Development of new deposits and increase of well depth impose certain requirements on materials used in manufacture of parts and assemblies for oil and gas field equipment as well as for oil refining equipment.
High strength-to-weight ratio of aluminium alloys allows to reduce weight of drilling equipment, facilitate its transportability and provide driving deep wells. Corrosion-resistant aluminium alloys enable to improve maintainability of drill, lifting and oil-and-gas pipes. The enhanced corrosion cracking strength allows to use aluminium alloys in manufacture of storage containers for oil and its products. The main structural material used for manufacture of drill pipes from aluminium alloys is D16 alloy. AMg2, AMg3, AMg5 and AMg6 have shown high resistance to crude oil and some kinds of gasoline. Among the aluminium-magnesium alloys mentioned above, AMg2 is the most common alloy used for manufacture of equipment, particularly for manufacture of condenser and refrigerators at oil refineries. In the USA equipment for oil industry is produced from aluminium alloys of Зххх, 5ххх and 6ххх series. 6063 alloy tubes are used in drilling equipment structures.

Offshore platforms are assembled from tubes from 6061 and 6063 alloys as well as high-strength 2014 and 7075 alloys.