Patrick Laurendine

With over a half century of experience and thousands of installations worldwide, Petrotech provides customized control solutions in a full turnkey package, from engineering concept to installation and commissioning. Petrotech provides an extensive range of products and engineering services for rotating machinery and plant control system upgrades, mechanical retrofits, standalone control products and new equipment solutions for turbomachinery industry OEMs. Petrotech’s products include integrated control systems for gas, hydro and steam turbines, generators, reciprocating/diesel engines, compressors, centrifugal and axial compressors, pumps and all associated ancillary systems. Our turnkey services include engineering design (software and hardware), project management, control panel fabrication, system integration, site I&E services, commissioning, training, customer service and startup. Petrotech has remained committed to providing its customers with advanced controls that improve the performance and mechanical reliability of turbo and rotating machinery. This commitment is demonstrated by continued focus and improvement of its core competencies and turnkey solutions. Advances in the company’s control software development have allowed Petrotech to develop its fully open architecture so that it continues to be transportable to all major commercially available control platforms. These Petrotech control algorithms are based on application knowledge of the company’s founding members and extensive field experience. The advanced functionality continues to evolve with the development of additional capabilities that serve the customer’s ever-changing needs. In our peer group of turbomachinery control system companies, Petrotech provides the most innovative solutions for unusual and difficult control challenges. Our corporate office is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, with full-service offices in Houston, Texas and Bury St. Edmunds, Surrey, in the UK.