CONTINUOUS GROWTH Headquartered in Forus, Norway, Weatherford Norge is a part of the global Weatherford International Ltd – one of the largest global providers of advanced products and services for oil and natural gas wells. Industry Europe looks at this company’s activities and its most recent developments.
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eatherford has been offering tubular running services to clients drilling on the Norwegian shelf since 1968. In 1974 Weatherfield Norge A/S was established in order for the international group to maintain a permanent presence on the Norwegian market. Today it has a network of eight facilities located in strategic positions throughout the country, in Stavanger (three facilities), Bergen, Florø, Harstad, Tananger and Ålgård. The company has been growing continuously since its establishment in Norway, fuelled in part by the plentiful oil supply in the country (with the largest oil and gas reserves in western Europe at its disposal),
a strong economy and an increase in global demand for its products and services. The company’s website declares that its activities are channeled towards three main areas: maximising production in Norway’s maturing fields; exploiting undeveloped resources in the Barents Sea; and leveraging technology to minimise the environmental impact of drilling operations.
Local products and services Weatherford Norge’s products and services fall into five broad categories, spanning the entire life cycle of a well. These are: Drilling, Evaluation, Completion, Production and Intervention. The first of these, Drilling, has the widest range.
