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EEEGR MEMBERS
New contracts
mean more jobs
for CLS Offshore
C Scott McMillan
C 01493 668730
C S.McMillan@clsoffshore.com
C www.clsoffshore.com
CLS Offshore has been awarded a contract
with new client Wood Group for remedial
works following the completion of Scira’s
Sheringham Shoal windfarm off the North
Norfolk coast.
A crew of electricians, platers, welders,
painters, and technical workers, operating
from an offshore accommodation vessel, has
started a 41-day contract to carry out the work
on the windfarm’s two sub-stations.
Along with two new long-term contracts
for operations and maintenance support
work for the Greater Gabbard wind farm off
Lowestoft, the extra business will mean at
least 25 new jobs for the Great Yarmouthbased
energy sector services company.
“The Sheringham Shoal contract is a
great opportunity for us to work with the Wood
Group project management team for the first
time and is a further stage of our growing
status in the windpower sector,” said CLS
managing director Scott McMillan.
One of the Sheringham Shoal substations.
Photo by CHPV, courtesy of Scira
The company has already extended its
own team with six new workshop apprentices,
two trainees and two trainee project engineers
this year.
“We’re hoping to offer similar opportunities
in 2013 so, along with the extra recruitment,
we are offering increasing career potential for
skilled local people and for young people coming
out of education,” said Mr McMillan.
CLS has also been awarded an ECITB
technical testing licence which allows it to
further train and develop existing and incoming
workforce members to NVQ level three in
their particular trades.
Assessment for qualifications will also
be carried out by CLS and will earn workers a
certificate from ECITB (Engineering
Construction Industry Training Board) which
monitors the scheme.
“It’s a great step forward in enhancing
and recognising the skills of our team,” said
Mr McMillan.
ASCO’s new
Canadian investment
C Lyndsey Ogilvie
C 01224 564779
C Lyndsey.ogilvie@ascoworld.com
C www.ascoworld.com
The ASCO Group has acquired EJR Trucking,
Manatokan Oilfield Logistics Ltd and Docktor
Oilfield Transport Corporation – three Alberta
based specialist oilfield services companies.
The acquisitions have significantly
increased ASCO’s capacity in Canada and
support the group’s international investment
and growth plans.
Derek Smith, ASCO Group’s chief operating
officer, said: “Supported by increased
investment from private equity firm Doughty
Hanson, our board has ambitious plans which
we are currently realising through organic
growth and acquisitions. Our primary focus will
always remain the oil and gas services market,
but we want to reach new clients as well as
provide more services to our current clients,
particularly services which fit and complement
our current portfolio. The acquisition of these
oilfield services companies in Alberta support
this strategy.”
The acquisitions take total employee
numbers from 130 to over 260 in Canada, where
ASCO already has operations in Bonnyville,
Alberta as well as Halifax and St Johns in
Eastern Canada.
EJR Trucking and Docktor Oilfield
Transport Corporation are oilfield logistics
companies, specialising in drilling logistics and
infield services. The acquisitions of these companies
were made through ASCO’s Canadian
onshore oilfield services company MOKO,
which is based in Alberta. Both new companies
will be fully integrated into the MOKO brand.
Manatokan is a specialist oilfield waste
management company. Its brand will remain
and the company will become Manatokan
Oilfield Logistics Inc.
Through these acquisitions and the
acquisition of North Sea Lifting, ASCO has
grown from 1,600 employees to over 2,000
employees worldwide.
ASCO announced in June that it had
acquired North Sea Lifting Limited (NSL) – an
international safety training and lifting specialist
headquartered in Aberdeen and with bases in
Texas and Louisiana in the USA.
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