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Stats Group, the Aberdeenshire pipeline technology specialist, is celebrating two decades in business with the award of its largest contract to date.
The company, which was founded on 16 February 1998, has secured a contract worth close to $20 million (£14.2m) with a Middle East national operating company. The work includes providing isolation services in support of restoration work at a refinery.
The project will see Stats manage site services and major subcontractors, including welding services, and will be managed by the firm’s Abu Dhabi team with support from specialist resources and techniciansfromacrossthegroup.
Co-founded by Pete Duguid, Stats Group has grown into a global organisation which employs around 210 staff in the UK, Canada, the United States, Middle East and Malaysia.
Revealing details of the bumper contract, group chief executive Leigh Howarth said: “Our objective is to minimise plant downtime and complete the work as safely and efficiently as possible. As we
0 Chief executive Leigh Howarth (left) with group chairman Pete Duguid
LEIGH HOWARTH, CEO celebrate our 20th anniversary, we are delighted to secure our largest contract to date. This award further strengthens our reputation as a leading provider of pipeline isolation services and underlines our capability for undertaking large international projects.”
Headquartered in Kintore, Aberdeenshire, the group provides specialist engineering services for the maintenance, integrity and repair of oil, gas and petrochemical installations and infrastructure. It operates from Kintore, Kendal and Inverurie in the UK, Edmonton and Calgary in Canada, Houston in the US, Abu Dhabi and Qatar in the Middle East and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
The firm has also celebrated its two decades in business by being awarded the global exports award in the annual Subsea UK Awards. The accolade recognised the company’s successful exploitation of and export to global subsea markets.
Stats is said to have demonstrated to the judging panel
“Our objective is to minimise plant downtime and complete the work as safely and efficiently as possible”