Industrial Bank of
Project Manager: Dr. Rasheed Salem Al-Ameeri, Safe Oil
International (SOI)
Project Team: Dr. Soliman Mohammed Shams-el-Din, Syed N. Hussain, Safe Oil International (SOI);
Subcontract to TII-VA:
TII-VA Team: Dr. Abdo A, Husseiny, TII-VA; Dr. Y. Aksoy, Professor, A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Alfred M. "AL" Allen, President, Energy Technical Services, Inc. (ETS), Lafayette, LA and Houston, TX.
Abdo A, Husseiny and Y. Aksoy (November 1996). Establishment
of
The idea of establishment of technical service centers and industrial workshops has been floating around in the oil sector for some time. In line with this idea, this study presents a formal analysis of the establishment of a new private workshop for maintenance and spare parts needs of the oil sector.
While we focused on the needs of the oil sector due to its
dominance in our economy, the proposed facility would also serve other markets,
such as power and private industries. A
major portion of maintenance and repair work is done in-house in oil
sector. High tech jobs are either done
overseas or on-site in
We observed an increase in demand for oil in global and local markets. Working with the oil sector we assessed the demand for a new workshop in the market. Demand for spare parts manufacturing is limited to small items whose production does not require high technology. The option of buying is still optimal for the more complex items.