The company has opened its new office in Al-Khobar with the participation of multiple industry leaders

Maximising the local content, CCC in Saudi Arabia is playing a successful strategic partnership role with Sabic, which enables Sabic to harness from it vital, value-added benefits.

The mutually beneficial relationship between the two companies has been successful since the 1980s, with CCC offering diversified turbomachinery assets’ control and optimisation applications to major Sabic affiliates.

"CCC’s core strengths in the market are still providing a high level of expertise and knowledge to customers, and working closely with our customers to support meeting their needs and to contribute to their bottom line sustainable growth though energy optimisation and increasing yield," says a CCC spokesman.

The company has opened its new office in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia with the participation of multiple industry leaders from oil and gas companies in Saudi Arabia including Sabic, Saudi Aramco and Sipchem. The new facility and local investment enable CCC to localise the business needs in Saudi Arabia, collaborate with its customers in a timely manner, to train Saudi students, engineers, industry stakeholders and to collaborate with its global technical experts while supporting the local contents in-kingdom.

CCC’s local strategy focuses on supporting Sabic’s long-term vitality of its commercial ecosystem, to encourage the development of a diverse, sustainable, and globally competitive industrial and petrochemical sectors in Saudi Arabia.

As a new opportunity to emphasise on CCC regional strategy and Sabic partnership, a productive three-day technical seminar was conducted at Sabic – Sharq -Saudi Arabia. The "Surge Protection and Turbomachinery Control" Seminar covered the concepts and best practice of anti-surge, performance and speed controls, and turbomachinery energy and performance optimisation.

The technical seminar was sponsored by Sabic Asset Engineering Department (AED) centre with attendance from Eastern Petrochemical Company (Sharq), National Industrial Gases Co (Gas), Saudi Methyl Acrylate Company (Samac), Saudi Kayan Petrochemical Company (Saudi Kayan), and Sabic Technical Exchange Centre. The wide range of the attendees’ expertise from operation, maintenance and asset management enriched the level of engagement and technical challenges discussions.

A great feedback was received from the Sabic team on that type of business relationship, which added value to the seminar.

CCC provides a broad set of expertise and solutions for the best turbomachinery control that optimises operability, production, energy and emissions of end-user assets from the early phases (pre-Feed and Feed) to EPC, design/testing, commissioning, operation and maintenance. The CCC approach focuses on a combination of different disciplines including process, machinery, instrumentation and control.

The advantages of CCC expertise on thousands of turbomachinery applications include reduced Capex and Opex; reduced risks and change management costs on projects; improved safety, reliability, process yield and energy savings; increased project design control and compliance to global/local specifications; and confidence that one’s interests are represented and protected.