Course offering number:0811-401
Course ID:
1198
Corrosion Control in the Oil and Gas Industry
24-27 November 2008
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Colin F. Britton; Independent Corrosion Consultant
Colin F. Britton is an independent corrosion consultant. Mr.
Britton has over fifty years experience in corrosion activity
ranging from nuclear corrosion R & D (carried out at the Harwell
Laboratory of the UK Atomic Energy Authority) to problem
solving in industrial plants on a worldwide basis. His work has
involved corrosion audits of plants, corrosion control systems,
corrosion failure analysis, corrosion monitoring/inspection and
design for offshore oil and gas projects.
Colin Britton joined the Nondestructive Testing Center (set up in
1966) at the Harwell Laboratory arising from industrial problems
related to the inspection and monitoring of corrosion damage. He
was a member of the Secretariat of the ‘Hoar’ Inquiry (reported in
1970) commissioned by the UK Government to examine, (a) the
cost of corrosion damage in the UK, and, (b) existing facilities for
the training of corrosion engineers and incorporation of corrosion
training in other training disciplines.
Colin Britton is a Fellow of the Institute of Corrosion (I Corr) in
the UK and is a member of the National Association of Corrosion
Engineers (NACE International). He is a NACE Registered
Corrosion Specialist (No. 14965) and a NACE Registered
Instructor for the NACE Basics training course. He is a Past
Chairman of both the ICorr/NACE Task Group on Corrosion
Monitoring and the NACE UK Section Board of Governors. Colin
Britton is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has
published many papers on corrosion control and engineering, and
has lectured widely on these subjects. He authored the chapter
‘Corrosion Monitoring and Inspection’ in all editions of the
textbook Corrosion, edited by Dr. L. Shreir et. al., published by
Butterworth Heinemann (UK).
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