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New Steel Plates for the Oil and Gas Industry
Author(s) -
Bannenberg Norbert,
Streißelberger Alois,
Schwinn Volker
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
steel research international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.603
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1869-344X
pISSN - 1611-3683
DOI - 10.1002/srin.200705878
Subject(s) - weldability , natural gas , submarine pipeline , work (physics) , pipeline transport , fossil fuel , engineering , petroleum industry , pipeline (software) , energy consumption , welding , mechanical engineering , waste management , geotechnical engineering , electrical engineering , environmental engineering
The safe supply of energy has become a major concern for the coming decades. An essential contribution is the use of reliable material for pipeline and offshore constructions. The oil and gas industry has been looking for steel materials with superior properties. The paper presents the approach for designing and producing modern types of heavy plate suitable for such challenging purpose. To produce steels with superior and balanced profile of mechanical properties and weldability, the potential of modern equipment in steel shops and plate mills is exploited based on systematic research and design work. Especially the progress in secondary metallurgy and in thermomechanical rolling technology allows offering of new steel types to challenging projects in the oil and gas industry worldwide. The world energy consumption is steadily increasing. A forecast says that it will double from the year 2000 to 2050. Mainly the consumption of natural gas will increase in the future. The exploitation and transportation of natural gas in the future will be under more severe conditions for example in arctic regions or in very deep water. This is also a challenge for material design for linepipe steels, offshore structures, vessels, etc. The plate production has to fulfil the new requirements.