ICE Services
Metallurgical Expertise for Severe Operational Environments
Material failure and degradation represent one of the single greatest costs and safety hazards to industrial infrastructure. Our team combines deep metallurgical expertise with practical field experience to deliver tailored material selection and degradation management programs for upstream, midstream, and downstream assets.
We analyze complex environmental variables to match your process conditions with the most resilient, cost-effective alloys and non-metallic materials available.
Material Selection & Compatibility Studies
- Evaluating operating envelopes (temperatures, partial pressures of $H_2S$ and $CO_2$, chloride levels) to select optimal carbon steels, CRAs (Corrosion Resistant Alloys), or polymers.
Sour Service Characterization (NACE MR0175 / ISO 15156)
- Evaluating compliance and designing mitigating strategies for materials exposed to cracking mechanisms like HIC, SSC, and SCC in sour oilfield environments.
Metallurgical & Failure Analysis
- Conducting root-cause failure analyses (RCFA) on fractured or degraded components using advanced microscopy, mechanical testing, and chemical analysis to prevent recurrence.
Damage Mechanism Mapping
- Building detailed registers of active degradation mechanisms based on API RP 571 to inform structural inspections and plant reliability.