Stress Engineering Services

This morning at API's 2026 Summer Exploration and Production Standards Meeting, Stress Engineering Services' Andreas Katsounas was recognized with a Service Award for his contributions as part of SC5.

Standards development depends on the dedication of industry professionals who help advance safety, reliability, and technical excellence across the energy sector. We are proud to see Andreas recognized for his commitment and service to the industry.

Congratulations, Andreas, on this well-deserved honor!

This week, we hosted another round of our Lunch & Learn series on June 9 and 10, with Sathish Ramamoorthy presenting on Fitness-For-Service and providing an overview of three different case studies, continuing our commitment to advancing engineering knowledge across disciplines.

For 50 years, we've built technical excellence through the continuous exchange of proven methodologies, lessons from complex investigations, and rigorous validation practices. These sessions reinforce our multidisciplinary expertise and help us resolve critical uncertainty for our clients.

At ASME OMAE 2026 in Tokyo this week, Kenneth Bhalla presents research on a hybrid physics-based digital twin system — built on NeoSight — for dynamically positioned drilling vessels.

Combining physics-based modeling with machine learning, the system generates real-time watch circles, optimizes vessel operability, and supports wellhead integrity in demanding offshore environments.

Thursday, June 11. 10:20 AM–12:00 PM JST.

Our engineers will be in St. Louis next week for the API 2026 Summer Exploration and Production Standards Meeting, June 15–19. They will attend and participate in standards-setting committees, contributing technical expertise to the specifications that govern oilfield equipment and materials across the industry.

When your operations must meet API requirements, it matters who helped establish them. Our engineers don't just apply these standards; they help shape them, bringing 50 years of field-validated methodology to the process of defining what rigorous looks like.

Independence is not a business preference. It is a technical requirement for defensible engineering analysis.

Our 100% ESOP ownership structure ensures that technical judgment remains independent of external commercial pressures. Our conclusions serve the engineering question, not the client's preference. Fifty years. Zero conflicts of interest.

The problems that reach us exist at the frontier of technical complexity. Questions that exceed most firms' experience. Analysis that requires infrastructure most organizations do not own.

This is the work we have refined over fifty years. We exist for engineering problems that require definitive answers. Proven methodology. Complete independence. Analysis that withstands challenge.

This Memorial Day, we honor those who gave their lives in service to our country. Their sacrifice secures the freedoms we exercise every day, and we observe this day in their memory.

Material selection determines performance limits. Material degradation defines operational risk.

Our materials engineering practice addresses questions that arise when standard specifications do not account for actual service conditions. These include corrosion mechanisms in complex chemical environments, hydrogen embrittlement in high-pressure systems, and thermal degradation under sustained elevated temperatures.

We establish what is occurring at the microstructural level. We quantify the progression. We determine the implications for continued operation. This is engineering that protects performance by eliminating material uncertainty.

Independent. Rigorous. Defensible.