Vitality know-how main Baker Hughes Co. has launched a joint know-how program with Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. (Petrobras) to unravel stress corrosion cracking resulting from carbon dioxide (SCC-CO2) in versatile pipe methods.
The pre-commercial settlement contains improvement and testing, together with an choice to buy the next-generation versatile pipes that can provide a chronic service lifetime of 30 years in high-CO2 situations, Baker Hughes mentioned in a media launch. The partnership will primarily be executed at Baker Hughes’ Vitality Know-how Innovation Middle in Rio de Janeiro and the adjoining manufacturing facility for versatile pipe methods.
“Baker Hughes has led the best way in addressing SCC-CO2, and we are going to carry that experience and expertise to bear in creating the definitive resolution to this important business problem”, Amerino Gatti, govt vp for Oilfield Companies and Gear at Baker Hughes, mentioned. “By deploying versatile pipe methods that final for many years, Petrobras can extra effectively unlock the important pure sources that energy the area, whereas additionally safely returning CO2 deep underground”.
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SCC-CO2 was found in 2016 and might impression versatile pipes in pre-salt fields, which comprise excessive ranges of naturally occurring CO2. When water enters a pipe’s annulus space, it may possibly result in corrosion of the metal reinforcement layers, compromising structural integrity and shortening the system’s lifespan, Baker Hughes mentioned. This problem is very pronounced in Brazil’s pre-salt fields, the place Petrobras is reinjecting CO2 from its manufacturing processes into wells to lower flaring and enhance oil restoration, it mentioned.
Till now, operators in high-CO2 environments have relied on options that mitigate the impression of SCC-CO2 whereas limiting the service lifetime of risers and flowlines, Baker Hughes mentioned. Its versatile pipe methods and superior monitoring applied sciences have confirmed efficient at minimizing this impression, and the corporate is a significant provider of versatile pipe methods to Petrobras, it mentioned.
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