A meeting of the Metallurgical and Test Container subcommittee of the NACE Condensate Well Corrosion Committee was held at the Rice Hotel January 22, 1945. The principal business of the committee was to determine the shape, size and method of arranging metal coupons in a test container to be installed in the high pressure flow lines of condensate wells producing corrosive fluids and to determine the metals and alloys to be tested.
After considerable discussion it was decided that the first necessary step in these tests was to determine by actual field test the proper method of arranging the coupons. Two designs were selected for this test from several which were considered. Each design will be made up in four inch XX heavy line pipe approximately 12 feet long. The specimens in one test container will be arranged as cylinders approximately three inches long spaced with short insulating cylinders to...