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News Releases
Wintara Energy and
ENGlobal Pursue Partnership
January 13, 2010 - Wintara Energy and
ENGlobal have entered into an agreement to provide services to the oil and gas infrastructure
in the Republic of Iraq. This partnership will allow the team to augment their
capabilities by combining their expertise in technical support, engineering
design, leadership, and construction management services. The Wintara-ENGlobal
partnership represents a multi-year opportunity for project work both locally
within the United States as well as remotely in the Middle East region.
ENGlobal is an
energy engineering and professional services firm. Their World headquarters is located
in Houston, Texas with satellite offices throughout the United States, Canada,
and Latin America. ENGlobal has expanded
into several market sectors, including, petroleum products, natural gas,
chemical, electrical power, and petrochemical products. Projects range from
single in-plant assignments to large EPCM (Engineering, Procurement and
Construction Management) projects.
For more information
about WINTARA ENERGY-ENGlobal’s Partnership, do take a moment and contact: Omar
at oomar@wintara.com
Wintara Energy Leads Seminar on Oil & Gas
November
14, 2009 - Wintara
Energy recently conducted a professional five-day seminar on Oil and Gas
operations in Beirut, Lebanon. Dr. Omar A. Omar and members of Wintara Energy
management team led the presentation on Operations, Management and Technical
Procedures in operating refineries in the Republic of Iraq. The
audience consisted of senior level executives and managers of refinery
companies as well as representatives of the Republic of Iraq, Ministry of Oil-
South Oil Company.
 
Wintara Opens Office in Damascus, Syria
August
18, 2009
- Wintara Energy is a privately held energy engineering service corporation.
The World headquarters is located in the vicinity of Washington, DC with
offices in Houston, Texas. Mr. Isaac
(Ike) Gibson is the President and Chairman of the Board. Wintara Energy is an
experienced service provider to the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Civilian
Government Agencies, and International Governments. Wintara’s Team brings exceptional capabilities and experience to the
water power, electrical power, oil and gas industries.
Wintara
Energy is pleased to enter the power and electricity market in Syria. Wintara will play a major and key
role in improving
and advancing the Energy and Power Supply sectors in Syria. Dr. Omar A. Omar, Wintara Energy’s Vice President
of Oil and Gas Operations, will manage the Syrian office. Dr. Omar proudly states that, “Wintara Energy
is committed to supporting the Government of Syria in upgrading its electrical
infrastructure”.
Wintara hires Dr. Omar
A. Omar, PE as Vice President of Oil and Gas Operations
March 28, 2009 – Wintara, Inc. is
pleased to announce the hire of Dr. Omar A. Omar as Vice President of Oil and
Gas of Wintara Energy. According to
Wintara’s President & CEO, Mr. Isaac (Ike) Gibson, “Dr. Omar is a renowned
expert in the Oil & Gas, Energy and Engineer industry.” Dr. Omar oversees and manages all aspects of
the day-to-day operations of Wintara Energy.
Dr. Omar brings his 18+ years
experience as global Executive Manager in the Energy and Engineer industry. Prior to joining Wintara Energy Dr. Omar
served as Global Business Development Manager for Siemens Corporation in
Houston, Texas. Dr. Omar holds a Ph.D.
from M.I.T-RICE University; B.S. in Civil Engineering and M.S. in Engineering
from the University of New Haven; and is a Registered Professional Engineer LIC # 88869, TX
Dr. Omar is based at Wintara
Energy’s Houston, Texas location.
Wintara
Awarded New Construction Contracts By U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for Iraq August 5,
2008: Replacement
Facilities
Victory Base Camp, Iraq:
contract
awarded by the United
States Corps of Engineers Transatlantic Program Center. Wintara’s work
consists
of the construction of pre-engineered steel framed buildings facilities
as
follows: One large Gymnasium, Three Morale Welfare and Recreation
Facilities; Three
Tactical Operations Facilities (TOCs); Two Life Support Areas (LSA’s)
using
Containerized Housing Units (CHUs) and Anti-Terrorist Force Protection
(ATFP)
requirements.
August 5,
2008: Combat
Surgical Hospital
(CSH) Speicher, Iraq:
contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers Transatlantic
Program
Center. Wintara
will be responsible for
the construction of the Combat Surgical Hospital (CSH) with supporting
site
utilities and site improvements at Speicher Contingency Operation Base,
Iraq.
The
CSH is a pre-engineered steel-frame full-operation hospital facility of
about
39,200 square feet, designed to care for any incoming injured military
personnel.
July 2, 2008: Al
Asad Replacement
Facilities, Iraq:
contract awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers Transatlantic
Programs
Center. Wintara’s work package include surveys, design, material,
labor, and
equipment to construct the scheduled improvements and other related
support
infrastructure in accordance with current U.S. design, safety,
security,
ecological standards and other applicable local standards. This project
entails
the construction of the Life Support Areas (LSA) Workhorse, LSA Midway,
A/DAG
Facility, Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) South, AAFES Facility,
MWR
North, MWR Tarwa, Dining Facilities Administration Center (DFAC) Air
Field, and
LSA Ripper projects with supporting site utilities and site
improvements at Al
Asad, Air Base, Iraq.
May 27, 2008: Replacement
Facilities Speicher,
Iraq:
contract awarded by the United States Corps of
Engineers Transatlantic
Programs Center. Wintara is to provide all qualified personnel,
equipment,
materials, supervision and management for replacement facilities for
Forward
Operating Base (FOB), Speicher, Iraq.
Wintara's
headquarters' relocation
Wintara
relocated the headquarters' offices from Fort Washington, Maryland
to 6710
Oxon Hill Road, National
Harbor, Maryland
on March 2008. The new headquarters office is in close
proximity to the Nation’s
Capital and the Pentagon, as well as the World Class National Harbor
Complex. Wintara offices, 25,000 square
feet of floor space, are
security controlled and certified at the TOP SECRET level for
classified
processing, storage and meetings. The new facility maintains
state-of-the-art
communications, reproduction and computer equipment, and the latest in
productivity software.
Other
Contract Awards
September
30, 2007:
Siemens V94.2A Foreign
Object Damage (FOD) Repair
and Assessment: contract awarded by the United States
Corps of Engineers,
Gulf Region Division. Wintara is tasked to conduct Foreign
Object Damage
(FOD) Repair and Assessment and Repair of Mechanical area that has
suffered the
incident of a fire in the unit enclosure Re-commissioning and start-up
of one
(1) Siemens V94.2 Combustion Turbine Unit including the associated
auxiliary
systems and equipment was conducted at the Baiji Power Plant, located
North of
Baghdad in Iraq.
June
8, 2007:
Operation and
Management, Mussayib
Power Plant, Iraq:
contract awarded by the
United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division.
Wintara is tasked
to provide all resources, personnel, equipment, and management
necessary to
assure subsistence life support and security support is ascertained at
the main
camp located at the Mussayib LM 6000 Power Plant.
May
10, 2007:
GE TM 2500
Refurbishment one unit
for Baiji Power
Plant, Iraq:
contract
awarded by the
United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division.
Wintara is to provide
all personnel,
equipment, tools, materials, supervision, other items and services
necessary to
refurbish one TM2500 Core Engine unit, demonstrate operation,pack, ship
and
deliver to Bayji Power Plant the newly re-furbished TM2500 Core Engine.
March
9, 2007:
GE TM 2500
Change-out/Refurbishment
at Baiji Power
Plant, Iraq:
Contract
awarded by the
United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division.
Wintara is to perform
GE TM 2500 Combustion
Turbine Change-Out/Refurbishment for a total of six (6) core engines at
Baiji
Power Plant in Iraq.
Wintara will provide full engineering, life support, equipment, parts, repairs,
security, transportation and
logistics items support for this effort. Additionally, performance is
to be
conducted on inspection and repair of turbine auxiliaries, generators
and
excitation systems. After each installation, an execution of a re-start
and
commissioning of the units is to be performed
March
7, 2007:
Siemens
V64.3A & V94.3A
Combustion Inspection at Taza Power Plant:contract
awarded by the United States
Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division for
Wintara to execute the requirement for the
Combustion Inspection (CI), re-commissioning and start-up of two (2)
Siemens
Gas Turbine Units (V64 and V94) including the associated Auxiliary
systems and
equipment, at the Kirkuk/Taza Power Plant, located in Kirkuk, Iraq.
January
3, 2007:
GE Frame 9E
Combustion Inspection at
Khor Al-Zubair (KAZ) Power Plant, Iraq: contract
awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region
Division.
Wintara is to provide qualified personnel, equipment,
tools, materials,
supervision, life support and security efforts necessary to perform a
combustion Inspection on a Frame 9E Combustion Turbine engine. In
addition,
Wintara will perform annual maintenance on the turbine auxiliary parts.
January
3, 2007:
GE LM6000
Replacement; Al Qudas and
Burzurgan Power Plants, Iraq: contract
awarded by the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region
Division.
Wintara is to supply, load test and demonstrate operation
of a
re-furbished dual fuel, GE LM 6000 replacement core engine in the area
of
Al-Qudas, Iraq. Wintara was also required to provide
inspection/refurbishment
of the removed LM 6000 core engine, utilizing, basic hand tools, and
special
tools, for the job. Security and life support procedures and
measures are
required.
September
18, 2006:
Remote Monitoring
System, Iraq:
contract
awarded by the
United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division. The task is to provide
real-time, continuous
remote monitoring from a central location for up to 52 gas turbine
generators
located throughout Iraq.
The Remote Monitoring System (RMS) is the first of its kind that
integrated
multiple and various original equipment manufacturers' (OEM) gas
turbine units,
enabling the Iraqi Minister of Electricity (MOE) to provide direct
real-time
monitoring of all turbine systems and provided advance trending
analysis. The
RMS will give the MOE a capability to implement a strategy to increase
power
availability to affected areas and to reduce the projected increasing
maintenance-cost(s) for the aging fleet of gas turbine generator.
June
11, 2006: Siemens
V64.3A Combustion Inspection
at Taza Power Plant, Iraq:
contract
awarded by
the United States Corps of Engineers, Gulf Region Division. The task is
to
perform Combustion Inspection (CI) of a Siemens V64.3A gas turbine,
including
the generator, auxiliaries, and BOP. Provided engineering, equipment,
parts,
repairs, labor, life support, security, start-up and commissioning.
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