Independent Corrosion Consulting by Dr. Binder Singh

Publications

Major Papers/Presentations/Workshops

  Note: Vast majority are peer reviewed (internal /external) and most are in the available domain, on request - some permissions may be required - contact Binder if you need.

  • B. Singh, Research in Progress; Climate Change, Corrosion and Integrity Management, NACE, Houston, TX, March 2020 (Conf. Postponed- Extended abstract Only).

  • B. Singh, Invited Presentation, Workshop # G01 ASTM, Corrosion Inhibitors: Mindful Multi-disciplined Engineering for Laboratory Evaluation, Marriot Marquis, Houston, November 5th, 2019, TX, USA.

  • B. Singh, Edited/reviewed/co-authored batch of 10 papers (Materials 363) for marine metallic, and non-metallic materials, mechanical,  testing, welding, and corrosion engineering topics, Encyclopedia of Maritime and Offshore Engineering (EMOE), Wiley & Sons published 2019. 

  • Singh B., R. Wittkower, and A. Bhattacharya;  HSE  Role and Advances in Offshore Corrosion and Integrity Management, Safety 2018 ASSE Conference, St Antonio, Texas, June 6th, 2018.

  • Tim Martin and Binder Singh; Offshore Life Cycle Materials Performance, Encyclopaedia of Maritime & Offshore Engineering (EMOE), Wiley Library, January 2018.

  • Paul Jukes & Binder Singh, Marine and Subsea External Seawater Side Corrosion, EMOE Contribution, Wiley Library, January, 2018.

  • Deborah Buswell, Jack Smart, Binder Singh, Properties of Materials, EMOE Contribution, Wiley Library,  Jan 2018.

  • NACE CORCON 2017, Invited Paper: Advances in Offshore Corrosion and Integrity Management, Mumbai, India, 17-20th Sept 2017.

  • NACE 2017, Asset Integrity Management NACE Committee TEG 529X Invited Co-presentation, Ana Battarchya* & Binder Singh, New Orleans, March 30th 2017.

  • BP training modules, 3 off Interactive Lectures on: Mechanical performance, Corrosion, and Materials Selection, BP operations staff (Alaska, Trinidad, offices) Dec 15th 2016, Houston, TX. (* Presenter)

  • AMCHAM Conference, Invited Presentation, Life Cycle Corrosion & Integrity Management -Updates plus Q/A Panel, Port of Spain Trinidad &Tobago, Nov 2016.

  • IMECHE Society Evening dinner, Lecture Mechanical Engineering, Corrosion & Integrity Management, Black Labrador Function room, Houston TX, Nov, 2016.

  • Technip Global Metallurgy Webinar Forum, Newcastle UK - Binder Singh & Joe Bradburn; Offshore Corrosion Management, Materials Performance, Integrity Management for Life Cycle. Sept, 2016.

  • Binder Singh, Invited Presentation, and Workshop Panel Q&A, NACE Corrosion Technology Week (CTW), TEG 529X Committee Mtg, Aug, 2016.

  • Binder Singh et al multi-disciplined - Technical Notes for Clients (desk top studies C-in-C) re subsea choke failures, and corrosion modeling for ageing assets 2016.

  • Binder Singh et al, multi-disciplined comprehensive internal Paper (C-in-C). Applied R&D findings for corrosion & IM management 2015-2016

  • S. M. Hasan S.M., J. Hults, B. Singh, Risk Based Design of Pipelines and Risers, Pipeline and Gas Journal, Vol 242, No 11, November 2015.

  • E&P Mag. Energy Experts Tackle Corrosion, Teledyne Focus day - HP/HT Challenges (Author Velda Addison), B Singh Q&A panel with WG, Teledyne & DNV participants, Nov 17th 2014.

  • Binder Singh Invited presentation Corrosion and Integrity Management -Tropical Environments, Port of Spain, T&T 7-8th Oct 2015 (19th HSSE Conference American Chamber of Commerce).

  • Binder Singh, Offshore Engineer, Invited Article; Safety from a Design Consideration, May 2015.

  • Binder Singh, Chair SPE/NACE Deepwater Corrosion and IM workshop, involving leading, review all submits & co-ordination of multiple symposium chairs Austin Texas 17-18TH Feb 2015.

  • Singh B; J Bradburn, S. Hasan; Research in Progress (RIP) Symposium, NACE Conference Dallas Texas (Written extended Abstract only), March 2015.

  • Binder Singh, Invited presentation to NACE NE Canada, St Johns Offshore Corrosion Management: Risk and Lessons Learned, October 2014.

  • Binder Singh, Invited Presenter and Panelist for Memorial Workshop -Corrosion and IM under Harsh Conditions, St Johns Canada, October 2014.

  • Binder Singh, Invited presentation to ASME (NW Chapter at Stress Engineering, Houston TX) Offshore Corrosion & Mechanical Integrity: Risk & Lessons Learned, Aug 28th 2014.

  • Binder Singh, Iona Grigorescu, Qiang Zeng, Corrosion Assessment, Corrosion Allowance and Integrity Management (A Risk Based Methodology), NACE 2014, San Antonio, TX, Mar.10th 2014.

  • B. Singh, Invited Panelist, Ist IMAREST Offshore Oil & Gas Technology Conf. Offshore Corrosion, Materials, Integrity Challenges- Lessons & Solutions. Houston, TX, Aug 21-22nd, 2013.

  • B. Singh, Invited presenter/panelist: Corrosion & IM under Harsh Environments; Safety, Integrity Management Operations Harsh Environments; St John's NF, Canada, March 19-20, 2013.

  • Binder Singh, Pragmatic, Risk and Corrosion Allowance, Risk Management of Corrodible Systems, NACE Conference Washington DC June 18-20th, 2013.

  • Poblete Ben, Binder Singh, Ron DeJong, et al, Lean Risk Management Are We Identifying Risks Accurately? MKOPSC, TAMU, College Station, TX, 23rd Oct, 2012.

  • Binder Singh, Corrosion and Integrity Management Lessons Learned, Technip Metallurgy Forum, Houston, TX, 19th Oct, 2012.

  • Bob Wittkower, Paul Jukes, Binder Singh et al, The Preliminary HAZOP: Advocacy for use early- on in Design Process, ISOPE Conf. and proceedings, Hawaii, 19-24th June 2011, (Presented by Paul Jukes).

  • B. Singh, A. Lindsay, (Invited) Research Symps: From The North sea to the GOM - V2, Making the Link between Corrosion Research & Best Practices, NACE Houston, TX, March 16th 2011.

  • Binder Singh and Bob Chalker (NACE Interview) -Invited Journal Special: Integrity Management Solutions for Offshore Pipeline Corrosion, pub. Pipeline & Gas Journal, Vol 238 No 3, Mar 2011.

  • Binder Singh, Annual visiting lecture series at University of Houston (via Prof. R. Pascalli) College of Mechanical Engineering Technology: Pipeline Materials Performance, March 10th, 2011.

  • Binder Singh, Paul Jukes, Bob Wittkower, Ben Poblete, Learning the Lessons of Deepwater Asset Integrity, Offshore Magazine, Nov 2010.

  • Bob Wittkower, Paul Jukes, Binder Singh et al; Early HAZOP Advocation: Best Practices, MKOPSC, Safety Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, Oct 2010 (presented B. Wittkower)

  • Binder Singh, Invited Feature Article by Journal Interview: Deepwater Corrosion Integrity Management Materials Performance Journal Aug 2010.

  • A. Botto, M. Hull, B. Singh, T. Golczynski, & R Wittkower, Best Practice Riser Integrity Management, and its Applicability to Greenfield and Brownfield Developments, ASME/OMAE 2010-20894, Shanghai China, June 6-11th 2010

  • B. Singh, P. Jukes, R. Wittkower, B. Poblete, Piper Alpha & Evolution of Inherently Safe Design & IM: Overview Interpretations & Lessons Learned; # 20907, Proc ASME 29th Intl Conf. Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Eng'g, OMAE2010, Shanghai, June6-11, 2010. (Presented by P. Jukes)

  • B. Singh, P. Jukes, R. Wittkower, B. Poblete, Invited: “20 Years On-Lessons learned Piper Alpha Evolution of Concurrent & Inherently Safe Design” J Loss Prevention Proc Ind. (JLPPI), MKO 2009.

  • Binder Singh, Paul Jukes, Meghan Hull: Offshore Asset Integrity Management Interpretation of Lessons Learned Post Piper Alpha, Lecture, to students and faculty, TAMU April 9th, 2010.

  • Binder Singh, Invited presentation; Deepwater Corrosion Management: ‘Conservatism in Design- To Be or Not to Be’ Forum, Panel Q&A: Offshore Challenges, NACE 2010, San Antonio, Texas.

  • Binder Singh, Evening Lecture at University of Houston, College of Technology, Houston, Texas: Materials Performance and Corrosion of Pipelines, 11th March 2010.

  • Binder Singh, Paul Jukes, Ben Poblete Bob Wittkower: Deepwater Asset Integrity Management Interpretation of Lessons Learned Post Piper Alpha, DOT Conf., Houston, Texas, Feb 2-4 2010.

  • Binder Singh, Paul Jukes, Ben Poblete, Bob Wittkower: ‘20 years on- Lessons Learned from Piper Alpha The Evolution of Concurrent and Inherently Safe Design’ Beyond Regulatory Compliance, Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center, Texas A&M Univ. College Stn, TX, Oct 27- 28th 2009.

  • Paul Jukes, Binder Singh, Ayman Eltaher: ‘Recent Devs. in Critical Thermal, Corrosion, Material Issues Related to Flowline Pipe-in Pipe (PIP), PECOM, Valhermosa, Mexico, Nov., 2009 (Presented Ayman).

  • B. Singh, P. Jukes, B. Wittkower, B. Poblete, Invited: ‘New Frontiers’ Macae, Brazil ‘Offshore IM 20 years on-Overview Lessons Learnt Post Piper Alpha’ 16-18 June 2009 (presented by Brasil office).

  • B. Singh, P. Jukes, R. Wittkower, B. Poblete, OTC Houston, OTC-20051-PP, ‘Offshore Integrity Management 20 years On-Overview of Lessons Learnt Post Piper Alpha’ 4-7th May 2009.

  • Binder Singh IMAREST, Hess, Houston, TX 23rd Apr. 2009. Invited presentation: Offshore Integrity Management 20 years on-Overview Lessons Learnt Post Piper Alpha’ 4-7th May 2009.

  • Binder Singh, Kana Krishnathasan, Pragmatic Effects of Flow on Corrosion Prediction, NACE2009, Paper# 09275 Atlanta, Georgia, March 22-26th, 2009.

  • Binder Singh University of Houston, co-ordinated by: Professor Raresh Pascalli, Evening Lecture to: Mechanical Students, talk: ‘Materials Performance & Corrosion of Pipelines’ Feb 14th 2008.

  • Binder Singh, Kana Krishnathasan, Tawfik Ahmed, ( article) Predicting Pipeline Corrosion, Pipeline and Gas Technology Journal, October 2008.

  • B. Singh, K. Krishnathasan: Making the Link b/w Inherently Safe Design, Integrity Management, and Pigging. The Pipeline, Pigging, Integrity Management Conf. Houston, TX, 12-15th Feb, 2008.

  • Paul Jukes, Binder Singh, Jose Garcia, Francois Delille, ISOPE, Vancouver, Canada, pp # TPC -297, Critical Thermal, Corrosion, Material, Issues related to Flowline Pipe- in -Pipe Systems, Oct 2008.

  • Binder Singh, ASM/NACE, Joint Meeting Brady's Landing, Houston, Texas, Presentation entitled ‘Materials Corrosion and Inherently Safe Design’ Presented, Jan-9th-2007.

  • Binder Singh, Tom Folk, Paul Jukes, Jose Garcia, Wayne Perich, Dirk Van Oostendorp, NACE Nashville, TN, ‘Engineering Pragmatic Solutions for CO2 Corrosion Problems’ March 2007.

  • B. Singh, T. Folk, P. Jukes, et al NACE- Research In Progress‘North Sea to the Gulf Of Mexico- Making the Link between Corrosion Research and Best Practice’ San Diego, CA, Mar. 14th, 2006.

  • Ben Poblete, Binder Singh, Graeme Dalzell, ‘The Inherent Safe Design Offshore Installation - A leap of Faith’ Chemical Plant Safety Conf. Texas A&M Univ., Oct 23-24th 2007 (presented Ben Poblete).

  • B. Singh, JPKenny, Company Lecture: To ‘Young Guns’ (JPK Training program new Graduates). Subject: ‘Corrosion and Pipelines- Some Pragmatic Guidelines and Learnings’, April 19th, 2007.

  • Binder Singh, Jim Britton, Ben Poblete, George Smith, NACE 2005, Paper# 05553, ‘The 3R`s: Risk, Rust and Reliability’ April 2005.

  • Binder Singh, Jim Britton, Dave Flannery, NACE 2003, Paper# 03114 ‘Offshore Corrosion Failure Analyses- A Series of Case Histories’ San Diego, CA, March 2003.

  • B. Singh, J. Britton, Offshore Risk Based Corrosion Integrity Management- A New Methodology, NACE Paper# 01008, Hou/Texas, Apr. 2001. Developed and advanced, 2001-2017.

  • B. Singh Offshore Risk Based Corrosion Integrity Management Panel Meeting, NACE Houston Chapter April 11th 2000.

Other Key Reports, Studies, Papers, Patents (Date Titles Approximated)

  • Over 500 major career deliverables, reports, case studies, opinions, certificates issued; spanning Nuclear, Marine, Offshore, and Energy industries; learning’s applied for multiple projects.

  • Influential in the Industry transformation of integrity assessments and modeling, (from early original works of others to later risk based approaches for efficient engineering management.

  • Corrosion and Integrity Management Industry ‘Status Quo’ white paper Internal C-in-C 1999.

  • Corrosion Asia 1994 Singapore, paper on Corrosion Management, Delivered, June 1994.

  • NACE 1993 Sandefjord, Norway, Paper Corrosion Engineering in the North Sea, Delivered 1993.

  • ICorr UK Conf. Extended abstract- Offshore Failure Case Histories, Manchester, UK, Oct 1992.

  • Marine Club - Invited presentation topic: Marine failures - case histories, London est.1990.

  • Patent: Roadside Energy System, Ref:P6349/LH/NP/NM, I. Devlin, B. Singh, D. Gall; Murgitroyd & Co. Chartered Patent Agents/Euro. Attorneys; 333 Mitchell House, Bath St, Glasgow G24ER, UK ca. 1992.

  • RNEC Royal Naval Engineering College – Conference paper: Binder Singh, Don Bartlett, et al,

  • New Inhibition Scheme Development for Cooling Water Systems, Plymouth UK ca.1988.