ANABEEB is a leading provider of industrial services and has provided its ISO 9001: 2000 certificate-listed scope of applicable supply to Saudi Aramco and its partners.

The services include the following:
• Plant turnaround
• Catalyst handling
• Chemical cleaning
• Vacuum cleaning
• Hydroblasting
• Flare and chimney servicing
• Leak sealing
• Thrustboring
• Hydrotesting
• In-situ machining
• Bolt tensioning
Anabeeb has been operating in Saudi Arabia since May 1983. Today the company employs more than 800 multi-skilled field operating staff, who carry out over 30 different activities and skills on a day-to-day basis for Saudi Aramco, its partners and other clients in the Kingdom, the GCC and the wider Arab world.
Anabeeb has offices and agents in following locations:
• Jubail, Saudi Arabia - head offices
• Yanbu, Saudi Arabia
• Doha, Qatar
• Abu Dhabi and Dubai, UAE
• Muscat, Oman
• Bahrain
• Kuwait
• Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt
• Khartoum, Sudan
Offices, workshops and yard facilities are also located in Jubail, Yanbu, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Muscat and Alexandria.
'Our intention is to grow the company by at least 100 field operating staff per year, together with the required equipment and support,' Anabeeb General Manager Frank R Lefeber stated.
This confirms Anabeeb's intention to remain a major player in the provision of industrial services in the Kingdom, the GCC and the wider Arab world.
From the time of its incorporation Anabeeb has worked closely with Saudi Aramco and its partners. Anabeeb's first opportunity to provide services to Saudi Aramco was the provision of services for the 'Change Out & Catalyst Handling for the Hydrocracker Unit & H2 Plant' at Riyadh Refinery in March 1986. Since then, the relationship has gone from strength to strength.
It would not be an untruth to state that Anabeeb, in many areas of supply, is the preferred contractor to a significant number of the Saudi Aramco and its partner locations and facilities.
The services as detailed on Anabeeb's ISO certificate and carried out on a day-to-day basis, either as core business or peripheral services to Saudi Aramco and its partners, may be further broken down into the following categories and services:
Industrial Services
• Catalyst handling
• Inert and toxic atmospheres
• Ammonia converters
• Plant turnarounds and shutdowns
• Bundle pulling
• High capacity vacuum cleaning
• HP and UHP cleaning
• Chemical cleaning
• Decoking descaling technology DDT(r)
• CTP(r) neutramex online cleaning of furnaces and heaters
• Hydrocarbon recovery from oily sludge
• Flare and chimney services
• Mechanical works and services
• Mechanical construction & commissioning
• Onstream leak repairs
• Tank cleaning and maintenance
• Sludge treatment
• In-situ machining
• Bolt tensioning and torquing
• Hot and cold tapping
• Line stopping
Thrustboring Services
• Augerboring
• Pipejacking
• Horizontal centre-bite boring
• Micro tunnelling
• Horizontal directional drilling
• Associated piling work
• Associated wellpoint dewatering
• Carrier insertion
• Grouting
Know-how
• Inspection services
• Project management
• Consulting services
• Construction and commissioning of new plant
• Improving production systems
• Environmental management
• Staff training and development
• Health and safety logistics
• Total productive maintenance
In Anabeeb's nearly 20-year relationship with Saudi Aramco and its partners the company has had the privilege to bid for and complete on the many services to the various locations and facilities in the Kingdom.
Below is a summary of the wide and varied activities that have taken place at different facilities:
Saudi Aramco Facilities & Plant:
• Catalyst handling / inert entry
• HP cleaning / bundle pulling / vacuum truck / misc.
• Major turnarounds / shutdown contracts
• Mechanical services
• Blanket contracts
• Chemical cleaning services
• Major tank cleaning / repair / sludge removal
• DDT(r) – decoking & descaling technology
• Flare / chimney services
• Online leak seal services
• Bolt tensioning / torquing services
• Cold cutting services
• In-situ machining
Jeddah Refinery:
• T&I services
• HP cleaning services
• Online leak seal services
• Chemical cleaning services
Rabigh Refinery:
• T&I Services
• Online leak seal services
• Yanbu Al Siniayah Refinery:
• T&I services
• Catalyst handling services
• Online leak seal services
• Chemical cleaning services
The facilities where the company has provided its services also include Berri Gas Plant, Haradh, Hawiyah, Juaymah Gas Plant, Ras Tanura Refinery, Riyadh Refinery, Shaybah, Shedgum Gas Plant, Tanajib, Udhailiyah, Uthmaniyah.
The trend, as noted by Anabeeb, in the Gulf region is to farm out the work as much as possible, in the form of frame agreements and blanket service contracts.
As can be seen above, Anabeeb is already supporting Saudi Aramco and its partners with this form of service contract in a number of service areas and locations.
Anabeeb feels that this is the way forward, that this is following the trends set earlier in the Europe, America and the Far East.
However, there is a cautionary note, contracts issued should be ones based on trust and mutual interest.
Jeroen A van der Heijden, Anabeeb's manager for contracts estimation and development, noted: 'An environment must be created where both the client and the contractor are benefiting equally and having mutual goals, interests and objectives.'