Marine & Offshore Coating & Repair Services

Corrosion protection, metal repair, and rubber repair for vessels and offshore structures in splash-zone and immersion service.

Overview

BHI Coatings in Marine & Offshore

BHI Coatings serves Marine & Offshore across Alvin and the Texas Gulf Coast, repairing and protecting equipment in place.

Saltwater never stops working against a hull or a platform. Splash-zone steel corrodes through every tidal cycle. Pump shafts and bearings wear under load. Propellers and rudders cavitate. Rubber fenders tear on impact. Pipework starts to weep exactly where you cannot afford a shutdown. Drydock time and offshore deck space both cost money, so the work has to happen on a turnaround clock, often in wet conditions, and without hot work that pulls a marine gas-free or hot-work permit. BHI Coatings is a crew of factory-trained and factory-certified Belzona applicators based in Alvin. We have worked Gulf Coast vessels and structures for years. Surface prep, repair, and protective coating all come from one crew, in the field, on the water, and in our climate-controlled shop. We carry a strong safety record and run 24-hour on-call service for the leaks that will not wait.

Offshore platform leg above open sea, the lower half heavily rusted and marked "B1", the upper half freshly coated pale gold, with two workers on scaffold
Common challenges
Splash-zone steel corrodes aggressively.
Pumps, shafts, and bearings wear in service.
Rubber components and linings tear and fail.
Leaks develop on pipework and tanks.
Hulls, splash-zone steel, and offshore structures

Splash-zone steel is the hardest corrosion problem on the water. Tidal wetting and full immersion strip coatings and attack piles, risers, and hull plate faster than anything topside. We use surface-tolerant Belzona systems that cure on wet and even underwater steel. That means we never have to dry a substrate the sea will not let us keep dry, so the structure stays protected through the immersion cycle and nobody waits on a weather window that may never come.

Concrete in the marine environment fails the same way, from the inside out. Reinforcing bar corrodes, expands, and cracks the cover off. We clean and prime the exposed rebar before rebuilding the concrete, which stops the corrosion cycle that caused the original spall rather than patching over the damage. The structure then holds its protection through another service interval, and nobody cuts out and recasts sound concrete.

Propellers, rudders, pumps, shafts, and bearings

Rotating gear on a vessel loses efficiency long before it fails outright. Cavitation pits propellers, Kort nozzles, stern tubes, and rudders, leaving spongy, thinning steel that gets worse every campaign. We line cavitation-prone surfaces with a cold-applied elastomer that absorbs the implosion energy, and the job fits inside the drydock window you already have. No weld rework on a balanced running surface. Eroded impellers and casing profiles get rebuilt to geometry and overcoated, and the pump comes back on its head curve.

Worn bearing bores, fretted bushing seats, and journals all come back to dimension, in our shop or in the field. We rebuild the seat cold with metal-repair composites and machine it to spec, with no arc-weld heat to distort a slender shaft or shift an alignment. Keel coolers, marine heat exchangers, tube sheets, and water boxes need the galvanic joint rebuilt, so we rebuild and electrically isolate it with ceramic-filled epoxies, with no hot work. The bundle is back in days rather than the OEM lead time.

Fenders, pipework, decks, and live leaks

Rubber takes a beating dockside. Impact and abrasion tear fenders, skirting, and molded components faster than a replacement part can be sourced and shipped offshore. We rebuild torn rubber cold with a high-build elastomer that bonds to the existing part, and the fender goes back into service with no replacement order on the books. Corrosion and mechanical damage thin pressurized pipe and vessel walls, so we apply an engineered resin-and-fiber composite wrap with the line still online. The work follows the principles of ISO 24817 and ASME PCC-2. The pipe recovers a design pressure rating without cutting the spool.

Sometimes a leak is already weeping at a header, flange, or tank. The call comes 24 hours a day. We seal it cold with the system still pressurized, then overwrap for a permanent fix, with no product evacuation and no hot work over a hydrocarbon. Wet decks and oily walkways are a real fall hazard at sea, so we lay cold-cure anti-slip surfacing on treads, ramps, and platform decking, and it reopens to foot traffic the same shift.

What the operator gets back

Every repair here fits a marine schedule and a marine constraint. No hot-work permit on a vessel that cannot go gas-free. No welding distortion on running gear. No waiting on a long-lead replacement part when the asset is already pulled. Prep equipment, shop machining, and certified application all come from one crew on the Texas Gulf Coast.

The outcome is a hull, a pump, a fender, or a line back in service, returned inside the drydock or turnaround window it was already sitting in. Downtime stays inside the plan and the corrosion clock resets. The operator ends up with a documented, factory-certified repair rather than a parts order and a second outage.

How we work

How BHI Coatings works

How we help

Capabilities used in Marine & Offshore

The repair and protection work BHI Coatings performs most across this sector.

Corrosion Protection & Coatings

Long-term barrier and immersion coatings for metal in corrosive, immersed, buried, and splash-zone service.

  • Protect metal in immersed, buried, and splash-zone service.
  • Coat complex geometries that are hard to protect by other means.
  • Extend asset life and defer capital replacement.

Metal Repair & Rebuilding

Worn, corroded, and damaged metal rebuilt to working dimensions in place, without replacement lead times.

  • Rebuild worn and corroded metal in place, without replacement lead times.
  • Restore equipment to working tolerances and efficiency.

Rubber & Elastomer Repair

Cold-cure repair and recoating of rubber linings, conveyor belts, and rollers, an in-situ alternative to vulcanizing.

  • Repair conveyor belts and rubber linings cold, in place.
  • Recoat pumps, valves, and tanks with elastomer protection.

Leak Sealing & Composite Pipe Repair

Live-leak sealing and engineered composite wrap repair of pipe and equipment, in service, without hot work.

  • Seal many leaks while the line stays in service.
  • Reinforce corroded and holed pipe with engineered composite wraps.

Anti-Slip Safety Flooring

Slip-resistant surfacing for walkways, stairs, platforms, ramps, and vehicle access points.

  • Improve footing on walkways, stairs, platforms, and ramps.
  • Surface wet and high-traffic areas for safer access.
24-hour on-call service

Contact BHI Coatings

Have equipment that needs to stay in service?

Tell us what is failing. We respond quickly, and we offer 24-hour on-call service.

Call (281) 585-1600