Saudi Aramco GES+ Top Companies and Definition
Definition:-
GES+ is the acronym of General Engineering Services Plus.
General Engineering Services Plus is an initiative led by Saudi Aramco to increase the local content of the engineering activities in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Aramco’s General Engineering Services Plus (GES+) initiative requires that the majority of its engineering services requirements be conducted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in order to enhance the development of training and domestic employment opportunities.
Which Saudi companies are GES+?
With the GES+ initiative, Saudi Arabia intents to increase its local content with higher added value engineering activities.
Signing a GES+ contract with Saudi Aramco is now becoming a major step for the engineering companies to get pre-qualified for future engineering work.
A typical GES+ contract will pre-qualify the engineering companies to perform:
- Pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED)
- Front End Engineering and Design (FEED)
- Project Management Consultancy (PMC)
- Detailed design and procurement services
- Onshore and/or Offshore oil and gas
- Refining
- Petrochemicals
- Associated infrastructure projects in Saudi Arabia.
In practice the GES + initiative requires the foreign engineering companies and contractors to establish long term joint venture with local engineering companies and contractors.
These joint ventures will be the frame to support the co-operation between the global companies and the locals to transfer expertise and enhance Saudis engineering competences.
Led by Saudi Aramco, the GES+ contracts concept are now encouraged to be spread to other Saudi companies such as Sabic and Ma’aden.
So far Foster Wheeler_WorleyParsons, Jacobs Engineering, KBR, Mustang and SNC Lavalin have been able to establish local partnerships and have signed GES+ contracts with Saudi Aramco.
GES-plus signatories:
WorleyParsons (Australia)
Signed: November 2012
Local partners: Abdulaziz Kamel & Partners Company and Alrabiah Consulting & Engineering Services
Jacobs Engineering (US)
Signed: April 2011
Local Partner: Zamel & Turbag Consulting Engineers
Mustang Engineering (US)
Signed: March 2011
Local partners: Faisal Jamel al-Hejailan Engineering Company (Mustang Hejailan), Dar al-Riyadh Engineering Consultants (DAR) and Petro-Infrastructure Engineering Consultants Company (PI Consult)
KBR (US)
Signed: April 2011
Local partner: Abdulhadi & al-Moaibed Consulting Engineering
SNC Lavalin (Canada)
Signed: May 2011
Local partner: Zuhair Fayez Partnership.