Transportation of hydrocarbons accompanied by a liquid or supercritical CO2 phase has
recently become a significant concern in the oil and gas industry particularly as related
to exploitation of high CO2 content gas-fields. The issue of internal line corrosion under
such condition has a much broader relevance – it is applicable in the field of enhanced
oil recovery as well as CO2 sequestration and transportation.
Many different CO2 corrosion models can predict worst case corrosion rates of mild
steel in the CO2 partial pressure range up to 10 bar, however they grossly overestimate
the corrosion rates as the partial pressure gets higher. One important first step in
understanding the corrosion mechanisms of mild steel in high CO2 content
environments is to develop methods to predict the corresponding water chemistry. The
present study focuses on modeling and model validation of water chemistry in the
presence of large amounts of CO2, with partial pressure varying up to 100 bar and
temperature up to 100oC, covering gas, liquid and supercritical phases of CO2.
Keywords: Supercritical CO2, thermodynamic modeling, CO2 corrosion prediction model