It may have started as a dream back in 1998, but what was once an idea for solutions in the commissioning process of complex industrial plants has become a successful reality. Today Forship is synonymous with innovation and solutions for both commissioning and regulatory support services.

Industrial construction has become an increasingly complex business with increasingly remote and smaller mineral, oil and gas discoveries in more hazardous and sensitive environments.

As a result, businesses providing regulatory support and commissioning are booming in Brazil.

Forship has been successful in recent years by increasing solutions that support foreign and multinational companies looking to operate in the Brazilian oil and gas industry.

Its custom-made services offer multinational companies a wide portfolio of services including translation and interpretation of local regulations and laws, reviewing project documentation, answers to technical questions, and recommendation of corrective measures where necessary.

Forship also offers foreign companies valuable technical support to communicate with Brazilian authorities and a technical labor force for specific regulatory activities.

Now a recognized benchmark in commissioning in Brazil and abroad, Forship has been involved in over 100 projects related to more than 70 industrial plants in the last 12 years.

Its commissioning philosophy and practice minimizes the likelihood of problems that often arise in the earlier stages of projects, with significant impact in the overall project schedule and costs.

Importantly, Forship's commissioning services may be developed in China or Brazil as well as in other countries where equipment and modules of the industrial project are fabricated.

The company has set itself apart from its competitors through the development of methods and tools based on state-of-the-art technology.

In particular, Forship has developed, and now licenses to third parties, HMSWeb, a Web-based system that optimizes the management and execution of their commissioning activities. This gives Forship a highly competitive edge in the sector and shows their innovative qualities.

Forship's main offices and support are in Brazil, but to facilitate new relationships in Asia, it established the Forship Asia subsidiary in Singapore in 2006 to act as a first point of contact with clients as well as to manage the operations in the continent.

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www.forship.net

(China Daily 04/30/2012 page13)