The real answer to this question is—“A whale of a lot.” However, in attempting to analyze this subject I found myself confronted with another question, namely, “Does management know what to expect from a corrosion engineer?” Right here is where I would like to open my remarks by saying that first the corrosion engineer has a terrific job of selling himself and his profession to management.
Almost every company has an expensive physical plant. It has machines and equipment to convert a raw material into a salable product, buildings to house that equipment, and pipe to get utilities into the property and waste products out. The plant is exposed to the elements—air, moisture, and soil—and to any number of corrosive agents unique to the materials handled in the plant.
As our company is engaged in the production, transmission and distribution of natural gas, my remarks will apply more particularly to...
