Piping Solutions & Energy Associates / Houston, TX
A new industrial age is being built right now.
Four decades of upstream, midstream, and downstream design and engineering, now expanding
to next-generation nuclear, data center power, and desalination. Different industries.
Same physics. Same standard for getting it right.
Reactor developers. Data center operators. Desalination builders. Midstream and downstream owners taking on new build. You have the vision, the site, and the funding. What you need is a design and engineering team that has already stamped hardware that did not fail, on projects where failure was not an option.
You are carrying more scope than bench. We take piping design, stress, vessel, and structural packages off your plate and return them PE-sealed and on schedule. No ramp-up, no training, no headcount.
Aging assets, re-rates, fitness-for-service, integrity programs, and support systems that have to hold under thermal cycling and pressure thrust. We have done this on live plants for four decades.
We support your team through front end loading, FEL-1 to FEL-3, then take ownership
of detailed design and engineering, PE-sealed deliverables, and fabrication through
our partner network. Once the system is running, our field services team comes back to it.
Field construction is not our scope. Field engineering is. We will tell you exactly
where we stop, because knowing where a design and engineering firm ends is worth more
than a vague promise that it does everything.
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 scope. Field engineering is.
Subsea tie-backs off West Africa. NGL trains in Abu Dhabi. Refinery and petrochemical
revamps across the Gulf Coast and beyond. Power plants on four continents. The
infrastructure that 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.
The engineering hours, the FEA, and the certification step come out of your schedule, not just your budget.
They can carry your brand, not 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
PRINCIPAL ENGINEER · PIPING & MECHANICAL
Nearly four decades across Chevron, ExxonMobil, GASCO Abu Dhabi, WorleyParsons, and Zachry. Subsea tie-backs off West Africa, NGL trains in the Gulf, and refinery units across Texas.
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Scott Layton
Piping Design
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Electrical Engineering
Discipline Specialist
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Instrumentation
Discipline Specialist
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Project Management
Discipline Specialist
PSEA brings experienced discipline specialists together as one coordinated design and engineering team, scaled to the requirements of each project.
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.
