Research, Technology & Innovation Services
Applied research, technical training and the evaluation of new methods and technologies.
Capabilities
Research here means answering a question a project cannot proceed without: whether a method will work on this ground, whether a technology is worth adopting, what a material really costs across its life. It is applied work with a decision at the end of it.
Sato invests in the technical development of its own people and, with its technical partners, in studies that test a method or a technology before it is committed to on a contract.
This division is new. It is offered as a capability rather than as a record of completed research, and its scope will be described more precisely as work is delivered.
Applied engineering studies
- Feasibility and options studies where the engineering answer is not settled
- Evaluation of new materials, methods and construction techniques against site conditions
- Cost engineering, estimation and whole-life cost comparison
Computational methods and tooling
- Numerical modelling and simulation applied to a specific engineering question
- Small analysis tools built for a workflow that no product covers
- Assessment of software and analysis platforms before a team commits to one
Training and knowledge transfer
- Technical training for client and contractor teams, on the plant and systems they will operate
- Petro-technical and facility management training
- Knowledge transfer built into project delivery rather than bolted on at handover
Solutions
Method and technology evaluation
A defined question, a method for answering it, and a recommendation the client can act on or reject. Scoped so the cost of the study stays small against the cost of getting the decision wrong.
Engineering analysis on demand
Modelling and analysis brought in for one problem — a structure, a system, a failure — without the client having to buy and staff the capability permanently.
Custom analysis tooling
Where a calculation or a workflow is repeated often enough to be worth automating, we build the tool for it rather than selling a platform to run it on.
Training programmes
Training written around the client's own plant, records and operating conditions, and delivered by engineers who work on them.
Partnerships
Sato delivers research, technology and innovation work with its technical partners. The applied research and computational capability sit with them; the engineering question, the site and the project context sit with us.
It is the same technical partner team that delivers Sato's oil and gas and digital twin services.
Related services
Digitalization & Digital Twin Services
Asset data, analytics and virtual models of physical infrastructure.
Backed by Sato
Whichever service delivers your project, the same plant, people and systems stand behind it.
Working on a project in infrastructure, energy or oil and gas? Talk to our team.