Metal-loss corrosion is a major threat to the structural integrity and safe operation of underground oil and gas pipelines worldwide. The reliability-based corrosion management program has been increasingly used in the pipeline industry, which typically includes three tasks, namely periodic high-resolution inline inspections to detect and size corrosion defects on a given pipeline, engineering critical assessment of corrosion defects reported by the inspection tool and mitigation of defects. The work reported in this book addresses the engineering challenges involved in the reliability-based corrosion management program, including the probabilistic corrosion growth modeling based on imperfect inspection data, time-dependent reliability evaluation, and optimal inspection interval determination for corroding pipelines.

Shenwei Zhang is an risk and integrity engineer for oil and gas transimissin pipelines at TransCanada Pipeline Ltd. Prior to joining TransCanada, he obtained his PhD degree from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. Dr. Zhang's research during his PhD study was focused on reliability-based corrosion management for energy pipelines.