Compound Pipes in Oil and Gas Engineering

This paper reviewed the characteristics, production process, production standards and applicable areas of fiberglass reinforced plastics (FRP) pipe, steel skeleton reinforced plastics composite pipe and flexible composite pipe. Comparing and analyzing the compound pipes with ordinary metal pipes and plastic pipes, it can be concluded that the compound pipe has its superiority especially in corrosion control in oil and gas engineering, and the future development direction of compound pipe was outlined. With raw material development and progress, production process improvement, cost performance rising and continuous quality improvement, compound pipes will continue to increase and widely used in such areas as high pressure, marine oil and gas exploitation. Compound pipe will become an important part of oil and gas pipes in the future.