Hall ... seeing vigorous growth

AL HASSAN Engineering Company (AHEC), one of Oman’s leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) companies, will be exhibiting for the first time at the Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (Adipec), the largest oil and gas event for the industry in the Middle East.

“The oil and gas sector is a very important market for AHEC and Adipec offers us the ideal opportunity to showcase our services, meet with the most important players in the Middle Eastern industry and explore business opportunities. We are excited to be a part of the event for the very first time and look forward to demonstrating the breadth and power of our services and solutions for the EPC sector of the region,” says Peter Hall, CEO, Al Hassan Engineering Company.

“AHEC’s UAE division has been growing rapidly in recent years and we look forward to making it more visible during the exhibition,” he adds.

Over the last three decades, AHEC, which is an ISO 9001:2008 (Quality Management System), ISO 14001-2004 (Environmental Management System), OHSAS 18001-2007 (Occupational Health and Safety Management System) certified company, has established an excellent track record as a prime EPC contractor in its own right, as well as a construction partner to many leading international contractors. It has executed complex jobs in the varied sectors of oil and gas, petrochemicals, power plants, electricity transmission and distribution, industrial infrastructure projects, water and wastewater treatment plants and maintenance of oil and gas and power installations, both in Oman and the UAE.

The company diversified into execution of major civil works and water and waste water management projects in the year 2009.

One of its major projects in this area is the civil work for the STP project at Seeb near Muscat, the largest so far in Oman. In 2010, the company decided to enter the renewable energy market.

In this, AHEC Abu Dhabi succeeded in securing the qualifications as general contractor with Masdar for major workgroups which include general civil works, power and communication line and related structure, structural steel contractors and mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP).

“In the last three decades, AHEC has successfully completed over 100 small, medium, large- sized contracts for leading Omani organisations such as Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), Oman Refineries and Petrochemicals Company (ORPC), Oman Gas Company (OGC), Ministry of Housing Electricity and Water (MHEW), Oman Electricity Transmission Company (OETC), Haya Water as well as for international contractors such as GS E&C, SNC Lavalin, Hyundai Rotem and more lately Siemens, Petrofac, Technip and Samsung,” says Hall.