hOWARD & ASSOCIATES INTERNATIONAL, INC.
A Professional Engineering Firm with an In-house Material Testing Lab For Metallurgical Failure Analysis and other Engineering Services
Howard & Associates International, Inc. is a metallurgical engineering firm providing metallurgical engineering services for over 30 years as a registered Professional Engineering Firm in the state of Louisiana. We have an in-house metallurgical testing lab where we perform material testing and failure analysis. Our capabilities include providing metallurgical engineering services to oil companies, refineries, drilling contractors, oilfield service companies, pipeline companies, manufacturing facilities, steel mills, pipe mills, paper mills, government agencies, insurance companies, and legal firms. Howard & Associates International, Inc. has customers in Louisana, Texas, Misssissippi, Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, West Virginia and many other states. We also service customers around the globe.
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METALLURGICAL ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR COMPANY
METALLURGICAL SERVICES
The metallurgy group’s specialties include metallurgical failure analysis, investigating deepwater failures associated with hydrogen embrittlement, weld failures, downhole drilling-related failures, crane and derrick traveling equipment issues, mud pump discharge fluid end cracking, tensioner, crown sheave and top drive bearing failures, riser and subsea equipment problems, drill line and wire rope wear problems, rig piping corrosion problems, subsea bolt failures, refinery tower, production platform equipment, subsea pipeline failures, and land pipeline failures.
MONITORING OF MANUFACTURING
Howard & Associates has extensive experience performing both domestic and international on-site monitoring during drill pipe, tubing, and casing manufacturing and inspection processes, tool joint machining processes, upsetting processes, heat-treating processes, welding processes, and inspection processes. On-site monitoring services are also provided for internal coatings applied to drill pipe, tubing, casing, and other tubular products.
ON-SITE FAILURE ANALYSIS
Examples of previous projects:
- Cracked and Fractured Storage Deck Beams due to Exposure from Leaking Liquid Nitrogen Tank on Semi-submersible
- Crane Boom Failure
- Investigation of 6 Well Blowout – Land