SBM Offshore has opened a new office in Bengaluru as the Dutch energy infrastructure company expands its engineering, supply chain and digital operations in India. The company currently has around 790 employees in the country and plans to hire another 200 professionals across engineering and digital functions in the coming months.
The expansion reflects SBM Offshore India’s transformation from a joint venture engineering setup into a fully integrated global capability centre (GCC).
“We started as a joint venture in 2019 primarily as an engineering center,” Brathaban Karuppaiah, country general manager of SBM Offshore India, said in an interaction with a publication. “Initially we were doing around 10 per cent of engineering work, subsequently raising it to 30 per cent. But when we became a fully owned subsidiary in 2023, that’s when the acceleration took place.”
India now contributes nearly 50-60% of SBM Offshore’s global engineering work and handles around 70-80% of detailed design activities.
Over the years, the Bengaluru centre has expanded beyond engineering to include supply chain operations, brownfield project management, technical support operations and digital solutions teams.
“Year on year we added the functions consisting of the entire project lifecycle,” Karuppaiah said. “We started as engineering, then subsequently added supply chain, brownfield project management, technical support operations and now digital solutions as well.”
SBM Offshore’s India operations are also taking on strategic global responsibilities. The company has centralised global procurement hubs for piping and valves in Bengaluru to support worldwide projects.
“Any project anywhere in the world that we execute, in order to procure piping, it will be coming to the Bengaluru office,” he said.
Several global leadership functions, including data management and document control teams, are now being led from India.
The new office was inaugurated in the presence of SBM Offshore CEO Oivind Tangen, ExxonMobil India country chair Scott Sandlin, and Anne Cremers, deputy consul general at the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
“India continues to play an increasingly important role in SBM Offshore’s global delivery model, and the launch of our new Bengaluru office reflects our long-term commitment to investing in world-class talent and capabilities in the country,” Tangen said.
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