The SPE Workshop: Production Asset Integrity and Corrosion Management - Best Practices and Innovations aims to explore the intricate management required for oil and gas production assets to ensure safety, efficiency, and longevity. Delving into critical areas such as process safety, mechanical integrity, corrosion management, asset integrity management, digitalisation, and anticipating future challenges like energy transition, the workshop aims to highlight methods, challenges, innovations, and future considerations.
Key to asset integrity is ensuring the resources required to deliver integrity are in place and fit for purpose for the whole life cycle of the assets, with the ultimate goal of preventing and mitigating major accidents. Paramount to this is identifying Safety Critical Elements (SCEs) using various methods and implementing effective barrier management.
In addressing the challenges of maintaining mechanical integrity in oil and gas fields, the workshop will discuss inspection hurdles due to aging infrastructure and inaccessible areas, along with process challenges such as managing high-pressure systems or too low pressure (for ILI), corrosion, and erosion. Strategies such as employing advanced inspection techniques, e.g. Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) and predictive maintenance, will be explored.
Corrosion, as a pervasive threat to mechanical integrity, faces its own challenges with cost optimisation, process modification, change of fluid characteristic and operating parameter, as well as the mature facilities. Lessons learnt from refining corrosion management strategies, emphasising proactive measures such as advanced corrosion monitoring and mitigation systems will also be discussed. A new strategy and approach to corrosion management are a must to allow safe and efficient operation, including the adoption of new technologies.
