Richard A. Gehse, P.E., ASP

Background

Mr. Richard Gehse holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Engineering, is a registered professional engineer in multiple states, and is a certified Associate Safety Professional. He has extensive and diverse industry experience in power, metals, chemical, oil and gas, and material handling systems; wastewater and water treatment; onshore and offshore oil and gas; and petrochemical/refining sectors. His experience and industry knowledge cover over 40 years in areas of design, engineering, procurement, construction, engineering and project management, asset integrity assessments, scheduling, cost estimating, quality and control procedures, OSHA safe work practices, and contract management.

Mr. Gehse’s litigation experience includes forensic analysis and testimony on a complex offshore FPSO oil and gas international arbitration construction dispute in excess of $300 million in damages. Having structural engineering, fluid wave mechanics, and construction backgrounds, he was able to testify on damage claim deficiencies, FPSO module stability following the overturning of a module during transport, FEED, steel fabrication, construction delay, and commissioning claims, and prepare documented counter-positions to support the arbitration process.
Mr. Gehse has also provided expert testimony in cases involving intellectual property claims for pressure vessel manways, auxiliary marine-style boilers, and equipment embedded software.

He has equipment/machine experience that includes gas turbines, steam turbines, power boilers, fire tube boilers, refinery furnaces, heat recovery steam generators, reformers, heat exchangers, relief valves, excess flow valves, custom machines and equipment used in the paper, refining, chemical, steel, aluminum, and related manufacturing industries, material conveyance systems, material samplers, presses, extruders, mixers, crushers, filters, sizing screens, feeders, dryers, rotary kilns, robotic paint spray systems, vapor recovery systems, et al. His analytical experience includes piping flexibility analysis, fluid and solid mechanics, failure analysis, corrosion analysis, finite element analysis, heat transfer, and energy conversion.

Mr. Gehse has experience in safe work practices and OSHA compliance for powered industrial trucks (PITs) and mobile equipment that includes mobile lifting cranes, crane safety, lift plans, load rigging, and lift platforms. He was certified in mobile equipment in 2018.