Emirates Holdings showing off leading international principals

Air Liquide Engineering

Oil and gas industries are driving major changes to improve productivity within increasingly stringent environmental requirements.

Larger use of industrial gases combined with advanced technologies is helping to change plant design. Creative and proven solutions are proposed by Air Liquide to assist customers in their choices.

PIH Services

This company specialises in the onsite application of both advanced and conventional inspection services as well as a wide range of other support services to the pipeline, petrochemical and other industries. Services include ToFD, Cscan, phased array, eddy current, IRIS, MFL (tank floor mapping), digital radiography and digitising of radiographs.

This capability is complemented by the more conventional radiography, ultrasonic, magnetic particle and Dye Penetrant inspection. Thanks to rapid advances in inspection technologies, PIH is continuously assessing new and improved technologies in order to provide a safer, more accurate and reliable assessment of pipelines, pressure vessels and other plant.

Alstom Power Flow Systems A/S

A principal supplier of preinsulated pipelines for fuel oil, sulphur and gas, Alstom supplies heat-traced pipelines, which ensure full control of media fluid temperature.

PUR foam is used for insulation between the API steel pipe and the HDPE outer casing, allowing a continuous temperature of 150o C for a minimum of 30 years. Field joints are made with the unique Alstom Welding Muff.

CAN Middle East LLC

The Group provides an integrated range of inspection, repair and maintenance services to the global onshore and offshore oil, construction, marine and structural maintenance industries.

It operates in 37 countries, with support bases at six main locations in the UK, Norway, UAE and USA. It provides a range of skills and equipment covering inspection, non-destructive testing, trade work and geotechnics plus engineering and project management services.

Conpipe International BV

Conpipe International B.V. manufactures advanced pipe systems for potable water companies in their raw water projects and water treatment plants, offshore companies and petrochemical industries. Conpipe International's systems can be supplied in any desired configuration, pipe diameter and wall thickness.

Danway L.L.C.

Danway is involved in the disciplines of electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, process control and industrial and retail systems engineering.

With its headquarters in Dubai and branch offices in Abu Dhabi, Oman, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Danway is a pioneer in local value addition in the Gulf region.

Descon Engineering

Descon Engineering started its operations in Pakistan in 1977 and today operates in Pakistan, Abu Dhabi, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

While general contracting remains its mainstay, manufacturing, the company's engineering and operations and maintenance services also cater to the petrochemical, oil and gas, fertiliser, power, chemical, cement and infrastructure sectors.

With more than 150 million man-hours of construction work executed, the core resources for project execution include a group of 1,000 professionals and a sizeable inventory of construction equipment.

Manufacturing facilities include a heavy manufacturing shop, Descon Engineering works in Lahore and the Olayan Descon Mechanical and electrical shops in Saudi Arabia.

DuPont Safety Resources

A division of the world's safest company, DuPont Safety Resources provides customised consultancy services to help businesses, governments and organisations gain significant productivity in operations. Its four practice areas - workplace safety, contractor safety, ergonomics and asset effectiveness - provide customised and ready-made solutions grounded in its world-class technology.

EMIRCOM

Emircom deploys solutions and chooses system integrators to form the foundations of a communication infrastructure. These include: control room solutions; networking and cabling; systems and storage; security; convergence; network management; test and measurement and multimedia.

These practice areas are supported by software applications driven by e-business processes. For software services Emircom relies on its global software partners such as Wipro, Siemens, etc to offer turnkey solution to its customers.

KBC Process Technology

KBC Advanced Technologies is a leading independent technical consultancy group, providing specialised services and software to improve operational efficiency and profitability.

It supports its clients through: commitment to their success; highly experienced personnel; industry-renowned methodology; state-of-the-art software tools and global presence.

Metallurgica Bresciana SpA

Products include: Special electric and fiber optic cables for worldwide applications; instrument cables for oil industry and industrial plants; armoured, lead sheathed, compensated, screened cables; fire resisting cables, for direct burial; fiber optic cables for data transmission and LAN internal and external use; fiber optic cables for petrochemical plants, armoured, also with lead sheath; cross linked cables with improved performance under thermal, chemical and mechanical influence; precision special cables utilising all insulation and sheathing compounds in combination with sophisticated manufacturing equipment.

Nuovo Pignone S.p.A

NP designs and produces machines, systems and equipment for the oil and gas, petrochemical and power generation industries. Its products and services cover all oil and gas needs - from upstream to the downstream market, offering solutions for re-inject in gas lift, boosting, pipelines, refineries, petrochemical plants and distribution. The company is certified to ISO 9001.

OSI Software Inc.,

PI activeview is a web-based product which allows users to view and send real time data to other users worldwide on the web. It can be used by operators, management and accountants to view real-time data from all their facilities worldwide. PI is a leader in real time management systems, with more that 4,500 licensed worldwide.

OTC

UAE-based and employing approximately 200 personnel, OTC provides blasting, painting and fabric maintenance services to the petrochemical, power and utility industries.

Services comply with international standards for grit and sandblasting; high-pressure water blasting; airless paint spraying; conventional spraying; electrostatic spraying; hot metal spraying; concrete and metal tank lining; epoxy repair work and fire protection application.

Peroni Pompe SpA

Established in Milan in 1895, the company manufactures reciprocating pumps and has been successful in the international market where high pressure is involved in continuous and heavy duties.

Riyadh Cables Group of Companies

The Group is a manufacturer of high quality cable products such as XLPE cables up to 240 kV; medium and low voltage PVC-XLPE insulated cables and wires, fiber optic telephone and pilot control cables etc. Riyadh Cables is certified by BASEC (British Approval Service for Cables) and to ISO 9001-9002. Riyadh Cables is one of Saudi Arabia's largest export companies.

Robertson Research Int'l Ltd

Geoscience leader Robertson provides services and products to the upstream oil and gas industry. Until last year a privately-owned British company, it is now part of the Fugro Group, with offices in 50 countries and headquartered in the Netherlands. Robertson is respected throughout the world thanks to its extensive experience in virtually every known and potential hydrocarbon province and has a high profile client base.

Severn Trent De Nora LLC

For nearly 30 years Severn Trent De Nora (STDN) has been a leading provider of onsite water chlorination systems using sodium hypochlorite generated from seawater. It invented electrolytic sewage treatment technology for marine environments.

ISO 9002-certified, it formerly operated under the name Eltech International Corporation. STDN is also a part of Severn Trent Plc, a major water, sewage and waste management company.

Shaw-Nass Middle East WLL

A joint venture formed by AA Nass Group of Bahrain and The Shaw Group of the US, the company was established to provide quality

pre-fabricated piping systems for the expanding market. Service includes full material traceability, induction bending from 2" to 16", stress relieving (either local or furnace, PMI and NDT services.

Tecnimont S.p.A.

An Italian engineering and construction group operating worldwide in the petrochemicals, chemicals, oil and gas, energy and other sectors of the process plant industry, Tecnimont uses competitive technologies and has widely-recognised management capabilities, especially in turnkey projects.

Vijay Tanks & Vessels Ltd

The company is a major player in the turnkey design, engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning of atmospheric storage tanks, cryogenic storage tanks, high pressure spheres, mounded storage vessels, shop pressure vessels, heat exchangers, process columns, pipelines and process plants for the refinery, petrochemical, fertiliser, power, paper and steel industries.

Refinery startup is delayed to 2005

HANOI: State oil company PetroVietnam said the country's first oil refinery would not be operational until the middle of 2005 instead of next year due to difficulties in the tendering process for subcontracts.

Murphy strikes oil

NEW YORK: Murphy Oil Corp, an integrated oil company, said it discovered oil in an appraisal well located in Block K drilled off the coast of Malaysia.

Ethylene output falls

TOKYO: Japan's production of ethylene in September fell 5.2 per cent from a year earlier to 574,000 tonnes, preliminary figures from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) showed.

PetroChina move

BEIJING: Chinese oil major PetroChina has started building a 500 km natural gas pipeline in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, the China Oil Daily said.

Tanker replacement

LONDON: Malaysian state-oil company Petronas has fixed two replacement tankers to pick up crude oil from Yemen after a huge explosion crippled its original ship, the Limburg, shipping sources said.

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Direct sale

SINGAPORE: China's leading state refiner Sinopec has sold 30,000 tonnes of gasoline to Iran, the first direct sale to Tehran this year, traders said.

Partners eyed

MANILA: State-run Philippine National Oil Co unit PNOC-Exploration Corp (PNOC-EC), said it is looking for partners for its exploration contract offshore Mindoro province near central Philippines.

$20m sought

MELBOURNE: Australian oil producer Matrix Oil said it needs to raise $18-20 million by the end of the year to secure the future of its troubled Langsa oilfield offshore Indonesia, adding that the company was conducting due diligence with several possible financiers for a remedial work programme.

Egypt output increases

CAIRO: Egypt's crude oil production rose slightly in September to 624,400 barrels per day from 624,194 bpd in August, the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) said.

Tender issued

TOKYO: State-run Yemen Oil and Gas Corp has issued a tender to sell Masila and Marib crude grades for November lifting, traders said.

Adnoc move

SINGAPORE: Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (Adnoc) said it had raised the retroactive official selling prices for its crudes by $1.55 to $1.60 per barrel for September.

Prices cut

LONDON:ÊSaudi Arabia has cut its November crude oil prices to Europe by 40-50 cents while prices for cargoes destined for the United States were raised by 20-45 cents, traders said.

Qatar plan

TOKYO: Qatar has cut its retroactive September crude price for Qatar Land by one cent per barrel, while raising Qatar Marine by three cents

compared to August, traders said.

OSP lowered

LONDON: Syria's Sytrol has lowered its proposal for October official selling prices (OSP) for the Souedie heavy grade by 25 cents, traders said.

Formula hiked

SEOUL: Saudi Arabia has lifted the November price formula for most of its crude grades to Asia by 35 to 45 cents per barrel but has cut prices for its Arab Medium and Heavy crudes, South Korean and Japanese traders said.

Formosa signs gasoline deal

SINGAPORE: Taiwan's private refiner Formosa Petrochemical Corp has concluded deals to supply about 480,000 tonnes of 92-octane gasoline for one year from this month, traders said.

Shell plan

NEW YORK: Shell Oil Co said its 240,000 barrel-per-day joint venture Motiva oil refinery in Norco, Louisiana, was being brought back to normal operating rates following cuts due to Hurricane Lili.

Bids stepped up

LONDON: TotalFinaElf has stepped up bids for European diesel and heating oil in an effort to make up for a shortfall from a string of refinery shutdowns, traders said.

Sale opposed

NEW DELHI: Indian Petroleum Minister Ram Naik said he opposed the strategic sale of government equity in state oil refining firms, to ensure smooth supply of fuels to the public and to encourage more investment.

Blaze hits unit

NEW YORK: Sunoco Inc said a 70,000 barrels per day (bpd) crude oil unit at its 140,000 bpd refinery in Toledo, Ohio was down after a fire broke out.

BPCL in talks

NEW DELHI: India's Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) is in talks with traders to export diesel as local demand is sluggish, but the firm has not got a good price for its fuel, a government official said.

Naphtha sold

SINGAPORE: India's state-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corp (HPCL) has sold one parcel of low aromatic naphtha (LAN) for October lifting at a premium below $5 per tonne to Middle East naphtha quotes and issued a tender to sell another for late October/early November, traders said.

Crude unit repairs on

TOKYO: Tonen General Sekiyu KK has shut down a 130,000 barrel-per-day crude (bpd) distillation unit (CDU) at its Wakayama refinery for a 25-day planned maintenance shut down, industry sources said.

Petronas denial

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian state oil firm Petronas denied market talk that it was considering an US$800 million bond issue.

NOL move

SINGAPORE: Loss making Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) said it was considering selling its profitable tanker unit, a move which some analysts see as ill-timed.

Cracker closed

SEOUL: South Korea's leading ethylene maker Honam Petchem Corp shut its 700,000 tonne-per-year (tpy) naphtha cracker for maintenance, a source said.

Demand rises

SINGAPORE: Spot premiums for heavy, low sulphur Indonesian crudes have surged to highs not seen for at least a year as Japanese buyers snapped up cargoes to use for power generation, traders said.

Operation halt

TOKYO: Idemitsu Petrochemical Co said it had halted operation of its Tokuyama naphtha cracker in southern Japan for regular maintenance checks.

Fuel sale rises

SINGAPORE: August sales of marine fuels in Singapore rose 1.4 per cent from July despite a dip in the number of vessels stopping to refuel, according to preliminary government data.

Cargo sold

SINGAPORE: Vietnam's state oil marketer Petechim has sold by tender a November cargo of Bach Ho crude at a premium of 65 cents a barrel over the official selling price (OSP).

Malaysia plan

SINGAPORE: Malaysia's state oil firm Petronas has set the Tapis crude adjustment factor for October at plus 65 cents per barrel, down 15 cents from September, traders said.