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Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Expert Witness Services
Internationally-recognised oil, gas & petrochemical expert witness engineers with over 75 years of drilling and petroleum refining expertise.
Arbitration Consultants in Petroleum Engineering across 90 countries
Our petrochemical experts have vast experience in the petrochemicals industry, providing litigation services
to the High Court and International Court of Arbitration.
Our Petrochemical Expert Witness Experience Includes:
- Crude oil distillation
- Hydrotreating Gas separation
- Light ends recovery
- Fractionation
- LPG production
- Storage and handling
- NGL
- LNG
- Sulphur recovery
- Alkylation
- Polymerisation
- Isomerisation
- Aromatics
- VCM
- PVC
- Polyolefins
- Polyolefins
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Our Oil, Gas & Petrochemical Expert Witness Services Includes
Expert advice and independent expert opinion
Site and equipment surveys
Process design reviews
Review of construction records
Examing compliance issues
Investigation of process and mechanical design defects, disruptions
Specialist Petroleum Engineering Knowledge
In the oil and gas, petroleum refining, petrochemical and power generation industries
Process & Mechanical Equipment Design
Specific experience of:
- ✓ Process plant design
- ✓ Piping design and insulation
- ✓ Construction and commissioning of plants in oil / gas processing including wet sour conditioning
- ✓ Cryogenic air separation units
- ✓ Water filtration and deionization
- ✓ Effluent treatment units
- ✓ FCC and hydro cracking units
- ✓ Sulphur recovery units
- ✓ LNG/LPG/NGL plants
- ✓ Ammonia production
- ✓ High pressure gas compression
- ✓ Gas / liquid pipelines and gas / liquid storage tank facilities
Project
Management
Extensive experience both as an owner’s representative and as a contractor, in:
- ✓ Preparing and executing basic design
- ✓ Detailed design
- ✓ Procurement and construction to ISO 9001 Quality Assurance
- ✓ International model forms of contract (FIDIC orange book and similar) of oil and gas production / processing facilities and pipelines, petrochemical and power generation plants.
Design, Engineering & Quality Control
In the manufacturing industries with specific experience of:
- ✓ Welding
- ✓ Forming and machining alloy steels and stainless steels
- ✓ Quality Control and Assurance requirements to ISO 9001/2
- ✓ Assessment of product design and manufacture in respect to assessment of fitness for purpose
- ✓ Production plant and machinery valuations
Petrochemical, Oil and Gas Assignments
View Manderstam's Oil & Gas Assignments
UK Oil & Gas Experience:
- Technical audit on design changes and cost overrun by a contractor on Schlumberger designed produced water filtration skids at a gas processing facility.
- Reviewed design of LPG/NGL gas refinery in Iran and gave advice on process operating scenarios.
- Review and update piping standards for GlaxoSmithKline including advice on material compatibility and insulation
- Feasibility study for gas pipeline and gas conditioning units to supply to new power station in Nigeria on behalf PKF accountants
- Prepared expert report of Costain Oil and Gas on the failure of a temporary strainer in the suction line to main gas compressor (13 MW) at National Grid compressor station, work involved fatigue analysis and vibration analysis due to high gas flow rates.
- Bishop Auckland to Tafforth pipeline 42" diam. erection and commissioning of pig trap installations.
Worldwide Oil & Gas Experience:
- Preparation of process and instrumentation diagrams for all onshore crude oil/gas separation facilities incorporating new plant and equipment.
- Over a period of 18 years Manderstam designed and assisted in the operation of refineries, NGL plants and oil and gas distribution and loading systems for the Qatar General Petroleum Corporation.
- Review of variation claims in respect to the NSRP new refinery in Vietnam, requiring review of preferential design development comments in regard to HAZOP studies and 3-D models.
- Review and advice on a Gasholder designed to API620 /BS14015 for a major steel mill in Brazil.
- Carried out a hazard and operability study on behalf of Exxon followed by seconding a team of engineers to the refinery for six months to implement the recommendations.
