Process Safety
Know the hazard.Make the decision.
Independent engineering consultancy · Houston, Texas
Two disciplines.
One practical view.
Pelican Engineering brings senior technical judgment to the moments that shape a facility: understanding its hazards, defining its concept and making the commercial framework work.
Make the decision.
Energy
Frame the concept.Move it forward.
Technical clarity across the project lifecycle
Where we work
Engineering judgment at the consequential points.
Pelican operates through two distinct practices, joined by a common approach: define the basis, surface the real choices and leave a decision-ready record.
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Process Safety
Structured hazard insight for operating facilities and project teams.
Facilitation and technical support for teams assessing process hazards, safeguards and escalation scenarios. The work is grounded in the facility basis and documented for accountable follow-through.
01PHA / HAZOP facilitation
02Layer of Protection Analysis
03Process Safety Management support
04Risk-based review & documentation
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Energy
Early definition and commercial perspective for complex energy projects.
Concept development, techno-commercial review and project advisory for offshore production, floating systems and emerging energy infrastructure.
01Field & concept development
02FPSO / floating production advisory
03Techno-commercial assessment
04Contract & execution strategy
Recent events
What we are working on now.
Short updates from Pelican's Process Safety and Energy practices. New entries will be added here as work advances and public milestones are reached.
Energy R&D
AI Pods X and Valora move into project-use-case development
Pelican is developing site-specific concepts that pair modular AI computing with existing power and water infrastructure, using Valora thermal cascade valorization to explore productive uses for recovered compute heat.
Explore AI Pods XEnergy R&D
Provisional patent application filed
A U.S. provisional patent application was filed for the integrated AI Pods X and Valora concept. The filing establishes a patent-pending basis while project-specific engineering and commercial development continue.
Process Safety
West African refinery PHA program advances
Pelican's Process Safety practice has supported HAZOP and LOPA work across crude, conversion, treating and utility systems, with controlled study records and final-report development.
Representative experience
Selected work, described with discretion.
These examples are limited to engagements supported by the project archive and already-public project summaries. Confidential detail remains out of view.
Refinery PHA program
HAZOP and LOPA support across crude, conversion, treating and utility systems for a West African refinery.
PHA · HAZOP · LOPA
Offshore green hydrogen concepts
Concept studies comparing fixed and floating production approaches and the reuse of existing North Sea infrastructure.
Concept · Estimate · Sensitivities
Deepwater FPSO tender support
Focused advisory support for a competitive floating production tender.
Tender · Technical review
FPSO contracting & operations
Contract, performance-test and operations advisory across lease, EPC, O&M and BOOT structures.
Commercial · Performance · O&M
FPSO FEED assessment
Techno-commercial review of a deepwater development's floating production FEED.
FEED · Benchmarking · Decision support
Project descriptions intentionally omit non-public deliverables, findings and client-confidential information.
Project history
Selected engagements, 2019–2026
2025–26
Process Safety
Refinery HAZOP and LOPA program
Multi-unit PHA support covering process and utility systems for a West African refinery.
2023
Energy
Deepwater FPSO tender support
Technical review and decision support for a competitive floating-production tender.
2022–23
Energy
Offshore green-hydrogen concepts
Fixed and floating concept studies, infrastructure-reuse screening, estimates and sensitivities.
2021
Energy
FPSO performance and commercial advisory
Independent review of performance-test, commercial and operating considerations.
2020
Energy
FPSO O&M contracting
Operations-and-maintenance scope, contract and KPI development for a deepwater production project.
2019
Energy
Offshore corporate and fleet review
Techno-commercial comparison and strategic review of an international floating-production portfolio.
2019
Energy
Deepwater FPSO FEED assessment
Independent engineering and commercial review supporting an offshore development decision.
This public history is intentionally selective. Client names, commercial terms, findings and controlled deliverables are omitted unless already approved for public release.
Research & development
Ideas being developed—not deployment claims.
The portfolio below is separate from completed consulting work. Each item remains research or concept development unless expressly stated otherwise.
Process Safety R&D
Internal methods & tools
Internal development
PAI / PSM
An AI-assisted, source-traceable workflow that reads engineer-marked drawings to capture equipment-grid references, P&ID locations, drawing numbers and HAZOP nodes; uses that structured basis to populate OpenPHA; and extracts structured study information into controlled final reports. It supports engineers and traceability—it does not make autonomous engineering judgments or replace facilitation, Technical Authority review or approval.
Energy R&D
Concept portfolio
GFPSO
An offshore infrastructure concept integrating power generation, modular compute and optional fresh-water production on a marine platform.
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Hydrogen and ammonia concepts exploring pathways from flared or stranded gas toward lower-carbon and renewable production configurations.
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Modular, ISO-based compute pods intended to add serviceable AI capacity alongside existing power and water infrastructure.
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A thermal-cascade method intended to recover useful compute heat and apply it to a compatible water-production duty.
Explore ValoraNo commercial deployment, customer sponsorship, guaranteed performance or approval is implied. Screening results require project-specific engineering and independent validation.
About Pelican
Small by design.
Experienced by nature.
Pelican Engineering LLC is a Houston-based professional engineering consultancy founded in Texas in 2014.
Its two practices are led directly by senior engineers whose careers span operating support, technical assurance, project development, engineering execution and professional education.
Clients work with the people accountable for the judgment, the technical basis and the resulting work product.
Talk with a practice leadPractice leadership
Two complementary careers connect process safety, project development and applied R&D.
Process Safety
Dr. Nancy Faulk, CCPSC
Managing Director · Chemical Engineer · Process Safety Specialist
Nancy brings 35 years of work in risk assessment, process safety and technical education across upstream, midstream, downstream, mining and power facilities. Before joining Pelican, she spent 15 years with Siemens Energy as a Principal Engineer and Technical Advisor.
30+HAZOP / LOPA studies
Ph.D.Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M
GlobalProjects and training across five regions
Her technical record spans HAZOP and LOPA facilitation, pressure-relief and flare systems, mechanical integrity, risk-based inspection, quantitative risk assessment, chemical reactivity and process-safety assurance. She has trained engineers and clients, established international execution centers, and published or presented work on management of change, relief-system integrity, flare risk, asset data and renewable-energy process safety.
API 580 certified · AIChE and DIERS participant · Published in Process Safety Progress
Energy
Puneet Sharma, P.E.
Founder · Chemical Engineer · Project Development Executive
Puneet brings 35 years in upstream, midstream and energy projects, including more than 20 years in floating production systems and participation in more than 45 FPSO projects worldwide.
45+FPSO projects
21Awarded FPSO contracts
$30B+Reported contract value
As a former MODEC Vice President, he led multidisciplinary project-development teams through prospect selection, FEED, estimating, contracting and award. His work combines technical definition with commercial strategy across FPSO, FSO, FLNG, FSRU, floating power-and-water systems, gas processing and pipeline developments.
Texas Professional Engineer · M.B.A., International Business · B.S., Chemical Engineering
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