The contractor for the Ruwais Sulphur Handling Expansion project is Dodsal PTE LTD in Dubai who were awarded the USD 0.5 Billion Engineering, Procurement and Construction contract for the execution. The expansion will increase the storage capacity of the plant in order to handle liquid Sulphur from a number of the ADNOC group companies.
The project involves state of the art instrumentation and control systems with high tech security and supervisory control systems. The scope for HERNIS covers surveillance and CCTV monitoring of production processes including high risk hazardous areas in the sulphur plant.
“Looking at the tender specifications we immediately wanted this challenge. The project required a state of the art CCTV system with lots of technical edge”, says HERNIS’ Agent based in UAE, Mr. Apurva Shah who is the Product Manager of Consilium Middle East. “Our initial proposal included 53 EX proof Camera Stations utilising Exd junction boxes containing fibre optic components, and a complete redundant IP network using HERNIS 500 as central system, trusting this would win us the project. The extensive collaboration between the concerned parties, Takreer, Dodsal and HERNIS contributing in design, ability, quality and functionality resulted in a high end solution.
It is a very proud agent we speak with who has been working on the project since 2005/2006 when Consilium Middle East FZC (Formerly Saab Marine Middle East) first submitted the bid to Dodsal. The project was awarded to Dodsal in February 2007 for complete EPC and HERNIS was in turn awarded the CCTV contract this year. “We refused to lose” Apurva says with a big smile.
Jan Kristensen, Sales Manager at HERNIS is very pleased with the success. “This is another excellent example of how well HERNIS international network is working, and how perseverance can take you a long long way. Thanks to the hard work of our agent with multiple rounds of presentations and timely support from the back-office organisation at HERNIS we succeeded in bringing in this order. We are especially proud that we won on technical grounds, as our solutions and equipments are purposebuilt for corrosive environments and offer unrivalled durability and stability”.
HERNIS hopes that this prestigious and high profile contract, combined with the excellent repot and good reference with the same client will be a great advantage for us in all future ADNOC group CCTV projects.
Consilium Middle East has worked as sales agent for HERNIS in UAE and Oman since 2005. Since the beginning of its operation in the United Arab Emirates in 2000, Consilium Middle East has become a leading one stop service provider in the Industrial Automation, Fire & Safety & Marine market. Consilium at present represents more than 20 companies that are in the first three in their field of operation in terms of global market share, among them HERNIS. The company’s vision is “setting benchmarks in engineering excellence”. The company is part of the Consilium Marine Group AB in Stockholm, Sweden.
