Middle East spends an estimated US$10 - $15 billion every year to keep up with corrosion controls and the combination of ageing oil and gas infrastructure and highly corrosive environment makes proactive adoption of innovative solutions now more crucial than ever.
Tactical prevention or reduction on corrosion progression through a robust inspection, monitoring and failure analysis routine will increase productivity and efficiency of any operations. In view of this, marcus evans, one of the world's leading conference organisers, has launched the 2-day Infrastructure Corrosion and Control conference that will cover current updates in corrosion monitoring, best practices in controls and failure analysis. Scheduled to be held on 29-30 April 2013 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the conference aims to minimise infrastructure corrosion with tactical combination of mitigation methodologies and inspection regime to prolong asset life cycle while protecting both reputation and business value of organisations.
"The only fundamental way to extend asset life is to mitigate against corrosion. This means you have to understand why you are getting corrosion and develop methods to slow it down" said Dr. Paul Rostron, President and Chairman of NACE MENA and Professor of Chemistry at The Petroleum Institute, UAE. Dr. Rostron will be presenting at the conference on the topic of "Analysing Novel Approaches in Corrosion Inhibitors to Decelerate Corrosion".
Other key presenters at the Infrastructure Corrosion and Control conference include Stuart Lyon, AkzoNobel Professor of Corrosion Control of Manchester University, UK; Prof. Abdel Salam Hamdi, Alexander von Hamboldt Award of Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany; Dr. Khaled Habib, Senior Research Scientist of Kuwait Institute of Scientific Research, Kuwait; Rehan Ahmed, Corrosion Engineering Specialist - Coatings of RasGas, Qatar; and Sheriff Mohamed Anwar, Sr. Specialist Corrosion & Materials Engineer, GUPCO of BP, Egypt
This 2-day conference will serve as a platform for networking amongst corrosion experts as well as establishing cross-industry interactions. An interactive debate session on the topic of "Brainstorming Practicality and Effectiveness of Cathodic Protection in the Regional Perspectives: Scholar versus Industry Practitioner" will also be held with Dr. Khaled Habib and Dr. Paul Rostron serving as panellists.
© Press Release 2012
