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Welding solutions for refineries, rigs and process plant

Oil and petrochemical work runs hot, wet and abrasive at the same time: reformer tubes creep at temperature, process streams eat valve seats and apparatus, and drilling tooling meets rock from the first metre. Pick an area of the refinery to see which components wear, how they fail, and the SUPERON range that puts them back in service.

Isometric view of a refinery complex — a fired heater with glowing radiant tubes and its stacks, cooling towers, a storage tank and a gas sphere at the back; a drilling derrick with mud pumps, a pipe rack and boring bits on display at the front; a block of distillation columns with heat exchangers, air coolers and a lit flare stack to the right; and a tanker and rail wagon loading gantry below it.
Refinery complex and rig 6 components mapped Click a numbered pin on the site
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Components mapped
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Refinery areas
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Refinery map

Click any area — the photo above and the table below both update

6 components mapped  ·  3 refinery areas Click an area to narrow
Component Base metal Wear factor Refinery area Recommended solution
Reformer Tubes HK 30/HK 40 Corrosion Furnace & Reformer Nickel & Inconel grades
Furnace Components Nickel Alloys Heat/Corrosion Furnace & Reformer Nickel & Inconel grades
Boring Bits Steel Abrasion Drilling Hard surface electrodes
Valve Seat Stainless Steel Heat/Impact Process & Piping Nickel & Inconel grades
Conveyor Screws Alloy Steel Heat/Abrasion/Corrosion Process & Piping Cladding & die build-up
Chemical Apparatus Nickel Corrosion/Heat Process & Piping Nickel & Inconel grades

Furnace Components

Furnace & Reformer
Base metal Nickel Alloys
Wear factor Heat/Corrosion
Nickel & Inconel grades

Conveyor Screws

Process & Piping
Base metal Alloy Steel
Wear factor Heat/Abrasion/Corrosion
Cladding & die build-up
Showing 6 of 6 components Grade-level recommendation issued after component inspection
How oil and petrochemical components fail

Heat & creep

Reformer tubes and furnace internals held at temperature until the wall sags and thins.

Carburisation

Hydrocarbon streams carrying carbon into hot tube and furnace metal until it turns brittle.

Corrosion

Sour, salt and chemical streams attacking valve seats, screws and process apparatus.

Abrasion

Rock cutting boring bits and drilling tooling away from size on every metre drilled.

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Base metal, service temperature and the stream it runs in — an application engineer comes back with the consumable, the parameters and the expected life gain.