Amal Al-Borno Ph.D. and Mick Brown Ph.D. Charter Coating Services (2000) Ltd. #6 4604-13 Street N.E. Calgary Alberta Canada T2E 6P1 Ahmed Al-Harthy Eng. Nasser Al-Behlani Eng. Talal Al-Nabhani Ph.D. and Johnson Barry Ph.D. Petroleum Development Oman PO Box 81 Postal Code 100 Muscat Sultanate of Oman Abstract Fusion bonded epoxy (FBE) coating is widely used for protection against internal corrosion in oil and gas industry. FBE requires special application arrangement with temperature can reach up to 390C and hence those arrangements cannot be done on filed . In Oman there has been a shortage of local FBE applicators which resulted in struggling to meet project schedule. Liquid epoxy coating with hundred percent solid could be a possible alternative in performance to FBE and can add advantage to less application requirement arrangement. Therefore based on expected field performance and cost characteristics liquid epoxy systems were considered a possible alternative. However it was noted that there was no specific document available to address the performance qualification applicator qualification and the quality control aspects of internally applied liquid epoxy coatings as pipeline corrosion protection systems. This paper discusses the process used to develop and begin to implement a specification for liquid epoxy coatings which ensures that the performance of these as internal pipeline coatings will at least be equivalent to FBE. Discussion includes details of coating qualification test requirements applicator qualification procedures quality assurance (QA)/ quality control (QC) procedures candidate coating selection and coating performance tests and results. Key Words: liquid epoxy protective coatings internal pipeline coatings specifications product qualification QA QC coating tests coating performance.