Monday, March 17, 2008 - 3:30 PM
Convention Center, First Level, La Louisiane B/C (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
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A Corrosion Predictive Model for use in Flowline and Pipeline Integrity Management

James D. Garber, Fred Farshad, and Hui Li, University of Louisiana; Robert H. Winters, Champion Technologies; James Reinhardt and Kwei Meng Yap, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette

A flowline and pipeline model has been developed which can predict the corrosion rate in gas or oil flowlines and pipelines. The windows based program describes the physical and chemical condition inside of the pipe. This model is capable of predicting the corrosion in systems containing CO2, H2S, organic acid and bacteria. The program also predicts the occurrence of “top of the line” corrosion, wettability conditions and can describe pipeline networks containing dehydrated and wet gas. A new addition to the model is a risk assessment component which allows for integrity management of the system.

A number of field and hypothetical cases have been presented to show the utility of the model. The physical model has been compared to PipePhase and the results have been very satisfactory.