Hydrocarbon fire testing  Hydrocarbon testing is usually carried out for the oil industry, and employs a more severe time/temperature relationship than the "normal" fire test. The furnace temperature may be required to reach some 950^oC in under three minutes.
The British Standard time/temperature relationship will not achieve this within 60 minutes. We therefore have to design a specimen which can survive a severe thermal shock. Other than that, the rules are much the same as for "normal" testing.- know how to design and build the specimen, and know which specimen to build!
 

 
Cable penetrations after a short hydrocarbon test