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ROP, Knowledge basis for repair contingency of pipelines

Utilization of clad and lined pipes, where a thin layer of corrosion resistant alloy (CRA) provides corrosion resistance inside a conventional carbon steel pipe, is with increasing frequency considered an economically viable alternative for corrosion management in many new oil and gas developments. This may also provide an enhanced lifetime of subsea infrastructure.

However, prevention of leakage or fracture must still be addressed. Therefore, the overall objective of the ROP project is to establish basic knowledge on subsea hyperbaric repair welding and degradation of clad pipes as well as conventional pipes, as studied by both experimentally and by numerical modelling.

SINTEF, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Institute for Energy Technology (IFE) is doing the research in the project. The industrial partners are Statoil, Gassco, Technip, POSCO (Korea) and EDF Induction. The project is collaborating with the Japanese WPI Institute I2CNER including Kyushu University in Japan and the University of Illinois in USA.

ROP is a competence building project for industry within the The Research Council of Norway's Petromaks 2 programme.

For more information about the project, see the webpage