Abstract

This document gives requirements and recommendations for the selection and qualification of carbon and low-alloy steels for service in equipment used in oil and natural gas production and natural gas treatment plants in H₂S-containing environments, whose failure can pose a risk to the health and safety of the public and personnel or to the environment. It can be applied to help to avoid costly corrosion damage to the equipment itself. It supplements, but does not replace, the materials requirements of the appropriate design codes, standards or regulations. This document addresses the resistance of these steels to damage that can be caused by sulfide stress-cracking (SSC) and the related phenomena of stress-oriented hydrogen-induced cracking (SOHIC) and soft-zone cracking (SZC). This document also addresses the resistance of these steels to hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) and its possible development into stepwise cracking (SWC). This document is concerned only with cracking. Loss of material by general (mass loss) or localized corrosion is not addressed. Table 1 provides a non-exhaustive list of equipment to which this document is applicable, including permitted exclusions. This document applies to the qualification and selection of materials for equipment designed and constructed using load controlled design methods. For design utilizing strain-based design methods, see ISO 15156-1:2020, Clause 5. Annex A lists SSC-resistant carbon and low alloy steels, and A.2.4 includes requirements for the use of cast irons. This document is not necessarily suitable for application to equipment used in refining or downstream processes and equipment.

Begin

2019-10-14

WI

00012397

Planned document number

DIN EN ISO 15156-2

Project number

10900438

Responsible national committee

NA 109-00-01-67 AK - Materials, coatings and corrosion testing – Mirror committee of ISO/TC 67/WG 7, ISO/TC 67/WG 8 and ISO/TC 67/WG 11  

Responsible european committee

CEN/TC 12 - Oil and gas industries including lower carbon energy.  

Responsible international committee

ISO/TC 67/WG 7 - Corrosion resistant materials  

draft standard

Petroleum and natural gas industries - Materials for use in H₂S-containing environments in oil and gas production - Part 2: Cracking-resistant carbon and low-alloy steels, and the use of cast irons (ISO/FDIS 15156-2:2020); German and English version prEN ISO 15156-2:2020
2020-09
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previous edition(s)

Petroleum and natural gas industries - Materials for use in H₂S-containing environments in oil and gas production - Part 2: Cracking-resistant carbon and low-alloy steels, and the use of cast irons (ISO 15156-2:2015); German version EN ISO 15156-2:2015
2015-12

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