Our multidisciplinary engineering team brings decades of hands-on experience across mechanical, process, materials, corrosion, rotating equipment, and instrumentation and control. We work alongside operating facilities to diagnose issues, improve performance, and develop sustainable, long-term solutions.
About Our Company
Driving Reliability, Integrity, and Safer Operations
From reliability studies and root cause analysis to asset integrity, RBI systems, and process safety reviews — SOS Engineering helps facilities reduce risk, eliminate bad actors, and operate more efficiently. Our experience ensures your systems run safely, reliably, and with confidence.
Comprehensive Project Support at Every Phase
SOS Engineering represents the owner’s interests from concept to commissioning. With decades of experience leading major refinery, upgrader, renewable, and chemical projects, we ensure your project stays aligned with safety standards, technical requirements, and business value — every step of the way.
What We Do
Project Management
Owner-focused project management support that guides industrial and energy projects from concept through commissioning with technical clarity and discipline.
Mechanical, Maintenance & Reliability Engineering
Practical mechanical and reliability engineering solutions that improve equipment performance, extend asset life, and reduce unplanned downtime.
Fired & Non-Fired Heaters and Heat Exchangers
Specialized engineering expertise to optimize the performance, safety, and efficiency of fired equipment and heat transfer systems.
Reliability Studies & Reliability Engineering
Data-driven reliability assessments that identify risk, improve uptime, and support informed maintenance and investment decisions.
Asset Management & PEIM Support
Strategic asset management and integrity support that strengthens lifecycle planning, compliance, and long-term facility performance.
Materials, Corrosion, Welding & Inspection
Advanced materials and corrosion engineering services that manage degradation risks and support safe, reliable operations.
Instrumentation & Process Control Engineering
Instrumentation and control engineering services that enhance automation, system reliability, and operational stability.
Process Safety & Engineering
Process safety engineering solutions that reduce risk, support regulatory compliance, and protect people, assets, and the environment.
Experience You Can Rely On
Our team brings decades of hands-on experience in oil & gas, renewables, minerals processing, and chemical facilities. Let us help guide your next step.
Core Team
George is the CEO and a Mechanical Engineer . He worked for Shell Canada for over 30 years in a variety of roles including project management, operations management and technical management. At Shell George gained experience in Refining, Oil Sands, Upgrading, Styrene and management of intellectual property.
More recently, George was the Executive Manager of a renewable energy company located in Vegreville Alberta.
Harm has been active in the Materials & Corrosion Engineering discipline and Pressure Equipment Integrity discipline since 1981 and started at Shell Research in Amsterdam. His career spans 35 years for Shell in Materials Research, Materials and Corrosion engineering and managing Pressure Integrity Engineering teams in refineries, Upgrading facilities and chemical plants. The last four years of his Shell career he was responsible for leading a team of Materials Engineers in Houston and Calgary that supported Shell Oil and Gas facilities in the America’s. After retiring from Shell, he has been active as a consultant in the oil and gas industry.
Trained as a Mechanical Engineer Dan has worked 25 plus years in Process Automation. Dan worked for Shell Canada for over 35 years in a variety of roles including project management & design, rotating equipment, energy conservation, Advanced Process Control, Reliability, Process Automation and Technical management. At Shell Dan gained experience in Refining, Upgrading, and IPA/Polypropylene Chemical plant.
Dan managed instrumentation commissioning (loop function testing) for 2-1/2 years at NWR. Position included developing test procedures, documentation, troubleshooting, budgets and schedule.
Don is a Mechanical Engineer with 35 years’ experience in operating plants implementing risk based asset integrity programs, PEIM programs and Process Safety / OEMS systems.
Don is an Engineering leader with 25 years’ experience leading teams in major facility C&SU, turnarounds, maintenance & reliability execution, and projects with EP accountabilities to $1.5B.
Hugh worked for Shell Canada for 27 years in a variety of roles including lead machinery engineer, lead reliability engineer, Engineer at Large Scotford Complex where he led multidiscipline teams to resolve the most complex plant problems.
After retiring from Shell, while working with Natco for 7 years, Hugh developed 6 patents as sole inventor in the area of liquid, gas, solids separation. More recently, Hugh was with North West Redwater Partnership as rotating equipment engineer for 5 years.
He has assisted in the commissioning of several plants – 2 refineries, 1 upgrader, and 1 primary extraction
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