APL
APL's main product range is targeted at offshore oilfield developments. It includes:
Mooring/transfer systems for FPSOs, FSOs, LNG, shuttle and standard tankers: STL (Submerged Turret Loading); STP (Submerged Turret Production); SAL (Single Anchor Loading); SAP (Single Anchor Production); BTL (Buoy Turret Loading); SYS (SAL Yoke System); SMT (Spread Moored Tandem); OLS (Offshore Loading System).
The product range also includes bow loading and stern discharge systems for offshore transfer onto and off the vessel, VOC recovery systems for reducing VOC emission, and GTL processing systems.
Atlantis
Atlantis is a new concept for deepwater drilling and field developments. It involves the use of a submerged "steel tank," installed at a water depth of 200-300 m, which enables use of lower rated shallow/medium water depth drilling vessels for deepwater wells. Typical cost reductions are around $10-15 million for each well. Based on funding from BP, Shell, Statoil, and the Norwegian technology program, Demo 2000, the first full-scale Atlantis unit was built and tested successfully in Norway last year.
DNV
DNV, established in 1864, is an independent foundation with the objective of safeguarding life, property, and the environment, and is a leading provider of services for managing risk. DNV is a knowledge-based organization. Its main assets are the creativity, knowledge, and expertise of its 5,500 employees, most of whom are highly qualified engineers and technicians. DNV is headquartered in Oslo, with 300 offices in 100 countries.
Dreggen Crane
Dreggen Crane supplies cranes and lifting equipment to the offshore industry worldwide. The company, founded in 1987, has developed an extensive range of explosion-proof cranes. It currently employs a staff of 35, with annual sales of around $10 million. Dreggen specializes in cranes for handling of christmas trees, BOPs, risers, and pipes. The cranes are used on drillships, FPSOs and semisubmersibles, and in petrochemical installations onshore. References include Thunder Horse, Khazar, West Navion, Pride Angola & Africa, Valhall, Maersk XL1 & XL2.
Epcon Offshore
Epcon Offshore has developed its own treatment technology for removing hydrocarbons, hydrophobic substances, and particles from produced water. The technology has been developed and tested with oil companies in the North Sea and is considered proven in treating produced water. For the oil companies, water handling costs are increasing, and the Epcon systems provide the potential to both increase oil production and meet the zero discharge goal with regard to the maximum allowable hydrocarbon concentration in discharged water.
Karmoy Winch
Karmoy Winch produces deck equipment for ships and rigs with production plant. It also provides complete deck machinery packages for supply vessels and tugs, comprising tugwinches, tuggerwinches, anchor winches, capstans, power-packs, deck cranes, remote control panels, plus the Karm Fork and Towing pin systems. The company, based in Kopervik, southern Norway, employs 85 personnel and has its own test area. Subsidiary Karmoy Hire hires out winches with pull capacity of up to 400 tons, winches for chains up to 150 mm, and blocks, sheaves and power packs.
Karmsund Maritime
Kopervik-based Karmsund Maritime Offshore Supply has devised a new leak test method for flanges with ring joints. This determines whether tightness has been achieved on all sealing surfaces before the flange and pipe are subjected to internal pressure, as well as monitoring the flange connections for future leakage. The technique is based on pressurizing the annular space above and below the seal ring using test gas. If no pressure loss is recorded, the seal is deemed to be tight. The test gas is applied using simple, portable equipment, designed for easy handling to enable flanges to be tested on a one-off basis without having to pressurize entire systems.
Maritime Pusnes
Maritime Pusnes, established in 1875, is a leader in the design and supply of all types of deck machinery, mooring and anchoring systems for offshore and marine vessels. The company has also developed and supplied bow loading and stern offloading systems for conventional and complex operations. Its main business areas are offshore loading, offshore mooring and marine mooring systems.
Norsk Hydro
Hydro is a Fortune 500 energy and aluminum supplier operating in more than 40 countries, with 36,000 personnel. It is a leading offshore producer of oil and gas, the world's third largest aluminum supplier and an important player in the development of renewable energy sources.
ONS 2004
Under the theme "Shaping our energy future," Europe's leading petroleum industry meeting place will be staged on August 24-27 in the Norwegian oil and gas capital, Stavanger. The Offshore Northern Seas conference and exhibition has been held here every other year since 1974. In 2002, 1,180 exhibitors from 34 countries filled 17,200 sq m of stand space; 1,170 delegates attended the conference and 26,207 people from 91 countries visited the event. Stavanger's associated oil festival provides a unique opportunity to combine business with relationship-building.
Rapp Bomek
Rapp Bomek manufactures and designs advanced fireproof and explosion-proof doors. Its products are tested to all relevant specifications and are type-approved by DNV, Lloyds, and USCG for fixed and floating platforms. The doors are manufactured under a strict ISO 9001 QA system. Deliveries issued to North Sea platforms continue to perform after more than 24 years in service. Recent references include the Grane, Kvitebjorn and Valhall platforms in the Norwegian sector, South Pars in Iran, Devils Tower, Medusa and Horn Mountain in the Gulf of Mexico, and Bonga/Asabo in Nigeria.
Remora Technology
Remora Technology, part of the HitecVision Group, is established to do development, marketing, sales, project execution, and service of HiLoad Systems based on the patented HiLoad Technology. HiLoad Systems are used for offshore loading of crude oil and for mooring of FPSOs and FSOs. The HiLoad systems offer significant cost and operational advantages. For LNG import, there is a HiLoad LNG Terminal with regasification, which can unload any LNG Carrier and re-gasify the cargo at an extremely competitive price. Remora Technology is headquartered in Houston, and has offices in Lagos and Stavanger.
