Metallurgy Support

We have been working in engineering for over 30 years and so we understand the practical application of materials science and metallurgy. We will work with you to provide the answers and service you require. Some of the projects we’ve recently worked on include:

• Manufacturing support, providing third party witness to the manufacture of stainless steels forgings.
• We have provided design and materials support to a valve manufacture.
• We have written materials specifications for an offshore engineering company.
• We have prepared a design report on the hydrogen embrittlement of nickel alloys.

Drilling-Expert.Legal

We are part of a co-operative group of experts in various oil and gas disciplines, who can work individually or together to deliver a variety of services, including:

• Cost reduction
• Marine engineering
• Engineering support
• Project management
• Failure and incident investigation
• Dispute avoidance and resolution

Further information can be found on drilling-expert.legal

Failure analysis and expert witness

We specialise in metallurgical failure analysis and have been involved in both large and small investigations. We will work with you and will advise on the best and most economic way of finding the cause of failure. We also have contacts with a number of accredited test laboratories and are able to organise both standard and more complex test programmes. We have also acted as an expert witness in a number of cases, as well as providing third party witness. Some examples of our work are:

• Fatigue failure of a pressure outlet valve on a water treatment facility
• Failure of veterinary medical equipment
• The galling of steam bypass valve in a gas fired power station.
• We have acted as an expert witness on the anodising of domestic fittings
• We worked with a Houston based certifying verification authority (CVA) working on behalf of the federal government providing third party witness to the manufacture of offshore equipment.

Corrosion services

We are qualified corrosion engineers and our director (Clayton Thomas) has been a member of the Institute of Corrosion for over 25 years. We will work with you to provide the corrosion advice and support you require. The services we offer include:

• Helping you to understand corrosion and how to prevent it.
• Providing design and material selection advice in order to prevent corrosion.
• Organising corrosion  test programmes
• Designing the cathodic protection for offshore applications.