In a collaborative effort designed to improve vital protection of offshore assets, the OGTC (Oil & Gas Technology Centre) is successfully conducting trials of an advanced anti-corrosion coating on two North Sea offshore platforms. The mission of the OGTC, which is jointly funded by the government, is to establish a…
Merrick Alpert is President of EonCoat, LLC., a coatings company that developed a chemically bonded phosphate ceramic which provides two layers of protection to permanently prevent carbon steel from corroding. Alpert has decades of experience in the energy industry for such companies as Pacific Gas & Electric.
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