Abstract
Benefits of shorting pipeline and jacket cathodic protection systems based on data from the Gulf of Mexico, Arabian Gulf, North Sea, and Indonesia are discussed. Shorting, as opposed to traditional electrical isolation, is cost effective because CP surveys and future retrofits are greatly simplified. Jacket CP systems can provide protection of coated pipelines for distances much greater than normally anticipated (> 2,700 meters). Some simple modeling of jacket/pipeline CP systems is used to illustrate the effect of various design parameters.
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1993
Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP)
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