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• About Us
• Energy Transition Consulting
• Carbon Management Consulting
• CCS / CCUS Consulting
• CO2 EOR Consulting
• Waterflooding IOR Consulting
• Field Development Consulting
• Reservoir Management Consulting
• Geological & Geomodeling Consulting
• Unconventional Resources Consulting
• Management Consulting
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• Oil & Gas Field Development Planning (FDP) Consulting
• Production
• Well Integrity
• CO2 Injection Wells: Class II vs. Class VI Wells
• Integrated Asset Modeling (IAM)
• NODAL Analysis and PROSPER Modeling
• Drilling
• Completion
• Facilities
• Materials
• Corrosion
• HXH
• Geothermal

Metallurgical / Material Selection and Corrosion Control Consulting and Training Services

Metallurgical Consulting

Our high-level and seasoned mettalurgical consultants are available to recommend more efficient materials, processes or application modifications for our clients' products with the objective of:

• Improving quality, reliability and safety of the products
• Reducing costs for materials and processes involved

OCTG and Line Pipe Manufacturing

OCTG (SM and ERW) and Line Pipe 

• Improve or develop high collapse, control yield or sour service pipes for H2S and/or CO2 environments
• Coordination of trials for new steel suppliers, new products or validation of the process parameters
• Operational Procedures and process improvements
• Setting of Welding and Heat treatment process
• Heat Treating Evaluations and Troubleshooting to improve the quality of heat treated products
• Qualification of production route for sour service material according to NACE MRO-175/ISO 15156-1
• Root cause of operational issues, flattening failures, hydro-blow-outs, etc.

Improvement of Metallurgical Laboratory

• Procedures for lab test (Charpy/ Tensile/ Hardness/ Micro-hardness/ Spectrometer/ Collapse/ Roughness/ Metallography) according to ASTM, API and ISO Standards
• Equipment selection and data handling (Level 2, and statistics trends)

Material Selection for H2S and/or CO2 Environments

• Corrosive environments with H2S and/or CO2 for oil and gas wells
• CO2 injection with alternate water/WAG injection
• Very high-salinity water/WAG (CO2) injection
• Processes and application modifications to prevent product failure
• Witness of lab validation for sour service material
• Qualification of manufactured products for sour service according to NACE MRO-175/ISO 15156-1
• Witness of routine metallurgical testing & analysis of results
• Coordination of corrosion testing & analysis of results
• Technical support for interpretation of optical and SEM microscope results
• Coordination of field evaluation of casing/tubing/down-hole components, and christmas trees

Welding Assessment of Carbon and Low Alloy Steel

• Welding Assessments of SMAW, SAW, MIG and TIG for carbon and low alloy steel
• Welding Procedures
• Welding Qualification
• Welding Inspection
• Welding Classes
• Witness for Fracture Mechanics and CTOD tests for welding line pipe

Failure Analysis of Casing, Tubing, Drill pipe and Couplings

• Failure analysis investigations to determine the cause and prevention of equipment and component, line pipe, casing, tubing, drill pipes, and couplings
• Determination of failure mode of materials (Ductile, brittle, SSC, fatigue, quench crack) and manufacturing process (welding and heat treatment) to identify the root cause of the problem
• Conduct on-site investigation and laboratory test, including SEM

Technical Support for Procurement

Technical support for material Procurement of OCTG/Line Pipe and Christmas Trees

• Evaluation of product or raw material suppliers
• Development of product specifications
• Manufacturing surveillance services, supervision and monitoring  of manufacturing processes, Threading, Heat Treatment, Welding, inspection and testing processes

Metallurgy Training Classes

• Fundamentals of casing and tubing string design
• Basic physical Metallurgy of API Steel for OCTG, Line pipe and Drill Pipe.
• Material selection for oil and gas wells with H2S and CO2
• Material selection for oil wells for CO2 and high-salinity water/ WAG injection EOR projects
• Metallurgy of Welding and Heat Treatment for ERW pipes
• Welding Metallurgy for Carbon and Low Alloy Steels
• Failure analysis for pipes and connections
• Lab Test Fundamentals
• Tensile Test Fundamentals
• Charpy Test Fundamentals
• Hardness and Micro-hardness test
• Metallography Test Theory
• Optical Emission Spectrometry
• Collapse test Fundamental

Our mettalurgical / material selection and corrosion control consultants work with our other EOR/IOR specialists/consultants, as part of our multi-disciplinary project teams, to provide guidance on material selection for oil wells in CO2 and high-salinity water/WAG injection EOR projects of our clients, whenever requested.

To put our high-level and seasoned mettalurgical / material selection and corrosion control consultants to work on your challenging onshore and offshore EOR/IOR projects, around the world, please Contact Us.

Bi-lingual (English-Spanish) consultants are also available.