ACID OIL AND GAS CAPABILITIES

ACID connects industry with Australia’s leading researchers and facilities for infrastructure durability to develop new solutions, technology and educational programs for:

• Smarter maintenance through advanced health monitoring/ predictive models
• More proactive and enhanced mitigation of deterioration
• Advanced materials to maximise the life of new infrastructure

Smarter maintenance through advanced health monitoring/ predictive modelling

• Sensors to detect and monitor degradation
• Predictive modelling of deterioration (e.g. time-to-damage)
• Proactive maintenance through improved decision making
• Intervention before significant damage occurs

More proactive and enhanced mitigation of deterioration

• Protective coatings and polymers applied to new and existing infrastructure
• Corrosion control (e.g. cathodic protection)
• Proactive maintenance (intervening before significant damage occurs)

Advanced materials to maximise the life of new infrastructure

• Alloys and new metals
• Polymers and polymer composites
• Reinforced concrete
• Corrosion inhibitors
• Surface treatments
• Materials for specific exposures (e.g. high temperature corrosion resistant alloys)

The range of durability expertise includes engineering materials functioning within a broad range of service conditions; in-situ health monitoring interfaced with predictive models and decision support; and protection solutions for the following built infrastructure types:

• Production (downhole pipelines, casings, platforms, gas and water generators; and surface wellheads, pipelines, and separators) located offshore and onshore

• Transportation (oil and gas pipelines, tanker ships)
• Refining (crude distillation, catalytic reforming and distillate hydrotreating units, alkyl plants, gas processing, process lines, desalters, storage vessels and pipelines)
• Distribution (transmission pipelines, transport infrastructure)
• Waste management (storage and retention, engineered barriers)

Expertise

• Pipeline corrosion and prevention
• Exposure microclimates and assessment of corrosive loadings
• Corrosion under insulation
• Top of the line corrosion
• High temperature corrosion resistance
• Sweet and Sour corrosion
• Microbiologically influenced corrosion and biocide treatments
• Corrosion fatigue
• Stress corrosion cracking and hydrogen embrittlement
• Wet gas corrosion
• Stray current corrosion
• High temperature durability of materials
• Fatigue
• Erosion corrosion

• Failure analysis
• Materials characterisation
• Light metals & reactive metals coatings and inhibitors
• Protective coatings and sealants
• Polymers and polymer composites
• Ceramics
• Steels, metals, and new alloys
• Waterproofing
• Corrosion Inhibitors
• Cathodic Protection (CP)
• Sensing and remote monitoring
• Predictive modelling and proactive maintenance
• Diagnosis and risk analysis
• Reinforced concrete (reinforcement corrosion as well as acidic/chemical attack of the concrete)
• Structural integrity assessment, monitoring, and strengthening
• Engineered barrier technologies