(936) 449-6937

Deatech Consulting Company

Deatech Consulting CompanyDeatech Consulting CompanyDeatech Consulting Company

Deatech Consulting Company

Deatech Consulting CompanyDeatech Consulting CompanyDeatech Consulting Company
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • More
    • Home
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

About Us

R.D. Don Deaver is a Licensed Professional Engineer with over 49  years of experience in the oil and gas industry.  Don graduated from  Texas A&M University in 1964, with a Bachelor of Science in  Engineering. 

In 1997, Don created Deatech  Consulting Company, in order to provide expert witness and consulting  services in the areas of pipeline and piping operations and maintenance,  fluid measurement, pipeline and piping design and construction, leakage  testing and analysis, pipeline inspection pigging, mechanical damage  assessment, integrity analyses and management, pipeline and piping  welding, metallurgy, nondestructive testing, valving, corrosion control,  pigging, pressure testing, fracture control, failure analyses, pipeline  and piping repairs, statistical data analyses, stress analyses,  ethylene decomposition, accident investigation, fire exposure, workplace  safety and regulatory compliance.

Don has provided  expert witness testimony and consulting services in cases involving some  of the largest and most catastrophic gas pipeline explosions in the  United States, including the Pacific Gas & Electric rupture in San  Bruno, California; the El Paso Natural Gas rupture and explosion in  Carlsbad, New Mexico; the Olympic Pipeline rupture and fire in  Bellingham, Washington; the Enterprise Gas rupture and fire in Johnson  County, Texas; and the Explorer Pipeline rupture in North Texas.

Don  also sits on numerous boards and committees relating to pipeline  safety, and has authored a number of publications on pipeline safety and  operations.  Links to a number of these publications are listed below.

Publications

Business Regulation of Pipelines (docx)Download
Fitness for Service Analyses in Pipeline Integrity Management (docx)Download
Inaccuracy of Metal Loss In-Line Inspections in Older Pipelines (docx)Download
Petroleum Pipeline Industry Use of Inadequate Integrity Acceptance Limits in O&M (docx)Download
Pipeline Safety Metrics (docx)Download
Dangers of Hydrogen Sulfide in Eagle Ford Gas Gathering Lines (docx)Download
Texas Landowner Rights vs. Pipeline Condemnation Rights (docx)Download
Title 49 Chapter 601 of the United States Code of Pipeline Safety (docx)Download
Transmission Pipelines and Land Uses (docx)Download
OSHA Regulations Applicable to Pipeline (docx)Download
US DOT Regulatory Evaluation of Amendment 192_102 (docx)Download
Inadequate Pipeline Personnel Qualificaitons (docx)Download
Permian Highway Gas Pipeline Probable Impact Distance (docx)Download
Excessive Regulatory Exemptions on Low Hoop Stress Piping (docx)Download
Inadequacies of the U.S. DOT PIR Equation (docx)Download
Unresolved Issues with Calculation of the Remaining Strength of Corroded Pipe (docx)Download
Pipeline Fitness-for-Service Assessments Need for Pipeline Fracture Initiation Control (docx)Download

Copyright © 2021 Deatech Consulting Company - All Rights Reserved.


Powered by GoDaddy Website Builder