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AbstractIn large projects, it is important that all engineering decisions, especially those that will affect the future performance and integrity of a process facility, be well documented. Corrosion Management provides a framework to document, review and manage all aspects of corrosion engineering in projects, and lay the foundation for future integrity management of a process facility. This paper details Saudi Aramco’s experiences with the implementation and application of corrosion management in large projects. The corrosion management (CM) process, if embedded from the early design stage, could make a significant improvement in the mitigation of the asset corrosion issues post-commissioning. However, to properly implement the corrosion management process across a project several prerequisites are necessary. These include human resources, competency, teamwork and managerial support. This paper looks into how the aforementioned parameters could influence CM implementation and how the whole process could be further improved. IntroductionIn any project, it is important that all engineering decisions, especially those that will affect the future performance and integrity of a process facility, be well documented. Saudi Aramco uses Corrosion Management as a tool to provide a framework to document, review and manage all aspects of corrosion engineering in projects, and lay the foundation for future integrity management of a process facility.The following sections of this paper will provide an overview of the corrosion management concept and process, followed by an overview of difficulties encountered with project corrosion engineering.The Corrosion Management Concept and ProcessCorrosion management for any oil and gas asset (or any part or system thereof) could be defined as: the process of reviewing the required integrity management measures, regular monitoring of their performance and the assessment of their effectiveness post-commissioning.In this definition, the term ‘the required integrity management measures’ covers design, materials selection, corrosion mitigation, inspection, corrosion monitoring, management and failure risk assessment (FRA).1 Figure 1 shows all the elements of the Corrosion Management process and their relationship to the life-cycle of a facility.