Offshore staff
SANDNES, Norway – Vår Energi has signed five-year frame agreements with 12 Norwegian service companies.
These cover engineering services, exploration, subsurface, drilling, HSE, IT and HR, offshore and onshore. The 12 companies are IKM, Acona, Ross, AGR, Cegal, Semco, MED, Head, Sopra Steria, Omega, Norse, and TS Group.
More than 40 subcontractors with specialist skills in various disciplines are also included in the agreements. AGR’s covers the supply of temporary contract workers to Vår operations across the Norwegian continental shelf.
Annette Gjerde, vice president Procurement at Vår Energi, said: “The framework agreements make us well equipped to handle limited periods of high levels of activity or in short-term needs for specialized expertise, over the next few years.
“The tax support package for the petroleum industry, adopted by the parliament this summer, has helped us maintain a high level of activity despite a very challenging situation caused by the pandemic and period of low oil price. Therefore, we will periodically need to bring in extra resources within a number of disciplines in the coming years…
“The good partnership between operators and suppliers in Norway is essential for the competitiveness of this industry.
She added: “We are still doing what we can to keep costs as low as possible, also with the help of skilled and efficient suppliers. However, with the support of the parliament, we can now maintain many of the activities originally planned.”
10/29/2020
