Management systems for the energy supply chain
For suppliers and contractors working for operators in Jubail, Ras Tanura and across the Eastern Province.
Companies supplying the oil, gas and petrochemical sector in the Eastern Province are routinely asked by their customers for ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001, and for documented safety and quality systems that hold up to customer audits. We build those systems and prepare contractors for customer qualification.
The buyer is the auditor
A supplier to an operator is judged by the operator, not by a regulator. The buyer's prequalification decides whether you can bid, and its contractor safety rules decide how your crew works on its site. Aramco publishes part of that list itself. Buyers in the chain add ISO 9001 routinely, and ISO 14001 and 45001 often. The failure we see is rarely a missing certificate. It is a system written for the certificate that does not survive a buyer's auditor walking the yard and asking a welder what the permit says.
- Aramco's own published supplier requirements are a shorter list than most checklists in circulation claim
- Jubail and Ras Al Khair are Royal Commission cities with their own environmental regulations, and SPARK near Buqayq is a MODON city
- On a client's site the client's safety manual and permit system govern, so your own system has to show how you work inside theirs
- Craft qualification for Aramco work runs through CWQAP, with technicians evaluated by authorised third-party institutes
- Local content is measured through iktva, which Aramco aims to raise to 75 percent by 2030
What we build for suppliers and contractors
Aramco prequalification
What Aramco publishes, what buyers in the chain add, and the evidence organised before you register.
Read moreServiceIntegrated management system
Quality, environment and safety as one document set, one audit programme and one management review.
Read moreStandardISO 14001
Royal Commission and national obligations in one register when the site sits inside Jubail or Ras Al Khair.
Read moreStandardISO 45001
Permits, isolation and contractor control, with the worker consultation records a buyer's auditor asks for.
Read moreStandardISO 9001
The certificate buyers ask for first, built on your real process chain from enquiry to delivery.
Read moreITF TrainingSafety courses for crews
General safety, permit to work and risk assessment, run on site for the people doing the work.
Read moreThe requirement map, source by source
| Requirement | What it means on site |
|---|---|
| Aramco supplier registration | Through Aramco's e-marketplace on the SAP Ariba network, with its Supplier Code of Conduct acknowledged. Manufacturers of engineering commodities also meet ERTQA. |
| Service contractors | Aramco's background investigation guidelines, and its Construction Safety Manual: volume 1 CSAR, volume 2 WSSM. |
| Workforce qualification | CWQAP, with technician evaluation by Aramco-authorised third-party institutes. |
| Management system certificates | ISO 9001 routinely, ISO 14001 and 45001 often. Required by buyers in the chain through their own prequalification, rather than published by Aramco as a rule. |
| Environmental permits | Inside Jubail and Ras Al Khair, the Royal Commission's regulations, with a permit to construct and a permit to operate. The national route through NCEC elsewhere. |
| Local content | iktva, Aramco's in-Kingdom total value add programme, which Aramco aims to raise to 75 percent by 2030. |
Contractor and supplier questions
Does Aramco require ISO 9001?
Aramco's own supplier pages do not publish it as a rule. Buyers in the Aramco supply chain routinely require it, often as the first filter in prequalification, so in practice most suppliers need it. Your buyer's prequalification document gives the exact wording.
What does a typical engagement look like?
A fabrication contractor in Jubail preparing for customer qualification, with a quality manual and a safety manual written years apart. We integrate quality, environmental and safety systems into one document set, and the environmental register carries Royal Commission requirements alongside national rules, each with its source. The contractor ends up holding one manual, one obligations register and one internal audit programme, laid out the way a qualification auditor reads them.
We have sites in Jubail and in Dammam. Does the environmental system change?
The register does. A site inside Jubail or Ras Al Khair carries the Royal Commission's regulations and permits; a site in Dammam's MODON cities follows the national route through NCEC. One system holds both, with the source written against each obligation.
Our crews work under the client's permit system. What does our own system need?
A procedure that says whose permit system applies where, and records showing your people were briefed on it before they started. On the client's site the client's rules govern. Your system proves you knew that and trained for it.
Part of one system
Every division keeps records to the same standard, so the second one you need works the way the first one did.
Start from the buyer's questionnaire
Bring the prequalification questionnaire or the contract clause. We read it against your current system and show you what is missing before a buyer's auditor finds it.