People and projects from around the PETROFAC world

The scope and scale of Petrofac’s procurement function is vast. Let’s take a look…

Procurement in numbers


HOW WE WORK

PUBLISHED AUGUST 2020

Around 3 million nuts and bolts are purchased each year for projects

The remotest locations we’ve shipped to are Sakhalin in the far east of Russia – where bears roam in the wild and temperatures as cold as -54˚C have been reported – and Hassi Messaoud in Algeria where sandstorms are common and temperatures reach over 40˚C

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experienced Buyers, Expeditors, Logistics Officers and Materials Controllers

The biggest valve we have purchased is a 56” ball valve used on a gas export pipeline. It weighed in at over 26 tons

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Around 10,000 inspection releases* issued per year on average

*(the clearance to use the materials for our projects)

26,000 km

is the furthest a component has travelled – from North Europe via land and sea to Sakhalin in the far east of Russia

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The tallest component we shipped was a Crude Column Overhead Accumulator to Kuwait at 13.108 m – about twice as tall as a giraffe

The biggest order was

$350 million

for Modularised Gas Turbine Generator packages; the smallest a few dollars for stationery

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In 2019

US$3 billion

spent and ~15,000 purchase orders and change orders

We can work with anywhere between

2,000 and 3,000 different suppliers every year

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60,000 tonnes of structural steel purchased per year – more than enough to build another Burj Khalifa

13,800 km

of cables were procured for one very unusual project – a length that would stretch from Sharjah to Rio de Janeiro

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