Development of a Procedure for Risk-Based Qualification of Additively Manufactured Components: Adopting to Oil and Gas Industrial Applications

Recent advances in additive manufacturing (AM) technology provide the potential for on-demand and rapid production of spare parts during urgent repair times. Recently, big oil gas companies have shown early progress using specific heat exchangers, downhole cleanout tool nozzles, offshore risers, turbine subsea chemical stick injection tools. Despite mentioned progress, current adoption level industry is very limited. Non-destructive destructive evaluation methods additively manufactured metallic components been studied extensively. However, technique selection procedure scope required test not sufficiently. This paper discusses various elements related to qualification application industry. A risk-based method identifying scopes non-destructive tests resulting applications suggested.