Corrosion Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry

 Introduction:

The Corrosion Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry Training Program in Oil and Gas provides delegates with deep theoretical and practical insights into asset integrity deployment, which protects all assets, people, and the environment. This program is timely and focused on professionals in the oil and gas industry as it takes an analytical look at corrosion and, more importantly, the management of corrosion concerning its effect on the oxidation of oil and gas pipelines. It covers the many types of corrosion encountered in oil and gas and the measures that can be undertaken to manage corrosion effectively.

Asset Integrity Management (AIM) defines the protection of people and the environment, maintenance programs to guarantee reliability, legal compliance, and data management. An appropriate and efficient AIM program ensures that equipment and associated assets within a facility are correctly designed, manufactured, sourced, assembled, and serviced for the intended use over the useful life of the equipment and facilities.

Corrosion control is vital and enhances the lifetime of operations. This training will illustrate various corrosion problems encountered in the industry, highlighting the need for stronger corrosion controls on oil and gas pipelines. By combining these aspects, it is expected that learners will gain significant knowledge and skills in respect to corrosion control, qualifying them for various courses and fostering their growth as professionals in corrosion engineering.

Objectives:

Attendees will be in a position to explore the Oil and Gas Corrosion Engineering, Control, and Prevention as a result of completing the course on Corrosion Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry.

• Understand the basic components of the Asset Integrity Management (AIM), including defining interfaces, roles, and responsibilities of all people involved in developing, deploying, and operationalizing the AIM within the organization.
• Discover what leading operators in the sector have achieved in terms of AIM and analyze the asset integrity management approaches of best operating companies.
• Improve effective AIM regarding employee participation, engagement, leadership, and communication, as well as cross-discipline teams.
• Identify the different forms of control and appreciate that risk exposure can effectively be mitigated through successful implementation of controls that meet life extension objectives for old and aging facilities.

Training Methodology:

• Interactive lectures
• Case studies
• Group discussions
• Hands-on workshops
• Simulations and role play
• Assessments and quizzes

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Overview of the Components of the Asset Integrity Management System.

• Assurance elements and their relationships
• Significance of assurance elements
• Concepts and fragility of assurance
• Asset integrity life cycle
• Selection and explanation of concepts
• Engineering and detailed design
• Operation, alteration, and repair
• Procurement and demolition

Unit 2: Barriers to Ensuring Asset Integrity Management within the Organization.

• Definition and introduction to integrity barrier
• Hard and soft barriers
• Models of Bow Tie
• Threats and means for their mitigation
• Equipment and elements that are safety-critical
• Management of Safety Critical Elements (SCE) and operational integrity
• Safety-critical elements and equipment
• Major accident hazards
• Criteria for identifying SCE and performance standards
• Assurance, Integrity Control Plan (ICP), and verification

Unit 3: Asset Degradation and Damage.

• Asset degradation and damage
• Definition and analysis
• Damages and their consequences
• Bathtub curve
• Time-dependent and time-independent failures
• Key exposures to degradation and damage
• Design concepts, detection, and countermeasures
• Corrosion mitigation
• Corrosion management operation
• Norms and guidance
• Operational requirements

Unit 4: Risk-Based Inspection.

• Risk-based inspection reasons and development history
• Cross benefits and shortcomings
• How the methodology works and its practical implementation
• Certain written documents
• Timeline of activities for inspection
• Pipeline integrity management
• The pipeline integrity management system and its composition
• Define pipeline threats and anomalies
• Overview and techniques of pipeline protection
• Pipeline risk assessment

Unit 5: Key Performance Indicators.

• Key performance indicators and their role
• Leading and lagging KPIs
• Overall plan determination
• Integrity stewardship
• Development plan and data collection/CMMS construction
• Risk assessment
• Asset integrity management
• Strategy review and preparation
• Strategy review execution
• The reporting and results’ evaluation process