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VGI Consulting is happy to announce that our Mobile Phone Mast Division has reached two milestones this year already.   VGI Consulting has been involved with Mobile Phone Mast installations since May 2015.  To date (April 2018), we completed over a 100 new greenfield towers and over a 100 new rooftop installations for our client Ericsson (MTN).

VGI is responsible for the engineering design and construction monitoring for this project.  Once a site is identified, VGI becomes involved from the Council Application process up to the final stage when the civil and structural installation is completed, and the Engineer issues the Completion Certificate for the site.

The EPCM Contract for the Flowline Pigging Project for Sasol Petroleum Temane (SPT) was awarded to VGI Consulting Africa Limitada, a full affiliate of VGI Consulting (Pty) Ltd.  As previously, VGI Consulting (South Africa) will provide expertize and backup to VGI Africa (Mozambique) for the project to ensure that the required high standards of Sasol are met.

The project entails the establishment of pigging facilities for the gathering lines from the individual wellheads to the field manifolds and central process unit in Temane and Pande (Mozambique).  The project will install interchangeable pig launchers and receivers for the intelligent pigging of the existing gathering lines.  A specific challenge for the project will be the short period during the shutdown available for re-configuring of existing piping on some of the manifolds and wellheads.

This project follows the very successful completion of the Republic of Mozambique Pipeline Company (ROMPCO) Loopline 2 Project.  The ROMPCO Loopline 2 Project was completed at the end of 2016 within the required schedule and well below budget by the VGI Africa and VGI Consulting team.

We are happy to announce that the 127 km gas Loopline on the MSP Pipeline was successfully commissioned Wednesday evening (2 November 2016). The commissioning was done by Sasol on behalf of ROMPCO with the assistance of VGI Consulting Africa lead by Charl vd Berg and the VGI site team.

The 500 kW gas heater, designed by VGI and manufactured and supplied by Energas, played a significant role in the line being commissioned ahead of schedule and in a safe manner.

VGI would like to congratulate Tumisang Tswai on obtaining her National Diploma in Civil Engineering. Well done Tumisang, your hard work and dedication in your studies as well as in your work is noted.

During the 6-monthly Shareholders meeting held by the shareholders of VGI, the following unanimous appointments were made:

• Ian Grobler was appointed Chairman of the Board of shareholders.
• Jan Venter was appointed as the Managing Director responsible for the day to day operations of the Company.
• The following Directors were again appointed for the year:

Ian Grobler                           Jan Venter

Leon van Wyk                      Johan Pretorius

Stefan Grove                        Mothusi Motsilanyane

• In order to maintain an acceptable BBBEE rating, the company will be appointing a non-Executive Director in the coming months as well as forming a broad based black female trust, focusing on the specific needs of black women. The present BBBEE rating is Level 1 but this is expected to deteriorate when a new audit is carried out in April 2017, based on the new scorecards.

VGI and its affiliated companies and partners provides an all-inclusive engineering, design, procurement, project and construction management service for petrochemical and hydrocarbon clients in Sub-Saharan Africa, and more specifically the Southern Africa arena.

VGI Consulting (Pty) Ltd obtained a level 1 BBBEE rating with their latest scorecard, and is continuously working to align with the requirements from Dti. VGI is committed to the future of South Africa, and to provide continued services to uplift the community as a whole, with specific focus on previously disadvantaged individuals.

VGI is happy to announce that we received our re-certification for our ISO 9001:2008 system for the period 2015 – 2018.  A special word of thanks to our Quality Management Team for your hard work and dedication to this very important aspect of our business.

VGI would like to congratulate Dora Mahlangu on receiving her National Diploma in Human Resources on Tuesday 29 September. Well done Dora, we are proud of your achievement.

We congratulate Charl van den Berg and Martin Cloete who obtained the following qualifications as part of VGI’s continued professional development program.

Martin Cloete (Left) Pr Tech obtained the degree BSc (Hons) : A: Mechanics

Charl van den Berg (Right) Pr Eng obtained the degree B Eng (Hons) : Welding Engineering in November 2014 and subsequently has also been certified by SAIW as an International Welding Engineer.

Well done to you both!