Distribution Date: March 2, 2007 Minutes American Petroleum Institute COMMITTEE ON REFINERY EQUIPMENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON CORROSION & MATERIALS

September 11-14, 2006 Wyndham Orlando Resort Orlando, FL B. L. Jack, Chairman H. E. Mead, Vice-Chairman/Secretary

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. Introductions and Registration of Members and Visitors .........................................1 Approval of Agenda and Spring 2006 Joint Meeting Minutes .................................1 Future Roundtables ...................................................................................................1 Action Item Review, Old Business...........................................................................2 New Business............................................................................................................2 New Problems and Failure Analyses ........................................................................2 Task Group Reports ..................................................................................................2

ATTACHMENTS Meeting Attendance Sheet .................................................................................................... I Joint Meeting Agenda .......................................................................................................... II Future Roundtable Topics...................................................................................................III Corrosion & Materials Research Task Group Minutes...................................................... IV RP 941 Task Group Minutes................................................................................................V Welding Guidelines, RP 582 Task Group Minutes ........................................................... VI Vessel Refractories Task Force Minutes .......................................................................... VII

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SUBCOMMITTEE ON CORROSION & MATERIALS Joint Meeting 4:00 pm 5:00 pm May 3, 2006 B. L. Jack, Chairman H. E. Mead, Vice Chairman/Secretary Wyndham Orlando Resort Orlando, Florida

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INTRODUCTIONS AND REGISTRATION OF MEMBERS AND VISITORS:

Brian Jack (ConocoPhillips) opened the meeting with introductions and requesting everyone to register their attendance (Attachment I). A copy of the roster was distributed and attendees were requested to validate or correct their contact information. II. APPROVAL OF AGENDA AND SPRING 2006 JOINT MEETING MINUTES:

The agenda was reviewed and adjusted. The adjustment was to move the discussion of future roundtable subjects to the front of the agenda. The final approved agenda is attached (Attachment II). Brian noted that the meeting minutes are available from the web and he distributed several paper copies. The content was briefly reviewed. The attendees voted to approve the Spring 2006 Joint Meeting Minutes. III. FUTURE ROUNDTABLE TOPICS: Brian noted that the current list of potential roundtable topics was in the Spring 2006 meeting minutes that were distributed earlier in the meeting. The list was reviewed, discussed, and amended (Attachment III). The attendees then were asked to vote on three roundtable topics of their highest interest. The votes were documented and are shown in order of decreasing number of votes. The topic with the highest number of votes and selected for the Spring 2007 Roundtable was: Issues with dissimilar metal welds in refineries: covering all temperature ranges, best practices to avoid failures, etc. Brian Jack agreed to chair this roundtable. A few items were discussed as being well suited for NACE State-of-the-Art topics. Brian Jack will communicate this list of topics to Carol Ann Laughlin. Use of duplex stainless steels in refining. This would be a revisit of a previous API SCCM roundtable. RE: Recent ConocoPhillips air cooler failure. Corrosion management in todays amine systems Online plant monitoring including such things as new H2 permeation probes and super sensitive ER probes.
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Detecting (NDE) localized corrosion with global inspection techniques and advanced corrosion monitoring. Issues with soda ash washing; risk versus benefit, best practices, etc.

IV. ACTION ITEM REVIEW, OLD BUSINESS: Brian noted that there were no significant action items or old business from the Spring 2006 meeting. V. NEW BUSINESS:

No new business VI. NEW PROBLEMS AND FAILURE ANALYSES: No new problems and failures were discussed. All items had been covered during the NACE Information Sharing Session on Wednesday. VII. TASK GROUP REPORTS: It was decided by all in attendance to forego a detailed discussion of the task group reports. The minutes from each task group session are attached as follows: Attachment IV - Research Task Group Minutes Attachment V RP 941 Task Group Minutes Attachment VI RP 582 Task Group Minutes Attachment VII Vessel Refractories Task Force Minutes The business session was held separately and the only item discussed was the schedule of meetings for the task groups for the Spring 2007 and the proposed schedule is shown as follows: PROPOSED SCHEDULE OF TASK GROUP MEETINGS SPRING 2007
Monday 16 April 8:30 - 12:00 Corrosion & Materials Research Task Group 1:00 - 4:00 ETOH Task Group Tuesday 17 April 8:00 - 12:00 RP 934 Series Task Group Wednesday 18 April 10:00 - 12:00 RP 530 Task Group

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8:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 12:00 Reformer RP 571 Task Alloys Task Group Group

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2:00 - 4:00 RP 941 Task 2:00 - 5:30 Group SCCM Roundtable 4:00 - 5:30 Sulfidation Task Dissimilar Metal Welds group

1:00 - 3:30 Joint Meeting

3:30 - 4:00 Business Meeting

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