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News Release from: GE Oil and Gas
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Team on 17 September 2007
New service centre in Edmonton for GE
Oil and Gas
To increase the service capabilities in North America, GE Oil and Gas will operate a GE service centre in Edmonton to provide high quality, advanced technology services across the oil and gas sector
The new focus of the Edmonton Service Center for oil and gas applications follows the recent announcement that the former Preco service centre in Houston has been expanded and upgraded to become the GE Oil and Gas service hub for the Americas Similar to the Houston centre, the Edmonton facility previously was managed by GE Energy, but now is totally dedicated to providing service support for a wide range of oil and gas industry applications, with a focus on Canada and Alaska
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 6 Sep 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The centre currently employs 23 people.
"These recent expansions in Houston and Edmonton signal a full-scale commitment by GE Oil and Gas to provide the highest level of service, locally and throughout North and South America," said Jeff Nagel, vice president-global services for GE Oil and Gas: "The mission of these service centres is to combine quality and industry-leading technology expertise with faster turnaround times for our customers".
A key focus of the Edmonton centre will be to support GE Oil and Gas in expanding activities in the vast Alberta oil sands region.
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For example, GE Oil and Gas recently was selected as a supplier of choice for the North West Upgrader new heavy oil upgrader plant northeast of Edmonton.
Other recent activities supported by the Edmonton centre have included TransCanada Pipelines and Canadian Natural Resources Horizon projects.
A full range of gas and steam turbine and compressor services will be provided by the Edmonton centre, including the inspection and repair of GE and non-GE equipment, mechanical conversions, modifications and upgrades, dedicated shop support for turnarounds and outages and in-house component repairs.
The Edmonton centre will also offer field services and technical assistance including outage and project management, installation and commissioning, troubleshooting and emergency support, service contracts and technical support and training.
Key equipment in the Edmonton centre includes rotor balance machines that can handle rotors up to 40,000 pounds, hot gas path component weld booths and combustion liner flow testing machines.
Among new features to be installed this year are vertical and horizontal lathes, a milling centre, surface grinder, coating thickness tester, a digital runout system, an impeller/shaft induction heating tool, coil wrap magnetic particle tool, CMM measure systems and a 3D imaging tool.
The recent expansion of the Houston Service Center included the addition of a new Schenck WM2 moment weight machine, an image CMM machine, a renew alloy room, a new fixture for Westinghouse D-5 baskets, a Frame 3 gas turbine K transition piece fixture, a Novoscope 5000 thickness testing unit, a pulsating Mig welding machine and a Dymas masking system, used to protect specific areas on parts during acid stripping.
The Houston and Edmonton facilities are among eight GE Oil and Gas service centres located throughout the Americas.
"Our service centres are in strategic locations to be closer to the plants of our customers," said Nagel: "These shops feature the latest tools and skilled technical advisors to provide world-class technical support and to reduce project cycle times".
Since 2000, more than 400 repair services and more than 600 field service events have been completed for customers throughout North America.
Based in Houston, the GE Oil and Gas North American operations include more than 1800 employees throughout the United States and Canada.
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