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Welding steel in the Gulf of Mexico
Welding steel in the Gulf of Mexico Steel is still the major material used in construction of platforms and rigs on the outer continental shelf.

Much progress has been made in producing new materials for application to offshore oil and gas operations. New materials such as metal matrix composites and fiber-reinforced plastic materials have made progress in marine applications, but much further progress can be made for engineered materials offering properties allowing for new designs of offshore structures and operational components such as risers, etc. Even though these materials offer significant improvement in properties, serious barriers such as material and fabrication costs, needed design innovations, and the reliability, repair, and inspection of advanced engineered materials need to be addressed.

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Materials Projects
003 Incipient Crack Detection in Offshore Structures
004 Cavitating Water Jet Cleaning Nozzle
037 Structural Materials for Arctic Operations
055 Fracture Analysis and Corrosion Fatigue in Pipelines
063 Assessment Criteria for Environmental Cracking
070 Trace Elements for Detecting Cracking in Weldments
075 Remote Corrosion Monitoring of Offshore Pipelines
081 Fatigue of Selected High Strength Steels in Sea Water
124 Quality Control Test for Platform Weldment Fracture Toughness
131 Erosional/Corrosional Velocity Criterion for Sizing Multi-Phase Flow Lines
132 Resistance of TLP Tendon Steel to the Ripple-Load Effect on Stress-Corrosion Cracking
133 Synthetic-Fiber Mooring Lines for Deepwater Floating Production Facilities
144 Fatigue of High Strength Steels for Innovative Offshore Structures
185 International Workshop on Composite Materials for Offshore Operations
190 Fatigue Strength of Grouted Connections
208 Underwater Welding Development Program
218 International Workshop on Underwater Welding
230 Support for the Composites Engineering and Applications Center (CEAC) for Petroleum Exploration and Production
245 Homopolar Welding of Offshore Pipelines
251 International Workshop on Advanced Material for Marine Structures
263 Underwater Welding Development Program, Phase II
268 Second International Conference on Composite Materials for Offshore Operations
277 Structural Integrity Assessment and Repair of Corrosion-Damaged Offshore Platform Tubulars
308 International Workshop on Advanced Methods of Corrosion Mitigating for Marine Structures
322 Workshop on "State-of-the-Art Development of Composite Structures for Offshore Production Platforms"
326 Underwater Welding Workshop
343 Fiber Reinforced Plastics Design Guideline
346 Tailor-Designed Underwater Wet Welding Process for Offshore Structures and Pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico
509 Interstitially Insulated Pipe
583 Characterizing Material Performance for Design of Sour Service HPHT Equipment in Accordance with API RP 6HP Practices
584 Arctic Offshore Technology Assessment of Exploration and Production Options for Cold Regions of the US Outer Continental Shelf
591 Evaluate Accuracy of Polyester Subrope Damage Detection Performed by ROVs Following Hurricanes and Other Events
602 Cement Fatigue and HPHT Well Integrity with Application to Life of Well Prediction
611 JIP for the Development of Standardized Testing Requirements for HPHT Equipment
621 High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) Elastomer Evaluation

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