Expert Witness Testimony

Attorneys who practice energy litigation know how important it is to have the best-qualified engineers on their side in the courtroom. The complex aspects that make up your case need to be explained by qualified personnel to be easily understood.

Signa Engineering Corp., a leading-edge consultant company in the upstream oil & gas industry, has a reliable history of assisting energy attorneys across the region in cases that involve the most problematic of oilfield concepts. Signa's Litigation Support team provides expert witness testimony, in conjunction with high-level computer graphics and other demonstrative evidence, to effectively resolve the toughest of oilfield legal cases.

As part of their everyday drilling duties, our engineering staff analyzes critical wells with insight developed over years of experience to determine and mitigate hazardous drilling factors caused by high temperatures, high-pressured formations, sour gasses, hostile environments and dangers due to remote locations. Subsequently, our staff applies analytical skills to evaluate wells after catastrophic failures to determine what went wrong, and why.

Case Histories

Our expert witness and litigation staff has served as consultants for many major oil drilling companies and exploration companies and numerous energy-based attorneys since 1995. Signa has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in energy litigation cases, utilizing our field-tested engineering skills to provide a detailed analysis of what went wrong and who is responsible. Click on any one of the links below for summaries of specific cases Signa has supported:

Litigation Support

Since 1995, the team at Signa has become known within the industry as the "people to call" for assistance with accident investigations blowouts and for injury and equipment damage liability analysis. We have provided expert witness services and graphics in a wide array of litigation cases, including Blowout Preventer mishaps, Bottom Hole Assembly failures, casing crew accidents, patent design disputes, breach of contract and numerous others.

We have experience in handling virtually every type of upstream oil & gas procedure, including Horizontal Drilling, Underbalanced Drilling, Rig Safety, Plugging and Abandonment, Reservoir Analysis, Production Engineering, Drilling Engineering and Operations, Environmental Engineering and Site Assessment, Economic Analysis and more.

Signa has even developed its own Risk Mitigation Service for drilling operations. After careful and thorough reviews of wellsite conditions and geology, Signa can provide a detailed Hazard Identification (HAZID) and Hazard Operations (HAZOP) analysis to identify inherent risks in a critical drilling program and ways to mitigate these problems.

We have experience in handling virtually every type of upstream oil & gas procedure. Contact Dave Roseland with your expert witness needs, or simply check our case histories or see our client list in pdf format to get a better feel for what we do.