Offshore Design Engineering (ODE) has recently joined a growing number of main contractors who have opted to use the First Point Assessment (FPAL) supplier management system to manage their supply chain. ODE is an international oil & gas engineering contractor headquartered in London and with an engineering centre and operations support base in Great Yarmouth, an engineering office in Aberdeen and a regional office in Cairo, Egypt.
ODE’s SHEQ Manager Andrew Baker said, “We recognise the importance of our supply chain in enabling us to provide a first class service to our clients, many of whom are operators. This recent move to adopt the FPAL supplier management system means that our existing and potential new suppliers now have a simple on-line portal where they can register their capabilities. FPAL is used by the oil and gas industry to provide significant efficiencies by speeding up the procurement process for both purchaser and supplier. We will be using FPAL to help us identify the very best suppliers with the best track records in terms of delivery and safety and environmental performance. Our use of FPAL means that we can select suppliers in a transparent, logical and ethical fashion in full compliance with our internal corporate responsibility standards in the same way that our operator customers have done for many years.
FPAL’s Malcolm Wilson welcomed ODE’s decision and said, “With more than 2800 suppliers being registered on FPAL, there is a compelling case for forward thinking main contractors like ODE to take advantage of the efficiencies that FPAL offers in terms of them having access to independently assessed supplier capability information. We look forward to working with ODE as they swell the total number of operators and main contractors using FPAL to more than 80.”
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Offshore Design Engineering Ltd (ODE) has been an established engineering contractor to the oil & gas business for in excess of 30 years and more latterly has developed an extensive capability in the engineering and project management of offshore wind farm developments. Head quartered out of the UK, the company provides engineering solutions on a global basis from its offices in London, Cairo and Great Yarmouth. The turnover in 2009 was approaching £40M sterling and shareholding comprises Saipem (50%) and Doris Engineering (50%).
Recent and current contracts include the Front-End & Basic Engineering of Total’s Laggan-Tormore Development West of Shetland (subsea facilities, pipelines, onshore terminal and associated works), Front End, Basic and Detailed Engineering for BG Tunisia’a new Gabes LPG storage and export facility, Project Management and Detailed Engineering for Vattenfall’s Ormonde offshore windfarm, Conceptual Engineering for Centrica’s Baird Gas Storage Development, Southern Gas Basin Operations Management Services and associated engineering support for both E.ON Ruhrgas and RWE.
Specialist areas of expertise include –
· Field Development Strategies.
· New Developments & Brownfield Projects.
· Engineering of shallow water gas field developments
· Operations support services.
· Project Management services.
· Decommissioning
For further information, please contact
Offshore Design Engineering Ltd
10-14 Princeton Mews,
Kingston-Upon-Thames,
Surrey, KT2 6PT.ODE Limited
Tel: 020 8481 1190
Vaughan Rees – Director of Business Development
E-mail: vaughan.rees@ode-ltd.co.uk