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In order to make the most of the global sealing opportunities in the oil, gas, and chemical industries, Freudenberg has merged sealing activities in these sectors into a new globally oriented sales and service company. OACIS GmbH?which stands for Oil & Gas And Chemical Industry Seals?was launched on February 1 as a holding for the group’s global activities in these key areas. The seat of the company is in Weinheim, Germany, where it is housed in the new Freudenberg Process Seals building at the edge of the local Technology Park. OACIS will supply customers with the complete range of elastomer seals, flat gaskets, packings, seals made of high-performance plastics, and special seals.

In recent years, Freudenberg has been stepping up its activities in the oil, gas, and chemical industries through its involvement in Freudenberg Process Seals, EagleBurgmann, and Freudenberg-NOK General Partnership Oil & Gas. It now wants to expand these activities in a more targeted manner. “In the coming five years, we want to become the market leader for sealing technology in the oil and gas industry,” says Claus Möhlenkamp, member of the board of management at Freudenberg Dichtungs- und Schwingungstechnik, one of the co-founders of OACIS. The company has set its sights on providing seals and services for the entire value stream from drilling equipment to gasoline pumps, in other words from the drilling (“upstream”) and transportation and storage of raw materials (“midstream”) to their processing and refinement in the petrochemical sector (“downstream”). “With our broad portfolio of seals, our comprehensive range of services, and our global presence, we can supply the entire value stream in the oil and gas industry,” says Möhlenkamp, when asked to list the new company’s strengths. 

OACIS will make use of existing resources at Freudenberg and EagleBurgmann to build up the necessary global structures. Its main focus will be on offering customers optimum services. “We intend to be present in all important regions and countries and to implement our service center concept,” says Stephan Kletschke, managing director of OACIS, who considers the Middle East, the former countries of the CIS, and Brazil to be the most promising markets of all. 

In view of the fact that an increasing number of difficult-to-access oil fields are now being worked, some of which are at very great depths, the conditions are getting tougher and the demands made on seals greater. Seals have to cope with large temperature ranges, enormous pressures, and aggressive gases such as hydrogen sulphide. Moreover, they must not be damaged by rapid gas decompression (RGD). Freudenberg has already developed special elastomers for this kind of application.

More: www.freudenberg.de

Posted: March 2009 

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