Program Management

The technical effort will be under the program management of Dr. Russell D. Kane. President of InterCorr International, Inc. Dr. Kane is an internationally recognized expert in corrosion and materials selection for petroleum applications. He has conducted numerous major program activities over the past 20 years involving corrosion and sulfide stress cracking of steels and stainless alloys in production, acidizing and workover environments. Dr. Kane has also organized major single sponsor and multiclient research efforts on the effects of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide which have produced practical guidelines for selection of materials.

Principal investigator for this program will be Mr. Sridhar Srinivasan, Manager, Modeling and Software Systems at InterCorr. Mr. Srinivasan has over eight years of experience in modeling related to corrosion and has developed several computer models for corrosion problem solving. Mr. Srinivasan has an extensive background in flow modeling related to corrosion as well as in modeling corrosion dynamics. Mr. Srinivasan is the developer of InterCorr's current model for prediction of corrosivity of CO₂ / H₂S environments and the Predict computer tool for corrosivity assessment and prediction. He has been the principal investigator on the development of InterCorr's other modeling efforts related to corrosion and cracking, viz., SOCRATES® and STRATEGY^TM software systems, which are extensively utilized throughout the petroleum industry.

Assisting Dr. Kane and Mr. Srinivasan in this program will be Dr. Julio Maldonado, Senior Research Scientist at InterCorr. He has an extensive background in electrochemical test methods and has conducted many studies involved with application of these techniques for the evaluation of corrosion of materials and selection of corrosion inhibitors for both downhole and flowline applications. Mr. Kiran Sangita, Development Engineer at InterCorr, will assist in modeling and data analysis. Mr. Sangita has an extensive background in corrosion modeling for oil and gas production and most recently developed the latest version of the widely known corrosion model for gas condensate wells at the University of Southwestern Louisiana.