Clint Botard
Engineering Manager; ABS Consulting
Clint Botard is a registered Professional Engineer (Mechanical) with over 27 years of experience leading and supporting various engineering, manufacturing, quality control, and asset integrity management operations in the oil, gas, chemical, metals processing and pharmaceutical industries. He specializes in asset integrity management (AIM), risk management, independent design verification, incident investigation, and root cause analysis. He has performed audits and assessments of numerous asset integrity management programs focused on identifying potential regulatory deficiencies, recognizing opportunities for improvement, and developing improvement action plans. His expertise in mechanical integrity has been applied to help numerous oil, gas and chemical clients preserve the right to operate and improve asset performance.
In previous roles, Mr. Botard was responsible for leading engineering, design, manufacturing operations, quality assurance program management and inspection and testing for pressure vessels and pressure vessel components.
Mr. Botard holds a Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Missouri University of Science & Technology and a Master’s degree in subsea engineering from Texas A&M University.
He is also a coauthor of the technical paper “Fracture Toughness and Brittle Failure – A Pressure Vessel Case Study” among numerous other technical articles.