
Recently, corrosion protection project has started to protect SOCAR’s Kulevi Oil Terminal harbor from the effect of corrosion in to the steel sheet piles, the company reported.
Steel sheet piles have been used to support all top structures and driven in to the soil on different lengths.
Kulevi Engineering team has established good cooperation with Baku based State Research Project Institute "Gipromorneftegaz" which will deliver Steel Sheet Piles Cathodic Protection project. 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 corrosion specialists from the Institute have visited the Terminal and completed first stage of the project. Certain actions were completed by the Institute representatives including 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.
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