Pipeline coating for oil transport is a controlled sequence: surface preparation ? anti-corrosion coating (FBE/3LPE/3LPP) ? optional internal flow coat ? field joint coating ? QA/QC (DFT, adhesion, ...

Even the most refined stainless steel tubing and specialty alloys still contain residual amounts of impurities. Even though the methods used to manufacture these metals are carefully crafted to ...

Protecting Global Infrastructure Since the 1960s. For more than six decades, PROTEGOL ® coating systems have played a vital ...

With the exception of reducing some of its flexibility, whitewash-protected fusion-bond epoxy (FBE) coatings exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light in Canada for as long as 10 years retained many of their ...

Corrosion control is a lifecycle discipline that spans design, construction, operation, and surveillance of flowlines, gathering lines, trunklines, and export pipelines transporting oil, gas, and ...

Microbially influenced corrosion quietly drives some of the costliest, least predictable failures in pipeline infrastructure. Beth McDaniel, J.D. explores how a single non-toxic coating can now suppre ...