Organic Inhibition: Corrosion Control and Petroleum Available to Purchase

The petroleum engineer now has at his disposal a large number of chemical inhibitors for use in his battle against corrosion. Of these, the organic inhibitor is a recent introduction, but one which has made very great progress. Indeed, we comment elsewhere in this issue on the establishment of a factory for their manufacture in Great Britain. The growing complexity of the corrosion problem makes it impossible to think of any one inhibitor as a ‘cure‐all,’ but the results already obtained from the intensive research that is being devoted to organic inhibitors do suggest that their use will be extended to many further applications. A few of those known today are described in this article.