Consulting & Advisory
Corrosion Risk & Integrity Engineering Audits
High level review or more detailed audits offered, including the assessment of corrosion, physical, mechanical, chemical conditions and the application of practical resolutions to reduce risk and future problems. Utilization of learnings from previous audits are under compilation for later inclusion as case histories. Also refer Lessons Learned & Predictions section.
Failure Prediction & Investigation
Application of well-reasoned checks and balances to predict risk of life cycle failures and providing best practice solutions to confirm and extend equipment and/or facility life.
Corrosion & Integrity Management
Identification of major corrosion mechanisms and threats to integrity of the equipment or asset. Development of workable cost-effective, environmentally compatible and safe solutions.
Corrosion Testing, Monitoring & Inspection
Development of relevant corrosion testing, adapted monitoring and modified inspection routines to help resolve difficult corrosion issues and problems. The ideas of intermediate site testing bridging the gap between lab and field interpretation can now be made with more confidence.
Materials Performance
Advice on materials selection and materials performance with focus on workable life cycle integrity. Appropriate update on preferred alloy corrosion characteristics after field exposure experiences.
Training, Education, Professional Development
Working with industry teams to enhance corrosion awareness and best practices for project specific application - encouraging continuing education, professional development tailored for individual, and company benefits. Topics per mechanical, materials, corrosion, and adaptive monitoring.
DIFFERENTIATORS:
- Reappraisal of design and operating envelopes - including incorporation of relevant lessons learned
- Corrosion management focused on corrosion control of complex localized mechanisms- focussing on identified dominant mechanisms
- Inherently safer designs and inherently more reliable designs- based on operational histories across industries
- Instrumented asset and system field trials including onsite accelerated test loops- better making the link between modeling, laboratory and field data
- Expert witness, and independent verification - Utilization of alternative logic and calculation sequences to corroborate integrity
- Mechanical integrity and risk-based solutions- Focussing on acceptable and quantifiable versions of 'High Medium Low' criteria
- Best utilization of carbon steel and corrosion resistant alloys (CRAs)- Utilization of best practices over past 10 years or so
- Green field (new) materials selection and brown field (old) reassessments- Optimizing corrosion allowance, pre-corrosion, and stagnation geometries
- Internal & external corrosion assessment- Apart from Inhibitors, looking more closely at feasibility of internal coatings, and CP shielding
- Applied R&D with focus on real world problems- Addressing major issues as identified by the oil majors and indeed each client; e.g. CUI, CUPS, PWC, CUE, Galvanic, etc
- Development of As Low As Reasonable Practical (ALARP) orientated 'fit for purpose' solutions- Generating working KPI's as relevant to specific assets, with valid approaches for new (green) and old (brown) fields
- Adapted and modified inspection/monitoring techniques- Utilizing established tools ( probes, coupons, sensors, E-t,) but with subtle modifications to generate valuable additional data
- Utilizing correlations to match across systems by analogy- Interpretation of the 'Chilton-Colburn' approach e.g. using topsides piping corrosion monitoring to quantify subsea equivalent pipe conditions
- Third party reviews (single and integrated systems)- Use alternative logic, reverse engineering, and empirical correlations to verify findings and results provided
- Design changes, management of change (MOC), concurrent design- Looking at relatively minor changes to the geometry and operating envelopes to benefit thru life integrity
- Revenue balanced risk, safety cultures, advisory, etc. Determine best identification and interpretation of codes, RP's and standards
- Regulatory compliance to best balance of prescriptive and performance (goal setting) requirements. Interpreting the relevance and applicability of 'corrosion safety cases' for best value added across regions.
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