2014
Acquisition of Control Valve Technology (CVT) in South Africa and Louisiana-based Diversified Oil Field Services Inc (Diversified) in the US.
EnerMech's focus on strengthening its Middle East and Caspian business has been underlined with the appointment of oil and gas industry veteran Dave McLeod as Regional Director.
The mechanical engineering group has an extensive presence in the region with more than 250 staff working from bases in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Dubai, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, and on a joint venture in Saudi Arabia.
The Aberdeen company's largest crane maintenance contract, which is managed from Baku and covers all of BP Exploration's Caspian Sea assets, was recently extended for another two years.
During a 30 year career with the oil services group Halliburton, Dave McLeod held senior positions in the UK, USA, Gabon, Nigeria, Kuala Lumpur, and Australasia. He was latterly the senior director in charge of all of Halliburton's global quality systems and quality strategy. He has diverse oilfield experience across engineering, business development, operations management and technology and a proven track record in building sustainable businesses.
EnerMech chief executive officer, Doug Duguid, said: "The Middle East and Caspian regions are very important in term of future growth for the company and we will focus our efforts on extending our footprint with a combination of investment, organic growth and acquisitions.
"To achieve that we need high calibre people like Dave McLeod who has years of international experience in the oil and gas industry and who can make the best of the investment we have made in terms of infrastructure and people in these regions. His background in operations, quality strategy and business development will play a big part in reinforcing our existing relationships and winning new business."
Dave McLeod, who will be based in Abu Dhabi added: "EnerMech has, in a short space of time, built up a solid international reputation and become a formidable force within the industry. I am looking forward to playing my part in the ongoing success of a business which has shaken up the market and has great potential to grow further."
EnerMech provides mechanical engineering services, including cranes and lifting; valves, hydraulics, process, pipeline and umbilicals, industrial services, equipment rental and training services. The company employs more than 2200 staff in 18 countries and is forecasting 2014 revenues will grow by £80 million to £280 million.
The company recently acquired US-based cranes and lifting business Diversified Oil Field Services Inc and valve specialist Control Valve Technology in South Africa, further extending its international presence in two important sectors.
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International oil and gas services group, EnerMech, has strengthened its operations in Australia with the appointment of two senior oil and gas industry professionals.
Craig Wilson and Phil Ellwood will join the EnerMech team as it pushes forward with plans to establish itself as Asia Pacific's leading oil and gas mechanical services supplier.
EnerMech is an $AUD 500 million turnover business which employs 2000 staff in 31 locations serving the international energy sector. Its seven business lines include Cranes and Lifting, Valves, Hydraulic products and services, Industrial Services, Process, Pipeline and Umbilicals (PPU), Equipment Rental and Training services.
In Australia EnerMech has secured contracts worth an estimated value of $AUD 80 million over the next year and forecasts its headcount will increase from 350 to over 500 in the next 24 months. The company has facilities in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Darwin, Sale, Gladstone and Chinchilla.
Ellwood, who has in excess of 30 years industry knowledge, has been brought in as Operations Manager to oversee the expansion and consolidation of EnerMech's on-the-ground operations at its eight Australian bases.
Wilson, who has over 20 years of grassroots experience within the oil and gas industry, has been appointed as Senior Business Development Manager. He will be responsible for driving performance and ensuring the delivery of EnerMech's service across Australia and its neighbouring regions.
Both Wilson and Ellwood, who are based in Perth, were previously employed by APTS where they were integral to securing and servicing some of Australia's largest LNG projects in recent years.
EnerMech General Manager for Australia, Niall Conlon, said: "We have secured strategically important contracts with major energy companies who value the efficiencies we bring to their business.
"Significant investment in infrastructure and equipment to service those projects is being backed up by the recruitment of top level industry professionals and with Craig Wilson and Phil Ellwood on our team we can take EnerMech to the next level as a premium services provider to the Australian energy and construction industries."
Members of EnerMech’s management team swapped business suits for boiler suits as part of a series of initiatives during Scottish Apprenticeship Week.
Human Resources Director Shirley Smith, Corporate Development Director Ingrid Stewart and Mechanical Support Services General Manager Alan Bailey, left their offices to spend a day working in the company’s Equipment Rental, Process, Pipeline & Umbilicals and Cranes & Lifting divisions.
The trio worked alongside apprentices and technicians, gaining a hands-on insight in to what goes on behind the scenes at EnerMech’s Howes Road headquarters in Aberdeen. Before starting the day Shirley and Ingrid had to complete e-learning modules and they were each assigned an apprentice as their ‘buddy’ for the day.
Shirley Smith said: “Having been with the business since start-up six years ago, it’s been very rewarding to see our apprentices grow and become a key part of our future. I want to encourage more females into our technical roles, so understanding what this working environment is like is key to holding that conversation with future recruits and explaining the benefits.”
With a career in professional services, chartered accountant Ingrid Stewart said the day spent in the workshops gave her a valuable insight in how engineering and technical projects are executed.
She said: “Our apprenticeship scheme is vital to the future growth of the business and the executive management team is very supportive of ‘growing our own’ and developing young talent. Scottish Apprenticeship Week has been very good in demonstrating the important role our apprentices play and it’s a great initiative which can help us in recruiting our next intake of future technicians and engineers.”
As part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week, EnerMech’s European Director, Stuart Smith, attended the Banff & Buchan Apprentice Careers Fair at North East Scotland College’s Fraserburgh Campus.
Also, pupils from Meldrum Academy took part in work experience in the workshops and engineering departments, and representatives from St Machar Academy and Aberdeen City Council visited the fabrication workshops to shadow apprentices and to watch them at work.
EnerMech has 34 apprentices currently undergoing a four year apprenticeship and plans to recruit a further six this year.
Mechanical engineering group EnerMech has been awarded a contract covering TOTAL E&P UK Limited's UK North Sea assets which could be its largest process services contract to date.
The value of the five year agreement, which covers the St Fergus and Shetland gas terminals and Alwyn, Dunbar, Elgin and Franklin platforms, was not disclosed.
Aberdeen-headquartered EnerMech already provides cranes and lifting and equipment rental services to TOTAL but the contract award marks a major step forward for its Process, Pipeline & Umbilicals (PPU) division.
The workscope incudes the provision of topside process services including flange management, on site in-situ machining, nitrogen services, ultra high-pressure system nitrogen/helium leak testing, chemical cleaning and training services.
EnerMech's UK general manager of PPU, David Logan, said: "The award of this significant contract is further evidence that clients are looking for innovative thinking and flexibility of integrated service provision and not just more of the same.
"We are looking forward to assisting TOTAL E&P UK Limited in supporting their assets in the North Sea and this award reaffirms our position as a major supplier of process services to the oil and gas sector."
EnerMech's other service lines include cranes and lifting; valves, hydraulics, industrial services, equipment rental and training services. The company employs more than 2000 staff in 18 countries and is forecasting 2014 revenues will grow by £80 million to £280 million.
The recent acquisitions of US-based cranes and lifting business Diversified Oil Field Services Inc and valve specialist Control Valve Technology in South Africa has extended EnerMech's international presence in two important sectors.
EnerMech skal levere utstyr og personell til Technip i Norge i forbindelse med to offshore kampanjer for lekkasjetesting (RFO-tjenester) til Gullfaks Future Oil Export Loading system i Nordsjøen.
Kontrakten følger kort tid etter utnevnelsen av EnerMechs nye leder for selskapets norske PPU-avdeling (Prosess, Rørledninger & Kontrollkabler), Stuart Cowie, som har mer enn 25 års erfaring fra energisektoren, hvorav de 16 siste årene i ledende stillinger hos Halliburton, Norge.
Vår konstruksjonsgruppe er allerede i gang med arbeidet til den første kampanjen, og det andre prosjektet vil følge i august.
Stuart Cowie uttalte: "Vi samarbeider med Technip på en rekke internasjonale prosjekter, men dette er første gang vi blir tildelt en ren norsk kontrakt og vi ser fram til å vise hva vi er i stand til å levere.
"Vår krandivisjon er veletablert i Norge og vi har tidligere levert PPU-tjenester til BPs Skarv-prosjekt. Denne kontrakten er imidlertid den aller første vi er blitt tildelt innenfor det norske markedet for havbunnskonstruksjoner. Vi tror at det norske markedet i økende grad vil etterspørre integrerte løsninger og større fleksibilitet når det gjelder hvordan prosjektene utføres, og dette er nettopp hva vi kan levere.
"Det er vår målsetning å kopiere suksessen til vår krandivisjon innenfor PPU-sektoren, og vi planlegger å foreta betydelige investeringer i utstyr, infrastruktur og menneskelige ressurser for å øke vår markedsandel."
I 2013 investerte EnerMech for 28 millioner i Norge, bl.a. åpnet selskapet en base i Bergen som et supplement til sitt hovedanlegg i Stavanger. I år vil selskapet åpne en ny base i Hammerfest.
EnerMech will provide Technip in Norway with equipment and personnel on two offshore campaigns for Leak Testing (RFO Services) of the Gullfaks Future Oil Export Loading system in the Norwegian North Sea.
The contract award follows the appointment of the EnerMech's PPU (Process, Pipeline & Umbilicals) general manager for Norway, Stuart Cowie, who has more than 25 years experience in the North Sea energy sector, the last 16 in senior roles with Halliburton in Norway.
The mechanical engineering group has already started engineering on the first of the campaigns and the second project will be executed in August.
Stuart Cowie said: "We work with Technip on a variety of international projects but this is the first time we have been engaged on a Norwegian contract and we are looking forward to showing what we can do.
"Our cranes division is well established in Norway and we have performed PPU services on BP's Skarv project but this contract is a first in the Norwegian subsea construction market. We feel the Norwegian market is increasingly looking for the more integrated offering which we provide and greater flexibility on how projects are executed.
"Our objective is to replicate the success of our cranes division in the Norwegian PPU sector and we are committed to making significant investment in equipment, infrastructure and people to increase our market share."
EnerMech last year made a £3 million (NOK 28 million) investment in its Norwegian business which included opening a base in Bergen to add to its original facility in Stavanger. This year will see the opening of a new base in Hammerfest.
OTC in Houston could not come at a better time for mechanical engineering specialist EnerMech which last month acquired Louisiana-based cranes and lifting business Diversified Oil Field Services Inc (Diversified).
EnerMech will use the acquisition as a platform for the rapid expansion of its existing cranes and lifting division in the Gulf of Mexico and it plans to open a new base in Lafayette, which is strategically situated between Houston and shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi and Mobile.
Vince Kouns, president of EnerMech's US operation and his deputy Alan Sweeney, will be at OTC to demonstrate to clients the enhanced US capabilities of the Aberdeen-headquartered business.
The new Lafayette operation will complement EnerMech's well-established Houston facility and Diversified's 17,000 sq ft base at Slidell, and will help reduce mobilisation and transport costs in servicing GoM projects.
The Diversified acquisition follows on from a £13 million investment in the Americas region, which included a new hydraulics workshop in Houston, new process and pipeline equipment and opening the company's first Mexican base in Villahermosa.
Vince Kouns said: "When we commit to something we do it wholeheartedly. Bringing Diversified in to the fold means we now have more of our own people on the ground and situated close to key markets in Pascagoula and eastern Gulf coast.
"Our international template is to invest in local infrastructure and have the ability to quickly deploy people and equipment from local resources, instead of shipping in expertise and assets. We believe this is critical in building long term relationships and winning work and it is proving as successful in the US and Mexico as it has in other regions where we operate."
On top of cranes and lifting, EnerMech has already established its Process, Pipeline & Umbilicals (PPU) and hydraulics business lines in the US market and its four other specialist services will follow.
Key project awards by major Gulf of Mexico operators and contractors, including BP, Subsea 7, Williams and Anadarko, have confirmed EnerMech is a valued service provider in the US oil and gas sector.
Kouns added: "Clients appreciate that we are investing capital and manpower and we have a long term commitment to GoM and Central America, and that is underlined by the type and size of contract we are now bidding for and being awarded."
EnerMech has 120 staff in-region and expects that to grow to over 400 in the next 24 months. The enlarged US cranes division is forecast to add an extra £5.96 million ($10 million) to group revenues and overall revenue in the States is expected to exceed £60 million ($100 million) in the next two years.
