sweet corrosion

sweet corrosion

[′swēt kə′rō·zhən]
(petroleum engineering)
Corrosion occurring in oil or gas wells where there is no iron-sulfide corrosion product, and there is no odor of hydrogen sulfide in the produced reservoir fluid.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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