STATS Group strengthens presence in Australia and wider Asia Pacific

A number of completed landmark projects, greater market recognition and a long-standing policy of localisation, has strengthened STATS Group’s (STATS) presence in Australia and the wider Asia Pacific hydrocarbon sector.

STATS has a long-established track record in delivering industry leading repair and maintenance solutions to energy operators along with main engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractors globally, with proven dual sealing technology at the core of their product and service offering.

“This has been one of our busiest and most successful periods in terms of project activity and increased turnover in the Asia Pacific market,” STATS Group Regional Manager for Asia Pacific Gareth Campbell said. “We have taken a long-term view and from our initial market entry in Australia we have continually invested in infrastructure and people, starting out by setting up a base in Perth and expanding east and northwards.

A new client recently commissioned STATS to deploy its patented BISEP® double block and bleed isolation technology to isolate the 20-inch Dampier to Bunbury Pipeline in Western Australia and the company hopes this lays the foundation for winning similar workscopes. Other BISEP projects in Western Australia included two workscopes, (double and quad 6” pipeline) and a quad 14” isolation on the Parmelia Gas Pipeline, while building on an existing frame agreement with Santos, a 12-inch hot tap service on the 42-inch Gladstone Transmission Pipeline was delivered in Queensland.

In Malaysia, STATS has a track record of successful project work dating back to 2011 and earlier this year the company signed an exclusive supply arrangement for its products and services with Malaysia’s E&P O&M Services Sdn Bhd (EPOMS).

The strategic agreement covers STATS’ innovative range of pipeline hot tapping, plugging and inline isolation services, including the market leading BISEP and Remote Tecno Plug (RTP) system, and it strengthened an existing relationship with EPOMS which saw STATS complete a workscope in 2022 which included the isolation and reinstatement leak-testing of a 12” shutdown valve on the EPOMS-operated Larut A platform.

“Malaysia is a strategically important market for STATS and following the signing of a new partnership with EPOMS we have started training their personnel to support onsite workscopes in the local market and are supporting knowledge transfer of our product range,” Campbell said.