STATOIL has signed frame agreements with three companies for pipeline coating services relating to its pipeline projects. The Norwegian Bredero, Italian Socotherm, and French Eupec companies have been awarded five-year contracts, with further options of two two-year extensions. The deals cover both concrete weight coatings and anti-corrosion and thermal insulation coatings, although the weight coatings form the bulk of the scope.
The agreements are a result of Statoil's best-practice procurement initiative in which all Statoil procurements are gathered under 64 group-wide equipment categories.
Bredero has previously been the sole supplier of concrete weight coating services in relation to Statoil's pipeline projects. "With Statoil now establishing competition for this type of service as well, it is in accordance with the group and European Union purchasing regulations of competition being key," Odd Kristian Noland, head of procurement for the project execution unit in Exploration & Production Norway explained. In the next few years Statoil will have a considerable need for big project-related deliveries, such as on the Gjoa and Snohvit fields. "The greatest need will, however, be in relation to future development of infrastructure for gas deliveries to the continent," Mr Noland said.
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