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United Engineering Services LLC (UES) is one
of the oldest oil field services companies
in Oman. Its customers consist of all major
oil and gas companies in Oman such as PDO,
OLNG, Occidental, Halliburton, Schlumberger
Weatherfold, MB Petroleum, Cameron Services,
Daleel Petroleum, Dalma Energy, Shivani
Drilling, MIDWESCO, PTTEP and Great Wall
Drilling etc.
UES has essentially three business streams
-- manufacturing, agency sales and drilling
equipment services (DES). As part of the
sales arrangement with Smith, at the time of
100 percent acquisition of UES, DES business
will be spun off from UES to a separate new
joint venture company. All existing and
future contracts related to DES business
will also be assigned to the new JV. The new
company has been incorporated in Oman in the
name of Smith International (Oman) LLC (SIOL),
wherein Smith holds 53.75 percent and UES
owns 46.2 percent of the shareholding.
Smith, under a technical services agreement,
will provide services such as proprietary
tools, new technology, inventory management,
second technical management and services
personnel to SIOL whereas UES will provide
the support services to the new entity.
Under the manufacturing business, UES owns
and operates a large workshop in Ghala that
provides machining and fabrication of
specialized equipment used in the oil and
gas industry. UES is licensed to manufacture
and fabricate specialized thread connections
for cutting threads for tubulars used in oil
and gas wells. These licenses are very
valuable, difficult to get, and usually
given to only one company in any country.
UES’ manufacturing business has a large
client base, most of them in oil and gas
that mainly utilizes UES’ machine shop
facility. The machine shop constitutes
almost 60 percent of UES’ manufacturing
business. All major oil and gas related
companies in Oman, including PDO,
Occidental, Halliburton, MB Petroleum,
Daleel, Weatherfold, Shivani, Dalma, Cameron
etc. are utilizing UES machine shop
facilities for repairs, maintenance and
manufacturing of various items such as OCTG
accessories, crossovers, flow couplings, pub
joints, casing works, pressure vessels etc.
On the fabrication, blasting and painting
activity, UES is working with many clients
such as Gulfar, TOCO and STS which mainly
deals with fabrication of tanks, vessels,
piping, MSV skids and structures.
Under the agency sales business, UES
provides commercial representative to a
number of renowned international companies
that manufacture and supply oilfield
equipment, instrumentation and chemicals to
the oil companies and the drilling industry.
These sales are done on commission bases.
This stream has four main areas -- oil and
gas, instrumentation, water and equipment
& services. Major clients include PDO,
Oman LNG, Oman Gas Company, Occidental and
the government ministries such as MHEW and
MOD. UES also represents Siemens in Oman for
industrial gas turbines for power
generation.
UES’s experienced team has lived up to the
challenge of following a regional growth
strategy in the GCC and North Africa and it
has won major contracts in the UAE &
North Africa (Cameroon). The company made
significant additions to its skill base to
expand its scope of services and capacity to
add value to its clients. UES currently
employs 310 employees out of which 75 per
cent are Omanis.
The company’s ongoing success is based on
four building blocks for growth.
Strengthening long-term client relationships
through high-value services makes up the
core of UES’s foundation. The company
grows from that foundation by adding value
to the existing clients and creating organic
growth, its second and third building
blocks. UES’s impressive skill base, which
includes its core strengths of asset
management, sustaining capital works
services and project management
capabilities, leveraged new growth for it.
The company is built on its relationships
with it’s long term clients winning
contracts with key clients such as
Occidental of Oman, Petroleum Development
Oman and Mi Epcon to name a few. UES’s
fourth building block for growth - joint
ventures and alliances - is the first part
of its strategic expansion. The company’s
latest joint venture with Regent Energy
Services has taken its core skills in
machining in to the sand control arena.
UES values its people as its greatest assets
and gives optimum priority to their safety
and wellbeing. The company is committed to
focus on safety by ensuring that there are
‘no injuries to anyone at any time.’
For more information, visit
www.uesoman.com
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