The services INTEC can offer regarding materials selection are as follows:

• Materials selection for flowlines, steel catenary risers (SCR's) and subsea equipment (wellheads jumpers, and manifolds) specifying material chemistry, mechanical property requirements, dimensional tolerances and inspection requirements.
• Specifying requirements for forgings (including J-lay collars and flexjoints), induction bends, anodes (tapered, use of doubler plates, PU tapers), bolts, nuts and gaskets.
• Specification preparation for all material components including line pipe and subsea equipment.
• INTEC has gained extensive metallurgical experience using carbon steel, high strength low alloy steels, austenitic, martensitic (13 Cr) and duplex stainless steels, titanium alloys, clad and lined pipe and other corrosion resistant alloys. In particular, INTEC has gained extensive experience regarding alloying elements and microstructures of these alloys.
• Good in-house knowledge of line pipe mill capabilities worldwide and the various manufacturing processes (i.e. DSAW, seamless, HFIW, Clad, and Pipe in Pipe systems).
• Failure analysis, metallography (including optical, scanning and transmission electron microscopy).
• Addressing low or high temperature material requirements and relevant testing.
• Experience with identifying and managing the following types of failure mechanisms:  fatigue, corrosion fatigue, corrosion failures, stress corrosion cracking, ductile and brittle fractures, hydrogen embrittlement, creep and stress rupture.
• Specialist materials testing and specifying acceptance criteria for strain aging, fatigue, weldability, collapse and sour service (HISC, SOHIC, HE, SSCC and the full ring test).
• Setting up and managing testing programs for fatigue, sour service, large and small scale mechanical testing in the laboratory and field.
• Procurement support services to ensure that the selected manufacturers/suppliers have adequate technical integrity, that the various procedures meet all project requirements and that all the fabrication activities are carried out in a satisfactory manner, meeting the requirements stated in the applicable project documents.
• Providing surveillance for the following activities:  Attending pre-production meetings, witnessing manufacturing procedure qualification tests (MPQTs), monitoring steel production, monitoring pipe manufacturing processes and mechanical testing, monitoring during line pipe and field joint coating and anode manufacture, etc.
• Review manufacturing procedure specifications (MPS), quality plans, inspection and test plans (ITP), welding procedures (WPS/WPQ’s), forging and heat treatment procedures, NDE procedures, coating procedures, material traceability systems, production plans and schedules, QA/QC procedures and other various documentation used as the basis for manufacturing of various components.
• Procurement and fabrication support for all subsea components, including line pipe, forgings, anodes, valves, wellheads, jumpers, manifolds etc.