COMPANY PROFILE
2015
Safwan Petroleum Technologies Company
www.spetco.com | + 965 2398 1283
Revolutionising the Oil & Gas industry in Kuwait
Editorial: Rosie DeWinter
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With over three decades of experience providing pioneering worldclass solutions and services, SPETCO has built a solid reputation for its role in revolutionising the oil and gas industry. A turn-key provider, SPETCO provides solutions across the value chain from upstream to midstream production and plans to expand its services further still‌ A subsidiary of Safwan Trading & Contracting Company (SAFWAN), Safwan Petroleum Technologies Company (SPETCO), based in Kuwait, was created as a result of impressive growth and a greater market demand within the oil and gas industry. In 1970, SPETCO which was then SAFWAN, introduced a diversification process to grow the company’s reach and footprint. Providing products for the industrial and oil field process and chemical and technological support to
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both the oil and gas sector, SPETCO has been delivering products, services and technology requirements for nearly 30 years to the industrial, commercial and oil and gas sectors within Kuwait. Three decades of hard work and reliability has earned SPETCO a welldissevered reputation providing the highest standards of both customer service and prompt delivery. Today, operating within three divisions - Oil and Gas Services, Oil and Gas Projects and Power Projects - SPETCO
continues to provide pioneering solutions and services to national and international companies, helping to revolutionise the industry. With 500 employees including trained and highly professional engineers and technicians, SPETCO owns an impressive fleet of heavy equipment including cranes, forklifts, loaders and trucks. With corporate offices in Shuwaikh and Ahmadi and its engineering office in Ahmadi, SPETCO has a field operations
SPETCO base in North Kuwait, South East Kuwait and Wafra and an operations base and workshop in Mussaffah, Abu Dhabi UAE. In 2013, the company announced its plans to expand its upstream oil and gas services further into Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
proven gas resources in the region, more and more national oil companies are looking to the gas industry as an alternative energy resource. “The Middle East gas industry is still in its early days, but it is making rapid progress towards reaching the same levels attained in the oil production,” explained Abraham.
EXPANSION ON THE HORIZON
OIL & GAS SERVICES
Speaking at ADIPEC 2013 to Oil Review Middle East, Manager OFS/BD Anish Abraham, explained that the plan is to expand the company’s services to Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain with particular attention to Erbil in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Whilst providing upstream services from well testing services, artificial lift systems, production facilities and tubular services, Abraham said: “We provide our clients with complete services, becoming a turnkey solutions provider, leveraging our global network and strategic alliances to extend total service and procurement solutions to our customers by offering them a complete package of the above mentioned services to fulfil their requirements.” With an estimated 42% of the world’s
Providing upstream oil field services related to production testing and reservoirs and the installation of a variety of artificial lift pumps, SPETCO operate a high quality and cost efficient pipe and structural steel fabrication division, including installation works, blasting and painting. With KOC qualified welders, painters and blasters, the company has a selection of equipment, including a Fabrication Shed (12m x 30m), Painting Shed (12m x 12m), Radial Drilling Machine, Bench Grinding Machine, Sandblasting Pot and an Airless Painting Machine. Impressively, SPETCO is the only company in the Middle East which specialises in the provision of supplies and services of artificial lift
systems, which include; Submersible Pumping Systems, Sucker Rod Pumping Systems, Beam Gas Compressors and Progressing Cavity Pumping Systems, to the hydrocarbon producers working within the region. One such example is technical services for Submersible Pumping Systems including well sizing, installation and commissioning SPS, well analysis, well testing, surveillance and daily monitoring of the well using remote controlled SCADA systems. Additionally, SPETCO provides SPS downhole equipment, downhole power cable, By-Pass System, Tubing Spool, Variable Speed Drives, EFT Systems, Tubing Hangers and Switch Board. On a turnkey basis, SPETCO also offers the installation, commissioning and maintenance of Sucker Rod Pumping Units to Electric motor and Gas engine prime movers.
OIL & GAS PROJECTS Offering EPC and lease contracts for production facilities and
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systems, SPETCO engineer, construct, commission and operate these facilities for hydrocarbon processing requirements for clients. The Gas Sweetening Facility (GSF) was commissioned to SPETCO by Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) to design, construct, commission, operate and maintain its gas processing facility located in Western Kuwait. Construction on the facility was completed in July 2010 and was commissioned just a month later in August 2010. The aim of the project is to remove the sour gas components (H2S and CO2) from the natural gas to produce a sweet and dry product gas stream ready for delivery to the KOC pipeline. It is hoped the facility will reduce flaring of the gas and condensates in the KOC West Kuwait operations which represents a major milestone in achieving KOC’s long term objective of zero flaring.
POWER PROJECTS DIVISION As a result of the power crisis during the early 2000’s, the Doha West Power project was based on utilising five GE LM6000 gas turbine generating sets and the associated Balance of Plant (BOP) to ensure it was capable of producing 141.25 MW net on demand. The American company, Foster Jordan, now under the rights of SPETCO, was awarded the EPC contract in January 2007 and following the successful site performance test which produced 171 MW, construction was completed in 2010. The performance test involved the Inlet cooling of both evaporative cooling (three units) and a chiller package (two units) which is capable of reducing the turbine inlet temperature to 11 ˚C when the outside temperature reaches above 55 ˚C. Starting in August 2010, phase II
is due for completion in August this year and involves the operating and maintaining of the plant for five years. The units have now been in operation for two years, which has accumulated an exponential 2,500 running hours, producing more than 70,000 MWh for Kuwait. Throughout this time, the availability and reliability has not fallen below 99% which in turn has saved the company from financial penalties. Since its inception, SPETCO has increased its services to provide an innovative and reliable service and in April 2013, it was awarded two excellence awards for its outstanding performance in HSE. Receiving a silver award for its KOC project, EPF 50 MBOPD North Jurassic Production, and a bronze award for Joint Operations project, Well Testing Services in Wafra, SPETCO is looking forward to a bright and productive future ahead
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