Exxonmobil Upstream Research Company

Exxon Research and Engineering Company

Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Exxon Production Research Company

Glen A Vaughn

Narasimha-Rao Venkata Bangaru

Jayoung Koo

Raghavan Ayer

Douglas Paul Fairchild

Neeraj Srinivas Thirumalai

James Ronald Rigby

Steven Jeffrey Ford

Mark Biegler

Lawrence J Sykes

Reghavan Ayer

A method for welding and repairing cracks in metal parts is provided by subjecting the metal parts to be welded to friction stir welding and the cracks to be repaired to friction stir processing under conditions sufficient to provide a weld joint or crack repair having a preselected property or set of properties based upon the intended use of the weldment. The FSW and FSP methods are advantageous in joining and repairing metal structures and components in applications for natural gas transportation and storage, oil and gas well completion and production, and oil and gas refinery and chemical plants.

Application of high integrity welding and repair of metal components in oil and gas exploration, production and refining

An ultra-high strength, weldable, low alloy steel with excellent cryogenic temperature toughness in the base plate and in the heat affected zone (HAZ) when welded, having a tensile strength greater than about 830 MPa (120 ksi) and a microstructure comprising (i) predominantly fine-grained lower bainite, fine-grained lath martensite, fine granular bainite (FGB), or mixtures thereof, and (ii) up to about 10 vol % retained austenite, is prepared by heating a steel slab comprising iron and specified weight percentages of some or all of the additives carbon, manganese, nickel, nitrogen, copper, chromium, molybdenum, silicon, niobium, vanadium, titanium, aluminum, and boron; reducing the slab to form plate in one or more passes in a temperature range in which austenite recrystallizes; finish rolling the plate in one or more passes in a temperature range below the austenite recrystallization temperature and above the Ar,transformation temperature; quenching the finish rolled plate to a suitable Quench Stop Temperature (QST); stopping the quenching; and either, for a period of time, holding the plate substantially isothermally at the QST or slow-cooling the plate before air cooling, or simply air cooling the plate to ambient temperature.

Ultra-high strength ausaged steels with excellent cryogenic temperature toughness and method of making thereof

An ultra-high strength, weldable, low alloy steel with excellent cryogenic temperature toughness in the base plate and in the heat affected zone (HAZE) when welded, having a tensile strength greater than 830 MAP (120 KS) and a micro-laminate microstructure comprising austenite film layers and fine-grained marten site/lower bainite laths, is prepared by heating a steel slab comprising iron and specified weight percentages of some or all of the additives carbon, manganese, nickel, nitrogen, copper, chromium, molybdenum, silicon, niobium, vanadium, titanium, aluminum, and boron; reducing the slab to form plate in one or more passes in a temperature range in which austenite recrystallizes; finish rolling the plate in one or more passes in a temperature range below the austenite recrystallization temperature and above the Ar,transformation temperature; quenching the finish rolled plate to a suitable Quench Stop Temperature (QST); stopping the quenching; and either, for a period of time, holding the plate substantially isothermally at the QST or slow-cooling the plate before air cooling, or simply air cooling the plate to ambient temperature.

Ultra-high strength ausaged steels with excellent cryogenic temperature toughness

An ultra-high strength, weldable, low alloy, triple phase steel with excellent cryogenic temperature toughness in the base plate and in the heat affected zone (HAZ) when welded, having a tensile strength greater than about 830 MPa (120 ksi) and a microstructure comprising a ferrite phase, a second phase of predominantly lath martensite and lower bainite, and a retained austenite phase, is prepared by heating a steel slab comprising iron and specified weight percentages of some or all of the additives carbon, manganese, nickel, nitrogen, copper, chromium, molybdenum, silicon, niobium, vanadium, titanium, aluminum, and boron; reducing the slab to form plate in one or more passes in a temperature range in which austenite recrystallizes; further reducing the plate in one or more passes in a temperature range below the austenite recrystallization temperature and above the Ar.sub.3 transformation temperature; finish rolling the plate between the Ar.sub.3 transformation temperature and the Ar.sub.1 transformation temperature; quenching the finish rolled plate to a suitable Quench Stop Temperature (QST); and stopping the quenching.

Ultra-high strength triple phase steels with excellent cryogenic

The present invention provides Ni (and/or Co) base precipitation hardened alloy compositions having improved resistance to stress corrosion cracking and being comprised of:

Nickel base precipitation hardened alloys having improved resistance

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Glen A Vaughn