Course Description:

Oil companies are extremely concerned with minimizing corrosion for reasons of safe and efficient operations, in addition to cost and finance. This 5-day course provides a comprehensive treatment of all corrosion problems commonly encountered in oil/Gas field equipment and utilities. Special emphasis has been put on techniques of monitoring and inhibiting applications.  Participants will leave this course with full practical knowledge of corrosion monitoring, detection and control techniques (Coupons, Probes, Corroding Speciments etc…) Included also are  special applications in preventing corrosion including electro plating, cladding, coatings etc..)

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 Outlines:

1. An Overview
   1. Occurrence of Corrosion in Oil fields
   2. Corrosive environment and the nature of corrosion process
   3. Thermodynamic vs. kinetic factors in the corrosion process
2. Corrosion Control and its importance in the Design Process
3. Matching Materials selection and Performance to Service Environment
4. Predicting Corrosion Behaviour
   1. Materials
   2. Water and steam
   3. Temperature
   4. H2S
   5. CO2
   6. Chloride ions
   7. Units used in expressing corrosion rates
5. Energetics of Corrosion Process
   1. Electrode Potentials
   2. International convention
   3. E.M.F. of Corrosion Process
   4. Reference Electrodes
   5. Examples
6. Soil Corrosion
   1. Corrosivity of soils
   2. Resistivity measurements
7. Atmospheric Corrosion
   1. Parameters affecting corrosion
   2. Electrochemical mechanisms
   3. High temperature oxidation
8. Detection of Corrosion in Oilfield Equipment
   1. Corroding specimens
   2. Coupons
   3. Probes
   4. Electrical & Electrochemical  methods
9. Downhole Inspection
   1. Electromagnetic casing corrosion detector
   2. Casing potential profile tool
10. Inspection of Surface Equipment
    1. Ultrasonic inspection, testing
    2. Radiography
    3. Visual Inspection
    4. Records & failure reports
11. Corrosion Inhibiters
    1. Anodic inhibitors
    2. Cathodic inhibitors
    3. Neutralizing inhibitors
    4. Adsorptive inhibitors 
12. Elements of a Typical Corrosion Program
    1. Monitoring
    2. Testing & inspection
    3. Failure analysis
    4. Economic considerations