Corrosion Management in Oil and Gas Fields

 Course Objectives:

The course covers all the essential knowledge and understanding, and problem-solving skills, needed by newly appointed engineers/technologists with responsibilities in the field of metallic materials technology. A solid understanding of the principles underpinning the use of metallic materials in industrial applications will be given. There will be group discussions on case studies involving the failure of metallic components and the emphasis will be on understanding why failures happen and how they can be avoided. All participants will return to their organizations with a developed Action Plan to implement their learning from the course into their daily routine at work and understand the principles and causes of corrosion

• Explain the techniques available for protection against corrosion
• Compare the relative merits of different stainless steels and other alloys
• Be familiar with international codes for industrial alloys
• Describe and explain low stress failure mechanisms in metallic materials
• Compare the characterization techniques for evaluating failure mechanisms
• Describe and compare methods for enhancing prevention of failures

 Who can attend?

• Newly appointed engineers, designers and technologists
• New members of an engineering team
• Those engineers/designers/supervisors who have been in their position for less than a year, or are about to be promoted to their first managerial/ supervisory position

Training Methodology

Participants will learn through a series of lectures and tutorials coupled with group discussions and examination of case studies in industry.

Course Outline:

This course will be held in 5 days as follows:

Day-1: (The Causes and Types of Corrosion)

• Corrosion mechanisms
• Types of corrosion and galvanic series
• Atmospheric corrosion of engineering alloys

Day-2: (Corrosion prevention)

• Corrosion environments  and Cathodic protection
• Thermal sprayed coatings
• Plated coatings and Vacuum coating
• Other techniques

Day-3: (Metallic Materials)

• Strength, ductility, toughness, wear and fatigue
• Stainless steels and other alloys
• Codes and specifications of engineering alloys
• Deformation and strengthening mechanisms

Day-4: (Low Stress Failure Mechanisms)

• Ductile and brittle fracture
• Fatigue failures and Stress raisers
• Fracture toughness

Day-5: (Anticipating and Preventing Failure)

• Non-destructive testing
• Optical and electron microscopy
• Design implications
• Surface engineering

Course Fees:

500 KD