Technical

Working together with global Stainless Steel Materials’ experts, engineers and companies involved in the manufacture or use of stainless steels/CRAs, we provide here a selection of original, non-commercial articles. These in-depth technical papers are written or co-written by operating companies, describing commercially viable new technologies and case histories of successful applications, backed by data. Topics include tubes & pipes, cladding, offshore, chemical process industry, welding & fabrication, 13Cr stainless steels, titanium, nickel alloys, pulp & paper and duplex stainless steels.

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Working together to find the best solution

To improve performance of heat exchanger tubing in challenging urea production environments, Sandvik worked with Stamicarbon BV to develop Safurex Star, an advanced alloy for use with high pressure (HP) strippers. Oscar Johansson, Global Product Manager, Heat Exchanger & Fertilizer Tubing for Sandvik discusses.

Unique Group enters agreement with CSS

Unique Group, an integrated offshore solutions provider, has recently entered into a formal collaboration agreement with Norway headquartered Connector Subsea Solutions (CSS).

i3 Energy appoints new CEO

The Board of Directors of i3 Energy plc are pleased to announce the appointment of Majid Shafiq as Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Petrobras & Murphy form JV with Gulf of Mexico assets

Petrobras subsidiary, Petrobras America Inc. (PAI), has entered into a definitive agreement with Murphy Exploration & Production Company, USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Murphy Oil Corporation, to form a joint venture company (JV) comprised of producing oil and gas assets in the Gulf of Mexico.

In a world of rising commodity prices, duplex takes the strain

After a prolonged slump, raw material prices are on the rise again. End users will therefore be looking to save costs by specifying lower-alloy grades, including duplex. Thanks partly to advances in fabrication, duplex is being used in more and more products and applications, over a wide range of industries.

Energean appoints Chief Operating Officer

Energean Oil & Gas PLC (Energean) recently announced the appointment of Iman Hill as Chief Operating Officer. Iman is a Petroleum Engineer with over 30 years’ global experience in the oil and gas industry with extensive expertise in the technical and commercial aspects of the petroleum business, in particular development and production projects.

Parsley Energy appoints Chief Operating Officer

Parsley Energy, Inc. recently announced the appointment of David Dell'Osso as Executive Vice President-Chief Operating Officer.

SNC-Lavalin signed contract in Vietnam

SNC-Lavalin announces that it has signed a project management contract (PMC) with Long Son Petrochemicals Company Limited (LSP), a subsidiary of the Siam Cement Public Company Limited (SCG) of Thailand.

Pemex & Block 7 consortium sign agreement

Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and Talos Energy, as operator of the Block 7 Consortium, announced that Pemex and the international Block 7 Consortium (Talos Energy, Sierra Oil and Gas, and Premier Oil) have signed a Pre-Unitization Agreement (PUA) related to certain tracts within the Amoca-Yaxche-03 allocation (assigned to Pemex as part of Round 0) and the contiguous Block 7 production sharing contract (assigned to the consortium by the National Hydrocarbons Commission as part of the first tender of Round 1).

Aim Valor appoints Operations Director

AIM Valor Ltd, a specialist Oil and Gas Asset Integrity Management company, announced the appointment of Operations Director Andy Dodds.