ISO 15156-1:2020
Petroleum and natural gas industries — Materials for use in H2S-containing environments in oil and gas production — Part 1: General principles for selection of cracking-resistant materials

Standard No.

ISO 15156-1:2020

Release Date

2020

Published By

International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

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ISO 15156-1:2020

Scope

This document describes general principles and gives requirements and recommendations for the selection and qualification of metallic materials for service in equipment used in oil and gas production and in natural-gas sweetening plants in H2S-containing environments, where the failure of such equipment can pose a risk to the health and safety of the public and personnel or to the environment. It can be applied to help to avoid costly corrosion damage to the equipment itself. It supplements, but does not replace, the materials requirements given in the appropriate design codes, standards, or regulations. This document addresses all mechanisms of cracking that can be caused by H2S, including sulfide stress cracking, stress corrosion cracking, hydrogen-induced cracking and stepwise cracking, stress-oriented hydrogen-induced cracking, soft zone cracking, and galvanically induced hydrogen stress cracking. Table 1 provides a non-exhaustive list of equipment to which this document is applicable, including exclusions. This document applies to the qualification and selection of materials for equipment designed and constructed using load controlled design methods. For design utilizing strain-based design methods, see Clause 5. This document is not necessarily applicable to equipment used in refining or downstream processes and equipment.  Table 1 — List of equipment This document is applicable to materials used for the following equipment Exclusions Drilling, well construction, and well-servicing equipment Equipment exposed only to drilling fluids of controlled compositiona Drill bits Blowout preventer (BOP) shear bladesb Drilling riser systems Work strings Wireline and wireline equipmentc Surface and intermediate casing Wells, including subsurface equipment, gas-lift equipment, wellheads, and christmas trees Sucker rod pumps and sucker rodsd Electric submersible pumps Other artificial lift equipment Slips Flowlines, gathering lines, field facilities, and field processing plants Crude-oil storage and handling facilities operating at a total absolute pressure below 0,45 MPa (65 psi) Water-handling equipment Water-handling facilities operating at a total absolute pressure below 0,45 MPa (65 psi) Water injection and water disposal equipment Natural-gas treatment plants — Transportation pipelines for liquids, gases, and multiphase fluids Lines handling gas prepared for general commercial and domestic use For all equipment above Components loaded only in compression a See ISO 15156-2:2020, A.2.3.2.3 for more information. b See ISO 15156-2:2020, A.2.3.2.1 for more information. c Wireline lubricators and lubricator connecting devices are not excluded. d For sucker rod pumps and sucker rods, reference can be made to NACE MR0176.

ISO 15156-1:2020 Referenced Document

• ISO 15156-2 Petroleum and natural gas industries — Materials for use in H2S-containing environments in oil and gas production — Part 2: Cracking-resistant carbon and low-alloy steels, and the use of cast irons
• ISO 15156-3 Petroleum and natural gas industries — Materials for use in H2S-containing environments in oil and gas production — Part 2: Cracking-resistant carbon and low-alloy steels, and the use of cast irons

ISO 15156-1:2020 history

• 2020 ISO 15156-1:2020 Petroleum and natural gas industries — Materials for use in H2S-containing environments in oil and gas production — Part 1: General principles for selection of cracking-resistant materials
• 2015 ISO 15156-1:2015 Petroleum and natural gas industries - Materials for use in H2S-containing environments in oil and gas production - Part 1: General principles for selection of cracking-resistant materials
• 2009 ISO 15156-1:2009 Petroleum and natural gas industries - Materials for use in H<(Index)2>S-containing environments in oil and gas production - Part 1: General principles for selection of cracking-resistant materials
• 2005 ISO 15156-1:2001/Cor 1:2005 Petroleum and natural gas industries - Materials for use in H<(Index)2>S-containing environments in oil and gas production - Part 1: General principles for selection of cracking-resistant materials; Technical Corrigendum 1
• 2001 ISO 15156-1:2001 Petroleum and natural gas industries - Materials for use in H<(Index)2>S-containing environments in oil and gas production - Part 1: General principles for selection of cracking-resistant materials