Friday, January 16, 2015

ENGlobal Corp. (ENG) Engineering & Automation Success Driven by Reputation for Safety & Quality, Advanced Systems Integration

ENGlobal has built up a considerable presence across the U.S., as well as in international markets over the past three decades, serving sectors ranging from the petroleum and alternative energy industries, to pulp and paper, and even government entities. World-class automation, engineering and consulting services – as well as the capacity to develop, manage and deliver turnkey executions of entire facilities – has allowed ENG to consistently development a growing client base, irrespective of industry-specific volatility. Ranked among the Top 500 engineering design firms for over a decade by Engineering News Record magazine, ENGlobal has managed to grow as a company on its strong reputation for quality and safety, winning numerous health, safety and the environment (HSE) awards from major petrochemical and chemical companies, as well as the likes of Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc., the Golden Triangle Business Roundtable, and the Houston Business Roundtable.

Today, riding high on its reputation for safety leadership and outstanding safety performance, the company boasts a dynamic team of over 400 employees, ranging from their core engineers in the drafting, design and technical specialty areas, to management personnel at six locations across the country. As one of the leading engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) companies serving the U.S. energy sector today, ENGlobal prides itself on maintaining an exceptional safety record for their workforces and the communities where they operate. With a three-year total recordable indecent rate of just 0.21 and workman’s compensation modifier of only 0.53, ENG is well below the industry average, considering there were some 27k or more injuries in the just the heavy construction sand civil engineering sector during 2013, with another 2.2k in oil and gas extraction (BLS).

ENG’s offices are located in key operational regions around the U.S., with their primary automation integration and fabrication facility (80k square foot integration floor), as well as the company’s corporate HQ, located in Houston. The company’s corporate HQ also focuses on midstream engineering, construction and automation, and controls and integration. With another office further east in Mobile, AL, focusing on upstream and downstream engineering, construction and process automation, ENG has around half their workforce collectively serving the Gulf Coast region with both onshore and offshore excellence. The company also has an upstream/midstream office of about 100 engineering and design professionals in Denver, serving the Niobrara-DJ Basin region.

Key engineering developments like the company’s Universal Master Control Station (UMCS), which harnesses a series of patented technologies to deliver a vastly more simplified solution for configuring and implementing both greenfield and brownfield master control stations, is a prime example of the kind of engineering feats ENG is known for throughout the offshore industry. A standardized interface with standardized software objects, UMCS serves as the communications link between the distributed control system, hydraulic power unit and electrical power unit, providing an advanced solution to conventional multi-vendor master control station architectures, which are used to tie topside production facilities to subsea devices in the complicated and oftentimes dangerous offshore industry.

The UMCS, which is not based on proprietary communication interfaces or custom hardware, is a marvel of subsea controls and integration know how. UMCS is armed with UI and database management tools that can shave huge percentages off the greatest operational risk, human error, via features like automatically populated object controller logics and a robust set of pre-designed topside and subsea device objects, which can be rapidly assembled into a complete system via simple drag-and-drop by the operator. The UMCS is also designed to handshake nicely with all the major subsea equipment vendor types, providing a standardized, secure communication interface that allows operators to source hardware from multiple vendors without worrying about integration snags, a feature which translates into ultimately being able to deliver faster results from operations at reduced costs, and with less effort. Little wonder that ENGlobal has been able to maintain such a low injury incident rate, with such sweeping engineering and design innovations as the UMCS, which so effectively integrates critical control execution and data monitoring for subsea devices.

ENGlobal’s Government Services group, organized mostly out of their Tulsa, Oklahoma offices, handles a variety of contracted U.S. defense industry turnkey installations (primarily fuel handling systems) worldwide, including maintenance on automation and instrumentation components. The company’s offices in Chicago are focused on the biomass industry and providing additional midstream pipeline and facility engineering and construction services, as well as support to certain downstream utilities.

The company’s noted ability to execute state-of-the-art plant automation systems and successfully deliver even extremely complex midstream and downstream solutions, complete with full-service (packaged) instrumentation systems, has won them provider-of-choice relationships with multiple, leading industry operators, both at home and abroad. ENGlobal is one of the few companies poised to succeed even in difficult energy markets, thanks to their glowing safety and quality record, as well as their broad-spectrum advanced engineering and automation capabilities.

For more information on ENGlobal Corp., visit www.ENGlobal.com

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