Tide Water Integrity Services, LLC is an engineering consultancy providing expertise on Pipeline and Fixed equipment Structural Integrity Engineering. Serving the upstream and midstream oil and gas industries, Tide Water has broad domestic and international experience. They also act as Technical Advisor to investors and venture capitalists. For fixed equipment such as Pipelines, Process Piping, Pressure Vessels, and Tanks, Tide water consulting services include:
- Pipeline Risk Assessment
- Pipeline Inspection
- Data integration
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- Asset Fitness-for-Service
- Design Life-Extension Analyses
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| Bryan Melan, PE, Owner and Principal Engineer at Tide Water, has over 40 years of experience in Mechanical and Structural Engineering and Project Management in the upstream and midstream oil and gas industries, including 30 years specializing in Pipeline Integrity Management and Engineering with Sunoco Logistics, Marathon-Ashland Pipeline, and Marathon Oil Company. He is the holder of two patents for a Pipeline Integrity Management Process. He also worked as a project engineer/manager for Amoco Production Co. and McDermott International.
Mr. Melan was most recently Pipeline Integrity Subject Matter Expert for Marathon Oil's worldwide assets. Just prior to that, he served as Pipeline Technical Authority for Marathon Oil UK ltd. and Marathon Ireland. He is the chairman of the NACE task group responsible for standard SP-0102 (In-Line Inspection of Pipelines), former vice-chairman of the NACE ILI committee for In Line Inspection technical information exchange, and vice-chairman of the NACE task group responsible for Publication 35100, the “In-Line Inspection State-of-the-Art” document. |
Mr. Melan was also past chairman of the API workgroup which developed the API 1163, “In-Line Inspection Systems Qualification” standard, and past chairman of an ad-hoc committee established at the request of the USDOT Office of Pipeline Safety (currently PHMSA) in creating the frameworks for API 1163, NACE SP0102, and ASNT ILI-PQ (In-line Inspection Personnel Qualification and Certification). While on assignment in the UK, he participated in the creation of Parts 4 and 5 of British Standard PD8010 (Code of Practice for Pipelines).
Along with his duties at Tide Water, Mr. Melan develops and presents seminars on the topics of In-Line Inspection and Pipeline Integrity Management for domestic and International audiences.
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