Designed to accelerate service velocity, the expanded facility allows energy producers and process plant operators to complete total compressor, turbine, and rotor overhauls locally without shipping critical machinery to external vendors or overseas facilities.
Key operational capabilities now fully available at the expanded Houston COE include:
- Comprehensive full-fleet restoration: complete single-source repair, overhauls, and rerates for EEE and non-EEE rotating equipment, establishing a unified service hub for complex plant fleets.
- In-house over-speed spin testing: a testing pit capable of mechanically validating impellers up to the 110M frame size (76-in. dia.), guaranteeing mechanical integrity prior to field re-installation.
- Advanced metallurgical welding: submerged arc welding and precision laser welding cells engineered to restore damaged shafts, impellers, and rotors to original OEM specifications.
- Total fleet reverse engineering: high-precision 3D optical scanning and CMM inspection suites to rapidly engineer and manufacture replace-in-kind impellers and wear components for multi-vendor machinery.
- Strategic forging inventory: on-site stock of standard material forgings paired with in-house CNC machining and cylindrical grinders, ensuring immediate turnaround on critical replacement parts.
- Integrated regional ecosystem: direct access to priority local partnerships for high-velocity oxygen-fuel (HVOF) coatings, specialised surface treatments, and five-axis milling.
"Unplanned downtime is the single biggest threat to our customers' operational margins, and managing multiple repair vendors only adds risk and delay," said Shane Reph, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Ebara Elliott Energy. "We expanded our Houston Center of Excellence to create one of the most comprehensive single-source turbomachinery facilities in the Western Hemisphere. Whether a customer is running EEE equipment or another manufacturer's fleet, our team in Houston now has the complete in-house capability to inspect, weld, machine, balance, spin test, and return critical machinery to service with unprecedented speed."