Francisco Servigna

Francisco Servigna has 15 years of experience in the Venezuelan National Oil Company as a process and corrosion engineer. Francisco holds a bachelor’s science degree in Chemical Engineering, a master’s science degree in Mechanical Engineering (Computational Thermoscience) and a Master Business in Project Management.

In his experience as corrosion engineer he has provided technical expertise in the areas of:

• Chemical treatment
• Corrosion monitoring (corrosion and scale coupons, determination of sessile and planktonic bacteria)
• Material selection
• Specifications of coatings
• Linings
• Cathodic protection
• Unit preservation
• Corrosion evaluations of equipment and infrastructure offshore and onshore (compressor plants, oil flow stations, water treatment plants)
• Application of prediction methods
• Prevention and corrosion control
• Failure analysis of pipelines, equipment and petroleum facilities

In addition, Francisco has extensive experience in:

• Chemical process simulations
• Design of units (heat transfer, separator, vessel)
• Hydraulic evaluations of pipelines (single phase and multiphase)
• Process optimization
• Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics techniques for modeling at steady state using different softwares (CFX/CFD)