Nippon Steel Corporation

Seiya Okada

Hiroki Kamitani

Yuji Arai

Shinji Yoshida

Atsushi Soma

Nobuaki Komatsubara

Takuya Matsumoto

Takanori Tanaka

Keiichi Kondo

Yusaku Tomio

Shohei Ikeda

Naoya Shirasawa

Hideki Mitsunari

Toshinobu Nishibata

The seamless steel pipe according to the present disclosure includes a base material and a decarburized layer formed on the surface of the base material. The chemical composition of the base material consists of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.0300% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.30 to 1.20%, Mo: 0.30 to 1.50%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, V: 0.01 to 0.30%, Nb: 0.002 to 0.100%, B: 0.0001 to 0.0050%, N: 0.0100% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and with the balance being Fe and impurities. The base material has a yield strength of 655 MPa or more, and a yield ratio of 85.0% or more. The decarburized layer has a depth of 150 μm or less.

Seamless steel pipe suitable for use in sour environment

The seamless steel pipe according to the present disclosure has a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.15 to 0.45%, Si: 0.05 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.01 to 1.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0050% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.070%, Cr: 0.30 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 2.00%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.020%, Nb: 0.002 to 0.100%, B: 0.0005 to 0.0040%, rare earth metal: 0.0001 to 0.0015%, Ca: 0.0001 to 0.0100%, N: 0.0100% or less and O: 0.0020% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfying Formula (1) described in the description. A predicted maximum major axis of inclusions is 150 μm or less, the predicted maximum major axis being predicted by means of extreme value statistical processing. The yield strength is within a range of 758 to 862 MPa.

A seamless steel pipe heat-treatment-finishing-treatment continuous facility includes: a heat treatment apparatus; a steel pipe inspection apparatus which performs a test for a surface defect and/or an inner defect of the seamless steel pipe, the steel pipe inspection apparatus being disposed downstream of the heat treatment apparatus; a main transfer mechanism which forms a main transfer path MT for transferring the seamless steel pipe, discharged from the heat treatment apparatus, to the steel pipe inspection apparatus disposed downstream of the heat treatment apparatus; and a first forced steel pipe-temperature reduction apparatus which forcibly reduces a temperature of the seamless steel pipe on the main transfer path MT, the first forced steel pipe-temperature reduction apparatus being disposed on the main transfer path MT at a position downstream of the heat treatment apparatus and upstream of the steel pipe inspection apparatus.

Seamless steel pipe heat-treatment-finishing-treatment continuous facility

The steel material according to the present disclosure contains a chemical composition consisting of, in mass %, C: 0.20 to 0.50%, Si: 0.05 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.05 to 1.00%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.005 to 0.100%, Cr: 0.10 to 1.50%, Mo: 0.25 to 1.50%, Ti: 0.002 to 0.050%, N: 0.0100% or less and O: 0.0100% or less, with the balance being Fe and impurities. The steel material contains an amount of dissolved C within a range of 0.010 to 0.050 mass %. The steel material also has a yield strength within a range of 655 to less than 862 MPa, and a yield ratio of the steel material is 85% or more.

Steel material suitable for use in sour environment

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Seiya Okada