In true reflection of its commitment to invest in upstream oil and gas related services, Emdad the high profile technical solutions provider in the UAE, marks its entry into the league of service providers to oil companies in the region.
Emdad has been awarded a significant contract for the provision of treatment of oil-based mud cuttings and sludge services for a major oil company in the UAE.
The five year, 30 million dirhams ($8.2 million) contract involves setting up a base in Bab area where a self contained full-fledged camp and plant facility will receive, treat and recycle a total of 125,000 tonnes of waste generated by the drilling activities.
Emdad is well on target with its ongoing installation and commissioning works at their newly acquired facility strategically located on the Bab-Bu Hasa Road. The process plant supplied by Brandt NOV will be operated by TESPEC LLC, an Emdad subsidiary partly owned by the Australian public company Transfield Services Intl.
“Emdad has secured this vital project in keeping with the commitment to serve the national interest by contributing to the sustainable development of the oil & gas production in the UAE,” observes Mansour Alami, managing director Emdad. “We are particularly proud of having proven our credentials once again in serving a major oil company in the country.”
For over three decades, Emdad is known for its strong association with some of the leading vendors in the world serving the nation’s oil and gas and utility sectors with the best tools and technologies, it says.
Today, the company aims to translate its long years of experience and proven expertise into tangible assets in the non-oil core segments as well.
Emdad is making major inroads into the growing segments of industrial fabrication and manufacture and has already secured a prime industrial property in Musaffah, Abu Dhabi’s industrial hub.
The company has set up warehousing facility and plans to enter into joint ventures with world leading manufacturing companies to expand its diversification into non-oil core sectors.
Well on the way to developing long-standing stable partnerships with its principals, Emdad has established Emdad Steel UAE.
The new company will stock and trade steel products and operate from Emdad’s newly acquired site M45, Plot No 1 in Mussafah.
Emdad Steel UAE will have the capacity to stock 30,000 tonnes of steel plates and sections and will primarily supply steel structure fabricators serving the oil and gas and utilities sectors in the region.
Its seamless proximity to the existing fabrication facility of Emdad partners William hare UAE mutually reinforces the capabilities of the two companies, in terms of security of supplies for one and by being an anchor customer for the other.
Outlining the new venture, Alami said that Emdad Steel UAE was one stride ahead in Emdad’s plan to reposition itself as a value add supplier to its regional customers as well as a full-fledged partner to the international companies desirous of developing a successful local base in the UAE.
Meanwhile, Transfield Services, an international company with activities across continents has signed a contract to purchase Hofincons Infotech and Industrial Services Pty Limited from Tyco Asia Investments Limited.
Hofincons, based in India and operating since 1978, is a services provider to the power, engineering, mining and process, hospitality, oil and gas and petrochemical industries.
The service spectrum covers operations and maintenance, shutdown support, relocation and refurbishment, installation and commissioning support, asset management and facilities maintenance.
Meanwhile, Tespec, a joint venture between Transfield Services Int’l private Limited and Emdad LLC offers catalyst handling services in the UAE, and the Middle East at large, utilizing its in-house facility based in Abu Dhabi.
The services cover unloading and loading of catalyst under inert or normal atmosphere, catalyst transportation, storage and containment conforming to UN approved standards, shutdown planning, coordination and execution and inspection and assessment among others.
Tespec has the capability to deliver world-class catalyst handling services and overhaul maintenance and is registered with major companies like Adnoc, Gasco, Adgas, Takreer, Fertil and Adco.
Its entry has opened doors to healthy competition in a monopolistic field benefiting customers by way of reduced costs, enhanced job opportunities and improved efficiency.
Through its wholly owned subsidiary Intergulf, Tespac is already providing long term maintenance services and delivering construction contracts across Adnoc companies in UAE.
It has over 430 people deployed across various contracts at Das and Zirku Islands, Habshan, Ruwais, Bu Hasa, Asab and Abu Dhabi. It recently won a five-year contract to operate an OBM recycling plant for Adco at Habshan and also provides long term consolidated maintenance service to RasGas in Qatar through a joint venture with Worley Parsons and Qatar based TRAGAS.
Tespec has a highly experienced safety management team to ensure internationally recognized safety programmes and systems. Safety personnel are trained at fully accredited facilities with tailored training and refresher courses conforming to international OSHA standards.
With UAE’s oil reserve estimated to last another hundred years at current consumption rate, Tespec is keen to be a dependable long-term partner in the progress and prosperity of the nation.
Tespac will be enabled with Emdad’s long years of experience and expertise in the oil & gas and utilities sectors and its strong association with the leading oil companies in the region.
