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The Offshore Oil and Gas environment is among the most corrosive in the world. It is also one of the mostdangerous. Providing safe working surfaces is a requirement of the Bureau of Safety and EnvironmentalEnforcement (BSEE) and is desired by asset owners and contractors alike. Balancing safety with production,downtime, and turn-around times is always a battle, but one coating manufacturer seems to have solvedthese issues through its development of a single coat zinc carbon nanotube (CNT) non-skid epoxy deck coatthat provides galvanic protection via the sacrificial metal’s electron transfer along the CNT quantum network.
The Offshore Oil and Gas environment is among the most corrosive in the world. It is also one of the mostdangerous. Providing safe working surfaces is a requirement of the Bureau of Safety and EnvironmentalEnforcement (BSEE) and is desired by asset owners and contractors alike. Balancing safety with production,downtime, and turn-around times is always a battle, but one coating manufacturer seems to have solvedthese issues through its development of a single coat zinc carbon nanotube (CNT) non-skid epoxy deck coatthat provides galvanic protection via the sacrificial metal’s electron transfer along the CNT quantum network.The nano non-skid coating is a single coat solution and is ready for service in under 24 hours.This paper (and presentation) will highlight some of the formulation challenges encountered whendeveloping this first of its kind deck coating, address how this single coat application improves efficiency overother multi coat applied products and outlines the ease of installation with some traditional and newapplication approaches.
CUI (corrosion under insulation) is a pervasive, difficult and high-liability issue for petrochemical, power, shipping, and other industries. Situational variations (meteorological, geographical, seasonal, etc.) can confound conventionally specified surface preparation attempts to achieve perfect or near-perfect metal hygiene, thus reducing expected coating life by 30 to 75 percent. Because conventional surface preparation processes have historically been unable to adequately relieve microcontamination of metal surfaces, organizations have settled for an uneasy balance between economic and physical feasibilities that exclude the possibility of achieving ideal surface preparation outcomes and rely more heavily upon barrier coatings to supply needed corrosion control.
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Being proactive and performing scheduled coating condition assessments on above ground storage tanks to prevent corrosion is of utmost importance to protect assets. Undetected corrosion can result in product contamination, section loss, create compliance issues resulting in fines levied by governmental agencies, and increase costs of asset replacement. Planned and detailed coating/lining condition assessments can help a tank owner realize the current condition of their assets and maximize life expectancy.
The role of a Coating Inspector has evolved considerably over the past few decades, and the responsibilities have increased over what used to be a rather straightforward job: to verify that surface preparation and coating application meet the project specification requirements. Today there are week-long or multi-week basic and advanced coating inspection courses, specialty courses that are industry-specific (e.g., bridge, nuclear), courses that are substrate-specific (e.g., concrete coatings inspection) and even coating-specific (e.g., inspection of thermal spray coatings).