Steel objects & Pipelines whether in the Oil, Petrochemical, Water, Gas or other industries represent a huge investment and are required to operate continuously and safely for their entire design life. Anything that detracts from this goal is totally undesirable and every endeavor must be made to prevent all occurrences that might jeopardize the safe and efficient running of the plant and operation. Corrosion is one of those occurrences that will affect the safe and efficient running of the plant with the costs for plant shut down, loss of production, environment contamination and loss of customer confidence running into millions of pounds.
Coating degradation problems that lead to the creation of a corrosion risk within the design life of a pipeline can mainly be attributed to one of the following causes: