The company, which has been present at Batam since 1995, has over the past two years invested USD 17 million into setting up a state-of-the-art engineering and manufacturing facility.
The facility manufactures surface trees and wellheads, which is equipment that is being used for oil and gas production either onshore or at surface production platforms in shallow waters offshore.
As a result of the latest investment, manufacturing capacity at the Batam plant has increased by over 50 percent. Building space at the site has been expanded from 4 200 to 11 200 square metres to cover a new administrative building with full management support, machine workshop with 11 new machines, test and assembly workshop as well as a new warehouse. In total, the Batam site area has increased to 21 800 square metres.
“This latest investment is part of Aker Solutions’ long-term strategy to grow our business and to ramp up Batam as our global manufacturing hub for surface products. This expansion will enable us to meet the expected market growth,” says Egil Martinussen, president – Asia Pacific, Aker Solutions.
Picture above: Aerial view of the plant
From the Batam facility, Aker Solutions serves customers all over Asia, as well as Australia, Nigeria and the Middle East.
“Our Batam site is a cost-efficient manufacturing operation of high-tech products for oil and gas production. It has achieved an impressive 25 percent revenue growth annually over the past years. This is a testament to the 284 skilled and dedicated employees who are working here. I am proud to have them as my colleagues,” adds Martinussen.
Health, safety and environment (HSE) is a key focus area for Aker Solutions. The expansion of the manufacturing facility was completed in 500,000 man-hours with zero loss time incidents (LTI). This was achieved on the back of the plant’s existing two million man-hours of zero LTI.
Above: welding spot