Tyre Tear Out at Low Temperatures

Might find something here to seek....

https://www.professionalplastics.com/professionalplastics/RubberandElastomersOverview.pdf

This approach will not work.

Tire manufacturers already know what to use for low temperature applications.

OP should simply specify low temperature tires.

OK these guys should be able to help....

http://www.alaskatireservice.net/productgroups.htm?custom=3

Probably so.

But, you'd have to think that any company working oil derricks on the north slope of Alaska would know what tires to buy.

Maybe he's a new guy.....

I would go with those track thingys...

That would do it for me.

"On the same oil derrick job (Some oil derricks on the north slope of Alaska failed catastrophically when a blizzard blew in. Analysis showed the wind had literally blew the rigs apart with the SAE 416 Stainless steel being fractured into small pieces without deformation. Analysis also showed that the design was fine, there were no external environmental or chemical or mechanical (other than 60 kph wind and -65 °C temperatures) influences that caused failure, bringing attention onto SAE 416 Stainless used in the construction.), all four tires on a Range Rover failed catastrophically while driving from rig to rig during the storm. It looked like someone had torn the tires into pieces, but they couldn't have as vehicle is driven at that time. Security video showed nobody near the vehicle when it was parked. The tires were made of E-SBR. What could have happened? Can there be a solution so that next time this does not repeat?"

From Lyn: "Tyres made from SBR have a glass transition temperature of -50°C.

The tyres would shatter at -65°C."

From JAlberts: "416 [Stainless Steel] is not recommended for use at sub-zero temperatures due to a substantial drop in impact properties consistent with most steels other than the austenitic steel types."

I believe my advice would be to put on your best pair of snowshoes and get away from that facility as fast as you can. It was not planned out well, it's being poorly managed, and it WILL claim lives. I assume you do not want to be one of those fatalities, so get away while you can.

(On a semi-political sidenote, if these clowns couldn't even get the right materials for equipment safety in the region, how can we trust them to do the drilling and pumping without destroying the environment? Before you complain, let me point out that A) Northern Alaska has an 'environment,' if you bother to look, you'll find some wildlife either living there or using it as a migration route, and B) we also need to look at shipping the oil, either by pipeline, which may be getting the same 'care and maintenance' as those oil rigs, or by boat, and if they've got rigs blowing apart from the cold because they didn't use the right materials, how do we know they're not also 'saving money' by using similarly substandard captains. Exxon Valdiez II, anyone?)

I feel so much better about drilling in Alaska now.