Yokogawa Middle East, a part of Yokogawa Electric Corporation, inaugurated the opening of it’s new engineering and project execution facility in Mussafah industrial area on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi.
Shuzo Kaihori, president and CEO of Yokogawa Electric Corporation visited the site of the new facility construction of which began in March.
The new facility will complement Yokogawa Middle East’s existing sales and after-sales services capabilities in Abu Dhabi. To date, engineering work for the company’s local clients has been undertaken outside of Abu Dhabi.
The new facility is built in response to Yokogawa Middle East’s localisation objectives and recognition of Abu Dhabi’s importance as a regional hub in the oil and gas business, according to a press release.
The main objectives of the new facility, the statement said, are:
– to understand customers’ requirements by having closer contact with them,
– to provide better, more effective, and speedier project services to UAE customers, and
– to contribute to its customers’ business efficiency by reducing the cost of project execution and reducing the project execution cycle time.
In the last two years, Yokogawa Middle East has had an order intake of about US$500 million across the GCC $200 million of which have been from the UAE alone and for control system orders from clients such as Abu Dhabi Gas Industries Ltd. (GASCO), Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations (ADCO), Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Co. (TAKREER).
Kaihori said: “As a global leader in industrial automation, Yokogawa continues its relentless pursuit of excellence and reaffirms its indisputable market position in Abu Dhabi. We can achieve and maintain this status only with the true, sincere support of our major customers in this valuable part of the world, including Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) group companies.
The main projects in Abu Dhabi to which Yokogawa Middle East is providing its products and services are the GASCO Habshan 5 Gas Processing Plant and NGL Train 4 projects, the ADCO Asab, Shah, and Sahil oilfield developments, ADCO’s Bab Gas Compression project, and TAKREER’s Ruwais Refinery Expansion.
Education initiative
Kaihori also provided details on a Memorandum of Understanding Yokogawa signed in December 2009 with the Petroleum Institute of Abu Dhabi, under which both parties will collaborate to provide education in instrumentation and control technologies.
He said: “The programme will range from lectures on automation theory to practical experiments in laboratories. The trainees will be Petroleum Institute students as well as ADNOC group company employees. We will also collaborate with the Petroleum Institute to provide short courses taught by our experienced trainers and experts to meet the industry’s needs and requirements. The courses will cover not only control and instrumentation but also various other fields in which Yokogawa has expertise, including quality management, and health, safety and environment management.
We would like to create value together with our customers and help make our societies more sustainable. We will always look for those contributions that only Yokogawa can make by leveraging our technical strengths, and will continue to be a socially responsible company with spirited employees who hold their heads high.”
