Design and engineering companies in the offshore sector often strive to find the best technical specification for new building coatings by requiring compliance with standards and prequalification testing, among other things. However, these specifications often overlook the feasibility of maintaining the coating systems once in service. This fact, in addition to a general low priority given to corrosion protection and coating application during construction, (especially close to the scheduled time of delivery) leads to early coating breakdown and unnecessary high maintenance cost. This paper will via a number of case stories attempt to point out such problems observed during the maintenance in service of offshore installations. Problems caused by wrong decisions made by key decision makers during the planning, designing, engineering and construction of offshore assets. The cases are based the author's first-hand experience of coating performance while managing coating maintenance of offshore installations for operators in the North Sea, the Arabian Gulf and West Africa.
Offshore coating maintenance - cost affect by choice of new building specification and ability of the applicator
Corrosion 2006, 61 ; 1-7
2006
7 Seiten, 5 Bilder, 3 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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