The issue of the appearance and development of cracks, as well as an increase the cracking moment is of particular importance for bending elements operating under aggressive environmental conditions. In structures without cracks, steel reinforcement operates in fairly favorable conditions. However, when cracks appear in the sections of the structur...

By Artem Levchenko, Aleksei Polikutin, Dmitry Barabash

World production of pipes is mainly based on the standards of API. However, this does not obligate you to use exclusively for casing manufactured by API standards. The wells that will exploit the hydrocarbons and aggressive media, install the protective casing made of alloy steel not yet covered by API standards. Running casing operation holds a sp...

By Zvonimir Bošković, Vladimir Čebašek, Sanel Nuhanović