An introduction to materials technology applied in the oil and gas offshore industry will be given in this course.

Course description
This introductory course discusses most common metallic materials for offshore structures, components and pipelines, including manufacturing methods and fabrication activities used. The course also endeavours to give a more in depth understanding of selected topics like basic metallurgy, welding, hydrogen induced stress-cracking (HISC), pipeline materials and failure investigation.

Learning objective

• Obtain basic competence on the most common offshore metallic materials and their respective fabrication methods
• Improve understanding of the different material issues typically encountered in an offshore development project.

Target group

• Materials engineers with little or no experience
• Engineers working with manufacturing and fabrication follow-up
• Design engineers with special interest in materials.