DTEK Oil&Gas Pioneered an Automated Corrosion Monitoring System in Ukraine

Oil and gas19 February 2020

DTEK Oil&Gas has completed a project for the implementation of an automated system for continuous monitoring of corrosion at wellheads and flowlines. This is the first time that the technology has been applied in Ukraine, and the company engaged specialists from Poland and Slovenia. The system has been designed on the basis of Emerson equipment using WirelessHART wireless data transmission technologies and supplements the existing well telemetry system. The sensors have been installed on clamps thus eliminating the need to make tie-ins and lay cable lines and overpasses. The sensors have that accuracy of 0.02 mm, which allows detecting minimal changes in the metal corrosion rate.

DTEK Oil&Gas Pioneered an Automated Corrosion Monitoring System in Ukraine

The technology provides an opportunity of collection information about the condition of the surface well hook-up equipment in a real time mode. An analysis of the data collected and trends in a metal corrosion rate depending on the use of various inhibitors helps designing an efficient strategy for slowing down pipeline corrosion processes.

Oleksii Raptanov, Hydrocarbon Extraction and Processing Director, noted: ‘The monitoring system provides an opportunity to minimise the risks of unscheduled shutdown of processing units and well downtime. Furthermore, this solution allows reducing the scope of planned works to detect corrosion by automation of a measuring process and archiving the data about the condition of processing equipment. Thanks to this, gas production will be increased, which is extremely important for ensuring Ukraine’s energy independence’.