WELDING & FABRICATION
Building a Brand CRC-Evans and PIH were established brands before they became part of Stanley Oil & Gas. CRC Evans was founded in 1933, and PIH has been around since 1980. By those standards, Stanley Inspection is the new kid on the block.
However, according to Jeremy Guretzki, President of Stanley Inspection, the brand has steadily gained traction in the pipeline market over the past six years. The company provides inspection services globally, for both onshore and offshore assets.
Stanley Inspection is able to leverage its position as a sister company to CRC- Evans and PIH to better serve customers.
“With CRC-Evans focused more on equipment rental, a lot of their equipment is used on projects where we are required to do inspection work, whether for the project owner or the contractor,” Guretzki says. “Our client list is both owners and contractors, with some engineering firms as well.”
“We are trying to provide, build and inspect the safest pipelines in the world,” Guretzki says. “Our technology and our people and their skills are key to that.”
Market Views With three brands firmly entrenched in the global oil and gas pipeline industry, Morris says Stanley Oil & Gas views the North American market as “very robust.” However, there remains demand to expand takeaway capacity throughout the United States and Canada.
“Areas like the Permian that need new takeaway capacity are driving pipeline demand, as well a big shift toward natural gas power generation, switching over from coal,” Morris says. “In the international and offshore business, after the energy crisis in the 2000s, the market has very much softened, but it’s forecasted to grow now that we’ve had stabilized oil prices for quite some time.”
While both the United States and Canada have challenges related to permitting, Morris adds that those challenges have not curbed efforts to expand pipeline capacity to better serve the U.S. shale market and the Canadian oil sands.
“We’re starting to see in the next year continued efforts to expand takeaway out of the Permian,” he says. “We’re also seeing projects to move crude oil to the West Coast of Canada, as well as projects to move liquids to the United States from Canada.”
“We are continuing to invest in productivity and superior quality,” Morris says. “It’s not how fast you can weld, but how well you can weld fast. Our focus is productivity, quality and safety.”
On the inspection side, the company is continuing to focus on more advanced technology for NDT.
“For example, NeXray is our real-time radiography solution for more accurate digital imaging for girth weld inspection, including larger diameter applications,” Morris says. “We also continue to use technology and data to advance our productivity gains in welding and coating.”
Introducing new technology for the pipeline market can sometimes be challenging, Morris admits, but he believes Stanley Oil & Gas has the right approach to best implement new products and services.
“Our formula there starts with the fact that our technicians and sales people are very much engaged with the pipeline construction process,” Morris says. “We tap into the knowledge of our technicians and the whole organization for ideas, as well as from customers. We have a comprehensive product development process, and we focus on customer pressure points and industry trends. Our channel presidents sponsor new technology throughout the development process, becoming turnkey sponsors of the technology. That prevents the ‘throw it over the wall’ mentality and makes for a more seamless commercialization. It improves product viability and implementation.”
Despite being a newer company, Stanley Oil & Gas continues to develop cutting edge technology to best serve the pipeline industry.
“Stanley Oil & Gas is a young platform, but the brands within it are strong industry brands that focus on bringing technology to the space and known for being customer centric,” Morris says. “Readers might not know the name Stanley Oil & Gas, but they’ll know the brands. They come with a heritage and track record. CRC-Evans, PIH and Stanley Inspection have aided in building some of the biggest onshore and offshore pipeline in the world.
January 2020
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