QuickChat | How Offshore Operators Can Stay Ahead of Corrosion Challenges
In this video, Bruce Beaubouef of Offshore Magazine, sits down with Deb Carpenter (Global Oil & Gas Market Manager at Swagelok) to unpack the real-world issues facing FPSOs and other offshore assets. Deb explains how pitting, crevice corrosion, and chloride‑induced cracking threatens critical measurement and control systems, and why smart alloy selection and engineered combinations matter. They also discuss new industry standards and how Swagelok partners with operators to ensure reliable, long‑lasting tubing performance.
Timestamps:
- 0:00 | Intro
- 0:52 | How does the environment that offshore oil and gas platforms operate in impact small-bore tubing?
- 2:20 | What are common corrosion problems experienced on offshore facilities?
- 4:06 | How do operators currently overcome these challenges?
- 5:13| What challenges do operators face when choosing a solution to these challenges?
- 6:32 | How does Swagelok help the customer select a small-bore tubing solution?
- 8:03 | Where can people learn more?
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About the Author
Bruce Beaubouef
Managing Editor
Bruce Beaubouef is Managing Editor for Offshore magazine. In that capacity, he plans and oversees content for the magazine; writes features on technologies and trends for the magazine; writes news updates for the website; creates and moderates topical webinars; and creates videos that focus on offshore oil and gas and renewable energies. Beaubouef has been in the oil and gas trade media for 25 years, starting out as Editor of Hart’s Pipeline Digest in 1998. From there, he went on to serve as Associate Editor for Pipe Line and Gas Industry for Gulf Publishing for four years before rejoining Hart Publications as Editor of PipeLine and Gas Technology in 2003. He joined Offshore magazine as Managing Editor in 2010, at that time owned by PennWell Corp. Beaubouef earned his Ph.D. at the University of Houston in 1997, and his dissertation was published in book form by Texas A&M University Press in September 2007 as The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: U.S. Energy Security and Oil Politics, 1975-2005.