Materials

The North Sea is one of the most challenging and hostile working environments for oil and gas extraction in the world. Offshore installations are subject to severe environmental and operational conditions which pose stringent performance requirements on engineering materials.

Offshore Division seeks a lifecycle management approach, which starts with the initial selection of appropriate materials and follows through the lifecycle with effective inspection, maintenance, repair and replacement.

• Stress corrosion cracking of duplex stainless steel piping systems in hot chloride service [PDF 88KB] (Offshore Information Sheet 7/2007) Highlights recent experience of stress corrosion cracking that has occurred to duplex stainless steel alloys in topsides process plant. These alloys are finding increasing application where high resistance to hot liquids containing chloride is required. This notice relates to topsides process plant only.