Litigation Support
OSG can provide well educated and qualified materials specialists who can assist in litigation support and expert witness consultations, regarding failures in onshore and offshore oil and gas facilities.
OSG can help support in the form of on-site examinations, laboratory examinations, research, detailed reports, and expert witness testimony. Understanding the cause of a material failure that leads to an accident or economic loss is crucial to any claim settlement or litigation.
OSG’s specialists have extensive experience related to the following activities;
- Root cause analysis
- Detailed design reviews
- Component/material failures
- Corrosion mechanisms /causes
- Coatings and cathodic protection related failures
- Metallurgical / failure analysis
- Heat treatment
- Research material related topics such as corrosion, fracture, fatigue, etc
- Poor quality control practices
- Laboratory testing to simulate material properties
- Fabrication failures related to poor welding practices
- Fitness for purpose studies