What led you to participate in ADIPEC this year?
GMS has been attending ADIPEC for many years, given its importance to the industry and our role within it. We are always visited by senior executives of oil companies from all around the world, who express interest in our vessels.
What are the main services that you are looking to showcase?
The most recent addition to our services is our new cantilever system, which gives clients a range of options in the way they use our barges to service their offshore assets. This system offers new cost-effective solutions for work that has traditionally been performed by more expensive non-propelled drilling rigs.
This opened up a new area of the market which had previously been predominantly served by drilling rigs, at a greater cost to operators. The new cantilever system will be able to replace them.
We are also finding that the platforms we are servicing are located mainly in shallow water and were installed quite some time ago, so that a lot of the infrastructure is well advanced in its useful life. This creates asset integrity issues, which traditional servicing methods will struggle to resolve, because only smaller weights can be transferred and handled, a function for which the new cantilever system is ideally suited.
What are your objectives for ADIPEC this year?
ADIPEC is the perfect place for companies to showcase their capabilities and the same goes for GMS. Our stand always receives visits from existing and prospective customers and even potential recruits, so we are looking forward eagerly to the event.
How successful do you think ADIPEC will be this year, bearing in mind the current market circumstances caused by low oil prices?
ADIPEC has become the oil industry’s leading worldwide event and the current market conditions will not change that. If anything, it will be even more important and significant this year, because while the long term objective is for the oil rich countries of the Gulf region to become less hydrocarbon dependent, the fact remains that oil and gas remain its most valuable resource. ADIPEC therefore acts as a beacon for the entire industry to come together, share expertise and experience and find ways to work together more productively and more efficiently.
