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Companies A ctivity

SPOTLIGHT

IADC North Sea

Trelleborg

Sweden based acquired the UK company Ambler

Technologies Ltd. The company develops and produces compos-

Chapter Safety Awards ite materials that create strictly specifed buoyancy and insula- tion properties in applications used primarily in deep-sea

The International Association of Drilling environments.”In conjunction with the transaction, we will North Sea Chapter Safety Awards

Contractors (IADC) create a Center of Excellence focused on advanced buoy- celebrated its member companies for safety performance in 2012. ancy modules in deepsea environments. We’ll be able to

Northern Offshore and Ensco won in the jackups category while No- offer fully integrated and proprietary solutions to remotely ble Drilling and Stena Drilling were acknowledged for semisubmers- operated vehicles (ROVs) and others equipment used in ibles. Archer Well brought home fve awards, including the Chairman’s deep waters,” says Fredrik Meuller, president of Trelleborg

Special. The award recognized Archer’s Paul Ellis for safety leadership.

Offshore and Construction.

“The safety awards dinner is our opportunity to applaud the continu- ous efforts of our workforce who strive daily to achieve the safest

Marine Well Containment Company (MWCC) working environment possible,” says North Sea Chapter Co- selected Mobile, Alabama, as the shore base location to house

Chairman, Darren Sutherland. “This year’s event is particu- its subsea umbilicals, risers and fowlines (SURF) equipment. larly noteworthy as we celebrate the Chapter’s 40th an- “Should our SURF equipment be needed to respond to a well niversary and commemorate the 25th anniversary control incident in the deepwater US Gulf of Mexico, we know of Piper Alpha – a tragic event that initiated that we have the right support in place to respond safely and effec- a signifcant overhaul of the North tively,” says MWCC CEO Marty Massey.

Sea safety regime.”

Tidewater Inc. Total Gabon Ecolab Inc has entered into an contracted two Smit closed its acquisition of agreement with HitecVision to pur- Lamnalco vessels, the SL Gabon and Champion Technologies and its related chase Troms Offshore Supply AS for SL Libreville for a fve-year period. The company Corsicana Technologies for about $395 million. The acquisition vessels will support offshore oilfeld $2.3 billion. “Champion strengthens will expand Tidewater’s global foot- activities and tanker operations at the our position in the fast-growing oil print into the Norwegian sector of the terminal of Cap Lopez, Port-Gentil. and gas services industry. It bolsters

North Sea and supplement Tidewater’s “These two state-of-the-art tugs signify our ability to better serve customers by experience and vessel feet operating in our continuing commitment to invest bringing important and complementary harsh environments. “This transaction in the future of Gabon,” says Smit geographic and technology strengths is recognition of the strategy, focus and Lamnalco CEO Daan Koornneef. to our Global Energy business,” says competence provided by our staff at Ecolab Chairman and CEO, Douglas M. all levels across the feet and onshore,” Baker, Jr.

says Troms Offshore’s CEO Mårten

Lunde. , a subsidiary of DeepOcean UK

DeepOcean Group Holding BV, an- nounced that it has acquired a 50%

McDermott International Inc.

The seismic vessel is Ramform Titan acquired all outstanding shares of the interest in 3D sonar visualization frm, designed to pull 24 streamer cables

DeepSea operating companies. “The ADUS, to form ADUS DeepOcean Ltd. acquisition of DeepSea by McDermott unveiled its Ramform Titan plat- Bart Heijermans, DeepOcean Group

PGS enables us to offer a greater number of form in Nagasaki, Japan. The platform Holding BV CEO says, “This acquisi- subsea engineers with broader spe- has a 70m broad stern and is equipped tion enhances the quality of the ser- cialist services to reinforce our own with 24 streamer reels, 16 reels aligned vices we offer to our customers in the engineering, procurement, construc- abreast and 8 reels further forward. oil & gas and renewables industries. tion and installation capabilities in “The Ramform Titan will spend her As part of this acquisition ADUS will executing subsea projects worldwide,” frst season working on multi-client commit to a R&D program to further says Stephen M. Johnson, McDermott projects in the North Sea,” says PGS’ develop the visualization software chairman, president and CEO. EVP of Operations, Magne Reiersgård. used by ADUS.”

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