Steel Catenary Risers

Despite the on-going oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, the need for deep-water oil equipment such as steel catenary risers will not cease; however, this immense oil leak will surely open eyes across the oil industry as to the great importance of not only robust safety requirements, but also sound engineering, and if there is one company which has proven itself worthy in the area of providing sound engineering expertise, it’s Stewart Technology Associates.

Companies in need of steel catenary risers engineering analysis and design will need look no further than Stewart Technology Associates as this professional marine and offshore engineering consultancy firm has decades of experience with providing a range of companies with high quality riser analysis and design services. Robust, accurate, and cost-effective analysis and design is what Stewart Technology Associates focuses on, and throughout the years, this firm has provided its clients with nothing less than high quality. This great success with riser service not only comes from the fact that Stewart Technology Associates contains the experience, skills, and dedication necessary to satisfy its customers’ requirements, but indeed, Stewart Technology Associates also employs the powerful Orcaflex software by Orcina which assists in consistently supplying clients with high quality analysis and design.

Aside from offering expert steel catenary risers design and analysis, Stewart Technology Associates is also able to provide companies with expert riser failure analysis. No matter the specific failure experienced or where it is experienced, Stewart Technology Associates has a considerable amount of experience with investigating and analyzing failures, as well as providing recommendations so that these failures will not occur again in the future. On top of the riser failure analysis service, Stewart Technology Associates is also able to provide expert witness marine testimony if litigation is an eventual outcome of the riser failure.

Companies and organizations large and small, public and private have relied on the expertise of Stewart Technology Associates since this professional marine and offshore engineering consultancy firm’s inception in 1986. This Houston-based firm will continue to provide organizations with nothing less than the highest quality consultancy services, and aside from steel catenary risers service, Stewart Technology Associates also offers a range of other valuable services including risk assessment, financial assessment, forensic analysis, and much more. In order to find out more regarding Stewart Technology Associates or the range of high quality services offered, simply contact our firm directly by phone or email.

The Diverse Background Of STA Leads To More Useful Analysis Of Offshore Structures Like Steel Catenary Risers

[Posted on Sep 19]

Operations within the offshore drilling industry are continually looking for ways to increase their productivity and in turn, their profits. This requires ongoing analysis of the structures they use so that they’re able to isolate areas that are underperforming and innovate ways to improve their performance. The more closely these structures are analyzed and the more concrete the data, the more effective those adjustments will be. These operations call upon consultancy firms to provide analysis that can be trusted as well as strategies on how to eliminate inefficiencies. Since 1986, Stewart Technology Associates has proven to be the industry leader in cutting edge consultancy, analysis and engineering for offshore structures and drilling operations as a whole.

Over the last 25 years, Stewart Technology Associates has continued to expand its client base to include operations all over the world. Not only has this benefited the company, but it it’s increased the value STA provides to clients. Growing the scope of the services we perform gives the consultancy and analysis we deliver a broader credibility. There are things a smaller drilling operation can take from STA’s experience working with a larger operation and vice versa. This diverse background also makes STA’s services more sought after, further feeding into that credibility.

That credibility is essential to the work performed by Stewart Technology Associates. When a client calls upon STA to do an analysis of their steel catenary risers, for example, they’ll know that we’ve seen these structures in different types of operations from all over the world and collected data from them. That data is then applied to the client’s steel catenary risers and used as a part of the riser analysis. A firm that has a narrow client base doesn’t have the same kind of global data as a resource and thus, aren’t able to give the same kind of insight as STA.

When steel cantenary riser failure occurs, Stewart Technology Associates is more equipped to determine the cause of that failure as a result of this diverse experience. If system or equipment malfunction was the cause of the riser failure, STA will be prepared to recognize that. If the cause of the failure is more ambiguous and needs a marine accident investigation in order to discover what went wrong or if someone specifically is at fault, that is also within the range of services STA offers. Regardless of the analysis that needs to be performed, Stewart Technology Associates has illustrated a lasting ability to deliver results.