SEAWELD ENGINEERING

SEAWELD ENGINEERING

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of Service Seaweld Engineering is a company made up of motivated individuals that come together in the pursuit of excellence, delivering outstanding operational performance on every project Writer: Phoebe Calver | Project Manager: Josh Hyland eaweld Engineering Limited is a well renowned oil & gas service company based in Ghana, formed under a franchise from the Company’s UK operations in October, 2007.

That year, Alfred Fafali Adagbedu, Managing Director of the Company set up the Ghanaian operations with just four employees. In little more than 10 years it has grown to now comprise more than 200 employees in Ghana and has grown out into 14 countries across the globe; quite the achievement for such a short space of time in the industry.

As a limited liability company with an internal ultimate authority - its Board of Directors - Seaweld Engineering is 100 percent Ghanaian-owned.

“Seaweld is widely known as the number one service provider in manpower supply and management, welding and fabrication, tank and vessel cleaning, equipment rental, scaffolding, procurement and logistics, as well as bunkering services,” explains Adagbedu. “In order to enable us to provide these services, we have highly-skilled departments that include the Operations Department, Sales

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and Business Development, Human Resource Department, Logistics Department, Administration, Accounts, QAQC and HSE, and lastly the Department of Technical Support.”

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rocket from that point onwards, and in 2013 Seaweld was involved in the construction of a technical welding and fabrication structure to cater for growing oil & gas requirements.

“2014 brought about the Incremental growth plan construction of deck stools and pipe Despite experiencing quite the racks for the FPSO Prof. J.E.A Mills, as meteoric rise to success over the years, well as the underwater photography Seaweld Engineering’s approach to and foul removal for Vessel MT Sofie market growth has been measured Theresa,” adds Adagbedu. “Both and structured through a plan of of those projects were challenging incremental growth. in their own right and built up our “In 2010 we began major operations in company knowledge base; these Ghana with the provision of scaffolding challenges went on to continue equipment, rentals and training,” through the construction of riser continues Adagbedu. “At that point we protection frames for FPSO John completed our first major welding and Agyekum Kuffouor, the dismantling fabrication project - the boat landing and assembling of ferries MV Senchi structure for Technip - which led onto and MV Akrade, and lastly the sea major expansion for us over the next water injection motor handling frame couple of years into nine other African for FPSO Kwame Nkrumah.” countries and other parts of the world.”

As an organisation, Seaweld The development of the popularity Engineering has kept learning and of the Company’s work continued to evolving with time through the

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ROBERT CLARKE ENGINEERING

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obert Clarke Engineering (RCE) provides a range of structural engineering design support services to the oil & gas industry around the world.

For the past 12 months, RCE has been providing Seaweld, one of its key partners in Africa, with specialist scaffold design services.

Working onboard MODEC’s FPSOs which are operated on behalf of Tullow Oil and located in Ghana’s offshore TEN and Jubilee oil fields, RCE works alongside Seaweld to deliver heavy duty lifting frames and loading platforms to support MODEC’s and Tullow Oil’s offshore maintenance regimes and offshore based project work.

T 07876 195 556 E bob@robertclarkeengineering.co.uk

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Proud Partners of Seaweld Engineering - Ghana

Providing structural engineering design support services to the oil & gas industry SERVICES INCLUDE: • OFFSHORE SURVEYS AND 3D LASER SCANNING COORDINATION WORK • DESIGN OF STEELWORK PLANT AND EQUIPMENT SUPPORT FRAMES • DESIGN OF PIPE SUPPORTS • DESIGN OF RIGGING, HEAVY LIFTING & WINCHING EQUIPMENT • HEAVY DUTY LOAD-OUT DESIGNS & ASSESSMENTS • DESIGN OF HEAVY DUTY SCAFFOLD PLAFORMS AND SCAFFOLD LIFTING FRAMES • CERTIFICATION OF EXSITING STEELWORK FOR LIFTING (LOLER)

12 SILVERBEECH AVENUE LIVERPOOL UNITED KINGDOM L18 6JA PHONE: EMAIL: WEB:

+44 (0)7876 195 556 bob@robertclarkeengineering.co.uk WWW.RCE-GLOBAL.CO.UK

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applications involved in its projects.

Adagbedu continues: “We also welcome competition as a new building block for our success, taking our integrity and passion for being leaders in the field and the joy of knowing we are making a difference to spur us on.

“The majority of our key contracts are obtained through open competitive tenders where we can use 100 percent local content to our advantage.”

Partner support

With thanks to the vast experience it has attained over a relatively short space of time, Seaweld Engineering prides itself on its ability to provide services and solutions that ably meet with the requirements of drilling companies, field operators and construction companies across its many markets of operation.

With the support of its partners, the Company is able to provide a worldclass service to answer its customers’ requests, including logistical, manpower and engineering needs.

“Our strategy from day one has been to build a company that will be able to sustain profitable growth, while also creating significant shareholder value,” explains Adagbedu. “The achievement of this strategy has led to our moves into the UK, Nigeria, Cameroon, the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Benin, Lesotho, the USA, Liberia, Israel, Mauritania, South Africa and Norway.

“When it comes to identifying these potential new regions of operation, we identify credible shareholders and form local companies within that area.

It is our aim to reach every continent in the world.”

In order to successfully service every continent in the world, the Company has had to first build a reputation that precedes it. In the present day Seaweld is renowned in each of the divisions it works in and has technology and

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equipment that enables it to work on projects of any specification and size.

“We have a wide variety of specialist metal-welding services in-house, with certified staff that can easily meet and exceed the expectations of our customers on every project,” explains Adagbedu. “Whether you require one-time assembly, to long production runs, we want to be the top choice for the oil & gas industry.”

Alongside industry-specific equipment, the Company is able to provide consistent skill and expertise

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that will meet the global demands placed upon it now and in the future.

“We are completely confident that both our onshore and offshore services are perfectly able to deliver and meet with the highest level of industry standards and excellence,” adds Adagbedu. “We focus specifically on performance and innovation to keep us ahead of the industry curve across welding and fabrication, scaffolding, tank cleaning, vessel repair and maintenance, or procurement and logistics.”

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“Our delivery of outstanding safety and operational performance has also led to our Company’s reputation as an attractive workplace for our employees, where we nurture and create superior skill.”

Industry saturation

In such a heavily saturated industry, Seaweld stands out from the rest with its highly-competent and motivated employees that are genuinely committed to achieving success for both the clients and the Company as a whole.

Adagbedu states: “We pride ourselves on the consistent delivery of outstanding safety and operational performance that sustains our client base, while simultaneously building a new one.

“Our delivery of outstanding safety and operational performance has also led to our Company’s reputation as an attractive workplace for our employees, where we nurture and create superior skill.”

Moving forward the Company is setting its sights on continuous development in pursuit of a leading service provider role within the industry, utilising the right material resources and empowering the most efficient human resources that

will enable it to meet with world class standards of industrial service.

“Our provision of 100 percent local content and quality services is something that we are incredibly proud of and is something that we hope will help us in our pursuit of becoming a giant service company on all continents,” concludes Adagbedu.

“Looking to the future, Seaweld is looking forward to partnering with experienced companies in similar services in order to build local capacity in all areas of operation.”

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No 5 Cape Coast Road Takoradi Ghana Tel: +233 31 202 8973/+233 31 202 1059 info@seaweldghana.com

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