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Application of corrosion inhibitors for steels in acidic media for the oil and gas industry: A review

Review of ASP EOR (alkaline surfactant polymer enhanced oil recovery) technology in the petroleum industry: Prospects and challenges

In order to ensure smooth and uninterrupted flow of oil and gas to the end users, it is imperative for the field operators, pipeline engineers, and designers to be corrosion conscious as the lines and their component fittings would undergo material degradations due to corrosion. This paper gives a comprehensive review of corrosion problems during oil and gas production and its mitigation. The chemistry of corrosion mechanism had been examined with the various types of corrosion and associated corroding agents in the oil and gas industry. Factors affecting each of the various forms of corrosion were also presented. Ways of mitigating this menace with current technology of low costs had been discussed. It was noticed that the principles of corrosion must be understood in order to effectively select materials and to design, fabricate, and utilize metal structures for the optimum economic life of facilities and safety in oil and gas operations. Also, oil and gas materials last longer when both inhibitors and protective coatings are used together than when only batch inhibition was used. However, it is recommended that consultations with process, operations, materials, and corrosion engineers are necessary in the fitness of things to save billions of dollars wasted on corrosion in the oil and gas industries.

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Corrosion problems during oil and gas production and its mitigation

Corrosion is a subject of interest to interdisciplinary research communities, combining fields of materials science, chemistry, physics, metallurgy and chemical engineering. In order to understand mechanisms of corrosion and the function of corrosion inhibitors, the reactions at the interfaces between the corrosive electrolyte and a steel surface, particularly at the initial stages of the corrosion process, need to be described. Naturally, these reactions are strongly affected by the nature and properties of the steel surfaces. It is however seen that the majority of recent corrosion and corrosion-inhibition investigations are limited to electrochemical testing, with ex situ analysis of the treated steels (post-exposure analysis). The characterization of materials and their surface properties, such as texture and morphology, are not being considered in most studies. Similarly, in situ investigations of the initial stages of the corrosion reactions using advanced surface characterization techniques are scarce. In this review, attention is brought to the importance of surface features of carbon steels, such as texture and surface energy, along with defects dislocation related to mechanical processing of carbon steels. This work is extended to a critical review of surface analytical techniques used for characterization of carbon steels in corrosive media with particular focus on examining steel surfaces treated with corrosion inhibitors. Further, emerging surface analysis techniques and their applicability to analyse carbon steels in corrosive media are discussed. The importance of surface properties is commonly addressed by surface scientists as well as researchers in other chemistry fields such as nanotechnology, fuel cells, and catalysis. This article is expected to appeal to a broad scientific community, including but not limited to corrosion scientists, material chemists, analytical chemists, metal physicists, corrosion and materials engineers.

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Carbon steel corrosion: a review of key surface properties and characterization methods

I .. Rates of ionic mass transfer at nickel electrodes rotating about their axes In the center of stationary electrodes were studied using the ferri-ferrocyanide oouple In alkaline solutions. A general mass transfer correlation was found to apply equally well to the dissolution rates of rotating solids and to the rates of ionlo mass transfer at rotating electrodes. This correlation takes into account the physioal properties of the system as well as geometric and hydro dynamic factors. The correlation enables the prediction of limiting currents and concentration polarisation at rotating electrodes under a wide range of conditions. The nature of the polarisation involved in the reduotion of Fe(CNfe~» and the oxidation of Fe(CN#* was also Investigated. The polarisation was found to depend strongly on the presence of "electrode poisons." With freshly prepared solutions, under exclusion of light and with eathodlcally treated nickel electrodes relatively small ehesdcal polarisations were determined. For rotational speeds not exceeding Reynolds number 11,000, the chemical polarisation was found to be negligicle in comparison with the concentration polarisation* Under such conditions the ferro-ferrioyanide oouple can be conveniently used to obtain mass transfer rates for various hydrodynamic conditions, or, conversely, to verify the validity of mass transfer equations by a comparison of experimental .and calculated values of limiting currents and concentration polarisation. The rotating electrode model was found to be most suitable for studying the nature of eleotrolytio polarisation phenomena on aocount of the uniformity of the current distribution as well as of the hydrodynamio diffusion laver at the electrode surfsee.

Mass transfer in electrode processes. 3. ionic mass transfer and concentration polarization at rotating electrodes

Corrosion Control in the Oil and Gas Industry

A model has been developed to predict internal pitting corrosion of oil and gas pipelines. This model is based on experiments carried out in the laboratory at high pressure and high temperature under the operating conditions of the oil and gas pipelines. There are two kinds of inputs: construction (pipe diameter, pipe wall thickness, and pipe inclination) and operational (production rates of oil, water, gas, solid, temperature, total pressure, partial pressures of hydrogen sulfide [H2S] and carbon dioxide [CO2], concentrations of sulfate, bicarbonate, and chloride). The model accounts for the statistical nature of the pitting corrosion, predicts the growth of internal pits based on the readily available operational parameters from the field, includes the pit growth rate driven by variables not included in the model, considers the variation of the pitting corrosion rate as a function of time, and determines the error in the prediction. The validity of this model was checked using data obtained fro...

Model to Predict Internal Pitting Corrosion of Oil and Gas Pipelines

Experiments were carried out using a loop in three fields (gassy-oil, oily-gas, and oil-transmission pipes) under 17 operating conditions, using six inhibitors (three continuous and three ...

Comparison of Laboratory Methodologies to Evaluate Corrosion Inhibitors for Oil and Gas Pipelines

Glass cell experiments were conducted to investigate kinetics of iron sulfide and mixed iron sulfide/carbonate layer formation in carbon dioxide/hydrogen sulfide (CO2/H2S) corrosion of mil...

Kinetics of Corrosion Layer Formation. Part 2—Iron Sulfide and Mixed Iron Sulfide/Carbonate Layers in Carbon Dioxide/Hydrogen Sulfide Corrosion

Glass cell experiments were conducted to investigate kinetics of iron sulfide and mixed iron sulfide/carbonate scale precipitation in CO2/H2S corrosion. Weight gain/loss (WGL) method was used to investigate the scale formation using X65 carbon steel as substrates. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM/EDS), X-ray Diffraction methodology (XRD), X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), and Electron Probe Micro-analyzer (EPMA) were used to analyse the scale. The experimental results show that the corrosion products formed in CO2/H2S system depend on the competitiveness of iron carbonate and mackinawite. At high H2S concentration and low Fe concentration, mackinawite was the predominant scale formed on the steel surface. At low H2S concentration and high Fe concentration, both iron carbonate and mackinawite form. It was also found that ferrous ions forming mackinawite scale mainly come from Fe released from the steel surface.

Sankara Papavinasam

Papers

Corrosion Control in the Oil and Gas Industry

Model to Predict Internal Pitting Corrosion of Oil and Gas Pipelines

Comparison of Laboratory Methodologies to Evaluate Corrosion Inhibitors for Oil and Gas Pipelines

Kinetics of Corrosion Layer Formation. Part 2—Iron Sulfide and Mixed Iron Sulfide/Carbonate Layers in Carbon Dioxide/Hydrogen Sulfide Corrosion

Kinetics of Iron Sulfide and Mixed Iron Sulfide/Carbonate Scale Precipitation in CO2/H2S Corrosion