Testing of generic volatile inhibitor compounds in different top-of-the-line corrosion laboratory test methods

Top-of-the-Line (TOL) corrosion is a significant problem associated with the transportation of wet natural gas in the oil and gas industry. It has the potential to cost the industry millions of dollars every year through the replacement of affected pipelines and lost or deferred production. There is...

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Main Authors: Oehler, Mike, Bailey, Stuart, Gubner, Rolf, Gough, M.
Other Authors: Nace International
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Nace International 2012
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Online Access:https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/NACE-2012-1483
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7037
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author Oehler, Mike
Bailey, Stuart
Gubner, Rolf
Gough, M.
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Oehler, Mike
Bailey, Stuart
Gubner, Rolf
Gough, M.
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description Top-of-the-Line (TOL) corrosion is a significant problem associated with the transportation of wet natural gas in the oil and gas industry. It has the potential to cost the industry millions of dollars every year through the replacement of affected pipelines and lost or deferred production. There is increasing research attention given to the development of continuous chemical treatment inhibitors to mitigate TOL corrosion. Different techniques have been developed; however, volatile corrosion inhibitors (VCIs) hold the most promise. It is anticipated that VCIs may be injected continuously into the produced fluids at the bottom of the line and due to their volatility disperse through the gas phase and ultimately co-condense along with water, organic acids and corrosive gases on the internal pipe wall, thus providing corrosion inhibition. Three generic volatile inhibitor compounds, a primary, a secondary and a tertiary amine have been tested in two different TOL and one bottom of the line (BOL) laboratory corrosion test; a Cooled Finger Probe and a Horizontal Cooled Tube to verify Top-of-the-Line inhibition properties and linear polarization resistance (LPR) measurements using a rotating cylinder electrode (RCE) setup to test their BOL inhibition properties.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-70372017-02-28T01:30:03Z Testing of generic volatile inhibitor compounds in different top-of-the-line corrosion laboratory test methods Oehler, Mike Bailey, Stuart Gubner, Rolf Gough, M. Nace International Top-of-the-line corrosion Volatile corrosion inhibitor Acetic acid Top-of-the-Line (TOL) corrosion is a significant problem associated with the transportation of wet natural gas in the oil and gas industry. It has the potential to cost the industry millions of dollars every year through the replacement of affected pipelines and lost or deferred production. There is increasing research attention given to the development of continuous chemical treatment inhibitors to mitigate TOL corrosion. Different techniques have been developed; however, volatile corrosion inhibitors (VCIs) hold the most promise. It is anticipated that VCIs may be injected continuously into the produced fluids at the bottom of the line and due to their volatility disperse through the gas phase and ultimately co-condense along with water, organic acids and corrosive gases on the internal pipe wall, thus providing corrosion inhibition. Three generic volatile inhibitor compounds, a primary, a secondary and a tertiary amine have been tested in two different TOL and one bottom of the line (BOL) laboratory corrosion test; a Cooled Finger Probe and a Horizontal Cooled Tube to verify Top-of-the-Line inhibition properties and linear polarization resistance (LPR) measurements using a rotating cylinder electrode (RCE) setup to test their BOL inhibition properties. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7037 https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/NACE-2012-1483 Nace International restricted
spellingShingle Top-of-the-line corrosion
Volatile corrosion inhibitor
Acetic acid
Oehler, Mike
Bailey, Stuart
Gubner, Rolf
Gough, M.
Testing of generic volatile inhibitor compounds in different top-of-the-line corrosion laboratory test methods
title Testing of generic volatile inhibitor compounds in different top-of-the-line corrosion laboratory test methods
title_full Testing of generic volatile inhibitor compounds in different top-of-the-line corrosion laboratory test methods
title_fullStr Testing of generic volatile inhibitor compounds in different top-of-the-line corrosion laboratory test methods
title_full_unstemmed Testing of generic volatile inhibitor compounds in different top-of-the-line corrosion laboratory test methods
title_short Testing of generic volatile inhibitor compounds in different top-of-the-line corrosion laboratory test methods
title_sort testing of generic volatile inhibitor compounds in different top-of-the-line corrosion laboratory test methods
topic Top-of-the-line corrosion
Volatile corrosion inhibitor
Acetic acid
url https://www.onepetro.org/conference-paper/NACE-2012-1483
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7037