There is a growing demand for corrosion, erosion and scale monitoring to meet the recognized need for
more comprehensive asset integrity management. As the oil industry continue to extend the life of
existing fields and expands to develop ever more challenging fields, online and real-time monitoring will
play an important role in extending the life of existing fields, making new fields developments feasible,
cost effective, reliable and safer to operate. Recent developments suggest that there are many
technologies that can contribute to the advancement of online and real-time monitoring. These need to
be adapted and exploited to meet the needs of the industry. There are fundamental changes which
need to occur in the way monitoring and data interpretation are viewed to embrace these new
technologies.