DEBAJ Industrial Services WLL CEO, C. Thirumeni
Doha: Qatar has created a new identity and now the world is looking for investments, partnerships and presence in the state said DEBAJ Industrial Services WLL CEO, C. Thirumeni (pictured) said in an interview with The Peninsula yesterday.
He said even with the extensive development that took place in the past decade, we still see enormous potentials and growth opportunities in the construction sector of the state. “Qatar is marching steadily towards its 2030 vision. The construction sector will play a vital role in the four pillars of Qatar’s national vision of human, social, economic and environment development,” he said adding that construction, fabrication and technical services have been the foundation and is the binding force to achieve the ‘2030 Vision’ and create a path for the 2050 vision, Thirumeni said.
Not just in the form of new projects but also in the existing ones which were completed in the 1970’s and the 80’s and nearing the end of life cycle provide a great potential in replacement, refurbishment, upgrades and retrofits, he said.
The world may be concerned about the recessions, geo-political situations and pandemics but in Qatar thanks to the vision of the leadership, the future opportunities are very optimistic and encouraging to the construction field. Focus on new technology, greater efficiency and better reliability and in particular environmental related project will boom in the coming years.
DEBAJ is fully geared to meet the local requirements of engineering, procurement, construction, fabrication and installation of both new and upgrading of plants.
On the past year performance of the company Thirumeni said after the challenging pandemic years, the year 2022 showed positive business growth both in terms of inquires and orders for power, oil gas, MEP and fabrication and installations.
In 2022 DEBAJ completed the installation of nine units of LT Nova 16 model gas turbines which are first in the Middle East region. We have delivered several tanks, pressure vessels, structural and piping fabricated spools to various customers, he said. The company also carried out tie-in activities for conversion of open cycle to combined cycle for addition of HRSG in the exhaust of Gas Turbine and staffing for O and M services for sewage treatment plants.
In late 2022 the company was awarded a number of projects. DEBAJ, as a consortium member bagged the prestigious Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) project for QAFCO.The company was also awarded the subcontract for desalination package from Acciona, Qatar for the NFE Project.In 2022 DEBAJ expanded its wings in supporting the after sales markets and ventured to be channel partners of new technologies and innovation products.
“We have been successful in collaborating with Eagle Filters, Finland and we supplied the first set of the gas turbine combustion air filters bringing in new options for the gas turbine operating companies to use filters that are more suitable to our dessert environment whuch are water and oil resistant and will further enhance their plant efficiency, availability and life cycle costs.
With regard to plans for the new year he said in addition to executing various construction/fabrication projects in Qatar as well as providing technical support services for O and M of STP plants, our primary focus will be on acquired projects (during 2022 end) on ZLD Project awarded by QAFCO as well as on NFE Desalination Project awarded by Acciona.
DEBAJ plans to further expand their collaboration to bring new technology, innovation and environmental partners to support the growing needs of markets in Qatar such as WP and E Technologies, USA, in the process of waste oil and water treatment.
“DEBAJ has a long serving management since inception, which is our strength. We have more than 55 million safe man-hour work in Qatar with zero LTI, which we are proud of,” Thirumeni said.
DEBAJ COO S. Saimani said that “DEBAJ firmly believes in their company’s mission statement to make customers win by delivering genuine timely services adhering to safety and quality policies”.
The company was established in 2003 as a local Qatari company in shareholding with a leading German firm, to serve growing demand for technical services of Qatar. DEBAJ, subsequently became a 100% Qatari company and has core business of electro-mechanical construction/fabrication works and technical services with 2 decades of proven record of accomplishment for the customer satisfaction and timely work completion of projects.
