TY - DATA AU - Abdulatif Abdulah AU - Rafiqul Islam AU - Rafiqul Islam ED - Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (7th : 2001 mar. 25-28 : Buenos Aires, Argentina) ED - Latin American and Caribbean Petroleum Engineering Conference (7th : 2001 mar. 25-28 : Buenos Aires, Argentina) TI - A Decision-Making Expert System for the Oil Transport System: SPE 69423 PY - 2001/// CY - Dallas, Texas PB - Society of Petroleum Engineers N2 - The problem of pipeline corrosion within the oil and gas industry costs the world economy billions of dollars every year in maintenance, repairs and too often in damage control. These costs are passed on, reflected in increased prices to the world’s petroleum product consumers. With the advent of widely available computing and communications technology, it is logical that we should seek relief from corrosion and maintenance problems in the form of a high-tech solution. To this end the authors have developed an expert system, the Petroleum Corrosion and Coating Expert System (PCCES) equipped with an extensive knowledge base of physical and chemical phenomena and the metallurgical characteristics of the pipes themselves. Essentially a complex decision tree, the expert considers factors in a real-world situation and attempts to produce appropriate conclusions based on inference from the knowledgebase. For greater ease of use, the expert system relies on a Java applet design, eliminating the need for proprietary client-side software UR - https://biblioteca.iapg.org.ar/ArchivosAdjuntos/LACPEC2001/Spe69423.pdf ER -