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Corrosion Behavior of Carbon Steel in Crude Oil–Water–Gas Multiphase Environments with CO2 and H2S

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In this study, the corrosion behavior of carbon steel in crude oil–water–CO2/H2S multiphase environments simulating the service conditions of a production well and ground gathering pipeline of a carbonate oilfield was explored by weight loss tests and surface analysis techniques. The results show that the presence of crude oil significantly reduces the corrosion rate of 80SS casing and L245 pipeline steels, but it favors the occurrence of localized corrosion at middle-high water cuts. The corrosion of 80SS steel with the variation in the water cut obeys a similar pattern under different environmental conditions. When the water cut is higher than 50%, the corrosion rate obviously enhanced, and the corrosion form changes from uniform corrosion to localized corrosion due to the inhomogeneous wetting of crude oil and water under the test conditions. Benefiting from the synergistic corrosion inhibition of crude oil and a protective sulfur-rich film, the steel demonstrates a relatively low corrosion rate at a high water cut of 80%, however, this is higher than that at middle-low water cuts.

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This work is supported by the National Science and Technology Major Project of China (No. 2016ZX05016-004) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 20CX06075A).

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  1. Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, Beijing, 100083, China

    Zhengrong Ye, Xiang Zhou, Ran Yi, Weidong Jiang & Xiaodong Cui

  2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, 266580, China

    Tiancong Ding, Minghuan Ju, Xueqiang Lin, Chong Sun & Jianbo Sun

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Ye, Z., Ding, T., Zhou, X. et al. Corrosion Behavior of Carbon Steel in Crude Oil–Water–Gas Multiphase Environments with CO2 and H2S. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 31, 7673–7685 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-022-06790-9

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