Pelican Engineering is an oil and gas electronics engineering firm that designs and builds the electronics inside oilfield equipment, for operators and OEMs who need a hardware partner, not just a schematic.
Our Lafayette, LA team carries a product from requirements through firmware, PCB layout, enclosure design, and production in our own facility, with the same engineer reachable at every stage.
AREA: CLASS I DIV 1
AMBIENT: 84 °C · T4
LINK: MODBUS RTU / 4–20mA
STATUS: PRODUCING
GAS DETECTED → ESD ARMED
Oilfield electronics sit inside almost everything on a wellsite: downhole tools, artificial lift controllers, wellhead monitoring, and surface control panels.
The work spans three disciplines at once. Sensor and signal design have to survive heat, vibration, and pressure. Firmware must make reliable decisions without a technician present. Communications have to reach SCADA or a field host. A product that is weak in any one of the three creates downtime.
“Most oilfield hardware problems are not design problems or manufacturing problems. They are handoff problems; decisions made in design that nobody validated on a production line.”
Boards, sensor interfaces, and enclosures built for wellsite conditions.
Control logic, fault detection, and the decisions equipment makes unattended.
Modbus, cellular, or radio telemetry back to SCADA or the field office.
We design all three and build the hardware in the same building, so decisions get validated before they reach the field.
Most oilfield electronics projects stall at the same point: a design firm hands over Gerbers and a schematic, and the operator or OEM is left sourcing a contract manufacturer, qualifying it, and troubleshooting the gap between what was designed and what was built. Pelican closes that gap by keeping electrical design, firmware, and manufacturing in the same building, working as a full lifecycle engineering partner for oil and gas equipment rather than a design vendor.
The person who designs your board and firmware is reachable directly, no account manager relaying questions between design and production
Component selection, layout, and enclosure design account for build and test from day one, rather than being reworked after a design-only phase.
Every board is verified against a dedicated test fixture before it ships, so field failures get caught on the bench, not at the wellhead.
Design matched to your existing instrumentation (load cell, position, pressure, current, vibration).
Size the enclosure and thermal environment of the installation.
Engineered for wellsite conditions: solar/battery, generator, or grid tied.
Hardware including Modbus, cellular, or radio matched to your existing SCADA or field host.
Downhole is the hardest environment we design for. As a downhole tool electronics design company, we build boards that hold sensing and communication accuracy through heat, shock, and vibration, with no technician available to service them.
Pelican designs downhole electronics around:
Parts chosen for temperature and lifetime margin rather than nominal spec, so behavior stays predictable at depth.
Layout and mechanical support engineered for vibration and shock rather than bench conditions.
Fault detection and safe states, so a sensor problem reports itself instead of failing silently.
Artificial lift and wellsite control is one clear application of this capability. Controllers automate rod pump, ESP, gas lift, or plunger lift systems, reading sensor data, running control logic, and reporting to SCADA so a well can be managed remotely instead of walked.
Control-loop logic for rod pump, ESP, gas lift, and plunger lift automation
Sensor signal processing and fault detection
Communications stack integration (Modbus and other field protocols)
Upgrade capability without replacing existing infrastructure.
Not every project starts with a blank sheet. Operators running legacy equipment often need the electronics refreshed without redesigning the mechanical package or retraining field crews on a new interface.
A microcontroller, sensor IC, or communications module is discontinued, and the board needs a redesign around currently available parts while preserving the existing footprint, connector layout, and firmware behavior the field crew already knows.
Existing equipment is mechanically sound but needs new sensor inputs, updated communications (moving from radio to cellular, for example), or firmware modernization without a full hardware replacement across the field.
Our roots are in oil and gas, and that experience transfers. Pelican brings the same electronic design and manufacturing discipline to other regulated and demanding sectors.
Harsh-environment controllers, downhole sensor integration, and hazardous location (HazLoc) electronics for the Gulf Coast, Permian, and beyond.
Ruggedized embedded systems, secure telemetry, and reliable PCB assemblies built to withstand shock, vibration, and temperature extremes.
Precision instrumentation electronics, low-noise analog signal processing, and adherence to lifecycle management and traceability requirements.
Automated monitoring and control electronics for compliance, hygienic environments, and precise thermal management.
Custom motor drives, sensor interfaces, and IoT edge devices supporting legacy and modern industrial protocols such as Modbus and Ethernet/IP.
Have specific regulatory or environmental requirements? Send your spec sheet and an engineer will review it.
You reach the engineer working on your product, not a project coordinator relaying messages between you and the design team.
Under One Roof We are not a design shop that hands off production. The team that designs the hardware also builds it in Lafayette, LA, across three in-house manufacturing lines producing more than 100,000 boards a year.
We design the realities of field deployment, heat, vibration, dust, and remote installations, not a lab bench.
ISO 9001 certified, IPC-A-610 certified assembly staff, four licensed Professional Engineers, and pre-shipment test-fixture verification on every board.
Equipment type, sensor loadout, environment, and production scale.
Hardware, firmware, and enclosure proceed together with test requirements built in.
Boards built and tested against a purpose-built fixture before production release
Production runs in-house on our own lines, sized to your rollout.
The same engineering team handles revisions, new sensors, and fleet-wide updates.
Pelican Engineering is a registered professional engineering firm in the state of Louisiana, available for consultation in electronic product development and all aspects of electrical engineering design and manufacturing.
Launched as Palmer Engineering Firm, building our first electronics program on an embedded prototype for the oil and gas industry from a small shared facility.
Transitioned to an independent 18,000 sq ft facility in Lafayette, LA. Acquired full PCB assembly lines to support mass manufacturing.
Expanded operations into a new 85,000 sq ft building to meet growing production demands and further scale our turnkey capabilities.
Operating three full manufacturing lines, producing over 100,000 circuit boards annually as an industry-leading hardware partner.
We operate to the highest industrial standards, providing you with confidence in our manufacturing reliability, engineering precision, and regulatory adherence.
Pelican Engineering proudly holds ISO 9001 certification, underscoring our unwavering dedication to upholding rigorous quality standards. This assures customers of our commitment to consistently delivering products of the highest quality.
By adhering to the stringent guidelines, we ensure that every aspect of our business—from customer interactions to product development—is meticulously managed and continuously improved.
Our manufacturing staff holds IPC-A-610 certification, a testament to their expertise in adhering to the highest industry standards for electronic assemblies. It governs the acceptability of quality and workmanship.
This certification is crucial for our clients as it ensures that our manufacturing processes consistently meet or exceed industry benchmarks for reliability, functionality, and safety.
Pelican Engineering proudly holds ISO 9001 certification, underscoring our unwavering dedication to upholding rigorous quality standards. This assures customers of our commitment to consistently delivering products of the highest quality.
This prestigious certification demonstrates their advanced expertise, commitment to professional standards, and adherence to ethical practices, ensuring precision, compliance, and safety in our work.
Intrinsically safe and explosion-protected design for hazardous oilfield atmospheres, with Class I, Division 1 and 2 experience in-house.
Electrical and fire safety requirements designed in from the schematic, so hardware enters North American testing ready to pass.
EMC-conscious layout, shielding, and filtering on telemetry and wireless designs to reduce emissions failures at the test lab.
Lead-free assembly and component sourcing screened for restricted substances, so products stay exportable to global markets.
Set your area classification, gas group, and temperature class to see the protection concepts and certification routes we would typically scope against.
We design and build the electronic hardware and firmware inside oilfield equipment: downhole tool electronics, artificial lift and wellsite controllers, monitoring and telemetry modules, and surface control electronics. That includes schematic design, PCB layout, firmware, enclosure design, and in-house assembly.
Both. Design and manufacturing run in the same Lafayette facility, across three production lines producing over 100,000 circuit boards a year. That is what makes one roof design and manufacturing oil and gas electronics practical rather than a marketing line: your board is built by the team that designed it.
Yes. Hazardous location work is a core part of our oilfield electronics design and manufacturing, covering intrinsic safety approaches, enclosure requirements, and component selection for Division 1 and Division 2 environments. Our engineers have designed Class I, Div 1 and Div 2 systems for energy and industrial applications.
Not in-house. Our work is electronic hardware, firmware, and PCB assembly. We do have partner firms that handle PLC design and implementation, and we can coordinate with them on projects where that scope is needed.
Yes. Component end-of-life redesign is regular work here. We can redesign the board around currently available parts while preserving the existing footprint, connector layout, and firmware behavior, so field crews do not have to relearn the equipment.
Yes. Rapid prototyping is part of how most projects start, and because production is in the same building, moving from a prototype to a low- or medium-volume run does not mean qualifying for a new manufacturer.
No. We are based in Lafayette, LA and meet in person with Gulf Coast clients, and we support operators and OEMs elsewhere through remote kickoff, shipped prototypes, and on-site support. Our team has commissioning and field experience from West Texas to North Dakota.
Send us your zone or division classification, gas group, temperature class, and target markets. An engineer—not a salesperson—will follow up.
