Effect of Production Factors on Main Oil Pipeline Pipe Metal Property Formation

Abstract

The contemporary state of oil and gas complex development gives rise high consumer specifications for the quality and reliability of pipe products. Continuous growth of recovery volumes, including the development of new fields and new industrial production regions, severe climatic conditions when the air temperature reaches minus 40–60 °С, the demand for cost efficiency of new pipeline construction, an increase in operating pressure up to 8.4–15 MPa, as well as ensuring corrosion resistance and reliability of main pipelines, all constantly raise the level of specifications requirements for pipe quality. Connected with this are new trends in the requests and needs of companies for extraction and transportation of hydrocarbon energy sources. Today these companies wish to obtain not only pipes that meet world quality standards, but also products suitable for the temperature conditions of oil production and transportation and the characteristics of extracted raw material chemical composition, and with a reduction in pipe product customer expenditure.