ENGIE Fabricom awards contract to Element for pipe testing services

Construction and engineering firm ENGIE Fabricom has awarded a contract to Element Materials Technology for pipe induction bend testing for a heavy oil development programme in Kuwait.

Under the deal, Element’s Belgium-based metallics laboratory Element Antwerp will carry out tensile, impact and hardness tests together with metallurgical testing on all sections of the ENGIE Fabricom pipe induction bends.

Element Materials Technology oil and gas executive vice-president Rod Martin said: “Our state-of-the-art technology and expertise ensures that customer infrastructure assets are safe and will deploy as expected in the field.

“The materials science capability at our Antwerp laboratory and sour service corrosion testing in Amsterdam helps our customers to reduce future risk of damage to pipelines and provide assurance on performance and safety.”

Another Element Materials Technology testing laboratory Element Amsterdam will offer oil and gas corrosion testing services such as hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC) and sulphite stress cracking (SCC).

As part of the testing, materials will be examined for precipitation of the material microstructure and on parameters such as tensile strength, impact toughness and hardness.

Element Antwerp offers materials testing and research services, specialising in delivering metallography, weld testing services, corrosion testing services, chemical analysis services and failure analysis services to the oil and gas sector.