A spokesman of Technology and Business International has claimed that TBI is representing National Oilwell USA/Dubai for the last more than 10 years, besides many other companies of oil and gas sector. He said that National Oilwell (NOI) is the world largest and biggest renowned oil rigs and accessories manufacturer and it is American Petroleum Institute certified.
He said currently the NOI has 30 subsidiaries that manufacture various parts of rigs. Six of its manufactured rigs were presently operating at various wells of Oil and Gas Development Company Limited.
While clarifying the TBI/NOI position regarding a news item captioned " OGDC accused of violating rules in awarding works," published in Business Recorder on June 21, the spokesman said if the OGDCL goes to advertise tender in the press for the purchase of spares for NOI rigs as it did in the past in few cases, in response of that OGDCL had received solitary bid and as per their procurement procedure the OGDCL could not finalise the case against the single bid.
He recalled that each authority objected to end-user that why it was advertising tender instead of proprietary/single source when it was only manufactured by the NOI.
The spokesman added that NOI has its huge inventory of consumable spare parts of rig equipment at Jebel Ali Dubai from where OGDCL can get immediate delivery to avoid shutdown of activity at its rig. It may be noted that slight delay in the availability of parts will incur a daily loss in rig rent of about $15000, he said.
The spokesman said details published in the news items regarding 19 tenders were not related to NOI/TBI. Regarding inspection of rig as was referred in the news item that Pride Forasol had quoted for $165,000 and NOI was awarded the same job for $300,000 was incorrect. "NOI got the job for only $152,692.62."