Corrosion Control and Integrity Support

When you work with ICTC, you gain access to a company that offers the broadest array of field experience, treatment programs and monitoring methodology available. We are your best choice for low-risk, high-performance programs to address virtually any oilfield application – and reduce your total cost of corrosion control.

Our proprietary family of inhibitors is the industry’s most advanced technology for Alberta’s rugged oil patch. To earn the ICTC brand, an inhibitor has to exhibit extraordinary performance in a series of stringent performance tests including high temperature, high-pressure autoclave technology. As exploration and production activity pushes into the most remote regions, ICTC’s technology is the ideal solution for protecting high-shear, multiphase oilfield flowlines, gathering systems or transmission pipelines. This solution may include simulating your corrosion environment in test conditions to provide a more focused solution to your corrosion challenges.

ICTC’s product line covers the following applications:

• Downhole inhibition (protection for tubing, pumps, rods and casings)
• Flowline/groupline control
• Oil and gas transmission lines
• Sweet or sour systems
• Dynamic influenced systems

What we have learned about inhibitor development utilizing HTHP autoclaves has been incorporated into our high-performance products such as the following:

• Oil soluble batch chemistries
• Water soluble continuous chemistries
• Oil soluble/water dispersible products for both batch and continuous application
• Combination products for one product addition exhibiting more than one functionality
• Vapour phase inhibitors
• Acid inhibitors
• Drilling mud inhibitors
• Passivating inhibitors

ICTC’s Edmonton laboratory has been designed to provide our sales team with the most effective solution to corrosion problems occurring at various customer sites in Canada. The mandate of the ICTC Technical Group is to conduct research and development into the use of new corrosion inhibitor formulations that will function in the harshest environments. This means that ICTC technical staff are not only constantly searching for new functionally advanced intermediates for their corrosion inhibitor formulations, but are also testing these formulations to determine how they perform in real world applications.

The Edmonton lab is equipped with a state-of-the-art HTHP stainless steel autoclave that gives us the capability to rigorously test all of our corrosion inhibitor formulations under almost any type of field conditions. The autoclave is fitted with an advanced microcor detection system, which can be used to monitor corrosion in both conductive and
non-conductive environments. This type of detection system is 200 times faster and more accurate than conventional LPR/ER detection probes.

All together, this equipment allows ICTC the ability to make rapid and accurate corrosion rate measurements in any process environment. We can, therefore, accurately evaluate a number of our corrosion inhibitor formulations for customer applications. With this data and other pieces of information such as temperature, pressure, dissolved oxygen and inhibitor concentration, we can do real time parallel plots of process conditions vs. corrosion rate using our software to give an overall picture of the corrosive system.

ICTC has the ability to investigate pitting corrosion via gravimetric weight loss of metal coupons. Coupons can be inspected microscopically and the pitting rates measure via a gauge maker pit gauge. This all leads to an in-depth investigation of the corrosion mechanisms that are predominant and what can be used to mitigate those mechanisms.