Bilfinger Industrier Norge

COMPANY PROFILE

2015

BILFINGER INDUSTRIER NORGE

+47 480 24 444 | www.industrier.bilfinger.com

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Increasing its performance and efficiency in the ISP market, Bilfinger Industrier has introduced a range of prefabricated solutions for fire, cryogenic, acoustic and thermal protection. Making insulation systems work under its range of Lambda products, the company designs, tests and documents these ready to be used in high-risk environments – simultaneously meeting strict NORSOK standards.

A key player in the ISP marketplace, Bilfinger Industrier operates and offers services within the insulating, scaffolding and painting services sector. Together with these, the company delivers tested and certified PFP solutions - which includes thermal and acoustic insulation boxes, jacket solutions and Habitats to both the onshore and offshore industry.

Now, with an extensive range of

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reliable and innovative products, all produced from Bilfinger Industrier’s modern prefabrication workshop, the company has introduced prefabricated solutions - under its Lambda product range - for fire protection, cryogenic insulation, acoustic insulation, thermal insulation and subsea insulation.

And with a big focus on product development over the last few years, Bilfinger Industrier is now

looking into creating new and innovative solutions and products - whilst simultaneously adding value, maintaining strict safety rules and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Bilfinger Industrier is the largest of four business units within the oil and gas division of Bilfinger SE, a major international engineering and services company.

BILFINGER INDUSTRIER NORGE PRODUCT INNOVATION Tested and certified to withstand hydrocarbon and jet fire temperatures that reach up to 350kW/m2 – the Lambda F product range is made with high-performing materials, including a polymer-based insulation material – Favuseal.

“Over the last couple of years we have introduced and worked with a couple of new materials which are fairly strong. Our main focus of activity in our new product range is a polymer based material called Favuseal,” explained Tor Minsaas, Director Technology, Supply Chain Management & Support Systems at Bilfinger Industrier, speaking to Total World Energy last year.

A material that is easier to transport, install and providing a more efficient insulation, Favuseal is a much more

environmentally friendly alternative too.

With the ability to withstand extremely harsh conditions, much in demand in today’s market, Favuseal is halogenfree and the technology to develop it, also helps to protect on-site workers by not generating corrosive or toxic gases in the event of a fire.

With the strap-line, ‘Making insulation systems work’, Bilfinger Industrier provides numerous prefabricated insulation products for fire, acoustic and cryogenic – under the brand name, Lambda – these have been designed, tested and documented, in accordance with NORSOK requirements, to be used in hazardous and high-risk environmental situations.

Specifically aimed to benefit the insulating market, the Lambda Cryo Box is a prefabricated cryogenic

insulation system designed and tested to insulate valves which have extreme operating temperatures reaching as low as -163°C. A cost efficient alternative for many reasons, the Lambda Cryo Box can be removed and reinstalled multiple times.

Customised and assembled at the company’s workshop, it requires no heavy work and so fewer installation personnel are needed, creating an overall safer working environment.

The Lambda thermal insulation jacket can be used in various production environments including marine, oil & gas and power plants for thermal, personnel and sound protection. A customisable system, it can be delivered as flexible jackets or boxes in stainless steel.

Introducing a new pressurized habitat system which is not only

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flexible, but a cost effective and portable alternative than previous solutions, Minsaas explained: “We have taken existing technology and improved it so the new habitat is more flexible and easier to handle.”

A simple and straightforward system - weighing in at only 20 kg, making it easier to transport and install - the new solution comes with batteries that are powerful enough to run a 24 volt control unit, offering significantly higher flexibility in operations in comparison to a typical 230V system.

TOP QUALITY PREFABRICATION Opening its existing head office in Stavanger in 2011, the company consolidated all the pre-fabrication works to this central location.

Speaking with Jüergen Liedl last year, who was recently appointed Executive President - Division Support Services at Bilfinger SE in March, he spoke of the importance of the company’s new and modern facilities: “We have a very advanced prefabrication workshop and we continuously invest in machinery and equipment to ensure efficiency and

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quality of our production.”

With a key focus on ISP services, Bilfinger Industrier continues to carry out installations, maintenance works and big frame agreements for some of the key industry players, including Statoil and BP. “We have an agreement with Statoil on a number of installations in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea as well as the big Kalundborg refinery in Denmark. They’re a major customer and we have a very close and professional relationship with them.”

In February last year, Bilfinger Industrier was awarded a contract by Statoil for ISP services on an offshore platform in the Sleipner gas field in the North Sea. Located 250km west of Stavanger off the Norwegian coast, the Sleipner field is a natural gas field with two parts currently in production, Sleipner West – which was proven in 1974 and Sleipner East, in 1981.

At the end of 2013, Statoil awarded Bilfinger Industrier a contract valued at an estimated EUR 250 million, covering services at its North Sea production facilities and onshore plants on the Norwegian coast from August 2014 to

July 2016.

This was then followed, at the beginning of 2014, by a further contract extension signed with Statoil for providing services at the offshore platforms in the Sleipner gas field.

Valued at an estimated EUR 40 million, Statoil exercised this option under a framework contract which it signed with Bilfinger Group, for the Gudrun oil and gas field. Running from 1st August 2014 through to 5th September 2017, the contract includes the possibility of two more two-year options, which had initially been excluded from the previous contracts awarded to Bilfinger Industrier from Statoil in the autumn of 2013 for the Gudrun oil and gas field.

Bjørn Harald Celius, CEO of Bilfinger Industrier Norge, said: “We are delighted that Statoil has renewed its confidence in us at Sleipner.

“A new framework contract for three more years means continuity in our projects and for our employees. We look forward to continuing our fruitful collaboration and to making a valuable contribution to safe, competent and efficient operations.”

Following the master contract signed

BILFINGER INDUSTRIER NORGE in 2011, BP Norway announced last year that it was exercising a further renewal option with Bilfinger Industrier, who were awarded the third contract for maintenance services for the North Sea oil and gas industry since 2013.

Covering ISP and access technology services at the Ula, Valhall and Skarv fields, the renewal contract, valued at an estimated EUR 50 million, will run from May 2014 and will end in April next year.

Executive President of the Bilfinger Oil & Gas Division, Steve Waugh, said: “We owe our recent successes to our employees’ skills and our day to day focus on safe productive working practices, which provide an excellent basis for our future growth. We address the main requirements

in onshore and offshore repair and maintenance to extend asset life and improve reliability performance. At the same time, we are registering strong demand on the part of customers to deliver innovative solutions to optimize asset life cost effectively and safely across all our main contracts.”

A BRIGHT FUTURE AHEAD In a year of restructuring and new staff appointments, Bilfinger Industrier appointed Leif Helge Eriksen as COO, which is set to commence on September 7th 2015. Responsible for all projects and operational activities within the company, Eriksen has vast experience within the industry – coming from Head of Opex and Capex Optimisation within Avito Consulting AS and before that, Deputy CEO of

Beerenberg Corporation AS and CEO and Production Facility Manager in Kverneland Group. Eriksen also boasts an MSc degree in engineering from The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU and will be integral to the ongoing restructuring and future projects within the company.

With an array of innovative and unique products and solutions now in circulation, Bilfinger Industrier has built a successful platform in which to succeed and grow, certainly for the foreseeable future.

“We believe we’ve got great products and a great service that we deliver. The combined offering of these two plus our strong market position give us an excellent basis for successful further development,” Liedl explains

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