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.
