INTRODUCTION

Offshore Oil and Gas industries always operate in highly demanding environment. Materials Selection, Welding & Corrosion challenges are immense and require excellent knowledge and expertise.

This Materials and Welding Challenges for Offshore Oil & Gas Industries training course is an extensive, in depth 5 day course on welding, metallurgy, and corrosion aspects of various materials used in Offshore Oil and gas Industries and is targeted to develop the skills in handling these underlined issues.

Objectives

This Materials and Welding Challenges for Offshore Oil & Gas Industries training course focuses on the best and worst case scenarios with respect to Oil and Gas, metallurgy, welding and corrosion issues and improves the attributes  as listed below:

This training course is designed to increase knowledge base of the participants with respect to the above titled issues

Make them aware of various materials used in Offshore O&G environments and associated welding engineering challenges

Make them aware of corrosion issues in Offshore O&G environments and associated Life Cycle engineering challenges

Get familiarized with the world class engineering standards. e.g., NACE, EEMUA, ASME / ASTM, Norsok, Various Leading Oil and Gas Design / Materials Selection Standards

At the end, apply the right design, materials engineering to the best interest of the organization & projects related to O&G engineering.

Course Outline

DAY 1:

Introduction to Guidelines for Materials Selection for Offshore O&G Production Equipment

EEMUA Publication 194, Guidelines for materials selection and corrosion control for subsea oil and gas production equipment

ISO 21457-2010-Materials selection and Corrosion Control for Oil and Gas Production System

DAY 2:

Introduction to Guidelines for Materials Selection for Offshore O&G Production Equipment (Continuation)

Petroleum, Petrochemical, and Natural Gas Industries — Materials for use in H2S-containing environments in oil and gas production

NACE MR 0175-ISO 15156, 2015

Norsok M001

DAY 3:

Materials for Offshore O&G Environments, Metallurgy and Welding Issues

Duplex Stainless Steels

Introduction to Duplex Stainless Steel

Metallurgy

Welding Issues

Case Histories, Application Experiences

Super Austenitic Stainless Steels

Introduction

Physical Metallurgy

Welding Considerations

Super Austenitic vs. Duplex Stainless Steel

Design and Fabrication Pros and Cons

Weldable Super Martensitic Stainless Steels

Introduction

Metallurgy

Welding Issues

Case Histories, Application Experiences

DAY 4

Materials for Offshore O&G Environments, Metallurgy and Welding Issues (Continuation)

Nickel Alloys

Introduction

Metallurgy

Welding Issues

Case Histories, Application Experiences

Clad Steels

Introduction

Metallurgy

Welding Issues

Case Histories, Application Experiences

Martensitic (13Cr) Stainless Steels

Introduction

Metallurgy

Welding Issues

Case Histories, Application Experiences

Precipitation Hard-enable Stainless Steels

Introduction

Metallurgy

Welding Issues

Case Histories, Application Experiences

DAY 5:

Materials for Offshore O&G Environments, Metallurgy and Welding Issues (Continuation) & Corrosion, Service Experiences, Failure Analysis

Austenitic Stainless Steels

Introduction

Metallurgy

Welding Issues

Case Histories, Application Experiences

Titanium Alloys

Introduction

Metallurgy

Welding Issues

Case Histories, Application Experiences