OREANDA-NEWS. Wood Group is continuing to expand its Automation and Control business, establishing dedicated automation capabilities at Wood Group Mustang’s Kuala Lumpur office to serve the Asia Pacific market.

With this entry into the Asia Pacific markets, Wood Group Mustang’s Automation and Control business will focus on projects in the energy (offshore and onshore production, petrochemical, chemical, and refining), power and manufacturing industries. Services will include specialty automation consulting, control and instrument modernizations, greenfield main automation contractor projects, and electrical upgrades.
Speciality automation consultancy services will include:

• Functional safety • Alarm management
• Fire and gas system life cycle
management		 • Fire & gas mapping studies
• Cyber security management • Fire & gas coverage studies
• Control & safety systems
(reliability & availability)		 • Training

“The expansion of our automation and control capability into the Kuala Lumpur office allows us to further enhance our regional delivery model by providing a strong technical execution base in Malaysia,” stated Mark House, president, Wood Group Mustang Automation and Control. “With the ability to provide services ranging from functional safety consulting through to main automation contracting, we can now provide a broader offering to our clients.”

The Kuala Lumpur team is being led by Harry Bennett and Rahul Gupta, who recently joined the Wood Group Mustang team and bring a wealth of experience in automation and consulting services to their new positions.

Automation & Control Manager Harry Bennett brings more than 30 years of experience in offshore and onshore automation, instrumentation, and telecommunications engineering to his new role. His experience covers all aspects of automation and instrumentation across a range of industries.

Technical Authority – Automation & Control Rahul Gupta is a certified functional safety expert and industrial automation and control systems cyber security specialist for control and safety systems. During his more than 25 years in the oil & gas industry, Rahul has specialized in offshore production platforms and FPSOs, onshore processing refineries, LNG facilities, and chemical plants.

With the establishment of automation capabilities in Kuala Lumpur, Wood Group Mustang’s Automation and Control business unit now supports clients globally from 12 countries. It recently also entered the UK manufacturing automation market, most notably for the automotive industry, with the acquisition of Automated Technology Group in September 2015.

Wood Group is an international energy services company with over $7bn sales and operating in more than 50 countries. The Group is built on Core Values and has three businesses – Wood Group PSN, Wood Group Kenny and Wood Group Mustang – providing a range of engineering, production support and maintenance management services to the oil & gas, and power generation industries worldwide.

Wood Group Mustang provides award-winning services to the global energy industry. From concept to completion, Wood Group Mustang delivers project management, construction management, engineering and procurement services to the offshore, onshore, oil sands, pipeline, refining, chemicals, industrial and automation sectors, operating in countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America. 

Wood Group Mustang is a leader in providing engineering, specification, integration and implementation of control, automation and information systems to the process industries. The vendor-independent approach used provides objectivity in the selection of major controls hardware and software that helps to maximize the operating efficiency, reliability and productivity of facilities.