Gulf Piping Company (GPC), based in Abu Dhabi, recently made key platform supplies for a Qatar offshore project.

The company delivered three production and living quarters platforms, two wellhead platforms and one gas injection platform to Qatar Petroleum Development (QPD - Japan). The supplies constituted a major part of the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract that was awarded to GPC in May of 2004 for the full-field development of Al Karkara and A-Structure in the North Field in Qatar’s Gulf waters.
 The contract involved detailed engineering, procurement, construction, hook-up and commissioning of the platforms.
 Load out of the two wellhead platform (KK1, AN7) and the gas injection platform (GIP) took place at the GPC jetty in Mussafah in July.
 Set up in 1981, GPC is involved in the fabrication and construction of equipment required by the oil and gas offshore/onshore industry, power & water and port sectors, and maintains a yearly order book at around $100 million.
The company has undertaken projects from international and local companies such as Exxon Mobile, Shell, Total, Saipem, Halliburton, Brown & Root,  Qatar Petroleum Development , ABB Lummus Global, SBM, Bluewater, ADNOC and IOOC  among many others
  GPC is among the four operating companies of International Management & Construction Corporation (IMCC). The other three companies are: International Metal and Construction Company (IMAC), Gulf Specialised Mechanical & Engineering Services Company (GSME) and Abu Dhabi Coating Enterprises (ADCE). All four are located in the Mussafah industrial area of Abu Dhabi and are equipped with their own fabrication and marine load-out facilities.
 GPC is the largest among the four and has extensive fabrication and erection facilities with substantial workshops for both structural components and pipe spool manufacture.
IMAC is a fabrication and erection yard, which has specialist capabilities in manufacturing of heavy component structures such as plate/box girders. It is well equipped and has nine modern overhead cranes for the erection of medium-size structures such as; topsides, buoys, medium-size turrets, bridges and port container-handling cranes (STS and RTG). IMAC is also capable of rolling large-diameter tubular.
GSME provides specialised fabrication, manufacturing and machining for products, which require the highest level of quality and exceptional in-service performance. It produces an array of process pressure vessels to ASME U Stamp criteria, process packages equipment skids, and evaporators for desalination plants, and is capable of rolling large-diameter tubular up to 60 mm thick. GSME has an extensively equipped heavy-duty machine shop, which is unrivalled in the Gulf region.
 ADCE resides within GPC yard and provides specialised blasting, painting and coating, insulation, passive fire protection and scaffolding services.
 The four operating companies form one of the largest service organisations in the Gulf – Middle East region. It provides exceptional multi-product based fabrication facilities which offer product ranges for the oil and gas offshore and onshore industry on a single one-stop-shop basis, for both up stream and down stream development projects.
 The four yards complement each other’s activities to form a unique integration in one of most important oil and gas areas of the world.
With over 400,000 sq m of fabrication/erection area and a work force of around 2,200 skilled workers, supervisors and managers, these yards are capable of producing 40,000 to 50,000 tonnes of fabricated steel a year.
In addition to the oil and gas sector, over the years the company has been involved in the fabrication, erection and pre-commissioning of more than 180 ship-to-shore (STS) and RTG cranes delivered to numerous locations all over the world.
  And earlier this year the company won contracts for Crane projects worth Dh115 million. The biggest contract among these was worth Dh66 million for the supply of 15 16-wheel rubber tyred gantry (RTG) cranes for ARKAS for operation in Marport, Istanbul. GPC will do the design, engineering, procurement, fabrication, erection, painting, transportation and commissioning of the cranes. Deliveries will start early next year and be completed by the end of June, 2006.
 The other three contracts worth around Dh16 million each included supply of four RTGs to Dubai Ports International for India Gateway Terminal Private Limited Cochin and another four RTGs to Cargo Handling Corporation Limited (CHCL), which will operate in Port Louis, Mauritius. All eight RTGs have been delivered.
 Under the fourth contract GPC will supply four RTG cranes to Hutchinson Port Holdings of Hong Kong for Poland’s Gdynia Container Terminal (GCT). 
 This year GPC also participated in the 2005 Indian Ocean Ports and Shipping Exhibition and Conference that took place in Mauritius on 28 and 29 June, to promote the company’s crane product - Gulf Port Cranes (GPC).  Launched last year as a trademark for its cranes – STS (ship to shore), RTG and RMG (rail mounted gantry), GPC cranes are fully designed, fabricated, erected and commissioned by GPC.
  The company says it recognises that successful modern businesses are developed on a foundation of good working practices achieved by well-managed process and system controls. Therefore it says it operates and maintains an integrated QHSE management system based on international standards. Its quality management system is certified to the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 and its environmental and occupational health and safety management systems are specifically designed to meet the requirements of ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 respectively.