High Strength Steel in Oil and Gas Applications: A review of corrosion and hydrogen embrittlement on the pipelines

The increasing world population has led to a subsequent increase in the world energy demand. Thus, oil and gas industries are faced with challenges increasing challenges on the pipelines especially where hydrogen production is taking another shape of its incorporation into the natural gas pipelines. Hence, this study provides an overview of high strength steel applications in the oil gas industries and its prominent challenges were discussed. From the study, it was established that corrosion damage is a major issue facing the oil and gas industries and this has transformed into hydrogen induced corrosion for situation of blending hydrogen into the natural gas in the existing pipeline. Existing gap in literature have been captured and the need for the development of high strength steel that could withstand hydrogen embrittlement in the pipeline have equally been discussed. The study provides a potential information not only to researchers but for the oil and gas industries, on the need to reduce cost by optimizing materials for effective operation in oil and gas.