Offshore Engineering Support for the Gulf: UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait

Direct registration with the national oil companies requires a local entity: Saudi Aramco needs a MISA-licensed Saudi company and IKTVA, ADNOC needs SAP Ariba pre-qualification and an ICV certificate, and QatarEnergy and PDO run their own supplier programmes. We therefore work for the EPC, T&I and fabrication contractors who hold those registrations — jacket and topside design support, transportation and installation engineering, production drawings and class approval — and we say so plainly rather than promising a route we cannot deliver.

For owners and operators the direct scopes are third-party design review, structural integrity assessment and jack-up site-specific assessment support, which are engineering deliverables rather than registered contractor services.

Fixed structures in the Gulf are engineered to API RP 2A and ISO 19902 with operator specifications (Aramco SAES, ADNOC standards); jack-ups to ISO 19905-1 / SNAME T&R 5-5A; vessels and barges under ABS, DNV, LR or BV. Marine operations follow DNV-ST-N001 under a marine warranty surveyor appointed by the contractor’s underwriter — we prepare the packages that surveyor approves.

We deliver from Mumbai with the whole team in one office, which keeps the engineering consistent and the rates at Indian engineering-hour levels. Working hours in India Standard Time (UTC+5:30) overlap the Gulf for the full day, Europe for the afternoon and Southeast Asia for the morning, so review calls, class correspondence and comment resolution happen the same day. Site supervision and surveys are delivered by our engineers travelling to the yard or offshore location.