Greek Corinth Pipeworks, part of Belgium’s Cenergy Holdings, has launched a “rigorous” testing program that puts its pipe materials and welds under extreme conditions to evaluate their long-term performance for carbon capture and storage (CCS) applications.

The program, done in collaboration with Norway’s Institute for Energy Technology (IFE), investigates both base metal and weld performance in simulated dense-phase CO2 conditions, characterized by high pressure and low temperature, also stimulating real-world industrial environments by incorporating common impurities such as sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), and methanol, known to affect corrosion behavior.