Acute Technological Services

Worldwide Engineering and Welding for the Offshore Industry

Based in Houston, Texas, Acute Technological Services (ATS) provides welding services to the energy industry worldwide for both onshore and offshore activities.

Website

ATS website

Email Address

nphillips@acutetechserv.com

Address

11925 Brittmoore Park Drive,
Texas,
Houston,
77041,
Other,
United States of America

Phone

+1 713 983 9353 ext. 6303

Fax Number

+1 713 983 8482

Based in Houston, Texas, Acute Technological Services (ATS) provides welding services to the energy industry worldwide for both onshore and offshore activities.

ATS has more than 20 years’ experience in providing engineered welding solutions and has evolved as an industry leader, advancing the science of welding engineering and generating technical innovations through the application of new technologies and proven scientific methods.

Fabrication and production welding services

With a high content of proprietary technology and procedures, ATS applies its technical resources to:

Critical components for deepwater production applications (including flex joints, tapered stress joints, top tension risers)
Multi-jointing of steel catenary risers, flowlines and land-based pipelines
Assembly welding and testing of drilling riser components
Welding of super duplex, nickel and other high alloy materials for subsea production and control systems (instrumentation and controls tubing; quick-connect subsea hydraulic couplers; and reeling of umbilical tubing, flying leads)
Automatic and manual welding capabilities
Orbital GTAW and pulsed-GMAW welding; overlay and buttering (CRA and Ferritic); and GTAW, SAW, SMAW, FCAW, GMAW and PAW
Automated CNC tube bending and installation services (control tubing for trees, HDUs, UTAs, flying leads and cobra heads)
In-house digital X-ray capabilities
Welding of high-strength coiled pipe and coiled tubing (onshore and offshore installations)

Welding engineering consulting services

ATS employs professional staff that possess, in total, over 250 years’ experience in welding, engineering and inspection.

ATS provides worldwide welding engineering support to the oil and gas industry.

We can provide automatic orbital GTA and PGMA welding for superior weld performance in critical service applications, such as SCR pipe, lay collar forgings, flex joints and stress risers.

ATS offers developmental welding, materials evaluation and pre-qualification of high-strength pipe for deepwater production SCRs, flowlines, jumpers, flow loops and other subsea hardware.

We can provide automatic orbital GTA welding of super duplex and high nickel alloys for subsea instrumentation and controls, as well as down-hole applications.

3D modeling, CNC bending, installation and welding of control tubing on subsea trees, manifolds, HDUs, UTAs (topside and subsea) and flying lead terminations are among our capabilities.

Our staff can provide guidance about engineering for deepwater systems; 3D modeling and design capabilities; materials and welding specification development; field welding engineering and inspection services; quality systems management; welding systems specification and application training; production weld monitoring services (data logging); and non-destructive testing (NDT).

Welding research and development

ATS offers a number of customized research and development solutions, including procedure development and qualification; process and systems development for welding and inspection applications; consumable and material evaluations; and corrosion testing, welding metallurgy and failure analysis.

The company also offers specialized weldability testing, including:

Toughness compatibility, CTOD and crack susceptibility (Tekken, CTS and Battelle restraint)
Seeded defect for AUT inspection development
High productivity optimization

White Papers

ATS: Supporting the Offshore Industry with Automated and Mechanized Welding Systems and Procedures

ATS: Supporting the Offshore Industry with Automated and Mechanized Welding Systems and Procedures

Press Releases

ATS Supports Offshore Industry with Automated and Mechanised Welding Systems and Procedures

Texas-based Acute Technological Services (ATS) is positioned to provide rapid response services to the demands of today's energy industry for onshore and offshore activities worldwide. ATS has invested many man-hours to developing automated and mechanized welding systems and procedures
ATS Answers Call for Critical Welding Services

Acute Technological Services (ATS) is an industry leader in the engineering, design, qualification and fabrication of complex deepwater production systems. Serving as a valuable resource to the oil and gas industry, ATS provides welding engineering services, inspection services, developmental wel

Projects

Girassol FPSO, Luanda, Angola

Girassol is one of the four major production hubs of Block 17, which is operated by TotalEnergies.
Independence Hub, Gulf of Mexico

Production from the Independence Hub platform was stopped in December 2015 and decommissioning was completed in 2019.
East Area Natural Gas Liquids Two (NGL II) Project, Bonny Island, Nigeria

NGL II contributes 45,000 barrels of natural gas liquids to the total production of the operator Mobil Producing Nigeria.
Horn Mountain Field, Gulf of Mexico

The Horn Mountain is an operating oil and associated gas field located off the coast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico.
Greater Plutonio Development, Block 18, Offshore Angola

The Greater Plutonio development, comprising the Galio, Cromio, Paladio, Plutonio and Cobalto fields, lies in 1,200m to 1,600m deep water, approximately 160km north-west of Luanda in the Block 18 concession, offshore Angola.
Kizomba Offshore Field Deepwater Project, Angola

Kizomba oil field lies in Block 15 offshore Angola, marking one of the first tranches of deepwater acreage offered by the Angolan Government.
Kikeh Floating Production, Storage and Offloading Development, Malaysia

The Kikeh field is located 120km north-west of the island of Labuan in Block K, offshore Sabah, East Malaysia, in water depths of approximately 1,330m.
Nansen and Boomvang Oil and Gas Fields, Gulf of Mexico

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Mars Oil and Gas Field Project, Gulf of Mexico

The Mars field is located in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 209.2km south-east of New Orleans, US.
Na Kika Oil and Gas Fields, Gulf of Mexico

The Na Kika field extends over Missisipi Canyon blocks 474, 429, 657, 607, 522, 520, 383 at a water depth of 6,000ft in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 225km south-east of New Orleans, Louisiana, US.
Bonga Deep-water Project, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Bonga is the first deepwater project for the Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO) and for Nigeria.
Agbami Oilfield

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Longhorn Gas Field

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Fogelberg Gas and Condensate Field Development, Norwegian Sea

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Macondo Prospect, Gulf of Mexico

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Albacore, Taranaki Basin

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Pyrenees Project

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Kaskida Offshore Field, Gulf of Mexico

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Jubilee Field - Ghana

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K2 Field

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Premier-Ooguruk Offshore Oil Field

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Usan Offshore Oil Field, OPL 222, Nigeria

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Knotty Head Field

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Pazflor Field Development

Pazflor is located in deepwater offshore Angola block 17, 150km (93 miles) off the coast of Angola and 40km (25 miles) n
Genghis Khan Development

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Shenzi Deepwater Oil and Gas Field, Gulf of Mexico

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Perdido Regional Host Development

The Perdido Regional Host development lies in the Gulf of Mexico, approximately 200 miles south of Freeport (Texas). It
Tahiti

Tahiti is located in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico, approximately 190 miles (306km) south of New Orleans. It lies in G
Blind Faith Subsea Development

Blind Faith is located in approximately 7,000ft of water at Mississippi Canyon blocks 695 and 696 in the Gulf of Mexico.
Thunder Hawk Field

Thunder Hawk lies in Mississippi Canyon block 734 in the Gulf of Mexico 150 miles south-east of New Orleans, in water de
Piranema Field, Coast of Aracaju

The Piranema field lies in the Sergipe / Alagoas basin off the coast of Aracaju in the state of Sergipe, Brazil. It is o
Cottonwood Field

The Cottonwood field is located in the Garden Banks quadrant, block 244, in the US sector of the Gulf of Mexico. The fie
Cascade and Chinook Subsea Development, Gulf of Mexico

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King Field, Gulf of Mexico

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Rosa Oil Field Development, Angola

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Dalia Field

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Holstein Oil and Gas Development

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Mad Dog Field

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Constitution / Ticonderoga Field

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Glider, Gulf of Mexico

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Llano

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Marco Polo Field

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Bombax Pipeline Development

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Mardi Gras Oil and Gas Transportation System

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Manatee Field, Gulf of Mexico

Manatee is located approximately 160 miles southwest of New Orleans in Green Canyon Block 155 of the Gulf of Mexico. It
Magnolia Deepwater Oil and Gas Field, Gulf of Mexico

The Magnolia field is located approximately 180 miles south of Cameron, Louisiana, US, in Garden Banks blocks 783 and 78
Matterhorn Field, Gulf of Mexico

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Canyon Express Gas Field

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Phoenix / Typhoon Oilfield, Gulf of Mexico

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Serrano and Oregano

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Brutus Oil and Gas Field Project

Brutus is located 165 miles south-west of New Orleans, USA.
Gyrfalcon Gas Field Project, Gulf of Mexico

Gyrfalcon came onstream in December 1999, based on the world’s first 15,000psi subsea tree.
Petronius Field Project, Gulf of Mexico

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Sakhalin Energy Oil and Gas Field Project

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Exxon oil and gas field projects

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Petro-Canada oilfield project

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Troika Oil Field Project, Green Canyon 244 Unit, Gulf of Mexico

The Troika oilfield is located 150mi offshore Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico, in Green Canyon block 244.
Mensa Gas Field Project, Gulf of Mexico

Mensa is located 140 miles south-east of New Orleans and encompasses Mississippi Canyon blocks 686, 687, 730 and 731.
Neptune Field, Gulf of Mexico

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Tahoe Shell Oil and Gas Field Project

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Triton Oil Field, North Sea Central

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Ursa Oil and Gas Field Project

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Mobil oil and gas field project

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