Course offering number:0903-404
Course ID:
1198
Corrosion Control in the Oil and Gas Industry
March 23-26, 2009
Houston, TX
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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