Components we investigate and interpret
MTIS designs the investigation, coordinates specialist testing through partner laboratories, and applies senior engineering judgement to the evidence — for component classes including:
- Pipelines and pipework — corrosion, cracking, weld and coating-related failures.
- Pressure vessels — damage-mechanism identification and integrity interpretation.
- Valves and pumps — wear, erosion-corrosion, fatigue and material-quality failures.
- Welds and bolting — fabrication quality, hydrogen-related cracking, fatigue initiation.
- Coatings — breakdown mechanisms and the corrosion that follows.
Specific oil-and-gas examples are omitted until non-identifiable component examples are approved. No named operators, fields, assets or clients are included.
Decision contexts
- Restart — can this system safely return to service, and under what conditions?
- Replace or repair — what does the damage mechanism say about the options?
- Recurrence — why does this component keep failing, and what breaks the cycle?
- Technical disputes — independent verification of the technical facts in supplier and fabrication quality questions.
Mechanisms with particular O&G relevance
Corrosion families including corrosion under insulation, erosion-corrosion at flow disturbances, stress-corrosion cracking, hydrogen damage at high-strength bolting and welds, fatigue at welded details, and high-temperature degradation. See Failure Investigation for how each is investigated, or read the explainers: SCC · hydrogen embrittlement · bolting failures · weld failures.