Kiwa PPI

Kiwa PPI Heritage

Supporting the global energy industry since 1995 with engineering, operational excellence, auditing, and quality assurance solutions.

Kiwa PPI was founded in Houston, Texas, to serve the oil and gas sector. Over time, the organization expanded its expertise beyond traditional engineering services to include quality assurance, quality control, inspection, auditing, and operational support services for multiple types of energy projects around the world.

As the energy sector evolved, so did Kiwa PPI. The company broadened its capabilities to support customers across the full lifecycle of their assets and projects, helping them operate and maintain safe, reliable, and compliant operations. Today, Kiwa PPI serves clients in both traditional and emerging energy markets, including oil and gas, LNG, renewable energy, and other energy infrastructure projects.

Building Confidence Through Quality

From the outset, Kiwa PPI focused on helping customers manage risk and improve project outcomes. The company acted as an independent advocate for its customers by providing third-party inspection, vendor surveillance, quality auditing, and compliance verification services. These services help organizations ensure that equipment, systems, and processes meet industry, regulatory, and customer requirements before they are deployed in the field.

Through decades of experience, Kiwa PPI has supported projects across global supply chains, working at manufacturing facilities, shipyards, fabrication yards, and project sites to verify quality, safety, and integrity. Its expertise has helped customers improve reliability, reduce operational risk, and avoid costly delays.

Engineering Expertise Backed by Innovation

In addition to inspection and quality services, Kiwa PPI expanded its engineering and technical capabilities to provide practical solutions that support asset performance throughout the project lifecycle. These services include engineering support, technical consulting, design review, risk assessment, asset integrity management, and operational excellence initiatives.

Recognizing the growing need for actionable business intelligence, Kiwa PPI also developed an online platform to help customers track quality performance, vendor activities, inventory, and operational risks. 

Kiwa PPI's Proud History

Kiwa PPI was founded in 1995 by three petroleum engineers and is now a global energy-industry services company. Part of Kiwa since 2021, Kiwa PPI's quality assurance, engineering and supply chain support services improve customer project execution, asset reliability, and utilization.

    1995

    Petroleum Professionals International is formed in Houston, Texas, offering oilfield services and engineering services worldwide.

    2001

    PPI Technology Services is formed, offering oilfield services, engineering services, and third-party inspection and quality consulting services.

    2007

    PPI Technology Services expands its QA Reporter software to allow customer access.

    2008

    PPI Asset Tracking and Management is formed to provide inventory management and quality consulting services.

    2014

    Petroleum Professionals International changes its name to Cardno PPI.

    2016

    PPI Asset Tracking and Management and PPI Technology Services merge with and into Cardno PPI.

    2019

    Cardno PPI changes its name to PPI Quality & Engineering. The company focuses on third-party inspection, vendor surveillance, quality auditing, inventory management, and oilfield services. Its flagship QA Reporter software securely hosts customer quality assurance and inventory management data.

    2021

    PPI joins the Kiwa Group, a global leader in testing, inspection, certification, and consultancy headquartered in the Netherlands.

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    2026

    PPI joins forces with TIEC, Inc. (Texas International Engineering Consultants), a leading third-party inspection and vendor surveillance company that also offers training courses.

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    2026

    PPI Quality & Engineering rebrands as Kiwa PPI.