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
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
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
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
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
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
