Hempel Annual Report 2011

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Oil and Gas Centre of Excellence
To meet the unique challenges of the Oil and Gas
industry, we opened a Global Centre of Excellence in
Houston, Texas, USA. The new centre brings our technical
consultants and Oil and Gas specialists closer to the
industry’s major players, most of whom have their
global headquarters in Houston.
Kunal Nadkarni, Hempel’s Group Oil and Gas Manager,
explains, “One of the pillars of Hempel’s global Oil and
Gas strategy is to be close to our customers. With this
Centre of Excellence, we are bringing our technical
expertise and market knowledge right to the doorstep
of many of the world’s biggest players. We now have
all the capabilities and agility we need to serve our
customers to the best possible level.”
Hempel delivers coating solutions to the offshore market,
as well as refineries, LNG, petrochemicals, storage tank
terminals, transmission pipelines, deepwater exploration,
unconventional gas, and oil sands.
Hempel gains Shell vendor approval
Following the completion of a demanding prequalification
programme, Hempel has become an approved vendor
of protective coatings to the Shell Group. The approval
applies to Shell’s global offshore and onshore facilities,
and encompasses more than 40 Hempel systems that
cover the vast majority of Oil and Gas applications, from
FPSO hulls, LPG spheres and bullets to storage tanks.
With operations in more than 90 countries, Shell is
behind some of the most impressive Oil and Gas projects
currently under way, including the Prelude FLNG (the first
floating liquefaction facility), the Athabasca Oil Sands
(making synthetic crude oil from oil sands) and the Pearl
GTL (the world’s largest plant to convert natural gas
into liquid fuels).
A major factor in the prequalification success
was the ongoing teamwork across borders and
departments at Hempel, which is a cornerstone of our
One Hempel – One Ambition strategy. This teamwork
will continue as we look to add to our portfolio of
approvals from other major companies within
Oil and Gas and other industries.
Strengthening our global capabilities
Cross-border cooperation is an important component
of the One Hempel – One Ambition strategy. Our
Multinational Coordination (MCO) team, who focus
on large complex multinational projects, was further
strengthened in 2011. During the year, the MCO team
provided support to our sales teams across the world
and contributed to many different projects.
But with literally hundreds of projects requiring some
degree of cross-border coordination every year, local
Hempel sales teams regularly cooperate with their
colleagues in other countries. A contract to supply 70,000
litres of coatings to the Tembusu Multi-Utilities Complex
on Singapore’s Jurong Island is just one example of
recent cross-border coordination.
A joint effort between Hempel Singapore and Hempel
China, this cross-border solution required close
cooperation. Hempel Singapore is supplying paint for the
complex’s seawater intake facility, pipe and rack utilities,
a piping reticulation system and tanks. Hempel China’s
Qingdao office is supplying primer for the tanks and over
45,000 litres for the turbine generator structure.
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