Piping Solutions & Energy Associates / Houston, TX
A new industrial age is being built right now.
Four decades of upstream, midstream, and downstream, power, infrastructure design and
engineering, now expanding
to next-generation nuclear, data center power, and desalination. Different industries.
Same physics. Same standard for getting it right.
01 / Who we offer design and engineering services to
Operating and engineering companies
Upstream, Midstream, Downstream, Power and Infrastructure owners taking on new builds or retrofits. You have the vision, the site, and the funding. What you need is a design and engineering team that has already successfully completed designs that did not fail, on projects where failure was not an option.
You are carrying more scope than bench. We take piping design, engineering, stress, vessel, supports, and structural packages off your plate and return them PE-sealed and on schedule. No ramp-up, no training, no headcount.
Aging assets, fitness-for-service, integrity analysis, and support systems that have to hold under primary and secondary stresses, wind and seismic stresses, thermal cycling, and pressure thrusts. We have done this on live plants for four decades.
We support your team through front end loading, FEL-1 to FEL-3, then collaborate with
your team during the detailed design and engineering phase, delivering PE-sealed
deliverables and fabrication through our partner network. Once the system is running,
our field services team comes back to field verify the installation.
Field construction is not our primary scope. Field engineering is. We will guide you
and assist you through your design and engineering through field installation because
knowing where a design and engineering firm ends is worth more than over promising and
under delivering. We take pride in clearly defining the scope of the project before the
project starts.
The analysis that decides whether a design survives thermal cycling, dynamic loading, and aggressive service. This is where four decades of failure analysis pays for itself.
Systems already in the ground, running, and changing. We walk them down, assess what is actually installed against what it is actually doing, and tell you what needs to happen. Field construction is not our primary scope. Field engineering is.
Refinery and petrochemical revamps across the Gulf Coast and beyond. Power plants on
four continents. Major energy infrastructure projects spanning upstream, midstream, and
downstream, including subsea tie-backs and NGL trains. The infrastructure the energy
world already runs on, we designed and engineered a lot of it. That is the same bench
now working on what gets built next.
One design and engineering core. Every industry building the future.
A pressure vessel is a pressure vessel whether it holds hydrocarbons, brine, or
reactor coolant. The physics we have been doing for forty years is the physics these
industries run on.
A library of engineered pipe support solutions, analyzed and stamped before your project
existed. Not a design cycle you have to wait through. A catalog you select from that we
can either build individually or we can provide and build complete sets of standard
details.
The engineering hours, the FEA, and the certification step come out of your schedule, not just your budget.
They can carry your brand/logo or you can keep ours.
AN EXISTING LIBRARY
Designed, engineered, and sealed before your project started.
SCHEDULE, NOT JUST BUDGET
No design cycle, no analysis cycle, no certification step sitting in your critical path.
Experienced designers and engineers, working as one team.
Jim Wooten
FOUNDER · PRINCIPAL ENGINEER · PIPING & MECHANICAL
Nearly four decades across Chevron, Schlumberger, Fluor, GASCO Abu Dhabi, WorleyParsons, and Zachry. Refinery, petrochemical, NGL and LNG trains, power, and infrastructure projects. Upstream projects include subsea tie-backs off West Africa and offshore production platform upgrades.
PSEA brings experienced discipline specialists together as one coordinated design and
engineering team, scaled to the requirements of each project.
Piping design, electrical, instrumentation, and project management sit alongside the
principal engineer as the scope calls for them, under one technical lead from start to
finish.
The best designers and engineers of a generation are coming back for this one.
We are growing our bench of senior specialists and our network of fabrication
partners. If you have spent your career making sure the hard things do not fail,
there is a lot left to build.
