Strategic Oil Solutions (SOS) can provide complete turnkey solutions and facilities. SOS performs the majority of its large-scale projects on a complete engineering, procurement, construction and management basis. For these projects SOS, performs all engineering, purchases all of the equipment, manages the construction using local labor, commissions the facility, and trains the operators. The projects are typically executed on a firm lump-sum non-escalating price basis. SOS provides the customer with a single source of responsibility for the entire project including all performance and equipment warranties and guarantees.

For a typical project, SOS assembles the BCAT (Best Commercially Available Technology) to meet the customer’s particular needs. Our approach enables us to evaluate standard industry technology and apply it in unique ways, which has led us to execute several first-of-a-kind projects in Iraq.
If you have any steam, power, or waste problems, SOS is the company to call. We would welcome the opportunity to discuss your particular needs and assist in finding an innovative, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly and sustainable solution.

We are able to act as partner or agent, adviser and facilitator in order to provide genuine high quality services. Our strong network of representatives across the globe allows us to provide limitless options for all your oil services requirements. Our technical team is available to advise and assist you at every stage of the transaction, before, during and after delivery.

Our Cathodic protection systems, maintenance programs, and other services provide economical solutions to corrosion problems.  Each system is custom-designed by a NACE accredited corrosion engineer to provide maximum long-term protection and compliance with ANSI/NSF 61, AWWA and NACE standards.

We also offer continuing programs designed for cost-effective system performance and corrosion control. Our service is performed by qualified service technicians and survey crews to maintain the corrosion control objectives of the owner. All work is performed by experienced SOS crews to promote continuous quality improvement and safety performance.

• Pipeline Services
• Coating Services
• Construction Services
• Engineering Services
• Concrete Services
• Maintenance & Inspection
• Re-Selling of Oil and Gas Equipment

Our Products

High Resolution, Wireless, Corrosion Monitoring for all Process Media

Wireless System offers high speed, wireless, corrosion monitoring in all process environments. With the same exceptional proven accuracy and quality that Microcor Online Corrosion

Monitoring Systems are known for worldwide, the wireless link now adds simplicity, flexibility, and exceptional economy of installation to new or existing installations.
The Wireless System is comprised of Microcor Wireless Transmitters (MWT), Quicksand Wireless Transmitters (QWT), Wireless Extenders (WE), and Corrater Wireless Transmitters (CWT). Just like the wired version of the online corrosion monitoring system, the wireless system measures metal loss, corrosion/erosion rate, and pitting tendency using high speed electrical resistance (ER), Linear Polarization Resistance (LPR), and Galvanic functions.

Each SOS Wireless device works as a node in a self-organizing network (mesh) to ensure consistent delivery of data. Secure and infinitely configurable, the self-organizing network ensures an adaptive, flexible approach to wireless data transfer that defies the “canyons of metal” which define most plants. Unlike many approaches to in-plant wireless systems which require direct line-of-sight between the instrument and the communications gateway, the SOS approach ensures network integrity by allowing Wireless devices to communicate with each other. Because every device serves as a network connector there can be no single point of failure. In the event a temporary obstruction blocks a direct connection, the network automatically reroutes the signal to an adjacent device, ensuring network reliability and data integrity.

Wireless Transmitters use high resolution metal loss measurement providing 18 bit resolution, and are rated for operation in hazardous locations. Like its rugged predecessor Microcor which has performed well in both arctic and desert conditions, Wireless devices have an allowable operating range of from -40°C to 70°C.

The Wireless System is based on SOS’s MICROCOR technology and will provide corrosion rates in any process media at speeds approaching real time. Microcor online systems are in use throughout the world and have proven that accuracy and reliability can co-exist. Correlating real time corrosion rates with other process parameters enables facility operators to realize unprecedented process control related to variables such as chemical inhibitor feed. Chemical inhibitor costs can be reduced without compromising plant safety, thereby ensuring a speedy recovery of the investment in the corrosion monitoring system. Continued use provides alerts to system upsets, lengthens the time between plant shutdowns, extends overall asset life, and gives peace of mind with respect to potential environmental mishaps caused by corrosion.

Key Benefits of Wireless System:

• High Resolution Wireless Corrosion Monitoring
• Dramatically Lower Installation Costs
• Independent operation or seamless integration with Emerson’s Smart Wireless Range of Solutions
• Operation in Hazardous Locations
• Ideal solution for hard to access areas

Wireless devices can be supplied as part of a complete corrosion management system comprising access fittings, probes, MWTs, QWTs, CWTs, WEs, gateway, corrosion management and process interface software.

Alternatively, Wireless devices can be added seamlessly to an Emerson Smart Wireless Network or via direct input from the gateway through Modbus Interface to virtually any Process Automation System.
The Wireless System is installed quickly and easily without the time and expense required for wiring. Once installed metal loss and computed corrosion rate is read from the Gateway directly into your DCS system, an ICMS3-Amulet Corrosion Management System or a MICROCOR Tools software package for smaller scale systems. With its widespread capability and effectiveness, the wireless system is not only complementary to any process system but a guaranteed maximum return on investment, both in the short and long run, in terms of low installation costs, effective chemical inhibitor use, and asset preservation.

Ultrasonic On-Line Thickness Measurement

The ULTRACORR system provides very high sensitivity ultrasonic on-line thickness measurement of pipes and vessels. It represents a breakthrough for internal corrosion monitoring at locations that are difficult to access. Once installed, ULTRACORR provides years of continuous service without the need for replacement. ULTRACORR will help solve the problem of monitoring in locations where sensor access is difficult, and will particularly suit buried pipeline operators faced with the problem of ICDA activities. After the initial dig to expose and ultrasonically examine HRHC (high risk, high consequence) locations,
ULTRACORR sensors can be installed on the line, and the excavation backfilled. They can subsequently be accessed for measurement via a test post, located at ground level, adjacent to

the line or in a “road” box. Readings can then be taken every 3-6 months to verify the corrosion behavior thereby minimizing or eliminating the need for costly future excavations.
The Ultrasonic Features:
Non-Intrusive sensors permanently mounted to the pipeline — no replacements required
• High resolution corrosion rates in a few weeks rather than years
• ICDA compliant
• Measures corrosion and erosion
• Simple analysis software — stored readings can be easily uploaded to pc for data analysis

Erosion Detection System

Erosion causes major damage by sand production scraping away at protective metals and coatings reducing the wall thickness of piping, flowlines, valves, pumps, and other equipment. To address this problem, RCS developed the Quicksand Erosion Detection System.
The Quicksand System uses the same high resolution technology as our Microcor System. A typical Quicksand System consists of sand probes and transmitters that can be fully integrated with other digital loop transmitters manufactured by SOS, such as Linear Polarization (CORRATER), or high resolution electrical resistance (MICROCOR), to provide a comprehensive corrosion/erosion monitoring system.

Sand flowing at high velocities produces sandpaper effect scraping away layers of metal therefore producing the metal loss that is detected by the on-line erosion transmitter. Quicksand probes are positioned middle-of-the-line where velocity of flowing sand is greatest

Total Corrosion Data Management

We know corrosion is just one of many process parameters you worry about. That’s why we developed our integrated corrosion monitoring systems. Now, you can add corrosion to your list of variables— such as temperature, pressure, pH, oxygen level, and chemical inhibitor concentration — that you monitor with your existing system. Our integrated corrosion monitoring solutions, the Intelligent Interface Unit (IIU) for small to medium-size systems, and the Integrated Corrosion Management System ICMS for medium to large systems, communicate through a direct wired and Ethernet online connection to integrate into your existing DCS and SCADA systems.

A system designed for your application
Our corrosion sensor and transmitter systems are known to be extremely sensitive and accurate, and are available for such diverse industries as oil and gas, petrochemical, water treatment, chemical, pulp and paper, pharmaceutical, and utilities.
Our systems adapt to yours. From five corrosions transmitters across the road to 500 around the world, we can design a system that helps you monitor and manage corrosion in your systems.
Intelligent Interface Unit (IIU)

The Intelligent Interface Unit (IIU) provides low-cost entry to corrosion management. It is perfect for smaller scale systems. The Intelligent Interface Unit (IIU) computes metal corrosion and erosion rates from measurements transmitted from our MICROCOR and Quicksand sensors, and also provide instantaneous corrosion rates and pitting tendencies in aqueous media via our digital CORRATER transmitter. Eliminating the need for expensive custom software, the IIU cost-effectively illustrates metal loss and corrosion/erosion rates through the installed Microcor Tools software. This permits operation as either a blind interface to a SCADA or DCS system, or as a stand-alone corrosion data storage and analysis system.

Integrated Corrosion Management System
The Integrated Corrosion Management System is the most comprehensive and powerful online corrosion monitoring system available. It is ideally suited for medium to large scale systems, or for small systems with the need for future growth. The system allows integration of all corrosion, erosion, and cathodic protection products, with related process data, to provide correlation and generate key performance indicators (KPIs) and summary reports for proper system management.
The ICMS3 corrosion management server is the hub of the corrosion or erosion monitoring system, integrating several forms of corrosion monitoring and process data into one complete online system, shared over a variety of communication links. Corrosion and erosion monitoring can be managed as process parameters with constant data streaming into your preferred system.

Repair & Services

We provide Corrosion Engineering Services for

• Oil & Gas
• Electrical Power facilities
• Pipelines
• Bridges

Corrosion Analysis
Through field surveys and testing, SOS evaluates corrosion exposure on existing and planned structures. Utilizing a review of the exposure characteristics, appropriate material selection, protective coatings, and Cathodic protection design, the corrosion process can be reduced significantly.

Cathodic Protection
SOS’s staff designs galvanic and impressed current Cathodic protection systems for any structure requiring corrosion protection.

Our project management services include:

• Site Survey
• Soil Resistivity Testing
• Cathodic Protection System Design
• Installation Services
• System Start-up
• Documentation