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David Grinter Associates Ltd

David Grinter Associates Ltd · Company 08780467

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David Grinter Associates Ltd offers extensive technical expertise and consultancy services within the coatings industry. With over 25 years of experience, the company provides advice on coatings and wet insulation, produces technical documentation and specifications, and conducts site surveys and coating condition reports. Their services are crucial for sectors including Oil & Gas, Marine, Heavy Industrial, Protective Coatings, Tank Lining, Pipe Coating, Wind Power & Renewables, and Highways, Bridges & Infrastructure.

The company's founder, David Grinter, brings over 19 years of on-site inspection experience across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has worked on significant projects such as the BP Tortue subsea gas pipeline and the Shah Deniz 2 Gas pipeline, providing lead coatings and insulation consultancy. His expertise covers a wide range of coating processes, surface preparation, material selection, failure analysis, and passive fire protection.

David Grinter Associates Ltd is committed to delivering practical, innovative, and accurate problem-solving. They ensure conformance with client technical specifications and industry standards, offering full-time inspection availability and witness activities to guarantee project success. Their approach is highly regarded, with testimonials highlighting David's depth of knowledge, reliability, and professional aplomb in handling complex demands.

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Project experience from company website

BP Tortue subsea gas pipeline project

West Africa

Lead Coatings Engineer for BP Tortue sub-sea gas pipeline project, off the coast of West Africa. Full responsibility for all coatings related aspects of the FEED, Detailed Design and Execute stages of the project, including the selection of 3LPP and Solid PP 5 layer MLPP wet insulation linepipe coating systems, associated Field Joint Coatings (FJC) systems, Concrete weight coating (CWC) for export lines together with coatings for all manifold, rigid spools, riser & riser support structure (RSS) and all subsea equipment. Documentation review (ITP, MPS, Reports, TQ and Deviation request etc) attendance at PQT's for all of scopes of work with a coatings content.

Client · BP

BP Shah Denis 2 Project - Caspian Sea Gas Pipeline Development

Caspian Sea

Provides Technical support for all coatings related matters, including all pipeline surface preparation and coating processes to include - Wet Insulation: IMPU, IMPP, Syntatic Silicone, 3LPP & 3LPE. Pipe line Bouyancy to include Distributed buoyancy (Export lines) and buckle initiator (Infield Flow Line) modules. Review of documentation and suppliers coatings and insulation processes, PQT's, PPT's and ITP's in line with BP technical specifications and requirements. He also provides on site attendance and witness activities, to ensure conformance with all aspects of company procedures and policies are adhered to.

Client · BP

SemLogistics, Milford Havern Ltd.

South Wales

Provision of all inspection solutions and coating specification design, to facilitate the needs and requirements of this large Storage Facility in South Wales. SemLogistics Milford Haven is the largest independent petroleum products storage facility in the United Kingdom, and accounts for almost 25% of the United Kingdom's independent storage capacity and is the only one capable of handling crude oil. David Grinter Associates Ltd has completed coating survey's of site storage facilities and associated pipework, to produce surface preparation and coatings specifications for all areas, to include tank external coatings, internal tank linings, ladders and walkways, pipework, supports and valve assemblies etc. Planned refurbishment of the complete external and internal coating systems of two storage tanks were scheduled to start in October 2014 with the complete refurbishment of all critical storage facilities to be on an ongoing basis over a 10 year period, Full inspection of surface preparation and coating processes and procedures to be undertaken by DGA Ltd.

Client · SemLogistics

EnQuest Producer FPSO Contract

Wallsend, Tyne & Wear. UK

Technical Advisor. Enquest Producer (FPSO) - Knightsbridge Project - EnQuest is an independent UK oil and gas development and production company. Heavy involvement with the maintenance and repair of topside production modules and ancillaries, pipework, support structures, weather decks, water ballast, cargo and slop tank refurbishments etc. In accordance with Bluewater, AMEC and Hempel Specifications on the vessels most recent maintenance period at OGN North Sea, Wallsend, Tyne & Wear. UK. Daily inspection and advice has given to project personnel in relation to coatings specification, surface preparation and application procedures, throughout the project. Undertaking all coating survey and inspection requirements, to ballast tanks, cargo tanks and slop tanks, topside modules, main and process decks to achieve a successful project completion.

Client · EnQuest

Talisman / Sinopec Energy UK - Montrose BLP Project

Technical Advisor. Talisman / Sinopec Energy UK (Montrose BLP Project), MonArb Jacket for the Montrose Area Redevelopment (MAR) Project. - Jacket Production. Carried out daily coatings inspection to Jacket structure, Caissons, Risers and break-out spools. Breakout spools coated in Ceramic Polymer (Pro-guard) with Syntactic Silicone insulation (Contratherm).

Client · Talisman / Sinopec Energy UK

Accreditations from company website

  • FROSIO III Certificate
  • Confined Space Training

Clients mentioned from company website

BP, EnQuest, Offshore Group Newcastle, Talisman / Sinopec Energy UK, SemLogistics, Wood Group, Bluewater, AMEC, Hempel, McDermott, INEOS, Glencore and 2 others.

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Questions about David Grinter Associates Ltd from the record on this page

What does David Grinter Associates Ltd do?

Providing technical consultancy, site surveys, coating condition reports and inspection solutions to the coatings Industry as a whole. Their listed services include Marine & water engineering, Civil engineering, Insulation and Fire protection.

Where is David Grinter Associates Ltd based?

David Grinter Associates Ltd is registered at CWMBRAN, NP44 3QF, in Wales.

What areas does David Grinter Associates Ltd cover?

David Grinter Associates Ltd states that it works across Europe, Middle East, Asia (Pacific) and West Africa.

Is David Grinter Associates Ltd still trading?

Companies House lists David Grinter Associates Ltd as active.

What accreditations does David Grinter Associates Ltd hold?

David Grinter Associates Ltd displays FROSIO III Certificate and Confined Space Training on its website.

What sectors does David Grinter Associates Ltd work in?

David Grinter Associates Ltd works in Energy, Infrastructure and Industrial.

When was David Grinter Associates Ltd established?

David Grinter Associates Ltd was incorporated on 2013-11-19.

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