European field monitoring programs and subsequent laboratory investigations have shown that excessive cathodic protection (CP), combined with induced AC, enhances the risk of corrosion. Increasing the ...

Plains All American Pipeline's Line 901, which ruptured in 2015, causing the Refugio Oil Spill. Exxon, which now owns the pipeline, is seek to install valves on the line. Credit: Giana Magnoli / ...

Near the six-inch cavity in the now-infamous Plains All American pipeline near Refugio State Beach, the wall thickness of the pipe measured a gossamer 0.0625 inches, according to a document released ...

Corrosion has become the leading cause of hazardous-liquid pipeline accidents, causing a quarter of all reported spills in the past six years, and the shutdown earlier this year of one of the nation's ...

Comparative tests of commercially available corrosion inhibitors revealed that a new corrosion inhibitor, IMP-ICCA-9710, presented a higher protection efficiency in corrosion protection. Inhibitors ...

Wartsila and Maersk teamed up on developing an in-pipe solution for solving scrubber discharge pipes corrosion issues. The Finnish technology group Wärtsilä and Danish ship operator A.P. Moller - ...

Nothing can make an issue a priority quite like a crisis. Take BP's discovery of severe internal pipeline corrosion at its Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, oil production site last week. The oil and gas industry ...