An Interactive 5-Day Training Course
Cathodic Protection System in Oil & Gas Exploration Industry
Survey, Analysis and Design
Course Overview
Maintaining the ageing infrastructure such as underground pipelines is a challenge to the oil and gas industry worldwide. Corrosion is one of the major causes of ageing the industrial infrastructures. Understanding its mechanism and how to control it can lead to a remarkable re-education in the operation cost of piping and static equipment.
Cathodic Protection (CP) is one of the most widely used methods to control corrosion in industry. The Cathodic Protection is a method of that eliminates the corrosion of metals by the use of sacrificial anodes or the application of an electric current. It is a technique that has been known for 160 years, and is extensively applied to pipelines and tank farms, etc with great success. However, despite this long history and broad applicability, it is a technique that is all too often inadequately or even improperly applied; with the result that structures are poorly protected or, worse, adversely interfered with.
This 5-day GLOMACS Cathodic Protection System in Oil & Gas Exploration Industry training courses provides you with fundamental principles, evaluation and applications of Cathodic Protection, helping participants recognise them, select Cathodic Protection control methods and apply them to protect the assets of the organisation.
Training Outline
DAY 1: Principles and Types of Corrosion and Corrosion Control
Section I - Significance of Corrosion Control
- Corrosion - Largest Single Cause of Plant Failure
- Economic Effects
- Environmental Effects
- Safety Effects
- Corrosion Management Preventive Strategies
- Cost of Corrosion
- Case Study: Catastrophic Corrosion Accidents
Section II - Corrosion & Its Control
- Requirements for Corrosion to Occur
- Metallurgical Factors
- Forms of Corrosion
- Corrosion Control Methods
- Environmental Modification
- Protective Coatings
- Introduction to Cathodic Protection
DAY 2: Corrosion Environment, Material Selection and Elements of Cathodic Protection
Section III - Corrosive Environments & Construction of Materials
- Atmospheric Environments
- Marine Atmospheres
- Industrial Atmospheres
- Underground Environments
- Material Selection
- Corrosion Properties of Steels
- Concrete Structure Environment
Section IV - Fundamentals of Cathodic Protection Systems
- Galvanic Series
- General Application of Cathodic Protection
- Industry Standard & Codes
- Principle of CPS
- The Cathodic Protection Cell
- Methods of Applying Cathodic Protection
- Sacrificial Cathodic Protection System
- Impressed-Current Cathodic Protection System
- Advantages of SCPS
- Disadvantages SCPS
- Advantages ICCP
- Disadvantages ICCP
- CPS Selection
- Basic Requirements for Cathodic Protection
- Cathodic Protection Criteria
- Current Rectifiers / DC Power Source
- High Impedance Voltmeter
- Reference Cells (Half Cells) Reference Cells
- Applicable NACE Standard for Cathodic Protection Systems
DAY 3: Cathodic Protection Systems Design and Coating Issues
Section V - Cathodic Protection System Design
- Design Factors
- Electrolyte Resistivity Survey
- Electrolyte pH Survey
- Structure vs. Electrolyte Potential Survey
- Current Requirement
- Coating Resistance
- Protective Current Required
- Sacrificial Anode (Galvanic) Cathodic Protection Design
- Impressed current Cathodic Protection System Design
- Soil Resistivity
- Current Requirement Test
- Typical CPS Design Parameters
Section VI - Cathodic Protection Systems and Coatings
- Role of Protective Coating in CPS
- Selection Factors
- Coating Defects
- Coating Efficiency
- Over Voltage
- Cathodic Disbondment
- Commonly used Coating in Conjunction with CPS
DAY 4: Cathodic Protection Anodes and Construction
Section VII - Anodes & Rectifiers
- Anode Selection
- Anode Material Types - magnesium, zinc, aluminum, etc.
- Current Output
- Driving Potential
- Anode Life
- Anode Shape & Dimension
- Anode Efficiency
- Galvanic Anode Types
- Current Requirements for ICCP System
- Anode Materials for ICCP
- Anode Backfilling
- Installation of Sacrificial Anodes
- Impressed Current Anode Beds
- Impressed Current Rectifiers / DC Power Source
- CP Equations
- Solved CP Calculation Examples
Section VIII - Practicing & Construction of Cathodic Protection System
- Components of Cathodic Protection Systems
- Essential Components
- Isolating Joints
- Junction Boxes
- Test Stations - measuring points and coupons
- Thermite Weld
- Earthing Systems
- Line Current Measurement
- Pipe Sleeves / Casings
- Cathodic Protection Vessels & Tank Internals Vessels & Tank
- Tanks for Storage of Chemicals
- Water Circulating Systems
- Heat Exchangers (tube and shell)
- Case Study: Construction of Cathodic Protection Systems
DAY 5: Line and Coating Inspection, Safety and Corrosion Comics
Section IX - Inspection of Pipeline and Coating Defects
- Pearson Surveys
- Close Interval Potential Survey (CIPS) Technique
- Direct Current Voltage Gradient (DCVG) Technique
- Signal Attenuation Coating (SAC) Survey
- Common Impressed Current Rectifier Problems
- Over the Trench Pipe Holiday Inspection
Section X - Instrumentation & Safety Aspects
- Alkalinity
- Hydrogen Evolution
- Chloride Evolution
- Installation Adjacent to Telecommunication Services
- Installation Adjacent to Railway Signal & Protection Circuits
- Interaction at Discontinuities in Cathodically Protected Structures
- Installation at Jetties & Ships
- Danger of Electric Shock
- Installations on Immersed Structures
- Installations for the Internal Protection of Plant
- Fault Conditions in Electricity Power Systems
- Stray Current Corrosion
Section XI - Corrosion Management Systems
- Economic Considerations
- Corrosion Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Asset Integrity and Corrosion Management
- Corrosion Data Management
Certificates
- On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates
- Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE) : In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsor, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance
Accreditation
GLOMACS is registered with NASBA as a sponsor of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. NASBA have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.learningmarket.org.
All Training Seminars delivered by GLOMACS by default are eligible for CPE Credit.
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About Saudi Glomacs
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