June 2017
Maintenance and Reliability
Controlling corrosion: Case studies from amine plant operations
The total annual cost of corrosion in the oil and gas production industry is estimated to be $1.372 B.1 More significantly, failures due to corrosion can result in environmental releases and injury or death of plant personnel.
The Authors
James Daughtry is a retired regional commercial manager in the GAS/SPEC Technology Group of INEOS. He has a wide range of experiences in gas processing, from corrosion inhibitor research to process optimization of amine plants and amine sales. Prior to joining INEOS GAS/SPEC in 2000, he worked for Dow Chemical USA for 32 yr, specializing in epoxy manufacturing, research, technical service and development. While at Dow, he was a founding member of the GAS/SPEC Technology Group in 1983. Mr. Daughtry has coauthored several papers on gas processing and one paper on vinyl ester corrosion for the Society of Plastic Industry. He holds a BS degree in chemistry from the University of Houston in Clear Lake, Texas.
Eric Teletzke is a territory manager and technical service engineer with the INEOS GAS/SPEC Technology Group. He has extensive experience with the design, operation and optimization of amine systems in a range of applications, including natural gas processing, LNG, refining, tail gas, acid gas enrichment, syngas, ammonia, liquid treating and carbon capture. Eric graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 with a BS degree in chemical engineering and joined the INEOS GAS/SPEC Technology Group in 2011.
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