Jebel Ali Facility

The Jebel Ali Facility was purpose-built in 2002 and the ongoing improvement and construction plan seeks to ensure that it will remain one of the most modern offshore oil and gas sector construction facilities in the region. The Jebel Ali Facility, located in the Jebel Ali Free Zone, occupies an area of approximately 161,000m² that has been developed to allow optimum production based on a clear and logical flow of material through the Facility. It includes more than 16,000m² of covered work spaces with internal overhead cranes suitable for carrying out fabrication and assembly activities under cover. The covered areas also contain the latest welding and cutting machinery. This protected work environment is cooler, safer and more productive than an outside location and allows the production of a higher quality product at lower cost. In addition to the covered fabrication areas, the Jebel Ali Facility has extensive open fabrication areas that are equipped with gantry and mobile crawler cranes. These open areas are used to assemble the final structures. There are also well appointed project, production, engineering and customer offices for more than 200 people at the Facility. The Company is currently expanding the Jebel Ali Facility to include additional client offices, corporate offices, welfare facilities and warehousing to support the planned increase in liftboat, tender barge and FPSO process module building which the Directors foresee arising this year and beyond. Lamprell maintains a core yard labour force in Jebel Ali of more than 1,400 skilled tradesmen. This can be supplemented with the short term hire of additional local labour so that there can be in excess of 2,500 men working in the Jebel Ali Facility at the peak of production.

Within the Jebel Ali Facility, Lamprell is able to fabricate multiple structures that can individually weigh over 3,000 tonnes. On completion, these are transported by way of a 75m wide dedicated load out corridor, using multi-wheeled hydraulic trailers to the quayside that is approximately 250 metres away. They can then be loaded onto barges or heavy lift vessels for onward transportation to their final destination.