Associates of Engineering Services, LP
Engineering Services, LP has been involved in projects all over the globe including, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Czech Republic, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Scotland, Italy, and Japan. Engineering Services, LP is associated and affiliated with the experts listed below, and has access to many more. Please feel free to contact any of them for assistance with your project, legal case, or analysis.
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Phone: 832-418-9180
Cell: 281-923-3638
Skype: 281-968-0727
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Gordon A. Aaker, Jr., P.E. - President
Metallurgical / Mechanical Engineering Consultant
Gordon Aaker has thirty years of engineering experience in evaluating failures, nationally and internationally. He has provided litigation support and expert witness testimony on a variety of causes, including identification of failures that are the result poor design, and the misuse of materials.
Gordon combines his metallurgical background with mechanical design experience to accurately identify failures that are a result of poor design or the incorrect use of materials. He is an authority on construction methods, fabrication codes, and design codes. He is experienced in the use of laboratory equipment and other analytical tools required to evaluate construction materials and to test the design basis. In addition to providing engineering consulting services to insurance companies and the legal community, Gordon is routinely staffed to major industrial projects. Clients include: Fortune 500 companies in the chemical, refining, oil & gas, pulp & paper, equipment manufacturer, and transportation.
Gordon has published numerous papers and is a contributing author in the American Society of Metal’s Failure Analysis Handbook. He has taught in the industry and at the university level. He has held elected office in various professional societies.
His litigation experience also includes work for the United States Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Division, Expert Witness Unit, Washington, DC. Additionally, he has appeared before a Congressional committee appointed by the President.
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Richard Cove
Valves and Chokes Consultant
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Spencer Landes, P.E.
Process Engineering Consultant
Spencer Landes is founder and CEO of SH Landes, Inc. He has performed projects in the USA and 30 foreign countries. His experience includes business development, engineering, contracting, equipment fabrication, facilities commissioning, training, serving as an expert witness and safety-related functions. He has also consulted on the development of offshore productions systems, onshore gas and liquid processing and safety management.
Mr. Landes, at age 90, is semi-retired and has cut his hours back to about 6 hours a day. He is doing well living on his ranch in Texas.
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John Martinez, P.E.
Petroleum Engineering Consultant
John Martinez has been the Production Consultant for Production Associates for twenty-nine years and previously was associated with Exxon (now ExxonMobil). John has forty years experience in oilfield production technology with a specialty in facility revision and artificial lift operations, with extensive expertise in gas lift and nodal analysis. This includes well deliverability, transient pressure testing, downhole equipment evaluation and selection. Surface facility design experience includes multiphase pipelines, separation, metering, compression, dehydration, water treatment and disposal, and pumps.
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Greg Miller, P.E.
Electrical Engineer
Greg Miller is a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas
(#60429) with thirty years of experience in industrial design, construction and
manufacturing. He specializes in construction safety, electrical power
transmission and distribution, and the application of OSHA and National
Electrical Safety Codes.
Greg has served as an expert witness in support of litigation and insurance
investigations in the areas of electrical engineering, equipment failures,
electric shock, electrocution and human factors related to defects in, and the use of electrical equipment.
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Dennis Neal
Coating Engineer
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Kris Ohman
Quality Control Engineering Consultant
Kris Ohman is now working for Shell.
Please contact him at his new Shell location.
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Leonard C. Quick, P.E.
Engineering Consultant
Leonard Quick is a Tulane University School of Engineering graduate and Registered Professional Engineer in multiple states. He has had a distinguished career as a consulting and forensic engineer. Since 1980, he has practiced engineering, planning, design, analysis, contract management and administration for structures, buildings, foundations, roads, bridges, drainage features and other engineered facilities and components. Furthermore, for over twenty-three years, he has specialized in the field of professional practice of forensic engineering. Recognized as an expert in his field he has been qualified and testified as an expert witness in over 150 cases in numerous courts in multiple states, including state, federal, municipal and county courts.
Leornad is a long-standing member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE), National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the Louisiana Engineering Society (LES).
He has evaluated and analyzed over eight-thousand property damage claims throughout his career, including catastrophe claims associated with hurricanes, tornados earthquakes, and hail.
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Michael E. Sawyer, P.E., CSP
Safety Engineering Consultant
Mr. Mike Sawyer has led and participated on various safety engineering projects over his 25 plus years of experience. These have ranged from general industrial safety applications to detailed analyses of process units and systems. His expertise includes applications relating to loss control/loss prevention, hazard analysis, risk assessments, and litigation support.
The greatest span of Mr. Sawyer's career has been in the area of process safety. He has facilitated numerous hazard and risk assessment studies of petrochemical producing facilities throughout the U.S. and the world. His international projects include studies in Japan, India, Venezuela, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Singapore, and Canada.
He has served on investigation teams, as well as leading investigations, of petrochemical, refining, and oil field servicing incidents in support of litigation. Some of the most notable investigations include ESSO's Longford Gas Plant incident in Australia and the 2005 BP Texas City Refinery explosion.
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Mark Stevenson, P.E.
Subsea Engineering Consultant
Mark Stevenson has thirty-five years of offshore oil industry engineering experience including twenty-seven years of subsea specialization. Project experience includes project engineering, design engineering, feasibility studies, cost estimates, field development planning, early production/marginal field production, commissioning and decommissioning of subsea production equipment, subsea control systems and umbilicals, flexible flowline/risers, and subsea pipeline and flowline installation and repair equipment, development of installation procedures and schedules, offshore supervision, and field engineering in domestic and foreign locations.
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Sam Vacek, P.E.
Structural Engineering Consultant
Sam Vacek has thirty-one years experience as a Structural Engineer with extensive experience in structural design, failure analysis, explosions, and construction monitoring of commercial and residential structures.
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Robert (Bob) Nicholas
Chief Inspector
Bob Nicholas has thirty-five year of experience as an inspector in the oil and gas industry with extensive experience in pipelines and sub sea equipment fabrication. Recognized authority in: pipe mill inspection, subsea equipment, NDE inspection, coatings, and insulation.
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Armando Hernandez
Inspector
Armando Hernandes is a Bilingual Mechanical Supervisor/Quality Control Specialist with twenty-five years extensive experience in manufacturing industry. Background includes welding, blue print reading, estimating, planning, scheduling, scheduling and materials and equipment purchasing.
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Ray Mullins
Senior Inspector
Ray Mullins has nineteen years of service within the oil field, working with Surface and Sub Sea Drilling equipment.
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Robert Waldon
Inspector
Robert Waldon is a NACE certified coating inspector with experience in the application and inspection of several types of coatings and their environment. Experience interfacing with customer management and engineers, and experience in process control and management of coating and welding projects. Including structural, pipe, and fab shop environment.
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Clinton J. Wright
Inspector
35 of experience (24 years with J. Ray McDermott) in the Offshore Construction Industry as a diver and a diving supervisor with extensive experience in safety management of diving operation worldwide in depth up to 1000 feet (survey, ROV, and all modes of diving, air, gas & saturation). Clint has extensive experience working from DP Vessels and Anchor Vessels. The majority of his experiences has been related to pipeline installations, riser systems, subsea connections, pigging, & hydro testing, Also, he is experienced with abandonment’s, re-routes etc. He had a roles in the installation of Red Hawk Spar -5000’ and Blind Faith Semi Platform -7000’.
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