The Client
Special Oilfield Services (SOS) is a Joint Venture between Mohsin Haider Darwish LLC (MHD), one of the largest and oldest business houses in Oman and AlMansoori Petroleum Services (AMPS), one of the largest national oilfield service companies operating in the Middle East.
Special Oilfield Services Co. LLC was established in March 1986. We provide high quality and most optimal drilling & completion, mechanical, instrumentation, Reliability Engineering & Asset Management, chemical solutions and Drilling & completion services, NDE Inspection & Certification services, Reliability & Asset Integrity services, New technology, process, mechanical & tubular maintenance services to the Oil and Gas, Power, Water, Chemical and other Process Industries in Oman.
Requirement
SOS seeks a redesign of existing website www.specialoilfield.com and micro website for a department REAM. The existing site of SOS was built so earlier; and while it has served the visitors well, technology and expectations have changed now, nowadays users wants everything on their smart phones, due to ease of accessibility. It needs to be responsive for mobile devices, intuitive to easily find information and accessible to the entire customers and visitors. With their best interests in mind, we have the right team in place to ensure that this website will be a reflection of their company.
Challenges
Based on the site structure for the new site, pages were designed with our UX strategy for approval, before starting with the development.
By re-designing SOS main website we will provide:-
Our Solution
As we find this project quite interesting for the development too. But keeping in mind that this project can have future expendability, we build its database architecture in structured format with maximum possibilities to cover in the future. Also made it user friendly, because maximum of its users will be come from open public environment, those were not much aware with the online technologies.
A thorough QA Test was carried out on the site in general, back-end and front-end to detect any flows in the design or HTML and DNN code. A separate QA test was performed on the mobile site, which tested the site in general and the front-end.
How it works
SOS needed a robust CMS to handle the ongoing updates required for the site. Therefore, the new site was built with PHP on the user-friendly WordPress CMS with an easy-to-use dashboard, taking latest security measures. The new site was designed to be mobile responsive.
Our Role in the Client’s Success
Our team proved to be a suitable choice for this customer. Client wants design that communicates, not just pretty pictures — our mission is to create materials that influence your visitors/customers and further your goals, not just decorate a page. We use our understanding of strategic messaging and create a synergy with the content and graphics to communication your message on multiple levels. The result is more than a good-looking website. It’s an effective one.
Business Benefits
The customer was extremely appreciative of the system that we built for them within their deadline. On completion of the project, we wanted to thank everybody who was involved in this project for the good job they did. We had an unbelievable amount of last minute changes and appreciate this flexibility very much.
The successfully completion of this portal development project, won not just a great degree of appreciation from the customer, but also fetched more web development projects from the similar industry.
