Down-hole, Flowing well, Casing, Surface equipment and processing facilities.
• Corrosion principles. (why metal corrodes? nature of corrosion reactions, voltage source, anode / cathode / electrolyte).
• The effect of electrolyte composition (conductivity, pH, dissolved gases, physical variable temperature / pressure / velocity).
• Forms of corrosion (pitting, bimetallic corrosion, erosion corrosion and impingement, intergranular corrosion, hydrogen induced failures).
• Hydrogen blistering, sulfide cracking, high temperature attack.
• Detection of corrosion in oilfield equipment (corrosion specimens/ coupons, test nipples).
• Electrical and electrochemical methods.
• Linear polarization instruments, galvanic probes, hydrogen probes.
• Chemical methods for corrosion detection (dissolved iron, corrosion products analysis, gas analysis, and bacterial activity and inhibitor tests).
• Theories of chemical inhibition.
• Physical characteristics of corrosion inhibitors.
• Selection of corrosion inhibitors / application of corrosion inhibitors.
• Other Degradations.
  • Fractures

1. Brittle and ductile fractures.
2. Semi-brittle fractures.
3. Fatigue fractures.

• Wear

• 1. Adhesive wear – seizure and scuffing.
  2. Abrasion – erosion – cavitation – impingement.
  3. Fretting and electrical pitting.
  4. Fatigue wear and wear by thermal fatigue.

Who Can Benefit?

Engineers & technicians of oil & gas industries, chemical industries, medicine industries, food industries and like-wise nature industries