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Rod Water or gas injection
pump
Wellhead Wellhead

Casing Casing
Tubing Tubing

Packer
Packer
Reservoir Reservoir
Production Injection
wells wells
Gas
Gas
water
oil Water Water
Produced
1st stage water Seawater
separator injection
injection
Wet pumps pumps
gas
Gas
water
oil Water Water
Gas Seawater
water Wet 2nd stage Oily Oily water deaeration
Gas knockout gas separator water separator
flare drum
water
Oil Water
Dry gas
Gas compression
Seawater
Oil filtration
Oil
Gas
sales

Pipeline Seawater
Tanker
Figure 3.27 Oil and gas production flow diagram (7).

high percentage (∼100%) of CO , which dramatically increases the corrosivity of the
2
produced fluids.

3.23 CORROSION IN THE MINING INDUSTRY

Corrosion in the mining industry may be characterized as corrosion enhanced by
abrasion. It is also difficult for corrosion engineers to plan for corrosion because