25.05.2011

Fast delivery secures deal for Hitachi Sumitomo

Hitachi Sumitomo has supplied three telescopic crawler cranes for use on an oil and gas drilling installation in Indonesia.

The company was able to assemble and ship the three 40 tonne SCX400Ts to PT Petro Papua in less than eight weeks - a faster delivery time than any other manufacturer - which was crucial to winning the deal.

PT Petro Papua supplies land and offshore based drilling services to the oil and gas industry. The Jakarta-based company is a sub-contractor for Chevron Indonesian - the country's largest producer of crude oil. It will use the cranes for the installation of new equipment.
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The three 40 tonne SCX400Ts ready to ship to PT Petro Papua

The SCX400Ts feature a 32 metre main boom and were modified to take an auxiliary boom nose with a five tonne hook block.
Mark Burghoorn, of Hitachi Construction Machinery (Europe) said: "We took over this project from Indonesian dealer, PT Traktor Nusantar, because we already had these machines in stock at our Oosterhout factory in The Netherlands.”

"We were in competition with other manufacturers to win the order, but our guaranteed delivery time meant that we were successful. The challenge was to assemble, add bespoke customer requirements and then repaint and test the machines, before the shipment left Antwerp for Jakarta - all within the timescale!