Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. (Sundowner) has merged with and into its wholly owned subsidiary Nabors Offshore Drilling, Inc. (NODI) and changed its name to Nabors Offshore Corp. (Nabors Offshore). As a consequence of the merger, Nabors Offshore, as the surviving entity, has, by operation of law, succeeded to all rights, obligations and liabilities of Sundowner.
Saudi Steel Pipe Ltd. (SSP), Dammam, Saudi Arabia, is launching a major expansion at its facility in Dammam that will double its total production. When on-line January 2000, the new facility will produce a line of advanced pipe for the oil and gas industry and specific construction applications.
The new factory will allow SSP to manufacture 80,000 tons of HFI (high frequency induction) welded pipe per year on a single shift to satisfy growing demand for oil and gas line pipe in the Gulf.
The factory was designed and engineered with the technical assistance of DMS of France. At the heart of the plant is a solid-state HFI welding system provided by ELVA Induksjon a.s. Continuous electronic process controls will be employed on a real time basis as a means to achieve the highest reliability and predictability of welding integrity.
Two key features of the new mill are a 200 ton coil accumulator and continuous end-to-end coil welding from Coil Joining Technologies. The combined effect of these two features eliminates the many problems inherent in a traditional start/stop, coil by coil, welded pipe operation. It is widely recognized that steady-state continuous product flow yields superior performance in any welding operation.
Additionally, the inclusion of a sophisticated coil edge milling operation designed by Linsinger of Austria will provide perfectly engineered coil edges at the weld interface which will further contribute to weld integrity.
SSP is an industrial joint venture between Saudi entrepreneurs Rabiah & Nasser Co., Al Khorayef Sons Co., Fahad Moh'd Al Saja and Shinho Steel Co. of South Korea.
LICENERGY, Houston, Tex., has acquired Energy Solutions Inc. (ESI). The acquisition enhances the value of the combined company by expanding its energy market presence into the transaction management and consulting arena in a continuing commitment of growth. As part of the transaction, ESI will be renamed Energy Solutions International.
ESI headquarters will remain in Houston. All employees and operations of ESI will be integrated into LIC's Houston offices.
LICENERGY is a global provider of training and knowledge based IT solutions for the management of pipeline systems. The company is headquartered in Denmark, with major operating subsidiaries in the U.S., U.K., Canada, India and the Middle East.
Paragon Engineering Services, Inc., Houston, Tex., which provides engineering and related services to the oil and gas and pipeline industries, recently received its ISO 9001 certificate from independent auditor DNV Certification, Inc. The ISO 9001 guideline, developed by the International Organization for Standardization, focuses on quality assurance in design, development, production, installation, and servicing.
Paragon Engineering Services, Inc. provides front-end engineering, detailed design, project management, procurement, construction management, inspection, and training services to the oil and gas and pipeline industries. Paragon's expertise encompasses oil and gas production and treating, gas compression, onshore and offshore pipelines, onshore facilities, offshore platforms and FPSOs, subsea systems, and safety and environmental management programs. Paragon is active both on- and offshore in the U.S., South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
The COM for Energy (C4E) Foundation, Houston, Tex., has announced that five companies have joined the initiative to further promote interoperability standards for the upstream energy industry. CASE Services, Inc., ESRI, Merrick Systems, Production Access Inc., and Tobin International, Ltd., will join the founding companies, which include Landmark Graphics, Microsoft, PrincewaterhouseCoopers, SAP America and Schlumberger GeoQuest.
Five energy software and service companies launched COM for Energy in February 1999. C4E is a non-profit industry initiative to improve exploration and production business performance on an enterprise scale by accelerating technical and business process integration. COM for Energy develops software interface specifications that enable the development, packaging and deployment of reusable application integration components that support the integration of disparate technical and business applications used in the E&P sector of the energy industry.
