Athabasca Engineering Solutions

AES was founded in 1998. To provide our clients with exceptional value through unlocking and implementing best practice technologies. Your organization can benefit through improved productivity, safety and reliability. The vision becomes a reality through our 30 years of experience and connections in working with industry, manufacturing and government stakeholders. Our services: PRESSURE EQUIPMENT RERATING, MODIFICATIONS, IN-SERVICE WORK - Extensive knowledge and interpretation of industry standards ASME, API, AWWA, CSA/AWS, ASTM and governmental; standards. - In-service hot tap welding and NDE. - Fitness for service evaluation for fired heaters & vessels. - Equipment rerating. - Employee training and value auditing of designs and studies. - Expert Witness METALLURGY – MATERIALS AND WELDING -Standards based experience knowledge, ASTM, ASM, and NACE, and government. - Welding PQR and WPS studies. - NACE coatings, overlays and cladding. - In-service welding and fatigue welding studies - API Life cycle cost studies - Development of high wear resistant systems - Failure analysis investigations - Reliability improvements - Duplex, corrosion and solution hardness stainless steel, high temperature steel - Manufacturing – machining, forging, foundry evaluation. - Training and auditing of inspection programs to Pressure Vessel Safety Authority Standards and API. - Expert Witness PIPING STRESS ANALYSIS Experience with ASME and API codes. Specialties include: - Underground piping design - Piping to structural steel interactions - Dynamic analysis (Pressure surges and PSV/rupture disk events - Equipment, structures to piping interaction. - Training and auditing of designs and calculations to ensure conformance to Canadian Pressure Safety Authority standards. -Expert Witness