Coastal
Marine Construction & Engineering Limited
(COMACOE), an ISO 9001:2000 company and together
with GeoQuest, GeoRent, Coastal Survey & Consultancy Services Pvt.
Ltd. constitute the ‘Coastal Group’. The Coastal
Group was incorporated with the prime objective to provide
high quality, integrated geoscience, oceanographic, subsea
solutions to the onshore and offshore oil & gas, port
and marine infrastructure development sector.
The independently managed and operated companies have
acquired wide ranging expertise and experience in diverse
onshore and offshore project execution and management
in several specialized areas and geographies. Coastal
has achieved a high rate of success & customer satisfaction
in project execution due to the inherent strength flowing
from its in-house availability of custom built marine
spread including ocean going survey & geotechnical
vessels, tugs, jack-up barges as also state-of-the-art
surveying and subsea systems with associated highly trained & experienced
manpower.
Regular investments in capacity building and leveraging
the expertise have resulted in impressive double digit
year-on-year growths. An aggressively cautious, bold
but calibrated approach has lead to transnational growth
with projects for leading multinational clientele being
executed in Kazakshtan, Qatar, Iran, UAE, Sudan, Vietnam,
Malaysia. Extending this successful track record, COMACOE
has now made a foray into the Gulf of Mexico having been
awarded a US$ 12.5 Million (consortium of COMACOE-C&C
Technologies-Blue Marine consortium, with COMACOE holding
63% revenue share) project for geotechnical and geophysical
site surveys for 18 platform locations by Pemex.
Many firsts have come in the way through the continuous
evolution of the company, some of the notable ones are:
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First Indian company to execute the
largest stand alone survey and geotechnical assignment
(2nd South Bassein Hazira) for ONGC |
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First Indian company to execute offshore geotechnical
projects with indigenously designed, built and operated
Jack Up barges. The first such project being in the
Gulf of Cambay in 12m tide range and 8 knots of current |
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First Indian company to work offshore in the Caspian
Sea |
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First
Indian company to execute ROV inspection, survey & geotechnical
work offshore in Persian Gulf, Qatar |
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First Indian geosciences service provider to execute
a single order value of US$ 8 million for a turnkey
project |
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First Indian company to construct integrated laying
of offshore effluent disposal using laybarge method
and seawater intake system |
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First Indian company to execute subsea repairs
of damaged PSC piles |
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First Indian company to execute a project in Gulf
of Mexico |
An ongoing US$ 5 Million
is being invested in the further augmentation of marine
spread and specialized plant & machinery
over the current financial year. COMACOE operates a full fledged Geotechnical Vessel “Logos
Searcher” for continental shelf geotechnical projects.
The vessel has been successfully been deployed for several
projects in India, Sudan, Vietnam, Malaysia for clients
such as HOEC, Intec, Petronas, Murphy, Conson JV etc.
The “Coastal Cheetah” a dedicated joystick
control fully fitted out geophysical survey vessel was
brought into the fleet in early 2003. The vessel has
been actively employed for various offshore survey projects
in UAE, Qatar, West Coast of India and is presently engaged
on a two year integrated survey contract 2005-2007 for
all ONGC rig move positioning services, offshore site
surveys, pipeline route surveys and inspections.
Pipe and cable laying equipments and spreads have been
acquired in the year 2000 to meet the growing needs in
this sector. COMACOE now has full in-house capability
for onshore, close shore, marshy and inter tidal pipe
and cable laying on turnkey basis. Contracts for GAIL
for laying of 14" gas pipeline, armoured optic fiber
cable through marine and marshy environment were successfully
completed. This is a part of the worlds longest dedicated
LPG pipeline completed and commissioned months ahead
of schedule. |
