Date: 18/08/2003 16:31:00
Written By: DSL

Deborah Services, one of the UK’s leading multi discipline contracting companies, have secured a major five year scaffolding, and access maintenance contract at Fawley Refinery near Southampton. Worth circa $30 million over 5 years, the project is to provide an alternative means of access at the refinery by means of System Scaffolding.

The Board of Deborah Services, Chris Neate, Peter Kidd & John Neal stated, “The Fawley Refinery is one of the largest in Europe and we are proud to have won this contract against extremely fierce competition. Our aim is to provide a dedicated, proactive development team to ensure that Esso/Exxon’s project goals are achieved to the highest standards.”

This prestigious award follows the submission of an exacting competitive tender and several months of discussions. Apart from the quotation being commercial viable for Esso, the contract was also attained by DSL’s obvious commitment and enviable track record. In line with their Technical Review Esso visited previous DSL projects at BP Grangemouth and Terra at Billingham, Teesside. These visits allowed DSL to fully demonstrate how the project would be carried out.

The Award of the Fawley Contract to Deborah Services, who up until 2000 were a subsidiary of Rentokil Initial Plc, is a further indication of how the business has continued to develop following the Management Buy Out.

In March of this year the Company acquired Steadfast Scaffolding based in Killingholme. Steadfast have a long and distinguished reputation as a major Scaffolding Company within the Humberside Area and the Deborah Services Limited Board acted quickly to secure this opportunity.

The Board believes the acquisition of Steadfast will enable the company to provide it’s Humberside Clients with the additional core services Deborah Services Limited can offer - Insulation, Protective Coatings, Fireproofing and Asbestos Removal which we believe will provide a significant improvement to our Clients cost base for Maintenance and Project work.

DSL Steadfast who are the incumbent Multi-Discipline Maintenance Contractor for Total Fina Elf at Lindsey Oil Refinery have also recently secured two major Shutdowns for Alstom Power Ltd and Mitsui Babcock with a Total Contract Value of circa £1.5 million.

The success of the Fawley Contract comes at a time when the Multi-Discipline Division of the Deborah Services Limited group have won other major contracts including: -

Foster Wheeler Energy Ltd – BP Coryton Clean Fuels Project
Contract Value circa £1.0 million
Fabricom / Caxios – BP Saltend SLEU Project
Contract Value circa £1.2 million
Petroplus North Tees – Maintenance Contract
Mitsui Babcock Connoco Phillips – Reformer Scaffolding
Contract value circa £0.4 million
The Company is convinced that it’s planned growth and development is a result of understanding the Clients needs and providing them with a service which we believe is unmatched by many of our competitors.

All of our Management Team, staff and workforce have worked extremely hard and with their continued commitment and determination they have shown, the Board are confident the success of Deborah Services Limited will long continue.

Return To News Archive