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American Metal Market: R&D widens oilpatch use of supperalloys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Their potential is great in the oilpatch, sources said, not only just for oil country tubular goods but for an ever widening variety of drilling equipment. |
 | | The oilpatch is also a targeted market by the Titanium Development Association, the industry's first formal trade group that evolved last year with market development as its primary goal. |
 | | The group is preparing a brochure on titanium applications in the oilpatch which will be presented at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston in May. In addition to oil drilling equipment, the group is focusing on pulp, chemical and power generator industries as the most likely marketing targets for new uses of titanium. |
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