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COOEC-Fluor Heavy Industries Providing high quality fabrication certainty during challenging times How is COOEC-Fluor thriving? COOEC-Fluor Heavy Industries (COOEC-Fluor) has been in operation since 2012. At over 2 million square meters, COEOC-Fluor is one of the largest fabrication yards in the world with a capacity to deliver in excess of 250,000 MT/ yr and completed structures of up to 50,000 tonnes. With an unwavering focus on maintaining quality and safety, this fabrication yard has rapidly developed a proven track record in delivering for significant projects working with internationally renowned clients in offshore oil and gas, LNG, refining and chemicals. The challenge Around the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, COOECFluor had secured significant contracts for clients in Asia, Europe and the Americas. Among these were 157 modules for a large LNG project in Canada, 34 fixed platform jackets for an offshore windfarm in the UK, Asia’s largest deepwater jacket to be installed in the South China Sea, as well as several other large onshore and offshore modular projects. The yard faced several challenges during the pandemic
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period including multi-wave infection resurgence in the local area, price increases in bulk materials, manpower mobilisation challenges due to limited ability to travel weekly even within the provinces, and sometimes daily testing requirements for a crew of up to 15,000 craft workers, to name a few. In order to effectively mitigate these issues, COOEC-Fluor took a very pioneering and pro-active approach. The solution The major priority was to ensure that the Zhuhai fabrication yard always remained operational, responding effectively and efficiently to minimise impacts to clients’ projects, all while always keeping its personnel safe. Some of the strategies employed were: - Developing specific safety policies to be implemented during the Covid-19 andemic. - Establishing proper communication Covid-19 and safety protocols.
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