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Vol.18, No.3, 2018, pp. 159–162
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THE APPLICATION AND LIMITATIONS OF CORROSION MANAGEMENT PROCESS Mehdi Eskandarzade1, Ali Kalaki2, Reza Shahrivar3 1)Faculty of Engineering, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran m.eskandarzade@uma.ac.ir 2)Technical and Corrosion Protection Department, Iranian Central Oil Fields Co., Tehran, Iran 3)Asset Integrity Manager, LifeTech Engineering Ltd, Aberdeen, United Kingdom |
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Abstract Oil and gas industry lose directly and indirectly lots of money because of corrosion. Corrosion management (CM) helps to mitigate a substantial part of corrosion costs. Although the theoretical concept of corrosion management process is simple, the implementation of CM in practice is very challenging and a difficult task, and takes a long time, which also calls for great patience of top managers. This paper reviews the definition of CM process and describes the steps needed to deploy a process in the oil and gas industry. In addition, the corrosion management concept is criticized and the associated limitations are discussed. Keywords: corrosion management, oil and gas industry, inspection, monitoring |
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