MATCOR Safety Week—Planning for Success

MATCOR conducted a one-week safety training program in Guthrie, Oklahoma for 58 field personnel, covering excavation competency, equipment operation, operator qualification, H2S awareness, CPR, and BrandSafway internal safety programs while maintaining COVID-19 social distancing protocols.

Welcome New MATCOR Team Members!

MATCOR welcomes three experienced corrosion industry professionals to its team: a Gulf Coast account manager with 30 years of CP sales experience, a certified PMP project manager for the Permian Basin, and a former operator corrosion program manager based in Casper, Wyoming.

Solar Powered Cathodic Protection Systems—Design Considerations

Solar powered cathodic protection systems require careful design to minimize current and resistance requirements, since power supply costs increase exponentially with wattage. Key strategies include conservative current sizing, low-resistance anode bed configurations, and deploying multiple smaller systems to reduce…