Intertek Welcomes Visitors To The Annual Association For Materials Protection And Performance (AMPP) Conference + Expo 2023

• AMPP Annual Conference + Expo 2023
• March 19-23, 2023
• Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
• Booth: 1753

AMPP Annual Conference + Expo

The world’s largest corrosion and coatings conference and exposition, AMPP Annual Conference + Expo brings together thousands of decision makers and industry professionals from 60+ countries.

This event provides a global platform for industry experts and peers to share knowledge, network, and learn about the latest best practices, insights and innovations relating to material and asset protection and performance.

Corrosion and material degradation

Corrosion and material degradation is a significant and costly issue across many industry sectors

Corrosion and material degradation is a significant and costly issue across many industry sectors, resulting in downtime, loss of productivity and safety issues.

Intertek has developed industry-renowned technical services to mitigate these problems and they look forward to helping solve the challenges that people face.

Intertek experts will be on-hand at their Booth #1753 to provide information on a wide variety of solutions including:

• Production Integrity Assurance
• Oilfield Microbiology
• Production Chemistry   
• Microbiology Training Courses
• Pipe and Pipeline Inspection Services    
• Microbiology Test Kits
• Reservoir Souring Prediction and Mitigation       
• Fatigue Testing
• Scale Management        
• Expert Failure Investigation Services
• H2S Scavengers               
• Corrosion and Materials Consultancy
• Non-Metallic Materials Testing 
• Corrosion Testing
• Sour Service Testing      
• Corrosion Inhibitor Testing
• Compatibility Testing & Life Estimation of Non-Metallic Materials Webinar           

Presentations delivered by Intertek experts

Intertek invites everyone to also join them at the following presentations authored and co-authored by Intertek experts:

• During the Sweet & Sour Corrosion Symposium, Steve Hodges, Principal Engineer, Intertek Product & Integrity Assurance (P&IA), will present ‘Incorporating Monte Carlo Analysis into a State-Of-The-Art Corrosion Prediction System’.

Presentation Summary:

• The development of corrosion prediction software systems over the years has concentrated on scalar analysis, which is, using fixed input values to develop a single output parameter (corrosion rate). However, it has also been recognized that in real life situations, input parameters are not fixed and also that any algorithm will have a degree of uncertainty (prediction error).
• Current approaches addressing uncertainty and sensitivity analysis are valid but can be time consuming. In order to provide both a more efficient and rigorous approach, one of the leading corrosion prediction software packages (ECE™) used in the oil & gas industry (with respect to downhole, pipelines and pipework) has been expanded to include Monte Carlo analysis.
• This paper describes the Monte Carlo approach adopted, considers the practical (engineering) implication of the distribution results and compares the output to more traditional sensitivity approaches.

Extensive industry experience

Steve Hodges is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institute of Materials Minerals & Mining

Steve Hodges is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the Institute of Materials Minerals & Mining. Steve started his corrosion career in New Zealand (NZ), undertaking corrosion consultancy and contract research, before joining CAPCIS, now Intertek P&IA, in Manchester, United Kingdom (UK).

Over a 20-year period, Steve Hodges has consulted to the oil & gas, petro-chemical, mining and power generation industries in some 18 countries, and was a guest lecturer on Corrosion Management and RBI at the University of Manchester’s MSc course for 8 years.

Steve Hodges works predominantly in the areas of: corrosion modeling, corrosion / integrity management, materials selection and fitness for service.

Richard Woollam, Intertek’s Corrosion Program Manager, has also co-authored numerous papers that will be presented during the expo and conference, including:

• ‘Numerical Exploration of a Comprehensive Mechanistic CO2 Corrosion Model Part I: Influence of Temperature, Pressure and Bulk pH’
• ‘Numerical Exploration of a Comprehensive Mechanistic CO2 Corrosion Model Part II: Influence of Hydrodynamics and Bulk pH’
• ‘Characterizing the Evolution of Iron Carbonate in a Demanding CO2 Environment Using a Combined Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Linear Polarization Resistance Approach’
• ‘Correlating Physical Chemistry with Interfacial Properties: Effect of Salinity on the Partitioning, Distribution and Performance of a Quaternary Amine Corrosion Inhibitor’