KD Marine – Headline Sponsor
KD Marine was formed to fill a market niche for a more focused underwater contractor, servicing the needs of the offshore oil and gas industry. In 2014 KD Marine is proudly celebrating 25 years in business.
With a highly focused management approach. KD Marine has many opportunities to demonstrate its ability to provide world class services in often very difficult operating conditions. The company’s size and structure provides an ideal vehicle for tackling relatively complicated and multi-skilled projects and is often chosen as the single bespoke solution provider.
Senior management have over 40 years experience in delivering quality offshore services worldwide and over this time have developed an extensive network of industry peers and associates and can operate as a standalone contractor or collaborate as a team player on wide range of projects. It is our project management and engineering skills that set us apart from the mainstream.
KD Marine boasts an extraordinary HSQE record; we attribute this success to the close relationship that management maintains with the site supervisors and workforce and our continual improvement in all aspects of our business.
KD Marine operates from facilities on Aberdeen’s Waterloo Quay which places us at the heart of North Sea offshore and marine operations.
Shell – Conference Sponsor
Shell is a global group of energy and petrochemical companies. We seek to help meet global energy demand in a responsible way.
Our presence in the UK is important to our global business. We directly employ about 8,000 people in the UK. Our upstream business operates out of Aberdeen. In conjunction with its co-ventures, Shell operates around 12% of the UK’s production of oil and gas ,with our equity production around 8% of the UK’s oil and gas.
Offshore, Shell has interests in more than 50 fields, operates more than 30 platforms, 30 subsea installations and two production (FPSO)vessels.
Shell’s main contribution to the energy challenge is to find and produce oil and gas and to process these into useful products and useable energy, while reducing CO2 emissions.
Shell is working with Scottish and Southern energy to develop a gas CCS at Peterhead for CO2 storage in the depleted offshore Goldeneye field.
Costain- Silver Dinner and Award Sponsor
Costain Upstream was formed by the acquisition of Clerk Maxwell and EPC Offshore by Costain Group PLC. The distinctive combination of multidisciplinary engineering and asset support services, with project definition and project management expertise, creates a unique asset lifecycle service with subsea, floating and fixed capability.
Costain Upstream has three broad business streams: Select, Deliver and Improve.
Costain Upstream Select helps you appraise and define the optimum asset development concept. Costain Upstream Deliver supplies quality FEED studies then manages subsequent detailed design, procurement, construction and commissioning. Uniquely we can provide these services from subsea wellhead through to topsides and on to export. Costain Upstream Improve applies decades of brownfield expertise to your operational and integrity issues.
This integrated asset lifestyle perspective, supported by seamless transition between project phases, shortens lead times, enhances the quality of project delivery and provides cost-effective project innovation.
Forum – Gold Dinner Sponsor
Headquartered in Aberdeen, Forum Energy Technologies is an international group of businesses offering a range of control system based products and systems with complementary services. Products include the widest range of marketing leading electric and hydraulic ROVs for inspection, survey and light intervention applications through to deepwater heavy construction applications.
Forum also offers a comprehensive range of ancillary remote intervention products and tooling systems as well as operational services as training programmes, offshore personnel recruitment, equipment rentals, management and servicing.
McDermott – Programme Sponsor
McDermott is a leading engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) company focused on executing complex offshore oil and gas projects worldwide.
Providing individual, combined or fully integrated EPCI services for upstream field developments, we deliver fixed and floating production facilities, pipelines and subsea systems-from concept to commissioning seafloor to shore.
N-Sea – Registration Sponsor
With 50 years’ relevant subsea experience. N-Sea is an independent subsea contractor and survey services provider operating worldwide with a focus on North Western Europe. Activities mainly concentrate on the oil and gas industry, subsea power, telecom cable, offshore wind farms , dredging and salvage markets.
N-Sea provides a broad range of subsea survey services for engineering purposes, construction support and inspection , repair and maintenance.
N-Sea expertise includes: air and TUP diving inspections by diver and ROV, pipeline and cable inspections using ROV, geophysical survey and geotechnical investigations, UXO identification, excavation and removal.
N-Sea’s own survey spreads include Work-over, Inspections & Observation Class ROV’s, qualified personnel, DP vessel resources and the expertise to perform in-house data processing interpretation.
N-Sea’s policy is to maintain complete customer satisfaction in a safe, sound and swift manner. Achieved by presenting a professional cost effective and high quality service where safety, heath, environmental and quality factors and the number one priority.
Fugro – Lunch Sponsor
Fugro Subsea Services Ltd specialise in providing ROV support vessels, ROVs, Trenching systems and remote engineering services to our clients in the North Sea, Mediterranean and West Africa. Our office is located in Aberdeen and comprises warehouse and an engineering workshop, which allows us to maintain our ROV systems as well as carry out in-house test and assembly of our own tooling and equipment. Our onshore team of approximately 170 personnel provides round the clock project and engineering support for our offshore operations.
Fugro Subsea Services Ltd is part of the larger Subsea Services business line which provides its services through a global network of strategically placed offices and an experienced team of over 1,700 onshore and offshore personnel.
Globally, we focus on the sustainable energy and offshore oil and gas markets and support our clients construction, drilling, completion, inspection, repair, maintenance and intervention activities.
As part of the Fugro Group we have direct access to the worldwide fleet of over 50 Fugro vessels and 170 ROVs, ROTVs and AUVs.
Genesis – Silver Dinner Sponsor
Genesis is a market-leading engineering company focused on providing engineering and technical services to the global upstream oil and gas industry. The company’s services are utilised by oil and gas companies during planning and development phases of oil and gas projects and in the execution of subsea, onshore and offshore engineering projects. Our clientele includes super-majors and national oil companies, as well as small independents.
Genesis develops innovative solutions for the E&P business, by leveraging on its core engineering and techno-economic skills.
Today, Genesis is a company with more than 1,500 engineers and offices in 16 locations worldwide.
Rockwell Automation – Napkin Sponsor
A multi-national company with customers in more than 80 countries, Rockwell Automation employs around 22,000 staff across the world, specialising in process control, process safety, power management and process information systems and services designed to give clients a competitive advantage.
Since committing to the UK oil and gas sector through the acquisition of established automation businesses – ICS Triplex and Silvertech, Rockwell Automation continues to strengthen its position with its PlantPAx process automation system, Allen Bradley and ICS Triplex product lines.
Rockwell Automation’s products and solutions are designed to maximise process productivity and uptime across a wide range of industries, while reducing energy consumption, complying with regulations and minimising risks.
Its Aberdeen operation, based at Bridge of Don’s Science and Technology Park, has three main strands: support and maintenance, project and engineering design services, which support a number of major oil and gas clients.
Sets – Drinks Reception Sponsor
Following a decade working in the subsea engineering sector. Chris Tierney launched SETS in 2011 to provide the market with a specialist subsea engineering and project management resource, focused on small construction and IRM projects within the subsea oil and gas market.
Since its inception, SETS has established itself as a pioneer of new techniques to deliver efficiency and significant cost savings for clients through the development of its own bespoke project management system, SETSgrid. This system is already transforming the way in which the industry delivers projects by removing the need for recurring set up and procurement information to be sourced.
The highly experienced team provides clients with:
• Work Scope development
• Resource management
• SCRIM projects
• SCRIM engineers at all levels
• Procurement and logistics professionals
• Extensive experience at all levels of interventions
• Equipment control
Wood Group Kenny – Lanyard Sponsor
Wood Group Kenny (WGK) provides life-cycle engineering technology management and integrity solutions for oil and gas projects from concept phase through into operation and abandonment.
At WGK we have a matrix structure that is integrated regionally while through our constituent businesses, is discipline-led globally. This enables us to promote discipline excellence and leadership across our organisation, and to assemble multi-disciplinary teams at a single location than can deliver a subsea project from concept phase, into FEED and detail design, commissioning and ultimately operation.
Through our professional and experienced staff we provide engineering technology solutions, project and asset management capability, and operations support to projects. This service is backed up by a full suite of unique in-house specialist software for pipeline, riser and mooring design: flow assurance modelling project management and asset integrity: and for solving complex analytical problems for the harshest environmental and process conditions.
Furthermore, through dedicated technical service and technology groups spread across the organisation under the leadership of our technology director, we are committed to the on-going development of innovative design, analysis and service life prediction techniques and to facilitating the application of new technology on projects where such techniques and technology can enable safe, sustainable and cost effective solutions for clients.