OREANDA-NEWS. March 30, 2011. Recently, corrosion protection project of wharves has started at Kulevi Oil Terminal. Implementation of such a project is caused by probability of corrosion of steel sheet piles that are used for strengthening of leading constructions in a wharf.

The project planned to be carried out within the cooperation between “OilGasScientificResearchProject” Institute of SOCAR and BST engineering team. The project contains three stages: 1) survey of steel sheet piles; 2) estimating of electrochemical protection application and cathodic protection design; 3) application methods and recommendations. Recently a group of specialists from the Institute have visited the Terminal and completed the first stage of the project.

Institute representatives completed underwater camera survey assessment, measurement of potential difference of pile-water, measurement of specific resistance of soil, inspection of steel sheet piles and concrete wall on splash zone and taken samples of sea water.