Engineering, Integrity, Assurance

Complex projects that have to hold up, onshore and offshore.

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Blackfin 10-Year Anniversary, 2016–2026

Ten Years, A Thousand Projects

A thousand projects in, the odds are we have already solved your problem.

Those thousand projects sit across 233 clients. Single-discipline studies through to multi-billion-dollar programs, in 23 countries, over ten years, without a single lost time incident.

1,000+Projects delivered since 2016
233Clients served
23Countries
ZeroLost time incidents in 380,000 man-hours

How We Engage

A partner of choice.

You will not be handed off. The engineers who scope your work are the ones who design it, and the same team stays with it through detailed design and execution. Start with a single study and stop there if you want to, or hand us the whole project. The way in is sized to your problem, not to our order book.

Master service agreements

A standing arrangement, so the next scope starts without a procurement cycle.

Call-off and task orders

Draw on the bench for a discrete piece of work, at the size the problem actually is.

Seconded into your team

Our engineers embedded in yours, working to your systems and your standards.

Studies, FEED and detailed design

Enter at any stage and carry it to the next, with the same people throughout.

What We Can Do For You

Seven services. Take one, or take all of them.

Select one to see what it covers

Engineering

Multiple disciplines on one bench, so an interface between them never becomes your problem to manage.

  • Process
  • Mechanical
  • Piping
  • Civil & structural
  • Electrical, instrumentation & automation
  • Project engineering
  • Pipeline & risers
  • Installation
  • Subsea
  • Marine & naval architecture

Design & Drafting

From the model everything else is extracted from, through to the drawing a fabricator builds off.

  • 3D plant and equipment modeling
  • Piping isometrics and support details
  • General arrangement and nozzle location
  • Fabrication and assembly drawings
  • Scan to model as-builts
  • Material take-offs

Project Services

Enter at any stage and carry it to the next, with the same people the whole way through.

  • Concept screening and pre-FEED
  • FEED and front end loading
  • Detailed design
  • Installation and fabrication engineering
  • Construction and onsite support
  • Project controls

Asset Integrity

Know the condition, understand the risk, and decide whether to repair, extend or retire.

  • Integrity program development
  • Engineered survey
  • Inspection and condition capture
  • Fitness-for-service
  • Repair and life extension
  • Technical due diligence

Decommissioning

Permitting through to close-out, with the removal engineering that makes the plan executable.

  • Asset retirement obligations and estimating
  • Abandonment permitting and BSEE plans
  • Engineered lifting and removal rigging
  • Pipeline stripping and seafastening design
  • Transportation and motions analysis
  • Offshore readiness survey and execution support

Audit, Risk & Compliance

Assurance that holds up when somebody else checks it, which is usually the point.

  • Quality audits
  • Supplier capability assessment
  • Product and process verification
  • Independent verifier
  • Owner's engineer
  • Management systems

Digitalization

We build our own. Custom tools and digital services developed in house rather than bought off a shelf, and pointed at the work we already do.

  • Built in house, not licensed in
  • Built around how we actually deliver
  • Applied to live project work
  • What they are stays between us and the clients they were built for

Why Blackfin

We are a privately owned engineering firm, ten years old, working out of Houston and Tulsa. We hold ISO 9001, our engineers are licensed in more than twenty states, and we have worked more than 380,000 man-hours without a lost time incident. Operators bring us in as Owner's Engineer or Independent Verification while Contractors and Subcontractors also bring us in as Independent Verification. Our experienced team is trusted and valued throughout the project delivery ecosystem.

We would rather you looked at the work than took our word for it. See what we have delivered.

Quality
ISO 9001 certified
Licensing
PE, 20+ states · NCEES
Prequal
ISNetworld · DISA · Team Alert
Engage
MSA · call-off · secondment