Abstract
In the fourth Industry Revolution (IR 4.0) era, Oil & gas operators are encouraged to transform the way we execute work processes to enhance safety, increase efficiency, and reduce cost through digital transformation. Currently, the Corrosion Barrier Management (CBM) performance is tracked manually (e.g., updating spreadsheets, extensive repetitive tasks, etc.), and there was a need for a “live” solution to monitor the facilities CBM performance through dashboards continuously. Therefore, the objective of this project was to develop, deploy and maintain a data visualization tool for online CBM. The vision was to avail the CBM for the corrosion control, integrity, operation engineers, leadership teams and central engineering organizations to help reduce high-risk corrosion events and to enhance corrosion mitigation strategies to maintain corrosion rates under acceptable limits.
CBM is challenging for existing and ageing facilities as different elements are within scattered platforms that must be prepared for full integration and digitalization. Isolated systems do not consider all aspects of CBM strategies which limits the overall understanding of CBM performance, preventing sound corrosion management decisions. The next evolution of the CBM is moving them from monitoring performance tools to proactive prediction tools to achieve zero asset integrity incidents. This paper discusses the development steps of the proposed CBM tool in detail.
