The casing corrosion problem in Changqing Oil Region has long troubled oilfield development which caused a serious loss of production capacity. For a large number of corroded perforated wells, the accurate identification of the water outlet has…
Effective well integrity practices ensure the protection of people, facilities and the environment from the risk of uncontrolled release of formation fluids throughout the life cycle of a well, so petroleum engineers are always required to ensure…
This work presents a chipless RFID-based sensor for pipeline integrity monitoring in real-time fashion. The sensor monitors the coating lift-off from the pipeline, which is the initial step in external corrosion of a metal pipe. The sensor has a…
A review of corrosion monitoring and inspection technologies is presented including descriptions of the available techniques and examples of their application in various industries. The advantages of online corrosion monitoring and inspection are…
Corrosion of petrochemical equipment is one of the reasons that affect the process safety and sustainability of the petrochemical industry. To understand the research status of corrosion in petrochemical equipment and explore the knowledge base and…
Corrosion detection is very important in the oil industry to prevent costly consequences of damage from it. There are some techniques for detecting corrosion in pipelines. Backscatter radiography is an inspection technique for cases where the…
This paper presents a critical review of the main sensing techniques considered for online monitoring of the integrity of alloys steel-made equipment used in process industry. This includes pipelines, tanks, electrical transformers and other metallic…
A study was conducted to assess the anticorrosive potential of Lippia javanica leaf extract as a mild steel corrosion inhibitor in 1 M HCl acidic media. The chemical compositions of the acetone extract and its fractions were investigated by…
Pipelines which transport and distribute petroleum products, oil, and gas, chemical substances, water, steam are vital to the economy. And these vital assets' health is adversely affected significantly by corrosion. Moreover, the corrosion of…
Different industries use different types of metals in their manufacturing processes, as these metals can be found in devices, liquid lines, or enclosures used in their work. These metals are sometimes exposed to an aggressive environment. In this…
Internal corrosion due to under deposit corrosion (UDC) is responsible for at least 20% of incidents in the oil and gas industry. As a result, over the past decade, UDC has received much attention from researchers, corrosion technologists, and…
This chapter reviews established methods in detecting corrosion for fiber-reinforced polymer composites during their service life. Corrosion of fiber-reinforced polymer composites leads to mechanical properties degradation such as strength,…
For the detection of cracks and corrosion in pipelines an ultrasonic measuring system (pig) was developed. During the pipeline inspection there is no communication to the outside world, the accumulated data have to be stored on a mass storage device.…
The ultrasonic thickness measurement technique is a corrosion monitoring technology, which is widely used, but testing workers have been troubled by how to accurately locate corrosion of key parts. In this paper, the acoustic emission technique was…
Petroleum pipelines are best mode of transportation of crude oil, refined oil and by products of petroleum not only within the country but outside as well. Within the refinery these pipelines are in form of heater tubes and pipes linked/ connected to…
Corrosion monitoring and early detection of pits and wall thinning for casing pipes are considerably important to gas and petroleum industries since the frequently occurring corrosion at the internal or external parts of those steel casing pipes used…
Tank floor corrosion has been a significant risk of petroleum and petrochemical industry. For tank floor inspection, acoustic emission qualitative methods is generally in the industry, which have some problems such as lack of accuracy. In this paper,…
A system to detect the corrosion of submarine oil pipeline is introduced, it got the original data by 3 groups ultrasonic sensors and flux leakage sensors. We made multiscale wavelet transform and frequency analysis to multichannels original data and…
The X-ray transmission imaging technology is often used for nondestructive testing outside the pipe, but for deep buried petroleum pipelines, its equipment cannot meet environmental layout requirements and one side accessible detection devices are…
Corrosion detector using an array of planar Cu electrodes is demonstrated. The planar Cu electrodes are patterned from commercially available single-sided printed circuit board (PCB). The ten electrodes exhibit anodic and cathodic characteristics by…
A system to detect the corrosion of submarine oil pipeline is introduced, it got the original data by 3 groups ultrasonic sensors and flux leakage sensors. We made multiscale wavelet transform and frequency analysis to multichannels original data and…
In this paper, a customized classifier is presented for the industry-practiced nondestructive evaluation (NDE) protocols using a hybrid-fuzzy inference system (FIS) to classify the corrosion and distinguish it from the geometric defects or…
Corrosion is a central problem for the oil and gas and nuclear industries, affecting pipelines and nuclear waste storage tanks. Reliable methods for timely corrosion detection and integrity evaluation are needed for a range of industrial structures…
The corrosion effect on the steel bar in reinforced concrete is one of the major issues for the durability of concrete throughout the world. The service life of each type of building structure is severely damaged by reinforcement corrosion, which…
With the cost reducing and efficiency increasing background in the oil and gas industry, due to the huge cost advantage, the application of acoustic emission detection technology in storage tank bottom corrosion has gradually expanded. Firstly, the…
A system to detect the corrosion of submarine oil pipeline is introduced, it got the original data by 3 groups ultrasonic sensors and flux leakage sensors. We made multiscale wavelet transform and frequency analysis to multichannels original data and…
Steel casing pipes used in underground gas storage or in oil fields are subjected to corrosion. Corrosion frequently causes some pitting or wall thinning to the internal or external of casing pipes. More serious corrosion would form holes on the…
In this paper, a customized Fuzzy Inference System is presented to classify the corrosion and distinguish it from the geometric defects or normal state of the steel pipes used in gas/petroleum industry. The presented strategy is hybrid in the sense…
Through a comprehensive and aggressive research program, the Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) has designed, developed and installed several new products to address the environmental impact of leaked dielectric fluid from…
The performance monitoring of energy storage pipelines has been investigated using efficient optical strain sensors. Leakage and corrosion are major hazard that occur in underground energy storage pipelines due to cracks, drilling, geohazards and…
Carbon capture, utilization and storage technology (CCUS) is considered to be one of the most important technical pathways for greenhouse gas emission reduction. CO2 pipeline transportation technology in China started late, with more CO2 pipeline…
In the natural gas pipelines, the so-called black powder is formed. It can take many forms, including wet tarred substance or fine dry powder. Black powder occurs in both newer and older natural gas pipelines. This can disrupt the distribution of…
One of Sudanese fields has a heavy crude oil which has a high Total Acid Number (TAN) and high viscosity, can cause a lot of problems in production operation, transport, and storage facilities. The effect of ethanol dilution on the rheological…
The existence of saltwater in extracted crude oil causes major problems such as corrosion and low quality of the extracted crude oil. Therefore, droplet coalescence of saltwater and desalination have been paid much attention by researchers about…
AbstractThe aim of this work is to describe chemical substances contained in crude oils and fuels, the conditions in which petroleum products (fuels) are corrosive to metals
In the later stage of development of Dagang Oilfield, many problems, such as inadaptable process, severe corrosion of equipment, high energy consumption and high maintenance cost, have been presented in the oilfield surface system. Through the…
Various aspects of the oil fields in terms of microbial activity (souring, biocorrosion, etc.) and oil production (polymer flooding, etc.) have been evaluated through a variety of experiments. The primary step to study these properties in the…
1 Scope This document describes various corrosion under insulation (CUI) environments in refineries and other related industries and environments, and establishes CUI environmental categories including operating temperature ranges from 45 C to 204 C…
Fouling in heat exchangers is the unwanted buildup of material on the heat exchange surface which reduces thermal efficiency. The crude preheat train usually consists of a set of heat exchangers which tend to become fouled. Crude oil fouling can be…
Pipeline transportation is the most economic and reasonable transport means of petroleum and natural gas. Influenced by complex corrosion environment, it is challenging to detect anomalies accurately with precise boundaries. Inspired by the idea of…
Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, worldwide consumption of petroleum fuels is reduced due to complete or partial lockdown in most of the countries. The abridged expenditure of liquid fuels imposes pressure on petroleum refinery industries for their…
Unconventional crude oil extraction, transportation, and downstream refining have encountered a huge formation of petroleum emulsion (or rag layer), which causes serious problems such as equipment corrosion, loss of crude oil, and catalyst poisoning.…
Hydrodesulfurization (HDS) of sour crude oil is an effective way to address the corrosion problems in refineries and is an economic way to process sour crude oil in an existing refinery built for sweet oil. Siberian crude oil transported through the…
The terrorist attack on the Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia on September 14, 2019 attracted global attention to the significant role of safety and security in the sustainable oil and gas supply chain and the vulnerability of supply infrastructures…
Different from the conventional transportation of oil-water mixtures, we proposed a method to reduce pipeline corrosion based on a concept of flow management, where the mixed fluids were firstly separated into oil and water and then a batch…
Water is an inorganic, non-flammable and easily available phase change material (PCM), which can be utilized for cold thermal energy storage (TES) application (melting point at 0C). Although water has a specific heat of about 4.18Jg1K1 and has…
Salt hydrates are one of the most common inorganic compounds that are used as phase change material (PCM). These are available for a wide range of phase transition temperature for thermal energy storage (TES) application. They have some most desired…
Subsurface storage of hydrogen, e.g. in depleted oil and gas fields (DOGF), is suggested as a means to overcome imbalances between supply and demand in the renewable energy sector. However, hydrogen is an electron donor for subsurface microbial…
Conventional thermal energy storage (TES) media and heat transfer fluids (HTFs) currently used in commercial concentrated solar power (CSP) plants are nitrate-based molten salts with working temperature up to about 565 C. Current interest in raising…
Latent heat storage using metals as solid-liquid phase change materials (PCMs) have been concerned for medium-temperature thermal energy storage. However, due to the leakage and corrosion problems during phase transformation, the use of metallic PCMs…