CNPC USA

Team

The Materials and Fundamentals team focuses on developing advanced materials and processes to meet current and future demands in the upstream and new energy industries.

We provide solutions for dissolvable materials, high corrosion, high erosion, high-temperature, and high-pressure downhole applications, as well as CCUS, geothermal, and energy storage industries.

Our team is committed to developing new materials formulations and processes to improve production efficiency and reduce operating costs while ensuring our work is backed by solid theoretical research and intellectual property investigations.

Capabilities

Testing Capabilities

• Mechanical properties testing: tensile, compression, shear, flexural strength, and modulus testing from room temperature to 300°C.
• Thermal properties testing: DMA, TGA, DSC.
• Rubber curing rheological properties measurement.
• HTHP chemical aging testing.
• Physical properties testing.
• Metallurgical materials preparation, microstructural observation, and analysis.
• Dissolvable materials testing.

Processing Capabilities

• Materials compounding.
• Rubber and composite molding.
• Powder metallic materials molding.
• Metallic materials heat treatment.
• Battery electrode fabrication.

Equipment and Infrastructure

Our Materials and Fundamentals team has established extensive expertise in materials testing and processing, including:

• Materials such as elastomers, thermoplastics, composites, metals, coatings, and battery materials.
• Over 30 sets of materials testing instruments.
• 10 sets of processing equipment.

R&D Products

Dissolvable Materials Development

• Dissolvable metallic materials for 40 - 180°C applications.
• Dissolvable rubber materials for 40 - 175°C applications.
• Dissolvable polymer composite materials for 80 - 150°C applications.

Advanced Elastomer Materials

• Performed HT fluoroelastomer development and failure mechanism study.
• Developed AI-based materials lifetime prediction methods under HPHT H₂S downhole environments.
• Special HNBR elastomer materials development.

Advanced Metallic Materials

• CRA materials failure mechanism study.
• Developed high erosion-resistant coatings.
• HT metallic sealing materials development.

Other Advanced R&D Areas

• Ultra-hard materials development.
• High-capacity battery development.
• CO₂ injection well corrosion prevention and sealing materials development.