Vectra is a leading supplier of safety management, risk, engineering and other specialist consultancy and support services to both the public and private sector worldwide.

Its core capabilities centre on the compliance requirements of clients operating in highly regulated industries.
“We specialise in helping clients comply with complex legislation and help them to demonstrate compliance,” says Huge Middle, Director, Vectra ME.
Warrington, UK, headquartered Vectra was established over 20 years ago and has offices elsewhere in the UK, on mainland Europe and in the Middle East.
“To ensure services to Middle East clients are of a high, local standard, Vectra established an office in Abu Dhabi in 2004,” says Middle.
Vectra employs over 100 consultants, engineers and scientists throughout the world in the oil and gas, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, marine, rail, nuclear, defence and utilities industries.
A combination of experienced project managers, professional consultants, highly skilled technical staff and site-based personnel enables Vectra provide a full range of services from specialised consultancy advice to a total project delivery capacity.
Services offered to oil and gas industry include – quantified risk assessments (QRA); fire, explosion and physical effects modelling; safety case preparation and update; HAZOPs; instrument protection system and SIL assessments; control room design and human factors studies.
For process industries Vectra’s process consultants focus on clients solutions for petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, and utility industries.
These include QRA and cost benefit analyses; provision of land use planning advice; HSE training; safety management system development; HAZOPs; control room design and human factors studies.
The company is registered with BSI (QA) for compliance with BS EN ISO 9001:2000.
Some of its major clients in this region are Adnoc group of companies, Bechtel, Crescent Petro-leum, Dolphin Energy, Fluor, Qatar Petroleum, Petrofac International, Petroleum Institute, Technip, Total Abu Al Bukhoosh, Tyco Fire and Safety UAE, WS Atkins Overseas, Veco Enginee-ring and Nana Mott MacDonald.
Worldwide its clients are ABB, BNG, British Gas, British Energy, Halli-burton, Shell, Statoil, Total, ExxonMobil, and Chevron Texaco among others.