The branch closed its very successful 2016/2017 session with its annual Corrosion Awareness Day, which was well attended with 62 registrations supported by 6 excellent speakers providing a very successful, though very intense day, with many areas of corrosion introduced. This event was only made possible by the very generous sponsorship of Sherwin Williams together with all the Aberdeen Branch Sponsors.
Professor Paul Lambert (Mott MacDonald) provided a wonderful and gripping introduction to the day’s proceedings, outlining some key areas in the evolution of materials and corrosion control methods, as a background to other more specialised areas covered by the following speakers. Dr Carol Devine (ICR Integrity) followed with an amazing insight into the world of integrity wrecking bugs and how they can be controlled and detected, with some wonderful imagery that makes highly recommended viewing (https://sites.google.com/site/icorrabz/resource-center). Dr Nigel Owen (Aberdeen Foundries) gave us the view from the ‘Front Line’, as a busy foundry manager dealing with numerous metallurgical related casting issues, supplying the complex needs of the Cathodic Protection Industries, covering both Impressed Current and Sacrificial CP requirements and differing technologies.
After a well-earned break and some delicious catering provided by Palm Court, Sarah Vasey, ICorr President opened the afternoon CAD Session with a talk on the work of the Institute and its organisation. Malcolm Morris (Sherwin Williams) then gave us the 3 excellent insights into the world of corrosion mitigation by coatings, chemicals and materials selection with a strong practical bias and highlighted many relevant standards, recommended practices and legislation, essential to ensuring successful performance.
All this fitted very nicely into the final two talks by key Corrosion Management (CM) Specialists, Hooman Takhtechian (Oceaneering) who skilfully guided us into the concepts of CM, how it is geared to best utilising available resources, providing effective communications systems and the avoidance of risk to personnel, in often High Pressure / High Temperature operating environments. Dr Muhammad Ejaz (Plant Integrity Management) then wrapped up proceedings with a fascinating introduction to the world of Corrosion Modelling, its historical development and how it can be applied successfully today, which was coupled with a supporting presentation on Intrusive Corrosion Monitoring.
All in all, it was a very comprehensive training session of immense benefit that achieved its main objective of providing a most informative event at a very reasonable cost.
The Aberdeen Branch has further strengthened its management committee for 2017/2018 session and welcomes the following new members who will undoubtedly bring a wealth of new experiences and ideas to its work. Amir Attarchi (Senior Corrosion Engineer) at Oceaneering International, Dr Philip Enegela (Corrosion Engineer) at ATKINS Energy Division, Dr Nigel Owen (Manager) of Aberdeen Foundries Ltd, and Bryn Roberts (Managing Director) at ABR Engineering Consultants Ltd.
CEOCOR 2018 Congress 15th to 18th May 2018, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Stratford on Avon, organised by ICorr/CORREX Ltd.
Sponsors and exhibitors are already booking, and confirmed sponsors include, National Grid (Platinum), Cathodic Protection Co. (Gold), Corrosion Technology Services Europe (Gold), 3c Corrosion Control Company (Gold), MetriCorr (gold), Rustrol Systems (Silver), Automa SRL (Silver), Intertek P & IA (bronze), and Weilekes Elektronik GmbH (Bronze).
Technical committee meetings are open to all, with high level technical papers on pipeline internal and external corrosion and protection. Bookings opened at the end of last month, and the hotel is already taking discounted room bookings (mention CEOCOR).
Book this week in your diary NOW. Do not miss the best pipeline corrosion conference that will have been held in the UK for decades! Full details can be found at http://www.ceocor2018.com
Following on from the successes of the 2012-13 and 2014-15 young engineers programme, the Institute of Corrosion will be running the next programme in 2018, starting in January.
There will be lectures on the subjects related to Corrosion in Oil and Gas, including, basic corrosion, welding, materials, coatings, painting, fire protection and linings, cathodic protection, chemical treatments, plus presentation skills.
As before, the series of lectures will be followed by case studies, with a presentation to be given at an event around the London area.
We are currently carrying out pre-enrolment for this programme, and are looking for around 20 participants in the early stages of their career in the corrosion industry and who are looking for extra experience to set them up for their future.Â
The lectures will be sponsored by BP and held at the CB&I offices in Paddington, London. There is no cost for this course for the delegates, and we would like to thank the sponsor and host for allowing this.Â
If you are interested in this event please fill in the application form which can be obtained from, Institute of Corrosion, Barratt House, Kingsthorpe Road, Northampton, NN2 6EZ, or Email:- admin@icorr.org
The applications will be reviewed by the YEP sub-committee, and you will be notified if you are successful. Deadline for receipt of applications is 30th November 2017.
Last month I had the pleasure of presenting the prestigious U.R. Evans award on behalf of the Institute of Corrosion.  The award this year was presented posthumously to Prof. Hugh Isaacs, a leading figure in the corrosion field and fellow of the Electrochemical Society.  The award was collected by Professor Mary Ryan who gave a very interesting lecture in recognition of his work. One of the things that this reminded me of was the wonderful community we work in. We are very fortunate to be part of the corrosion community, and work with the people we do, bringing to mind the importance of continuing these working relationships and friendships.
We need to keep our community vibrant and there are various initiatives within ICorr that we are hoping will help to facilitate this. For example, the Young ICorr group are planning an event in November which will be a lecture followed by networking, and I would encourage all ‘young’ members, and also some of your younger colleagues who are not currently members, to get involved.
I was also able to attend the Aberdeen Branch Corrosion Awareness Day, which was a very well attended event with almost 70 people attending, and I believe a report on this will be in the magazine. Thanks must go to the Aberdeen committee, and all the speakers, for giving up their time to make this such a successful event.
We will also be running our first “Fundamentals of Corrosion’ course in October – a new training programme aimed specifically at Engineers in the industry. Full details will be published on the ICorr website.
It has just been announced that this year’s AGM will be hosted by Midland Branch and initial details are given in Local Branch section.
Finally I would just like to remind members that their subscriptions for 2017/2018 were due in July.
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