Welding steel in the Gulf of Mexico Steel is still the major material used in construction of platforms and rigs on the outer continental shelf.

Much progress has been made in producing new materials for application to offshore oil and gas operations. New materials such as metal matrix composites and fiber-reinforced plastic materials have made progress in marine applications, but much further progress can be made for engineered materials offering properties allowing for new designs of offshore structures and operational components such as risers, etc. Even though these materials offer significant improvement in properties, serious barriers such as material and fabrication costs, needed design innovations, and the reliability, repair, and inspection of advanced engineered materials need to be addressed.

Materials Projects
003	Incipient Crack Detection in Offshore Structures
004	Cavitating Water Jet Cleaning Nozzle
037	Structural Materials for Arctic Operations
055	Fracture Analysis and Corrosion Fatigue in Pipelines
063	Assessment Criteria for Environmental Cracking
070	Trace Elements for Detecting Cracking in Weldments
075	Remote Corrosion Monitoring of Offshore Pipelines
081	Fatigue of Selected High Strength Steels in Sea Water
124	Quality Control Test for Platform Weldment Fracture Toughness
131	Erosional/Corrosional Velocity Criterion for Sizing Multi-Phase Flow Lines
132	Resistance of TLP Tendon Steel to the Ripple-Load Effect on Stress-Corrosion Cracking
133	Synthetic-Fiber Mooring Lines for Deepwater Floating Production Facilities
144	Fatigue of High Strength Steels for Innovative Offshore Structures
185	International Workshop on Composite Materials for Offshore Operations
190	Fatigue Strength of Grouted Connections
208	Underwater Welding Development Program
218	International Workshop on Underwater Welding
230	Support for the Composites Engineering and Applications Center (CEAC) for Petroleum Exploration and Production
245	Homopolar Welding of Offshore Pipelines
251	International Workshop on Advanced Material for Marine Structures
263	Underwater Welding Development Program, Phase II
268	Second International Conference on Composite Materials for Offshore Operations
277	Structural Integrity Assessment and Repair of Corrosion-Damaged Offshore Platform Tubulars
308	International Workshop on Advanced Methods of Corrosion Mitigating for Marine Structures
322	Workshop on "State-of-the-Art Development of Composite Structures for Offshore Production Platforms"
326	Underwater Welding Workshop
343	Fiber Reinforced Plastics Design Guideline
346	Tailor-Designed Underwater Wet Welding Process for Offshore Structures and Pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico
509	Interstitially Insulated Pipe
583	Characterizing Material Performance for Design of Sour Service HPHT Equipment in Accordance with API RP 6HP Practices
584	Arctic Offshore Technology Assessment of Exploration and Production Options for Cold Regions of the US Outer Continental Shelf
591	Evaluate Accuracy of Polyester Subrope Damage Detection Performed by ROVs Following Hurricanes and Other Events
602	Cement Fatigue and HPHT Well Integrity with Application to Life of Well Prediction
611	JIP for the Development of Standardized Testing Requirements for HPHT Equipment
621	High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) Elastomer Evaluation
632	Evaluate New Materials for Deepwater Synthetic Mooring Systems
641	Seawater Corrosion of Rope & Chain (SCORCh)
653	Evaluation of the Use of Epoxy-based Materials in Well Abandonment
654	International Workshop on Underwater Welding & Inspection Technology
661	Joint Industry Project (JIP) to Enhance Polyester Rope Stiffness Modeling, Testing, and Analysis