With a mission of extending unmatched quality services to its clientele, Saudi Arabia's Olayan Descon's operational horizon houses a very diversified blend of services.

These include industrial equipment manufacture, complete plant turnaround/ shutdown, plant modification, maintenance and refurbishment, electrical and instrumentation services to giants such as Saudi Aramco, and the affiliates of Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic).

As an ISO 9001-certified company, Olayan Descon is authorised by ASME to use their symbols ''U2'', ''U'', ''S'', ''A'' and ''PP'' to offer coded pressure vessels and equipment, as well as authorised by The National Board of Boiler and Pressure Vessel Inspectors to use the repair stamp ''R'' for refurbishment of pressure vessels.

The dedicated workforce of around 400 highly skilled, motivated and competent engineers, supervisors, welders, technicians, fitters, fabricators and machinists, proficient to work on various materials such as carbon steels, stainless steel and other alloy steels, are working day and night to ensure timely delivery and client satisfaction.

On the industrial equipment manufacturing horizon, Olayan Descon received the ''Excellence in Performance'' shield for work performed on the Saudi Yanbu Petrochemical Company (Yanpet) expansion project - ethylene glycol facilities from Toyo Engineering Corporation - Japan. The equipment supplied for this project to Toyo included 20 pressure vessels.

The company achieved yet another milestone by supplying a 150 m long flare stack weighing 130 tonnes, completely dressed up with piping, insulation, cable trays, ladders and platforms to Parsons International for the Arabian Petrochemical Company (Petrokemya) Olefins III project.

And the efforts of the company to observe stringent quality control practices, as well as timely deliveries, earned it the opportunity to supply equipment for the Al Jubail Petrochemical Company (Kemya) olefins project, which included 23 types of carbon steel, stainless steel, kettle type, straight tubes and ''U'' tubes heat exchangers (aftercoolers, intercoolers, vapourisers, preheaters, condensers, subcoolers, chillers etc) and 28 types of pressure vessels (dilution drum, heavy oil separator, casing drain drum, spent caustic coalescer, yellow oil degasing drum, knock out drums, separators, stripper drums, sweet water exp. drum, dry and wet flare drums, blow down and flash drums etc) to ABB Lummus Global.