High-quality, comprehensive deliveries
GMC Diesel has the best harbour, docking facilities and professionals experienced with all types of machines, including electrical. GMC Diesel is the preferred partner for maintainers, inspectors and chief engineers in the maritime sector. GMC maintains high focus on HSE and we document quality in all projects.
GMC was founded in 1973, and in order to build competence on diesel engines we established GMC Diesel in 2007. At our Stavanger site we now employ 15 people. We have 900 square meters of workshop area complete with 40 ton cranes. Our main business is servicing all kinds of engines, including electrical control systems, in addition to selling new and used engines and engine parts.
Your service partner
GMC Diesel has built its reputation on flexibility — the ability to be there for customers and to find a solution regardless of time or place. We have high technical expertise that we use for engineering tasks and maintenance training for customers. GMC Diesel is qualified for all types of overhauls and installations of new diesel engines for ships, rigs and offshore installations. The company has expertise in the production and maintenance of offshore equipment (HPU), hydraulic pumps and power generators. The units are built into containers or skids to operate pumps or generate electricity for the offshore industry.
Your spare-parts dealer
GMC Diesel provides sales/service throughout our areas of operation. We represent some of the best engines in the market: MTU/Mercedes, Caterpillar, Detroit Diesel, and Mitsubishi. We also have efficient facilities for repairs and engine testing. Our first-rate expertise is highly sought after, so GMC Diesel invests heavily in personnel. We enable shipping traffic along the coast and at sea to go about business as it should — reliably and safely. We service and deliver spare parts for all major engine manufacturers.
Services: • • • • • • • • • • • •
Maintenance, preventive and scheduled World-wide operations Load testing (dynamometer) Nozzle and turbo overhaul Inspection of diesel engines Scope inspection (video) Cylinder-liner honing Inspection of pumps and other equipment Glass blasting Acid cleaning Face/surface grinding Valve/valve-seat grinding
Sales
• New and used engines • Engine spare-parts • PU/HPU dealer (complete and components)
Facilities
• Deep water quay facilities and dry docks • Close to the North Sea Basin
Saved drilling operation with CASE SO L VED on-deck generators Rig owner and operators thought it would be impossible, but GMC managed to run the drilling rig Transocean Winner solely on diesel generators during repairs after a fire shutdown. During Christmas time 2009, the semisubmersible drilling rig Transocean Winner had a fire in a high-voltage board while in the North Sea. The rig switched to an emergency power supply, and the drilling operation had to be suspended immediately. Transocean Winner was leased to a consortium of oil companies for several hundred thousand dollars a day. The Christmas holiday made the
situation additionally complicated. “The entire management team at the main office in Houston was concerned,” says project manager Jarle Lerstøl of Transocean Norway, who contacted the GMC Group. While GMC Diesel managed the diesel generators, sister company GMC Elektro switched high-voltage boards.
Artificial respiration
Transocean Winner was held in “artificial respiration,” while the rig continued its normal operation with a power supply from GMC Diesel.
temporary equipment to ensure the operation of all important platform functions. Personnel were in place to run the diesel generators, each 1250 kVA.
“It was a demanding and complicated job to put the rig back in operation on emergency capacity, and very few thought we could make it,” Lerstøl says.
“Our challenge was to keep up drilling and vital functions for the crew 24 hours a day without unplanned downtime,” says general manager Bernt Lager of GMC Diesel.
GMC brought in diesel generators from Aggreko Norway and Holland, and transformers from Madrid. Instrument panel containers were rented from DeepOcean. Everything was delivered by express shipment.
The total downtime for the Transocean Winner was reduced to a minimum due to the close follow-up and service from GMC.
Minimal downtime
Within a few days, the GMC team had installed
“It was very important for Transocean to keep the rig in operation, and the option to tow it to shore would have put it out of operation for a longer period,” Lerstøl from Transocean says.
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Visiting address
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GMC Diesel PO Box 4048 Tasta 4092 Stavanger
Kalhammaren Dusavikveien 19 4007 Stavanger