By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Aug. 27 -- The University of Oklahoma, with start-up funding from ConocoPhillips, is creating a research function on biocorrosion and fuel biodeterioration in the oil and gas industry.
The Biocorrosion Center, part of the university’s Institute for Energy and Environment, will allow OU researchers to work with ConocoPhillips specialists “to develop new technologies to manage biocorrision in the nation’s pipelines, storage facilities, separators, tankers, and refineries,” according to a press statement from the institute.
Other oil companies and organizations will be invited to support the activities.
Gary Jenneman, corrosion management supervisor at ConocoPhillips, said other corrosion centers exist. But there are “few that specifically focus on the role of microorganisms in corrosion processes and none that have as much expertise in the study of anaerobic microorganisms,” he said.
