This standard presents metallic material
requirements for resistance to sulfide stress cracking
(SSC) for petroleum production, drilling, gathering and
flowline equipment, and field processing facilities to be
used in hydrogen sulfide (H2S)-bearing hydrocarbon
service. This standard is applicable to the materials
and/or equipment specified by the materials standards
institutions listed in Table 7 (or by equivalent standards
or specifications of other agencies). This standard does
not include and is not intended to include design
specifications. Other forms of corrosion and other
modes of failure, although outside the scope of this
standard, should also be considered in design and
operation of equipment. Severely corrosive conditions
may lead to failures by mechanisms other than SSC and
should be mitigated by corrosion inhibition or materials
selection, which are outside the scope of this standard.
For example, some lower-strength steels used for
pipelines and vessels may be subjected to failure by
blister cracking or hydrogen-induced (stepwise) cracking
as a result of hydrogen damage associated with general
corrosion in the presence of H2S.
| ANSI : | ANSI Approved |
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| Number of Pages : | 40 |
| Published : | 03/09/2001 |
