CORROSION: PROTECTION AND INSPECTION

A report prepared for the Concawe Working Group on Oil Pipelines covers the causes of internal corrosion of pipelines (chiefly the presence of water in the case of oil products); methods for combating internal corrosion, including settling out of water from liquids, the addition of corrosion inhibitors, and the application of internal protective coatings; the external corrosion of buried or immersed steel pipelines as a result of electrochemical phenomena or the activities of sulfate-reducing bacteria; protective coatings for buried pipelines, including hot-applied continuous asphalt or coal-tar coatings, plastic tape would around the pipeline, plastic continuous coatings applied by extrusion, painting, or spraying, thick asphalt mastic coatings, and concrete coatings (which are used over the hot-applied bituminous or coal tar coatings); cathodic protection methods, including the sacrificial anode and the impressed direct-current method; studies necessary before installing a cathodic protection device; and pipeline safety codes, which require that buried pipelines by adequately protected against corrosion.

• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Petroleum

  61 New Cavendish Street
  London W1M 8AR,   England 
• Authors:
  • Dorgebray, G A
• Publication Date: 1971-8

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 279-284
• Serial:
  • Petroleum Review
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue Number: 296

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Corrosion; Corrosion protection; Pipelines; Preservation; Structural design; Wear
• Old TRIS Terms: Pipeline design; Pipeline protection
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Pipelines; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00056125
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: American Petroleum Institute
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 15 1974 12:00AM