The facility features a new high bay workshop that will enable GE to begin manufacturing its first vertical subsea production trees in the Asia-Pacific region and increase local content in Indonesia.
Future plans will see the facility also having the capability to produce horizontal subsea production trees. The expansion has created nearly 30 new jobs at the facility and is expected to add another 50 to 70 new jobs over the next three years.
GE has invested more than $15m in Batam since 2011 for plant expansion, technology upgrades and the new high bay workshop. This latest expansion is GE’s largest investment to date at the Batam manufacturing site.
Employees at the new vertical subsea trees workshop are trained in Singapore and Aberdeen, the UK’s centre of excellence, and also receive additional training to address local content requirements for Indonesia. “We expanded our Batam subsea manufacturing facility to meet the growing demand for subsea production equipment as our customers look to develop new oil and gas reserves in more challenging locations in the Asia-Pacific region,” Handry Satriago, ceo of GE Indonesia, was quoted as saying.
“The expansion of our Batam facility underscores GE’s commitment to localizing more of our company’s business capabilities in Southeast Asia, especially in Indonesia, to support the country’s local economic and energy goals.”
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