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Engineering Department

Featured TechCorr Employee

New Gulf Coast Regional Manager

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To All,
 
As this year comes to close I wanted to touch base with everyone and give you an update on some recent moves, additions, and changes.  I am a firm believer in keeping everyone up to date on where we are now and the direction we are going.  As we complete our 6th successful year of business we would like to extend a special thank you to everyone for your continued support.  
 
As we continue to grow our client base and reach into new territories it requires us to occasionally reposition ourselves to better achieve our end goal of being the best and most available service provider in our industry. Tom Holt has been relentlessly pursuing expanding the Port Neches operations east into Louisiana and Mississippi.  In his pursuit he has been gaining more and more of a foot hold while still trying to manage the Houston and Port Neches operations simultaneously. To better allow him to work on the eastward expansion and continue to grow the Port Neches facility we have brought in Aaron Lund to cover the Houston operations and the southern gulf coast. 
 
Aaron and Tom will split the original Gulf Coast Region into two parts.  From Port Neches and stretching east will be known as the Southeast Region making Tom the Southeast Region Manager.  Beginning in Houston and stretching south will be the new Gulf Coast Region making Aaron the Gulf Coast Region Manager.  Both of these areas have an immense amount of work and responsibility and will keep these gentlemen very busy and continue to grow and be successful with all of our support.  
 
In addition to this we have also placed the Industrial Services Division, (SpiderWrap, tank cleaning, InTank), under the oversight of Bert Montee and made it a part of the South Central Region.  Bruce Warner and Chris Miller, along with the support and contacts Bert has provided, landed our first big industrial services contract from Sunoco Logistics in Longview, Texas.  That will take them through the first part of next year. Congratulations guys.     

With these recent changes and others made in the past 6 months we are looking forward to a very successful 2010 and appreciate the hard work and loyalty of all of our employees in our continued success.  Thank you also to all of our customers for your continued commitment and allowing us to provide you with the best services possible.
 
I would like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season and a Happy New Year.
 
Remember that safety begins at home.  

Thank you,
  
John A. Spruiell
Chief Operations Officer

 Engineering Department:

Despite the economical situation facing the world, the Engineering Division is steadily performing work for various companies: 

1. TechCorr was awarded a project with Praxair to perform a Mechanical Integrity evaluation through ECDA. This project has a duration of approximately six (06) months. The job performance of Jorge Vasquez, Yorvy Vargas and Rami Dawodi was commended by Praxair and deserves our recognition. 

2.  We are performing work for DISA who is a Spanish owned company for which we are writing a Mechanical Integrity Manual for their Pipelines. DISA handles finished products from a refinery located in Canary Islands. Since there were no standards available in the literature that addresses the integrity issues for this type of pipelines, this documents promises to be a pioneering one for this type of services. 

3.  We are performing Fitness-for-Service analysis for various bullets for Oxy in California. We want to thank Chris Joiner who is our salesperson for Western USA Region for his support on this job.

4. Thanks to the dedication of Jose Soto and Enrique Mantilla in performing Failure Analysis reports for TPC. Both of them will continue to provide TechCorr with failure analysis studies. 

5.  For BPCL (Bharat Petroleum Company Limited, India) we have been performing the Risk Based Analysis evaluation for a project that is funded by USTDA. Srivandana Vuppala has been instrumental in performing such evaluation and has been proactive in learning the RBA technique and applying it to the different equipment within the refinery. 

6. We have also performed coating evaluations for Kinder Morgan. Currently our staff is composed with NACE Level I and Level II Coating Inspectors. Our Engineering Division is expanding to the growing demand of our inspectors. 

7. We also continue with the technical support to EMS in the area of Mechanical Integrity and also performing Internal Corrosion Direct Assessment for the 2.000 kms of pipeline that composes PEMEX's "Sistema 4" Project.  

8. We have a sub-division that has been active in performing Finite Element Analysis for tank roofs, offshore structures and civil structures.  

TechCorr has developed and just released a state-of-the-art WEB Based Software for the Mechanical Integrity Management, Information Data Management regarding Corrosion, Chemical Treatment and other Mechanical Integrity related activities. This software was designed that it could easily be customized to mimic installation our clients may have. Its ease in assembling the flow process in a visual manner and it will allow for operators to relate to their systems avoiding the complications of written directories and information. License of this software has been purchased by EMS to manage their PEMEX Sistema 4 Project.
 
Currently, this software is also being used for PETROWARAO (Peremco-PDVSA) for their installations offshore located in the eastern region in Venezuela.
 
Our Engineering Division personnel are very active in NACE in activities such as:  Vice-Chairmanship for the writing of the Standard Practice NACE Wet Gas Internal Corrosion Direct Assessment and the Information Exchange Group "Gas Gathering Rule". We have actively participated in the Development of the Advanced Internal Corrosion Course for NACE and International Director for the NACE Foundation.
 
Our Engineering Division signed an agreement with SURPLUS Solutions which is a Brazilian Company. This has allowed us to have a presence in Brazil.

If you have any questions regarding our capabilities, experience, our applications, etc., please contact us at 713-524-2768.

Featured TechCorr Employee:

Jorge Vasquez has worked for TechCorr since 2008. Jorge is a metalurgical   engineer and is a certified NACE level III for external corrosion. He is our Featured TechCorr Employee because of his excellent work in getting the Praxair project. Praxair has shown great satisfaction with Jorge and his team performance. His good performance on this job has raised interest from other potential clients.
 
"The way he addresses all enquiries sent to him, shows a lot of professionalism," said Carlos Palacios.

New Gulf Coast Regional Manager: 

We would like to welcome Aaron Lund to our TechCorr team. He is our new Gulf Coast Regional Manager and is in charge of the operations & business development.  
 

If you have any questions or would like information on our Gulf Coast Regional Services please contact Aaron Lund at 281-961-8763 or alund@techcorr.com.