TPI July 2011

Corrosion resistant tube and pipe Tubulars that have been fabricated for corrosion resistance

are readily summoned to imagination. an unpocked surface, free of rust, is the visible sign of robustness to a battery of assaults: from water, chlorides, alkaline and salt solutions, oilfield chemicals, and anything else that threatens degradation of the transfer system and contamination of the product.

a greater challenge to the imagination would be a length of tube or pipe – the output of a state-of-the-art mill – vulnerable to attacks on its integrity. In tandem with the ongoing advance of the industry, corrosion resistance, at one time a custom requisite of aerospace and oilfield applications, has increasingly become a mainstream expectation of makers and users of products such as those reviewed here.

Photo credit: H Butting GmbH & Co KG