New facility strengthens company’s Eastern Hemisphere services
SENAI, Malaysia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 2013--
Halliburton (NYSE: HAL) officially opened the expansion of its Malaysia
Manufacturing and Technology Centre in Senai, Malaysia, today. The
additional capability will allow the company to expand its delivery of
high-quality products to meet the growing needs of customers in the
Eastern Hemisphere and globally.
Officially opening the expansion of the Halliburton Manufacturing and Technology Centre in Senai are (left to right) Dato' Wee Yiaw Hin, Executive Vice President, Exploration & Production Business, PETRONAS; Y. B. Datuk Tee Siew Kiong, Johor Executive Councilor of Tourism, Trade and Consumerism; and Mark Richard, Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific Region, Halliburton. (Photo: Business Wire)
The completed extension adds 9,844 square meters (105,960 square feet)
of space and will manufacture an extensive range of products from
Halliburton’s Completion Tools product line, including packers, tubing
retrievable safety valves, service tools, subsurface flow, and swell and
screens technology, as well as float equipment, stage tools and
cementing accessories from the Cementing product line.
“Halliburton’s investment in this expansion demonstrates our continuing
commitment to strengthen our position and respond to our customers’
needs, not only in the Eastern Hemisphere, but globally,” said Mark
Richard, Senior Vice President for Halliburton’s Asia Pacific Region.
“This additional capacity allows us to continue to strengthen our
position in deep water, mature assets and unconventional resources
development.”
Rao Abdullah, Area Vice President for Halliburton’s Central Asia and
Southeast Asia regions, said, “This cutting-edge manufacturing plant
features a highly efficient shop-floor layout with advanced machines and
streamlined processes that will provide maximum efficiencies in
production. The additional investment will provide manufacturing jobs
and business opportunities, as well as technology knowledge transfer.”
The facility, which originally opened in March 2008, now comprises
29,434 square meters (316,828 square feet) on 13 acres and houses a
manufacturing plant, a bulk plant and an administration building. The
site also offers onsite technology capabilities, including onsite
high-pressure testing capabilities. It is expected that the
company’s manufacturing and technology center in Senai will employ
approximately 350 people by year-end 2013.
Halliburton has been active in the Eastern Hemisphere energy services
market since 1926, and the company established operations in Malaysia in
1974. Halliburton has had strong growth in the region, and offers a full
range of technology and services across its Completion and Production,
and Drilling and Evaluation divisions.
ABOUT HALLIBURTON
Founded in 1919, Halliburton is one of the world’s largest providers of
products and services to the energy industry. With more than 75,000
employees, representing 140 nationalities in approximately 80 countries,
the company serves the upstream oil and gas industry throughout the
lifecycle of the reservoir – from locating hydrocarbons and managing
geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction
and completion, and optimizing production through the life of the field.
Visit the company’s website at www.halliburton.com.
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