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In high sour gas reservoir drilling process, it happens occasionally that high-strength drill pipe suffers brittle fracture failure due to stress corrosion cracking, and poses serious hazard to drilling safety. To solve this problem, this paper studied the stress corrosion cracking mechanism and influencing factors of highstrength drill pipe in sour environment with hydrogen permeation experiments and tensile tests. We simulated practical conditions in laboratory and evaluated the stress corrosion cracking performance of the high-strength drill pipe under conditions of high stress level. For the problems occurring in use of high-strength drill pipe on site, the paper proposed a technical measure for slower stress corrosion cracking.
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Funded by the Program for National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (No. 51125019), the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( Nos. 50904050,51244007), the Basic Projects of Sichuan Province(2011JY0106), the Department of Education Science and Technology Innovation Team Program of Sichuan Province (13TD0026) and the Sichuan Distinguished Youth Fund (2013JQ0037)
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Zhang, Z., Li, J., Zeng, D. et al. Stress corrosion cracking of high-strength drill pipe in sour gas well. J. Wuhan Univ. Technol.-Mat. Sci. Edit. 29, 813–816 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-014-1002-8
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11595-014-1002-8