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Here's How It Works
Our goal is to help save time, maximize efficiency, and drive success in your project. Our mission is to make it as easy as ordering pizza (almost).
Submit Items, Project Requirements, and Application Specs.
STEP 1
Receive Supply Options, Alternatives, Timing and Pricing.
STEP 2
Select material. Review quality certifications and T&Cs.
STEP 3
Order Management creates and executes your plan. Status updates at every step.
STEP 4
What Is PipeFacts™?
PipeFacts™ is a proprietary for-hire service that provides ultimate clarity to tubular product quality. PipeFacts™ helps sellers increase their asset value, and it gives buyers confidence in the material's quality.
Field inspections, technical analysis, and operational analysis power PipeFacts™ and are inclusive of the service.
Inspection Criteria & Scope
Tally
Pipe Body
Stencil
Coupling Stencil
Pipe Surface Condition
Coupling Surface Condition
Visual Thread Inspection
Dimensional Verification
Review Mill Test Reports”
*Sample information only
Inspection Criteria + Scope
PipeFacts™ can measure over 200 data points through a combination of field assessments, formal inspections, and office technical review. We utilize API 5CRA as our baseline analysis criteria and have included other industry best practices to guide our comprehensive quality service, PipeFacts™.
Storage Conditions & Accessibility
Storage Conditions & Accessibility
When our quality team first arrives to field locations, we first analyze the pipe's packaging condition and how it is stored. Proper storage is key to the long-term preservation of OCTG and may impact its future useability.
Location/Yard
Storage
Rack
Rack Position
Metal To Metal
Bumpers
Ring Type
Ring Cond.
Big Bend / Houston
Outside
Inspection
N/A
False
Good
Plastic 3/per
Good
*Sample information only
Alloy Confirmation
Alloy Confirmation
When it comes to alloy confirmation, we not only verify, we validate. We combine visual verification techniques with positive material identification (PMI) readings. The PMI reads the product chemistry and validates the alloy in the review.
3.5” 12.70# 25CRS-125 Vam Top R3
UNS: S32760
#API Group: Group 2 Category 25-7-4
API Spec: Super Duplex, 25CRS, 25 Super Chrome
Trade Name(s): Super Duplex, 25CRS, 25 Super Chrome
Joints Tested with PMI: 6
Pass: 100%
Fail: 0%
Item Traceability
Item Traceability
It is important to review all stencils and etchings to connect each joint to a specific heat number on the original mill test reports (MTRs). Our team records and reviews all stencils and etchings to link critical quality information to a joint level basis, and we use the markings to better understand the history of the pipe.
Mill
Year
Joint/MTR
Pipe Body
Heat #(s)
Joint/MTR
Coupling
Heat #(s)
COC
Stencil
Stencil Cond.
Etching
Tubacex
2011
559/559
516
559
557
556
Mill
Faded
CRA Applied
43 Joints have no visible pipe body stencil. 2 Joints have no visible coupling stencil.
*Sample information only
API Compliance
API Spec
API Compliance
Not within API
Comments
5CRA PSL2
F04913, F04915, F04916
F03447
F03447 Includes a single joint, toughness frequenc...
API Compliance
Our technical team reviews all mill test reports (MTRs) against API 5CRA requirements. In this review, we identify heat numbers within API acceptance and perform a gap analysis on the heat numbers that are not within API. This review provides complete clarity on how the product compares to the leading industry specification API 5CRA.
Material Condition
Material Condition
We verify the finish and surface condition of both the outside diameter (OD) and the pipe's inside diameter (ID). This process will also identify joints that require any remediation in line with API-approved remediation techniques.
Inside Diameter
Outside Diameter
Wall
Used
Finsih
OD Condition
Surface Cond.
Rust
Tong Marks
Connections
Surface
ID Condition
Roughness
Surface Cond.
Imperfections
0%
Mill
Good
0
None
N/A
Mill
N/A
Good
3%
20%
Mill
Good
Light
None
N/A
Mill
N/A
Good
20%
*Sample information only
Thread Inspection
Boxes Inspected
Box Pass
Box Reject
Pins
Pins Pass
Pins Reject
28
28
0
28
28
0
Thread Inspection
We have multiple stages of visual thread inspections (VTI) in PipeFacts™. When we first inspect material, we perform a sample VTI to ensure threads are free of contamination, rough edges and burrs. During this time we also ensure threads have proper storage compound. Prior to material being sold, we coordinate with each particular thread licensee to conduct a 100% VTI. Threads are the area of the pipe most likely to have a potential failure, so we put extra attention to assuring threads are 100% per threads licensee standards.
Step-By-Step
1
Submit Items & Inquiry Requirements
We combine vast access to supply with technical professionals and metallurgists that know pipe. We not only collect information about your requirements, but about your project, application, and goals to better serve you.
2
Receive Supply Options, Timing, and Pricing
PipeSearch combines multiple supply sources to offer the most competitive choices and deliver pricing as a function of timing.
3
Select Material and Review T&Cs
We offer technical and commercial support through this process, and no details are excluded. We can cater each deal to an MSA if applicable.
4
Order Management Automation
We provide automation and status updates at every turn. Have questions to ask? You can find answers and updates from your dashboard, or connect directly with your order manager.