Aberdeen Branch Events

ABERDEEN BRANCH EVENTS

The March / April 2010 issue of this journal gave an account of a very successful year 2009 /2010 session. This issue gives a brief report on our last 2 presentations for the year and extends a hand of gratitude to our generous sponsors, old and new.

Typically, we have a joint meeting with the Marine and Corrosion Forum in April and another joint meeting with NACE in May. This year was not an exception.

In April, We had Mark Richardson of Apache North Sea Ltd and James Dulewiche of Deepwater Corrosion Services Inc. Their presentation was titled The Design, Fabrication and Installation of a Multi Platform Impressed Current Cathodic Protection System.’ The presentation was given from an operators point of view with focus on project management, best practices and transferable lessons learnt. With 53 people in attendance, Mark clearly outlined the project philosophy deployed in taking a realistic current capacity CP system based on an assessment of the existing CP system performance as opposed to treating the retrofit CP system as a new build. This option was driven by the fact that the Forties (asset name) structures and pipelines were originally designed to offer cathodic protection by sacrificial anodes for a 25 year field life. This has now been exceeded. As one would imagine, the most critical components of concern with intervention requirements were pipelines and risers. Deepwater Corrosion Services supplied the materials and executed the project.

The presentation for the month of May 2010 was given also from an operator’s perspective. It was titled ‘The Contribution of Corrosion Engineering in Identifying and Reducing Loss of Containment in Oil & Gas Facilities. This was delivered by Thierry Chevrot of the Technology Division of TOTAL.

Thierry highlighted corrosion challenges of a global operator and presented the results of a worldwide analysis of loss of containment data taken from reports made by TOTAL operating subsidiaries.
Discussions were tailored around best practices deployed in managing corrosion issues on surface facilities, both onshore and offshore. Other subjects discussed were the corrosion assessment methodology of a worldwide pipeline network and lastly, a worldwide data analysis of losses of containment with suggested solutions 
for improvement.

A world of thanks to all our sponsors; Aberdeen Branch, Gold & Ordinary Sustaining Sponsors.

The Aberdeen branch, on behalf of all committee and professional members will like to say a word of thanks to all our valued sponsors for their continued support in sponsoring our programs.

We trust that you will continue to find value in our service to you and to The industry now and in years ahead.

The chart below shows a trend of attendance in the recently concluded ICorr year and boasts an average attendance of 53 people per session with credits to the generous sponsors who make each meeting session comfortable.

Finally, we would like to inform members and others interested in our presentations that moving forward, our monthly presentations will in the Palm Court Hotel, Aberdeen and no more Pittodrie Stadium in Aberdeen.
 

EVENTS

Technical program for ICORR Aberdeen for 2010/2011 year as below:

30 September 2010
Joint: WJS -  Dr. Chris Fowler, Director, Corrosion Exova Group, Exova; “Materials & testing for sour environments.”

26 October 2010
ICorr: Dr. Zainab Marsh, TAQA/WGIM; Operating limits set by ISO 15156/NACE MR0175 versus recent testing advances performed in accordance with NACE TM0177/EFC 17 for the susceptibility of 316 stainless steel to pitting and stress corrosion cracking.

23 November 2010
ICorr: John Middleton; “Validation Testing of Composite Repairs for Pipes and Pipelines”

25 January 2010
ICorr: Rob Howard, Principal Engineer, Lloyds Register sharing on “Materials Engineering - Issues in Oil & Gas”

22 February 2010
ICorr: Dr. Dan Kirkwood, Senior Consultant, Oceaneering International Services (OIS); presenting “Interactive threats arising from hydrogen in ferrous alloys”
Summary:  The often confusing issue of how hydrogen interacts with metals and alloys arising from corrosion or protection processes, looking at the latest binary 
Fe - H phase diagram for example and the consequences on properties and other threats which arise from such interaction.

12 April 2010
Joint: MCF – Lammert Brathsma, Managing Director, Materials Engineering Limited (MEL); presenting “Cracks and their causes”.
Summary: Different types of cracks and their causes will be discussed, as their behaviour. This ranges from ductile to brittle cracking or fracturing to different types of cracks due to corrosion phenomena and wrong material handling, from heat treatment to surface treatment. The talks will be supported by a slide showing several pictures.

24 May 2010
Joint meeting with NACE – Don Harrop, Head, Technology & Research department, BP. Presentation title TBA

22 February 2011
ICorr: Craig Emslie, Integrity Specialist, Sonomatic Limited UK: presenting on “Non Intrusive Inspection (NII)” Summary: The presentation will include the process of selecting the appropriate inspection techniques and the analysis of subsequent inspection data and its overall benefits.


Contact Details

If you would like any further information on the Aberdeen Branch’s events and activities please contact:
Frances Blackburn, ICorr Aberdeen  
Tel:   +44 (0)1224 243360   icorrabz@gmail.com
Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/icorrabz?hl=en