OQ, GPS ink maintenance and engineering service contract

Muscat: OQ’s Gas Network (OQGN), one of OQ’s Assets, signed an agreement with Gulf Petrochemicals Services (GPS) for a maintenance and engineering service contract.

As part of this agreement, GPS will provide the entire gamut of day-to-day maintenance portfolio related to OQ’s Gas Network (OQGN) assets across the Sultanate of Oman.

Speaking on the occasion, Mansoor Al Abdali, Managing Director of OQ Gas Network said, “This long-term service contract is vital to our business as it contributes to our Goals towards Reliability and Availability and serves as an effective platform to bring innovation and efficiency in serving our customers.

The scope and scale of this contract are significant and we are happy to partner with GPS as this reinforces our commitment to nurture and mature domestic organisations having capabilities of competing locally and internationally and supporting the country’s economic growth.

OGGN is delighted to support such organisations to deliver sustainable outcomes in our facilities- safely and proficiently. We strongly believe that this contract will immensely contribute to our drive to create value through localisation and enhancing In-Country Value. With long-standing business relationship, we believe GPS is well aligned with OQ expectations and priorities.”

Naveen Chana, General Manager of Gulf Petrochemicals Services (GPS) said, “We are honoured that OQ Gas Network has selected us again to provide them with ongoing maintenance services. We will continue to provide top-notch service as we continue to renew this new business partnership.”

The contract scope comprises preventive, corrective and predictive maintenance, call-off services and third-party services and also incorporates management and execution of minor scale EPC Projects (New Pipeline connection) which facilitates quicker project initiation/ kick-off and rapid mobilisation.