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Riky Bernardo is Senior Corrosion Engineer at RasGas, one of the major oil and gas exploration and production companies in the Middle East. His main responsibility is to provide technical support to the companys day-to-day natural gas and LNG production and processing activities to ensure they run smoothly and safely. Passionate about his role as a corrosion expert, Riky strives to constantly update his knowledge and urges manufacturers to do the same.
The role of Senior Corrosion Engineer is a varied one, explains Riky. I work within the Operations Technical Department, which acts as a technical authority in various engineering disciplines and works very closely and intensively with other departments like Projects and Maintenance
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to support the Operations Department. Typically I work five days a week from Sunday to Thursday although during special assignments such as planned shutdowns, I work in shifts. Whenever a field-emergency event occurs, Ill have to stop my routine activity and become
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involved in that at very short notice. On a day-to-day basis, Riky is involved with the corrosion engineering aspects relating to the following three areas: The corrosion prevention and mitigation program, including material selection, chemical
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treatment, cathodic protection (CP), and coating and lining application; Corrosion monitoring and inspection activities including probes, coupons, fluid monitoring, CP monitoring, and other corrosion inspection methods; and Corrosion management systems, for instance developing a Risk Based Inspection (RBI) program, leading and participating in risk assessments and root cause failure analysis, etc.
is updating myself with new information as well as increasing my knowledge. By becoming a Corrosion Engineer, Im convinced that Im dealing with the most dynamic process and unlimited resources of knowledge in the industry. Another advantage of being an oil and gas engineer is that we meet with many experienced oil and gas practitioners from service providers, consultants, manufacturers, NGOs, and other peers within the industry itself. Its proven that sharing knowledge has resulted in mutual benefits by successfully enriching our experiences and enhancing our skills. The biggest challenge in his role is working within a limited time frame,
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When not hard at work for Rasgas, Riky enjoys travelling and spending time with his family.
steel 316 and 316L are the most common corrosion resistant alloys used by many companies within oil and gas industries. In an environment containing chloride and operating at high temperatures, either incoloy 825 or inconnel 625 is used. In seawater applications Copper-Nickel 90-10 and titanium are common. High temperature austenitic 304H, super austenitic 6% Mo and 904L, weld stabilized austenitic grades 321, duplex 2205 and super duplex 2507, feritic 430 and 409, martensitic 410, 17-4 precipitationhardening, 13-Cr, Monel 400, nickel based alloy C276, and even low-alloy steels are also chosen for specific projects.
Advice to manufacturers
At the moment Im working on some small projects related to internal corrosion
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