Nickel-containing stainless steels and nickel alloys play an important role in providing corrosion resistant, and hence leak resistant, materials of construction for projects internationally. Use of nickel-containing stainless steels and nickel alloys in the oil and gas industry does contribute to making some projects more sustainable. Their contribution to making the production of stranded gas an economic and technical reality is one key example. The paper on environmental benefits of using nickel alloys (below) illustrates how the oil and gas industry is genuinly responding to the challenge of sustainable energy and shows how nickel containing materials do contribute to making hydrocarbon extraction more sustainable.
The selection of Corrosion Resistant Alloys, CRAs, for producing and transporting corrosive oil & gas can be a complex procedure. The selection guideline below offers diagrams to help you select the material of choice. The diagrams are based on corrosion rates for a wide range of alloys. Moreover these diagrams are based almost entirely on laboratory data since they are often more conservative then field conditions and because laboratory data are more quantitative and frequently more accurate.