K. Daniel Efird

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About K. Daniel Efird

Licensed Professional Engineer - Corrosion, State of California, License No. 338 Corrosion Specialist - NACE International, License No. 1819 Internationally recognized authority on corrosion prevention and control with 49 years of research, technical and supervisory experience in corrosion, corrosion control and materials in crude oil and gas, chemical, petrochemical, and marine industries. Included is experience in corrosion control, materials selection, metallurgy and welding, chemical inhibition, coatings, cathodic protection, elastomers, nonmetallics, and composites. • Extensive experience as an expert witness. • Broad experience in corrosion testing and research for oil and gas onshore/offshore production and marine operations. Research areas include flow effects and crude oil effects on corrosion, packer fluid corrosion, drilling fluid corrosion, stress corrosion and sulfide corrosion cracking, HPHT corrosion, corrosion inhibitors, corrosion test technique development, high temperature pipeline coatings, heat transfer effects on corrosion and coatings, Cu-Ni alloy marine corrosion, high temperature seawater corrosion and alloy effects on marine fouling. • Extensive, direct involvement with overseas oil and gas construction and production operations in the North Sea, Middle East, Africa and South America, and with US domestic oil and gas construction and production operations. • Experienced in the design and implementation of preventive corrosion engineering, life extension, corrosion management systems, risk based inspection, and materials QA/QC. • Expert in the design and implementation of corrosion experiments to efficiently achieve appropriate, valid results. • Expert in planning, organization and implementation of customized corrosion courses, courses on specific corrosion topics and corrosion engineering in general. • 40 peer reviewed technical publications on corrosion in marine and oil and gas environments