Oil & gas | materials feature
Applications for plastics in the oil and gas sector tend to revolve around their ability to withstand extremes of temperature and corrosive atmospheres. Lou Reade reports
Offshore accounts: applications in oil and gas
Oil and gas is one of the most demanding industries, so tends to specify steel for just about everything it builds. But the great weakness of steel – corrosion – is increasingly solved by specifying plastics, whether to act as a coating or as a direct replacement. M-pipe technology from Magma Global, for instance, which claims to reduce exploration and production costs and risks in subsea oil and gas systems, is based on Victrex Peek pipe. The pipe can be deployed to depths of 10,000 ft (3,000m) and handle pressures of up to 15 ksi (103MPa). The composite pipe combines Peek, high-grade carbon fi bre and S-2 Glass fi bres that delivers low fatigue, improved buoyancy in fl uids and high resistance to corrosion compared to steel pipe. The pipe meets the demand for a hydraulic pumping
system that can handle high pressures and high fl ow rates, said the companies.
www.pipeandprofile.com “Peek’s high performance, and Victrex’s material
and processing expertise, have supported the new fl exible, spoolable M-pipe for the oil and gas industry,” said Charles Tavner, commercial director at Magma. Magma is offering its M-pipe and integrated
deployment package as a vessel back-deck system for rapid hydraulic light well intervention. “The Magma system is designed to minimise mobilisation time and maximise vessel utilisation by reducing hydraulic pumping time, reducing intervention costs by up to 30%,” he added. Magma says that Peek gives the M-pipe a number of
benefi ts, including: the ability to handle high tempera- tures – and pressures up to 103MPa; deep water capability, down to 3,000m; light weight, for ease of installation and reduced pipe stress; and, resistance to a number of aggressive fl uids. “In oil and gas exploration the need to extend scope
July/August 2016 | PIPE & PROFILE EXTRUSION 35
Magma Global’s M-pipe is based on Victrex Peek
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