HEMPEL has centralised its global oil and gas activities in Houston, Texas, and launched global oil and gas centre of excellence.

Hempel, is a leading supplier of protective coatings since 1915, delivers coating solutions in markets including offshore, refineries, LNG, petrochemicals, storage tank terminals, transmission pipelines, deep water exploration, unconventional gas, and oil sands.

Hempel has centralised its global oil and gas activities in Houston, Texas, US by creating a Global Centre of Excellence for the industry.

The centralisation of Hempel’s oil and gas operations in Houston is a statement of the company’s commitment to its oil and gas customers and the industry as a whole. The industry poses unique challenges, and specialist experience and expertise is required to meet these challenges.

With this initiative, Hempel is bringing its technical consultants and oil and gas specialists closer to companies who can benefit from their knowledge.

In line with the technology and design development in the field of oil and gas and petrochem, Hempel invests a huge amount of resources in R&D to drive up new solutions and offers a full range of advanced coatings closer to the industry requirements.

Hempel recently launched a coating for the high performance lining which has a peak temperature capability of 200 deg F ( 93 deg C ) for crude oil storage.