Cathodic Protection to Avoid the Risks of Corrosion
Course Info
Code IND01-130
Duration 5 Days
Format Classroom
Course Summary
As your business ages there will be elements of your operation and infrastructure that need to be maintained in order to continue trading. In the oil and gas industry, corrosion is one of the biggest risks to an organisation. Corrosion can cause damage to underground pipes, mean loss of product, and can drastically reduce the amount that you can charge in sales.
To prevent this and protect yourself from inevitable corrosion, Cathodic Protection (CP) is one of the most successful corrosion protectors out there. It works to eliminate the corrosion of metals by applying an electric current.
The techniques have been used for 160 years in the farming industry and work to maintain offshore piping which becomes rusty and corroded easily due to damp conditions. Despite its long history of successes, it’s still broadly unknown across the industry, meaning that gas and oil businesses leave themselves open to risks.
It’s important for business owners to understand the benefits of Cathodic Protection and explore an implementation plan theoretically and practically to fully understand how CP could help to develop the business, increase protection and pull in greater profits. To appreciate the extent of the benefits, you will need to research and plan the technology and systems required to implement CP and explore any risk factors involved to avoid shutdowns and reduce your production costs overall with the minimum amount of obstruction to continued operations.
- To understand the Cathodic Protection benefits and a theoretical implementation plan.
- To develop a practical working knowledge of how CP can help your business.
- To determine the biggest risk areas of not applying CP to your operation.
- TO understand how corrosion is created and how applications of galvanic and impressed current can assist.
- To explore the equipment and technology needed to implement a CP system.
- To delve into the various elements affecting the performance of a CP system.
- To monitor and report on CP productivity and quality.
- To provide regular audits on performance and aim for continuous improvement.
- To reduce the costs of corrosion on your overall operation.
This course is designed for anyone responsible for maintaining a gas and oil operation or for making improvements and assessing risk areas to maintain the operation’s success. It would be most beneficial for:
- Business Owners
- Operations Managers
- Equipment Engineers
- Safety Personnel
- Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Risk Assessors
- Technicians
- Corrosion Assessors
This course uses a variety of adult learning techniques to aid full understanding and comprehension. Participants will watch videos and take part in interactive seminars to understand the benefits and implications of implementing Cathodic Protection in a gas and oil business.
They will work together to draft action plans for implementation and understand the biggest risk areas. They will also be presented with powerful tools and techniques to help with the monitoring and reporting of their CP performance to allow them to boost their profits and successes in this competitive market.
Course Content & Outline
- The main causes of gas and oil plant failure.
- The economic effects on your business.
- Understanding how your plant affects the environment.
- Safety considerations.
- The types of corrosion management.
- The cost of corrosion.
- How does corrosion occur?
- Metallurgical factors and forms of corrosion.
- Control mechanisms.
- Material selection and cost-benefit assessment.
- Environmental changes.
- Understanding protective coatings.
- The atmosphere’s effect on corrosion.
- Marine and industrial environments.
- Underground corrosion.
- Concrete structures and carbon steels.
- Building with metal.
- Cast iron, stainless steel, copper, nickel, and aluminium.
- Why is the protective coating essential?
- Coating options and selection criteria.
- Coating efficiency and potential defects.
- Overvoltage.
- Cathodic disbondment.
- Important design factors.
- Electrolyte resistivity and pH surveys.
- Structure surveyance.
- Your current requirement and protective currents.
- Developing a sacrificial anode.
- Soil resistivity and current requirement testing.
- Oilfield protection systems and implementation.
- Looking at the corrosion economy.
- KPIs for corrosion reporting.
- Decide on a success matrix.
- Asset integrity and corrosion management styles.
- Understanding your data to create continuous improvement.
- Disaster recovery and contingency planning.
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