Drilling deeper, faster, and farther. Alcoa Oil and Gas is in business to help oil and gas drillers extend their reach, and maximize the productivity of their existing equipment.
Whether it’s engineered forgings and extrusions or super-strong, light weight aluminum alloy drill pipe, Alcoa Oil and Gas offers customized solutions specific to the oil and gas industry. We tackle unique applications and demanding challenges head-on. And we bring to the table a higher level of thinking and a wealth of resources to solve the toughest problems, from design to delivery. In addition to best-in-class aluminum alloy drill pipe, Alcoa’s aluminum alloy technology enables the construction of high-strength, low-weight risers, already proven in demanding deepwater applications.
Our extrusion technology and leading edge forging facilities offer dramatically reduced manufacturing costs, increased capacity and throughput, and improved product performance.
Alcoa’s fabricated products encompass advanced, engineered fasteners and investment castings as well as flat and rolled products, offering the marketplace the global expertise of Alcoa in components. Further supporting this product offering is the Alcoa Technical Center, demonstrating a commitment to working with customers to solve complex problems.
Housing the world’s largest light metals lab, the Alcoa Technical Center serves as a resource for our customers. Here, our team of professional scientists and researchers offer a full range of solutions from concept to completion. In addition, we maintain design and development practices with a strong focus on sustainability.
The Alcoa Technical Center employs more than 500 scientists, engineers, and support personnel, offering capabilities from bench to production scale. Our deep level of expertise spans physical, mechanical, and process metallurgy; thermodynamics; phase transformations; corrosion and electrochemistry; applied metallurgy and mechanistic materials.
All this knowledge and experience comes together within a highly collaborative work style. Alcoa works in close cooperation with you to develop solutions tailored to a wide variety of applications. In brief, we want to help you solve your problem, regardless of how challenging it is, or whether or not it has been done before.
The Alcoa Connection.
Alcoa Oil and Gas is a division of Alcoa, the world’s leading producer of primary and fabricated aluminum, as well as the world’s largest miner of bauxite and refiner of alumina. In addition to inventing the modern-day aluminum industry, Alcoa innovation has been behind major milestones in the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation, consumer electronics and industrial markets over the past 120 years.
