Laboratory Testing

Corrosion Control & Materials in Oil & Gas Production

• Problems encountered in wet H₂S
• Hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC)
• Sulfide stress cracking (SSC)
• Stress-Oriented HIC (SOHIC)
• Hydrogen damage assessments
• Hydrogen-permeation – Field & Laboratory.
• Full-scale Tests
• Double cantilever beam (DCB);
• Wedge open load (WOL);
• Compact tension (CT);
• Three and four-point bending (4-pt.b.); C-ring, etc.

Environmental testing

• Atmospheric
• Salt spray exposure
• Temperature/Humidity exposure
• Environment chamber (cyclic heating and cooling) – Soil box exposure
• Cyclic loading – Customized environments (Pressure, temperature, stress, gas)

Corrosion Evaluations/Studies:

• Standardized testing (ASTM, NACE, API)
• Electrochemical testing and evaluation
• Potentiodynamic polarization
• Polarization resistance
• Potentiostatic/galvanostatic polarization
• Electrochemical noise
• HPHT Autoclave Testing up to 20 ksi
• Flowloops
• Innovative Corrosion & Materials Problem Solutions and Failure Analysis
• Development of Corrosion, Stress Corrosion Cracking and Materials Qualification Testing
• Computer Modeling of Corrosive Environments to replicate field conditions in the laboratory
• Standarized and modified testing per ISO, ASTM, NACE, Norsok and EFC methodologies.
• HPHT H2S/CO2 and multiplace exposures for environmental cracking evaluation.
• State of the art SSR Test Frames for Standard NACE TM 0198 testing and Cyclic SSR testing
• HPHT flow loop
• Acidizing testing
• Electrochemical Testing Capabilities
• Corrosion Inhibitor Testing & Qualifications
• Customized SSC and SCC testing to meet customer critical requirements
• High Capacity SSC Proof Ring NACE Method A Testing & Method D DCB Testing

Gas Analyses

Liquid Analyses