IDS,
Kuala Lumpur, has appointed Douwe Franssens to the newly created position of general manager, IDS Group. His initial focus will be Northern Hemisphere operations.
Franssens previously worked as senior product manager and global real-time technology manager at Halliburton. He spent 8 years working globally in the dredging industry and then 17 years in a variety of technical and managerial positions in the oil and gas industry, with deployments to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Malaysia, Houston, and Canada.
IDS provides intuitive, end-to-end, web-based, upstream oil and gas data reporting services. It supports the drilling project life cycle from initial concept to final decommissioning.
BJ Services,
Houston, has opened a new base in Oirschot, near Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The new base replaces the previous process and pipeline services base in Oirschot that had been operating since 2001. It also serves as the new continental Europe/North Africa region headquarters for BJ’s process and pipeline services group. Designed specifically to support oil, gas, and petrochemical customers across continental Europe, the new base currently houses the largest and most diverse fleet of onshore nitrogen services equipment in Europe. It will accommodate the largest fleet of mobile pipeline recompression systems, which will arrive in summer 2009 and early 2010. In addition, mobile flaring and chemical cleaning services equipment are located at the facility, giving production facilities and pipeline operators in Europe a full complement of start-up and shutdown services. The full range of BJ Services’ process and pipeline services are available from Oirschot, including but not limited to cold and hot nitrogen services, pipeline gas recompression and mobile flaring services, chemical cleaning, hydrostatic testing, nitrogen and helium leak detection, and pipe freeze isolation services, as well as pipeline and process piping cleaning and drying.
BJ Services is a leading provider of field development and production enhancement services to the energy industry.
Aker Solutions ASA,
Oslo, has opened its expanded service and maintenance base at Aagotnes outside Bergen, Norway. The 50 million-kroner (Nor.) expansion will enable the company to further improve its onshore and offshore service support for subsea customers operating off Norway. A new workshop for maintenance of subsea equipment and a new office block, which includes state-of-the-art support systems, has been set up on the existing base. The Aagotnes base provides life-of-field support for subsea equipment, including offshore installation and intervention support; onshore maintenance, refurbishment, and upgrades of subsea trees, control systems and intervention work-over systems; and maintenance, repairs, and recertification of tools. It also provides storage facilities, engineering services, and technical support.
Aker Solutions is a leading global provider of engineering and construction services, technology products, and integrated solutions to the oil and gas, refining and chemicals, mining and metals, and power generation industries.
Rhodia Novecare,
Paris, and IFP have launched a services and consulting joint venture targeting enhanced oil recovery (EOR). The objective is to offer oil companies solutions adapted to different operating conditions so as to maximize oil production. The JV will offer flexible solutions through analyzing historical reservoir production data and proposing solutions, laboratory development of chemical formulations optimized to meet oil field conditions, development and optimization of demonstration pilots and implementation on a field scale via simulation and monitoring tools, assistance for pilot implementation and development through the operational phase, and large-scale supply of the chemical solutions defined.
IFP is a Paris-based international oil and gas research organization with pioneering expertise in chemical EOR.
Rhodia is a supplier of chemical solutions for the oil industry and a leader in specialty surfactants.
Insight Management Corp.,
Orlando, Fla., and Microresearch Corp., Orcutt, Calif., have agreed to merge, retaining the name Insight Management Corp. Insight shareholders will receive 0.667 shares for each share of the new Insight. Each Microresearch share will automatically become a share of the combined company. Microresearch Pres. and CEO Jennifer Rapacki will lead the combined company.
Insight will provide technology, products, and services to the US oil and gas industry. Microresearch announced on Mar. 6 that it signed a contract to purchase Rebel Testing Inc., Gillette, Wyo. Rebel is a leading Rocky Mountain regional oil and gas service provider with a fleet of pump hoist trucks to service natural gas well pumps. It also services and pressure-tests blowout preventers.
KBC Advanced Technologies PLC,
London, has added an environmental services practice. Augmenting the existing KBC health, safety, and environmental offerings, this new, full-service environmental consulting practice provides a wide range of commercially acceptable advice and traditional services, such as environmental due diligence, environmental and social impact assessments, and contaminated land work. The environmental services team develops solutions to emerging issues across sectors, including upstream and downstream oil and gas, fossil energy production and transmission, nuclear project development, renewable energy generation and transmission, mining, and the financial investment sector, among others. Ben Sawford and Dr. Jim Wright, both former company directors at the environmental division of AMEC in the UK, have been appointed the lead this effort.
KBC consultants provide independent advice and expertise to enable leading companies in the global energy business and other processing industries to manage risk while maximizing the value from their assets.