In this paper, we report experiences assessing real time corrosion inhibitors performance employing
corrosion inhibitors currently used in the field in the Gulf of Mexico. The onset of the corrosion inhibitor
performance in reducing the corrosion rate was clearly monitored in seven minutes intervals after the
inhibitor application. By controlling the inhibitor concentration in the range of 5 to 100 ppm, corrosion
rates are determined in time evolution from over 150 mpy to less than 1 mpy in the best performing
chemical treatments. The real time corrosion monitoring equipment which includes several techniques:
linear polarization resistance (LPR), harmonic analysis (HA), and electrochemical noise (EN).
Environments include 3 % NaCl solution with and without 10 % diesel, saturated with CO2 at 50°C.
Both, LPR and HA techniques had a quick answer, within 7 minutes, however, HA showed big
fluctuations although similar trend in the corrosion rate to those given by the LPR technique.