Aberdeen held its first YEP session online, on 27 January 2022, chaired by Hooman Takhtechian. There are 24 participants in the scheme selected from over 50 applicants meeting the YEP criteria. These come from a diverse range of disciplines, CP, CUI, FM, Materials, Process Engineering, Reliability / Maintenance, RBI, Subsea and Welding, thus bringing a wide cross-section of experience, cultural and networking opportunities for this year’s programme.
The chair congratulated all the successful candidates and encouraged them to also participate also in the branch technical meetings and ICorr events nationally, as far as possible. All YEP participants also have the opportunity to attend the branch ACF – Annual Corrosion Forum on Tuesday 30th August 2022, with this year’s theme being the “Role of materials selection, corrosion management and asset integrity/management in the Energy Transition and Net Zero Target industry sectors.
YEP Candidates and Course Organisers.
Steve Paterson, formerly Principal Technical Expert Upstream Materials for Shell Projects & Technology, got things off to an excellent start with a very comprehensive presentation covering corrosion control fundamentals and all aspects of corrosion management including, the impacts of corrosion, deterioration mechanisms, electrochemistry, materials, mitigation, modelling, passivity, kinetics and thermodynamics, along with several examples of corrosion failures. This generated many interesting questions and requests for further reading material.
The branch continued with its YEP on 8 March with an in-person meeting when Stephen Tate (ICorr Vice Chair) presented Integrity Management, and provided many experienced based examples of loss of integrity due to corrosion and erosion in, offshore fixed and floating facilities, oil and gas process systems, land-based structures and pipelines, stressing the need to ensure that all production facilities remain safe and legally compliant. A range of in-service failure specimens were made available to attendees, including removed flowline sections, choke valve sections and other piping specimens.
Subsea 7 have kindly loaned their Westhill training facilities for the YEP in-person events and the Aberdeen committee is extremely grateful to Brian Welsh – Subsea 7 Training Coordinator, for making this possible along with Amir Attarchi who managed all the catering on the night. David Mobbs has also been regularly supporting the Aberdeen YEP for us, which is very much appreciated.
YEP Session 1 presenter Steve Paterson -YEP Mentor and Case Study Leader.
YEP Session 3 – Integrity Management with Stephen Tate at Subsea
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