Yanbu APS/VPS project in Saudi Arabia received the EPC contractor’s (SKEC) completion certificate on Aug. 9, and the project officially moved from the contract to warranty period. During the project execution, SNEI established a good image for Sinopec, and was highly appreciated by the leaders of the headquarters & Chinese embassy in Saudi Arabia for a couple of times.
APS/VPS project is the first large-scale installation cooperation project between SNEI & SK&EC, Korea. Via unremitting efforts and continuous coordination & adjustment, relying on sincerity and quality service, Project Dept. was positively affirmed and accepted by SK&EC Corporation, Korea and the owner YASREF, and won good reputation in all aspects.
For the project, SNEI and Nanjing Huayun Construction Technology Co., Ltd. established joint Project Dept. in combination for the first time to achieve Level I management. SNEI only assigned 6 management personnel, which had important significance for exploration of both parties’ cooperation mode & cost control, and provided valuable experience for the execution mode of SNEI’s overseas projects in the future.
Safety on site, quality and others for the project was strictly managed. In safety aspect, no event of lost man-hours occurred to the APS/VPS project in the past three years, and the project won golden flag prizes awarded by Saudi Aramco for three times during this period. In quality aspect, one-off qualification rate of pipeline weld was 97.09%, meeting the control target of welding quality.
Successful implementation of APS/VPS project is achieved through the joint efforts input by each department of SNEI, affiliates & Project Dept. During the process of implementing the project, resource organization, construction arrangement, contract execution & project closure were made step by step, which is honored as “SNEI’s safest project”.