Allied Industries: Reflections of Solewant’s 22 years of cutting-edge technologies application for oil, gas projects
The Oil and Gas sector remains Nigeria’s honey-pot. investments in the sector have, over time, grown to sustain it as Nigeria’s economic mainstay. The base of the economy has largely, for about five decades, rested its oars on the sector, giving its yieldings to serve private and public interests. As the sector remains germane to the Nigerian economy and seems not to have any close substitute for its yieldings, it is important to note that industries which provide project services which are indispensable for the operations of the architectures of the Oil and Gas sector are critical in the centre of discourse, and the need to begin to drive the discourse along the lines of the possibilities and provisions of these allied industries whose strings on the Oil and Gas sector are firm, becomes germane.
Hence, moving the discourse to the reflections of the operations of some of these service-providers/project-executors, as an industry on their own accord, calls for interest. For instance, there are firms whose service provision remain so germane, not only to the framework of the architecture of the Oil and Gas sector, but their significance in the sustenance of the sector remain profoundly of firm repute. Some of these firms are known to bear relevance across other productive and extractive oriented industries within sectors of substantive potentials in the Country’s economy — say oil, gas, water, mining, refining, transportation and marine industries.
Certain firms holding such profile of robust penetration are not alien in the Country’s economy. There are those of them synchronised in Groups whose records of operation have lasted well over two decades in the Country. For instance, firms providing services relating to the provision of steel pipes and coating application solution, are known to bear such wide range multi-sectoral relevance across board.
An example in this regard is the SOLEWANT GROUP, a firm which has excelled in the provision of steel pipe, metals and specialty coating solutions for 22 years. The Group which is presently entering another phase of its extensive development through a series of investments and expansions, provide support to the oil, gas, water, chemical processing, mining, refining, transportation and marine industries. SOLEWANT GROUP has been known to have maintained a redefining record of its business model in the African market over time, in the provision of steel pipes, fabrication, construction, protecting metals and concrete surfaces through complementary range of product solutions.
With its philosophy, now striking a track record of over 22 years, the overriding contributions of the firm have been recorded to be veritable in enhancing employment opportunities through the manufacturing of steel pipes and coating application solution, not only encouraging local knowledge transfer and technological skills, but also increasing participation in servicing oil, gas and water industries, to save time of project delivery as well as minimise cost of projects.
As observed, the strategic modus operandi of the organisation have been channeled along the acquisition and ownership of world-class facilities, including, Multilayer Pipe Coating Plant, Concrete Weight Pipe Coating plant, Solewant state of the art Laboratory, Fabrication Plant. The Group is renowned for its diverse portfolio comprising of steel pipe milling, and coating application solution. It provides high performance, multi-functional, organic barrier coatings and linings which are suitable for medium to extreme service conditions that include, epoxies, polyurethanes, polyureas, polypropylene, pipeline wrapping tapes and sealants.
For the Group, the competitive advantages and differentiators that are achieved through such commitments to customer satisfaction and safety include visibility and transparency throughout operations, continuous improvements being driven throughout the organisation, enhanced risk management, heightened employee satisfaction, and a stronger monitoring of processes in line with industry demands, all of which have combined to attract some of Africa’s and industry’s biggest names over the years, including Shell Nigeria, NGC, ExxonMobil Nigeria, Total, NAOC, EHGC, Westfield, Morpol Engineering, Ascot, DTO, Port Harcourt Refinery, Indorama Petrochemical Industry.
A commitment statement obtained from the organisation in relation to its 22 years record of operation reads, “We assist project owners and clients to save time of project execution and within budget. There is no project too large or small and no place too remote for Solewant in Africa to handle, when it comes to project delivery.” The above, reflects the stretch of its scope of operation with diversed strength across multi-sectoral demands. Recently, the company received a seal of excellence when it won the Best Oil & Gas Contractor of the Year Award in January 2022 for its part in aiding oil and gas investments, product manufacturing, and expansion projects.
The Nigerian economy is growing with challenging dynamics with demands dovetailing increasingly for a focus on forward and linkage parameters. The role of such firms with capacities of productive lines of interlocking dealings, satisfying multisectoral demands are sacrosanct, not only for the economy, but for resilience model for business entities. It is apparently promising more businesses framed in this architecture of operations would live to survive the conditions of the economy with resilience to remain relevant overtime, even amidst challenging strings.
