Kuwait Oil Company is the national organization responsible for exploration, extractions, production and processing of crude oil for the State of Kuwait. The latest production capability is approximately 3.1 million barrels per day. The length of crude pipelines along with other products’ pipelines such as condensate, gas, effluent water and sea water have grown to be 6,045 Km (3,756 miles) as of 2016 whereas the crude pipelines are approximately 25% of the total length of the whole pipeline network.

The integrity of the pipelines is of utmost importance to maintain the company’s production, reduce operational costs, achieve Company’s production targets, and support the Company’s safety targets. Towards achieving this goal, it would be prudent to consider as many parameters as possible rather than solely the corrosion rate as obtained by corrosion coupons and corrosion probes and then establish the Inline Inspection (ILI) frequency.

This paper will discuss the effectivity of ranking the crude pipelines due to their product corrosivity based on certain parameters such as corrosion coupons, cleaning pig deposit sampling analyses, microbial activity and previous ILI records.

Subject
Water, Corrosion rate, Corrosivity, Inline inspection, Pipelines, Probability, Mechanical failure, Anomalies, Internal corrosion, Crude, Pigging, Cleaning, Oil
Keywords:
integrity, crude pipeline, internal corrosion, ILI
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