Oil & gas and CPI components require BÖHLER steels and alloys with high strength and corrosion resistance. Key quality features include ultra-clean materials, full traceability, controlled heat treatment, and rigorous testing for reliable performance.
General components in the oil & gas and Chemical Process Industry (CPI) are exposed to highly demanding operating conditions, including high pressures, temperature extremes, cyclic mechanical loads, and aggressive chemical environments such as CO₂, H₂S, chlorides, and process fluids. Material requirements are therefore exceptionally stringent, focusing on high strength, excellent corrosion resistance, resistance to stress corrosion cracking, and long-term microstructural stability. Components must maintain mechanical integrity and dimensional accuracy over extended service lifetimes to ensure operational safety and efficiency.
BÖHLER high-performance steels and alloys are specifically engineered to meet these rigorous requirements. Advanced low-alloy steels, quenched and tempered grades, as well as corrosion-resistant stainless steels including austenitic, duplex, and precipitation-hardened types, provide an optimized balance of strength, toughness, and resistance to aggressive media. For more demanding environments, high-alloy and nickel-based materials are applied. Produced using advanced melting and refining technologies, BÖHLER materials ensure exceptional cleanliness, low inclusion content, and homogeneous microstructures. Key quality features include strict control of chemical composition, certified traceability, and validated heat treatment processes. Comprehensive testing, including corrosion resistance evaluation, mechanical verification, and non-destructive inspection, ensures compliance with industry standards. BÖHLER materials enable safe, durable, and high-performance solutions across oil & gas and CPI applications.
The newly developed, patent pending, BÖHLER E185 AMPO is an AM powder, fulfilling the highest demands from various industries, ranging from motorsport to engineering components and any kind of prototype applications. This low alloyed steel with easy printability and the possibility for surface treatments (e.g. case hardening or nitriding) was developed especially for the demands of the 3D printing industry. The material shows an excellent combination of strength and toughness.
Read MoreBÖHLER L625 is a non-magnetizable corrosion and heat resistant nickel alloy in the form of bars, forgings and semi-finished products up to max 254 mm diameter/ cross-section and oxidation resistant up to 1093°C. Best fatigue strength and resistance to stress corrosion cracking when exposed to chloride containing media. Good weldability.
Read MoreBÖHLER L625 AMPO is a non-magnetic, corrosion and scale-resistant nickel-base alloy. High toughness and strength from the lowest temperatures up to 1000 °C. Good printability.
Read MoreThe BÖHLER L718 AMPO is a hardenable nickel-base super alloy. This high heat-resistant material shows good strength properties at elevated temperatures up to 750 ° C, as well as excellent creep resistance up to 700 ° C. In addition, it shows excellent corrosion resistance and good printability. Essentially, the same properties can be achieved with printed components made from this powder as with bar material.
Read MoreBÖHLERL718 API (UNS N07718) is a high-strength, corrosion-resistant nickel-chromium-iron-molybdenum material with excellent corrosion resistance, especially in H2S and CO2 environments. The alloy is age-hardenable due to the addition of niobium, titanium and aluminium. BÖHLER L718 API is recognised by the oil industry for its simple and cost-effective production in combination with good tensile, fatigue, creep and fracture strength and is used in a wide range of applications in this sector. BÖHLER L718 API has excellent weldability and is resistant to cracking after welding. The material can be used at high temperatures. BÖHLER L718 API is available in the NACE/API 6A CRA versions with a minimum yield strength of 120/140 ksi and also in the high-strength version with 150 ksi. All hardness grades are suitable for sour service and can be used for pressurising and pressure-controlling equipment in corrosive environments. Typical applications include packers, pumps, connectors and fasteners as well as gate valves, throttle spindles, pipework hangers and fire safe valves, but also a wide range of downhole and completion components, nuclear and surface applications.
Read MoreThe BÖHLER L718 API AMPO is a hardenable nickel-base super alloy. This high heat-resistant material shows good strength properties at elevated temperatures up to 750 ° C, as well as excellent creep resistance up to 700 ° C. In addition, it shows excellent corrosion resistance and good printability. Essentially, the same properties can be achieved with printed components made from this powder as with bar material.
Read MoreBÖHLER N700 AMPO (17-4 PH) is a precipitation hardening nickel martensitic steel. Thanks to its alloying system, this material has excellent corrosion resistance. Can be printed very easily without additional heating of the platform or chamber and, after solution annealing and aging, hardens up to approx. 40 HRC.
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