How PCCS runs on AI workers.
How a global EPC-OM contractor put AI workers inside its operations, from the technician on site to the bids that win the next project.
PCCSPeiyang Chemical Engineering Service Corporation Pte. Ltd.
A global energy EPC-OM contractor.
PCCS — Peiyang Chemical Engineering Service Corporation Pte. Ltd. — builds and operates energy infrastructure across West Africa and Southeast Asia. Their flagship: the 80,000 BPD KOKO Refinery on the Benin River in Nigeria, which they engineered, built, and now operate: a single asset projected to exceed $5.0B in annual revenues. Alongside it: the Thanlyin modular refinery in Myanmar and Nigeria’s first modular LPG extraction plant. Engineering in Tianjin. Fabrication in China. Operations on the ground in Nigeria and Myanmar. The team coordinating it all, split between China and Singapore.
The firm isn’t limited by what it can build.
A technician at the KOKO site stands in front of a unit that needs work. The procedure for it exists, in a manual nobody opens on site, or in the head of a senior engineer who is asleep in Tianjin. So the job gets done the best way that technician knows, and the report gets written that evening from memory, if it gets written at all. How well any job goes depends on who happened to be standing there.
Spares for that same unit are running low. Someone in Nigeria has to notice, someone in Singapore has to hear about it, someone in China has to act. Every link is a person, a spreadsheet, and a time zone, and one slipped handoff leaves equipment idle an ocean away from its own supply chain.
Back at the office, a tender lands that PCCS is qualified to win. But a bid is weeks of prequal forms, past-performance records, and pricing that lives in the heads of people already stretched across three continents. So some tenders go unanswered.
The firm is not limited by what it can build. It is limited by what it can coordinate.
None of this work is hard. It is the tax that distance charges on every project, and the only fix has ever been more people, in an industry that cannot hire fast enough.
WHAT SPAWNLABS DIDAI workers inside the operation.
On site: the field co-pilot
Technicians point their phone at the job and get an AI co-pilot built on PCCS’s own manuals and procedures. It walks them through complex procedures step by step and helps them triage issues in real time. When the work is done, it drafts the service report, saves the job data, and routes it to the right people, the way a senior technician would have done it.
Bids & tenders
Spawnlabs agents find the tenders that fit PCCS’s scope, draft and price the proposals from the firm’s own track record, and keep everything on deadline. The team reviews, decides, and signs. Proposals that took weeks go out in days, and every tender the firm qualifies for gets chased.
Inventory & procurement
An agent watches stock levels across refinery equipment and spares, continuously, not whenever someone opens the sheet. Supplies run low, it pings the right people on the China side, drafts the order, and follows the thread until it is resolved.
PCCS is now expanding Spawnlabs into procurement, vendor management, and supply chain across their assets, and moving the deployment onto their own infrastructure for full control of their data.
The build, on the ground.
pccs.com.sg
Project imagery courtesy of PCCS — Nigeria KOKO Refinery, 80,000 BPD.
Spawnlabs builds AI that runs energy EPC operations. From making every field technician perform beyond expert level on site, to automating the back office: bids & tenders, permits, procurement, and every repeat function the firm runs on.
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