CONGRATULATIONS TO MY PATNER MR KANG KIM ANG....

http://www.scmp.com/article/1074545/petronesia-benimel-corrtrol-excel-delivering-top-notch-pipeline-solutions

ARTICLE FROM SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST

Excellent customer service goes a long way. By word of mouth, Petronesia Benimel, in co-operation with its partner, Malaysian corrosion expert Corrtrol Group, has become Indonesia's leading pipe inspection and corrosion protection specialist. With corrosion experts accredited by world-renowned professional organisations, Petronesia Benimel services the likes of Chevron, PGN and Pertamina. The company has successfully inspected more than 1,300 kilometres of pipelines in Indonesia.


"It is not just about winning contracts. We focus on solving our customers' problems," says Petronesia Benimel technical consultant Kang Kim Ang, who is also managing director and technical adviser at Corrtrol. "We value excellent customer service over profit. Our customers keep coming back because of this dedication.

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Petronesia Benimel specialises in testing techniques using a non-contact magnetic tomography method, direct current voltage gradient, pipe current mapping and closed interval potential surveys. All methods can be conducted without disrupting the daily operations of the clients. The company also offers construction, electrical, mechanical and mining services.


Petronesia Benimel, in strategic collaboration with Corrtrol, leverages different technologies from foreign countries and customises them to match the requirements of local markets. The company also generates solutions for clients by collaborating with the research departments of the best national universities in Indonesia.


As a reflection of its high regard for human resource development, Petronesia Benimel offers a free welding training programme in Sumatra. Students have successfully found employment after the programme with some of them even being hired by clients.


The company is interested in opportunities in other sectors such as water utilities in countries such as Brunei, Myanmar and Australia. "We would like to become a regional player and seek partners that also value human resource development and lasting relationships with clients," says Fernando Silaen, Petronesia Benimel's business development manager.
Petronesia Benimel

http://www.petronesia.co.id/

Top 10 Reasons for Becoming a Corrosion Engineer / Scientist

1. ... finally convincing yourself that something had to be done about the cost of corrosion;

2. ... defying thermodynamics was always an intriguing concept;

3. ... having seen the corrosion professor at school drive off in a new Porsche 928S (later you discovered that he also had a MBA, and knew a thing or two about investing)...in my case is my Boss who's driving the Porsche ;)

4. ... getting that "swanning around in a white lab coat" out of your system;

5. ... knowing more than your neighbor (who works in catering and, yes, was always more popular with the ladies) about potentiodynamic polarization curves;

6. ... being "paid to worry";

7. ... putting your loved ones (and 99.9999% of the general population) into a peaceful slumber with more detailed mechanistic explanations of corrosion phenomena;

8. ... rationalizing your old disintegrating car (or house, or boat, or houseboat) as a practical (but not necessary valuable) corrosion experiment;

9. ... surrounding yourself in "an air of mystery" with other engineers or scientists, who can not quite "place you"; but somehow always seem to consult you;

10. ... being genuinely needed (but not necessarily appreciated) in most industries.

Published May 7, 2003 on corrosion-club.com (updated April 1, 2005 and December 14, 2005)
More to follow ... stay tuned !

CATHODIC PROTECTION....

Do I really still want to stay in this line????

“It’s not nice to ignore corrosion engineering advice!”

To paraphrase a proverb, “To err is human; to refrain from saying ‘I told you so’ is divine!” Probably you have had an experience in your work where a department or someone in your company didn’t follow your advice, and whatever you said would happen happened. As satisfying as it may be, such an experience highlights the consequences of ignoring corrosion.

I found this article in one of the corrosion network that I’ve joined for quite sometime which read as follow:

Here’s one from early in my consulting engineering career. About 1950, our later-to-be client, a water utility, laid a new transmission main that included a river crossing. The main was prestressed concrete cylinder, except for the river crossing, which was coated steel. They installed a small impressed current cathodic protection (CP) system on one bank of the river, turned it on, and promptly forgot about it Some 15 years later, the river crossing was leaking so badly it had to be replaced.

The utility retained us to evaluate the situation. We found the rectifier inoperative, no past maintenance or output data, and no CP on the pipe. When the pipe was removed, we found the coating was full of holidays, most of which contained corrosion penetrations. The cause was fairly evident—lack of properly maintained CP. The pipe had been laid in a trench in the river bottom, and samples from the trench walls and bottom showed that the soil was highly corrosive.

The utility’s engineering department wanted to replace the crossing with steel pipe and asked our advice. In our report, we explained the cause of the failure and recommended coating and CP for the replacement pipe. We even recommended a coating material, and gave them a preliminary layout and cost estimate for the CP.

Their engineers mulled this over for a while and then said that they didn’t want any CP. It didn’t work the first time, why should it be expected to work now? Our explanation of why the first CP system failed (lack of maintenance, remember) fell on deaf ears. They were certain that a good coating job was all they needed. We advised them that coating alone wouldn’t work, and without CP, they could expect another failure in 15 to 20 years.

Sure enough, in the early 1980s, the line was again leaking badly and another replacement was needed. Squelching the desire to say, “I told you so,” but smugly smiling to ourselves, we took on the job of designing the new CP. It was installed and we energized it. Data showed the river crossing to be well protected. Our report gave them detailed maintenance instructions and stressed the importance of monthly rectifier inspections and an annual survey to check the effectiveness of the CP.

Our company had long made it a practice to remind our CP clients when their annual inspection was due and provide them with a proposal for the work. The utility did have us come back after the first year, and we found things running well, but that only a couple of rectifier inspections had been made. We again cautioned the client that unless monthly or at least bimonthly inspections were made, one would not know how long the CP had been inoperative once a malfunction was discovered.

For several years we continued making proposals for the annual CP survey, but each time they said no, they didn’t want to spend the money. After a few years, we decided to wait and see what happened.

I don’t know what ever happened to the second replacement, but the incident shows what can occur when corrosion engineering advice is not followed. It was a costly experience for the utility.

There was an advertisement that said, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!” I say, “It’s not nice to ignore corrosion engineering advice!”

and believe me I have come across similar experience whereby the importance or the requirement of cathodic protection was totally ignored. Therefore please remember that even though we do not always see the effect of corrosion on our structures but if it is not given proper attention it can be a silent killer to our assets.

EPCC of Cathodic Protection System

Engineering, Procurement, Construction & Commissioning of a CP System, what are the considerations?

Design consideration?
-the structures to be protected, material type etc?
-the electrolyte the structures are immersed in?
-the coating type

Will all these be sufficient in order to have a good CP system? let me leave it at this as I need to hear some opnions before I start dishing out what I have experience.....

Cathodic Protection System

Cathodic Protection is a technique to prevent corrosion of underground structures, sush as buried pipelines, tanks in contact with an electrolyte.

Cathodic Protection is an electrochemical means of corrosion control in which the oxidation reaction in a galvanic cell is concentrated at the anode and suppresses corrosion of the cathode in the same cell. The image below shows a simple cathodic protection system.

The structure to be protected is purposely made a Cathode of an electrochemical cell with respect to an Anode, a less costly & expendable material, which gets consumed & can be replenished as required.