Nickel and nickel alloys are used for a wide variety of applications, the majority of which involve corrosion resistance and/or heat resistance. Typical applications for nickel alloy materials in Oil & Gas industry:
| Nickel Alloy | Typical Application Area in Oil & Gas Engineering |
| Nickel 200/201 | · Marine and offshore engineering
· Caustic handling equipment · Manufacture and handling of sodium hydroxide · Reactors and vessels where fluorine reacts with hydrocarbons |
| Hastelloy C-276 | · Pollution control stack liners, ducts, dampers, scrubbers, stack-gas reheaters, fans, and fan housings
· Flue gas desulfurization systems · Chemical processing components like heat exchangers, reaction vessels, evaporators, and transfer piping · Sour gas wells |
| Monel K500 | · Sour-gas service applications
· Oil and gas production safety lifts and valves · Oil-well tools and instruments like drill collars · Oil well industry · Chains, cables, springs, valve trim, fasteners for marine service |
| Monel 400 | · Marine engineering
· Chemical and hydrocarbon processing equipment · Gasoline and freshwater tanks · Crude petroleum stills · De-aerating heaters · Boiler feed water heaters and other heat exchangers · Valves, pumps, shafts, fittings, and fasteners · Industrial heat exchangers · Chlorinated solvents · Crude oil distillation towers |
| Incoloy 800H/HT | · Ethylene furnace quench boilers
· Hydrocarbon cracking · Valves, fittings and other components exposed to corrosive attack from 1100-1800° F · Industrial furnaces · Heat-treating equipment · Chemical and petrochemical processing · Super-heater and re-heaters in power plants · Pressure vessels · Heat exchangers |
| Incoloy 825 | · Chemical Processing
· Pollution-control · Oil and gas well piping · Nuclear fuel reprocessing · Components in Pickling equipment like heating coils, tanks, baskets and chains · Acid production |
| Inconel 600 | · Chemical industry *Gas turbine components
· Heat treating industry · Nuclear Engineerin |
