The value of data

Abstract

In oil and gas developments the key to maintaining the integrity of assets for their full life is the correct upfront design of the system. In materials selection at the design stage a high reliance is placed on understanding the corrosion mechanisms and determination of corrosion rates based on various mathematical models. There has been a lot of effort placed in refining these models over the last few decades so that true picture of the corrosion risk can be seen, however, one area where the focus has not been so clear is in obtaining the correct data for use in the models. This is key to design and in fact to determining if a project goes to construction at all. In this study different factors will be studied to see how this affects the design of a project in a technical and a financial way. The study has looked at aspects of the data and how they affect the design decision. The areas covered are the effects of various levels of dissolved gases including Oxygen, CO2 and H2S as well as flow regimes.