CGIS’ long-term association and supply of Severe Service Valves has provided us with expertise that has led to consulting contracts with some of the world’s leading Engineering, Oil & Gas and Mining companies. Our consulting service has saved our clients millions of dollars and has prevented possible environmental catastrophes. Most notably, Ross Waters, CGIS President, was summoned as an Expert Witness in a legal matter of severe scale environments and knife gate valves.

CGIS can provide consulting services in the following areas:

• Valve specifications for new projects
• Valve specification review
• Expert Witness testimony
• Valve failure analysis
• Valve cost comparisons
• Control valve sizing and selection

Consulting Services Awards

Five-year supply agreement with a major Canadian smelter to improve valve performance and lower cost of ownership

Valve failure analysis of 179 large diameter knife gate valves at a Canadian Oil Sands project

Valve failure analysis of ASME Class 150 rated butterfly valves in a metric PN10 HDPE piping system of leaching of copper sulphide ores in Chile

Expert Witness for Fluor Australia Pty Ltd in the Arbitration between Fluor and Anaconda Operations Pty in the matter of severe scale environments and knife gate valves

Review of entire valve specifications for a $5 billion Oil Sands project in Canada