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Increased worldwide exposure for Taranaki’s engineering expertise is likely to follow on from New Plymouth firm Amtec Engineering’s latest quality management certification.
It is now the first company in New Zealand and Australia to gain certification to the internationally recognised American Petroleum Institute (API) Quality Management Registration ISO/TS 29001, 2000, and the first in New Zealand with API Spec Q1.
“The API certifications are significant because they are much more widely recognised in the oil exploration business worldwide,” says Amtec’s business development manager, Terry O’Kane.
“Also, a lot of expertise in this field is US-based, and they use API all the time, so it made sense for us to seek that registration.”
The new quality management specifications are in addition to Amtec’s existing Telarc ISO 9001 2000 registration.
O’Kane says achieving API Spec Q1 entitles Amtec to seek qualification to apply the API Monogram on various products, joining nearly 1800 organisations worldwide that are licensed to use the API logo. Introduced in 1924, the monogram is recognised the world over as an assurance of quality.
“In New Zealand you can get by without the API mark, but in a design-build-supply project, for example, you need the whole nine yards” – evidence of a quality management system that is familiar and respected, O’Kane says.
The certification means the company can both pursue new markets with its existing range of services and products for the oil and gas industry, and develop new products.
“A lot of equipment is custom built, of course, and the API specification is something that is readily recognised as a quality standard. It will help Amtec maximise our existing products and services and enable us to compete for more oil industry contracts abroad.”
Founded in the early 1980s, Amtec provides engineering products and services to the petrochemical, oil exploration, defence, dairy and forestry industries. It specialises in tailoring products and services to the specific needs of individual clients, and the standards and codes of practice relevant to each industry.
Among its many projects in the oil, forestry and dairy industries, Amtec was the mechanical equipment erection contractor for the Pohokura drilling programme. For Pohokura, Amtec and its associated company Drilling Fluid Equipment, provided engineering support, from initial site dewatering to drilling rig operations, and oversaw the plant hook-up, including gas and condensate piping, flarelines and process modules.
The company also built the wastewater treatment plant at New Zealand’s Antarctic research station at Scott Base. Designed by Amtec associate company Innovative Water Solutions, the plant processes 17,000 litres of wastewater and sewage a day.
Amtec Engineering employs 85 people at its Bell Block site.
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