19 Corrosion and Materials Challenges in Hydrocarbon Production Available to Purchase

The search for new sources of fossil fuel continues to move to deeper, hotter, harsher, and more corrosive operating environments. Furthermore, as energy demand grows globally, future challenges become more widespread and evident. While significant progress has been made over the years in understanding the root causes of corrosion threats and metallurgical aspects with advances in innovative solutions to address key challenges facing the sector, there still remain grey areas where in very isolated situations fit for service solutions fall short of expectations. In these rare occasions, design and deployment of metallurgical solutions and corrosion mitigation measures have proved inadequate, with undesirable consequences. The cause may have been implementation of inadequate integrity management and control systems.