Baker Hughes Corporation

Baker Hughes Holdings LLC

Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC

Baker Hughes, a Ge Compnay, LLC

Carlos M Menendez

Vladimir Jovancicevic

Sunder Ramachandran

Paul Hammonds

Wai Yeung Mok

Sandra L Berry

Dv Satyanarayana Gupta

Tracey Jackson

Michael D Greaves

Qingjiang Meng

Andrea Nino-Penaloza

Elizabeth Mccartney

A method for inhibiting corrosion of metal surfaces, such as carbon steel tubing, that are in contact with a fluid, such as brine in an oil and gas production fluid containing acid gases (e.g., COand HS) is accomplished by introducing a corrosion-inhibiting blend of two components into the fluid, where blend is glycolipids and quaternized amines, glycolipids and phosphate-containing compounds, quaternized amines and imidazoline-like compounds, quaternized amines and phosphate-containing compounds, or combinations of these blends. Each of the two components of the blends are present in an amount effective to synergistically inhibiting the corrosion of the metal surface when used together.

Synergistic corrosion inhibitor blends

An organic blend chemical additive comprising more than 50 wt. % organic solvent (e.g. methanol and/or ethylene glycol), less than 10 wt. % water, a nitrate salt, a maleic acid copolymer, and optionally an imidazoline may be delivered to a production well through a conduit having a stainless steel and corrosion resistant metal alloy surface, such as a capillary string or an umbilical tubing, the organic blend chemical additive being shown to be useful in inhibiting localized corrosion of and improving the repassivation of the equipment or conduit.

Organic blend additive useful for inhibiting localized corrosion of equipment used in oil and gas production

An under-deposit corrosion (UDC) sensor includes a probe body with a curved concave probe surface that may have pre-deposited or in-situ formed thereon a material that accelerates the process of under deposit corrosion. The UDC sensor uses electrochemically-based localized monitoring techniques for assessing under-deposit pitting corrosion and the effectiveness of chemical treatment programs that mitigate under-deposit corrosion in well tubing, pipelines, vessels, and/or tanks.

Electrochemical sensor for monitoring under-deposit corrosion

The use of a dialdehyde (e.g. glyoxal) and a nitrogen-containing scavenger (e.g. a triazine) when injected separately in media containing hydrogen sulfide (HS) and/or mercaptans to scavenge HS and/or mercaptans therefrom gives a synergistically better reaction rate and overall scavenging efficiency, i.e. capacity, over the use of the dialdehyde or the nitrogen-containing scavenger used alone, but in the same total amount of the dialdehyde and nitrogen-containing scavenger. The media may include an aqueous phase, a gas phase, a hydrocarbon phase and mixtures of a gas and/or hydrocarbon phase with an aqueous phase.

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An electrochemical noise method, apparatus and system may be used to estimate and/or calculate parameters of interest related to corrosion rates of an electrically conductive article. The apparatus involves a working electrode (having substantially the same composition of the electrically conductive article), a reference electrode, and a counter electrode in an environment of interest. The working electrode is placed under potentiostatic control. A current transient between the working electrode and the counter electrode is measured. The working electrode is switched to open potential. A potential transient is measured over the duration of a localized corrosion event. The localized corrosion may then be calculated based on the measured potential transient and the current transient.

Quantitative transient analysis of localized corrosion

The invention provides an electrochemical noise method, apparatus and system for estimating parameters of interest related to corrosion rates of an electrically conductive article, the method comprising: placing a working electrode, a reference electrode, and a counter electrode in an environment of interest; measuring potential at open circuit between the working electrode and the reference electrode over time; placing the working electrode under a potentiostatic control; measuring current between the working electrode and the counter electrode for a predetermined period of time, the period of time of measurements may be extended to include a transient event; and estimating the corrosion rate.

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Carlos M Menendez