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Viking Engineering, a GATE Energy Company, is proud to announce the opening of the Viking Engineering Laboratory located in the heart of Houston, Texas. The Viking Laboratory addition will provide clients complete failure investigation and forensic services, metallurgical evaluations, and material testing services directly overseen by Viking’s own engineers and metallurgists.
The Viking Laboratory will provide fit-for-service evaluations, microstructural characterization, finite element analysis (FEA), fracture surface evaluation (SEM/EDS fractography evaluations), mechanical testing (tensile, hardness, CVN), fracture mechanics analysis and fracture mechanics testing (KIC, JIC, J-R) for evaluating complex downhole and pipeline failures. For midstream and downstream clients, the Viking Laboratory offers pipeline failure investigations and forensic services. In addition, the Viking Laboratory provides services to the renewable energy sector.
Jorge L. Garduño, President of Viking Engineering, said, “This laboratory has always been a dream of ours – to combine our engineering expertise with testing verifications to offer a complete failure analysis and materials service. This is yet another differentiator for Viking as we expand our service offerings in not only the oil and gas industry, but the renewable energy landscape as well. We are excited with this new addition to our growing company as we have no doubt this will ultimately allow us to provide our clients with greater value.”
Viking Engineering Lab Services Director, Mario Guerra, said, “The addition of this testing and metallurgical services laboratory will enhance Viking’s multidisciplinary capabilities for solving the most complex problems in the oil & gas industry and to expand our expertise into other sectors of the energy industry.”
For more information on Viking’s Lab services, visit https://www.vikingeng.energy/engineering-lab-services. For more information on Viking Engineering, visit www.vikingeng.energy. For more information on GATE Energy, visit www.gate.energy.
Source: Viking Engineering
