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IRIS – The international research institute of Stavanger – formerly known as Rogaland Research was established in 1973. Longstanding petroleum industry know-how forms a solid foundation for cutting-edge research that really makes a difference. The research institute combines innovation, technology and an environmental emphasis. Its applied research areas are in the very forefront of the international petroleum industry. IRIS is based in the oil capital Stavanger on the Norwegian west coast, and has affiliated offices in Bergen and Oslo.

Several activitieSTogether with the University of Stavanger, IRIS has performed Improved Oil Recovery (IOR) and oil reservoir research for more than

30 years. Applied research projects in close cooperation with the oil industry and more long term government funded activities are the core of their business. The University of Stavanger heads the newly appointed National IOR Centre while IRIS heads the Center for Drilling and Wells for Improved Recovery (SBBU) and the Center for Oil Recovery (COREC).

State-of-the-art facilitieSAt the IRIS headquarter you will find outstanding state-of-the-art petroleum laboratories. Here, core floods are performed at high temperature and pressures with reservoir fluids to create a reservoir-like environment. The world’s most advanced full scale testing site, Ullrigg Drilling and Well Centre is also part of the IRIS facilities.

Better BaSiS for deciSionSExamples of research areas are development of simulation- and modelling tools for oil production and chemical methods for improved recovery.

“Just recently, our research was applied offshore. An oil company wanted to plug water channels with chemicals to improve the oil production. We contributed to this operation with our expertise”, says Kristin Flornes, Research Director for Reservoir.

”Offshore projects are associated with great complexity and costs. By producing better basis for decisions, we are helping oil companies reduce risk”, says Kirsti Veggeland, Senior Vice President Energy in IRIS.

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IRIS is a research and innovation company established in 2006 with origin in Rogalandsforskning. The company is owned by the University of Stavanger and Rogaland Research. Main research areas are energy, environment and social science. The goal is to fill the society’s need for knowledge and idea generation and the industry’s need for innovative solutions. IRIS commercialises its work through its own subsidiary IRIS Forskningsinvest AS which has owner interests in approx. 20 companies.

IRIS – The International Research Institute of Stavanger – works in close partnership with both industry and government. To improve recovery from existing oil fields is an interesting and important field of research.

On an average, less than half of the oil is produced before a field is closed down. Since all infrastructure investments at that point have been made, huge gains can be achieved from bringing up a few percent more of the resources. This is in focus for the IRIS reservoir research.

P.O. Box 8046, 4068 Stavanger, Norway Phone: (+47) 51 87 50 00www.iris.no

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This excellent testimonial is given by Mr. Helge Børslid, Manufacturing & Engineering Manager in the oil service company Sensor Developments.

DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGYThe Patented LinX™ technology provide a whole new perspective on well integrity and reservoir monitoring. By performing outside barrier monitoring, parameters that historically have been qualified guesses are now monitored continuously. Enabling operators to optimise production with less risk. So far, the innovative company is the sole provider of this technology on the market.

ALwAYS ON TImE”From the operator orders to delivery, there is only a narrow window of time. When installed, there is no room to modify or recover the sensors. Therefore with SolidWorks, we design sensors of 100 percent quality, collect design approval and deliver production files to the manufacturer,” says Børslid. He adds:

”For operators to await sensor delivery - is never an option. Our reputation is dependent on on time delivery.”

Sensor Developments has integrated SolidWorks multiproduct suite including Solidworks3D, Simulation, Composer and EPDM software for design, design verification, audit information, approval information, delivery of bill of materials (BOM) etc. Continuously, the 14 employees company has three engineers engaged in sensor construction.

”AS A CLOSE PARTNER””CCS has been as a partner for us. From other software companies, we have rather soon experienced declining interest. But

through our many years as CCS customer, we have received fast support with even complex technical issues,” Børslid says.

”High support quality is a key element for us,” confirms CEO Lars Kvendbø at CCS Group. The company caters

to all businesses that designs, develops

and manufactures products within the electromechanical engineering industry.

INDUSTRIAL ExPERIENCECCS employees are mostly people with industrial experience. ”Essential to understand our client’s needs”, Kvendbø says.

On it’s reference list, CCS Group has everything from one-man

businesses to multinational enterprises. The company is headquartered in Norway and has subsidiaries in Sweden and Finland, and also has customers in the Baltics. The company serves the market with CAD system SolidWorks for mechanical design, E³.series for electrical design and GibbsCam for managing MultiTasking CNC machines.

Also, the portfolio includes Pro-M

State of the art tools for the electromechanical industry

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Since 1988, CCS Group has supplied the electromechanical industry with software and support.

The LinX™ system from Sensor Developments, first time ever wireless through wellbore monitoring. Providing ha whole new perspective on well integrity and reservoir monitoring.

CCS Group provides software tools and support for designers, product developers and manufacturing companies in the electrical engineering industry. 60 percent of the turnover is from businesses related to the marine and offshore. The company has approx. 1,000 customers.

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”The CAD suite SolidWorks is intuitive, can be used for complex designs and integrates well with production. Contractor CCS Group has been absolutely outstanding.”

– the CCS developed tool for Production Management. Pro-M is currently offered to the Norwegian market, and manages manufacturing companies’ order, production & logistic process.

BEST IN CLASS”We offer our customers a product portfolio of best in class products. No single product can encompass all of these areas. Therefore, we offer tools that easily integrate with each other. We keep an eye on the market, and extend our software portfolio when needed,” Kvendbø says.

”We get excellent tools and unparalleled support from CCS Group,” says Helge Børslid, Manufacturing and Engineering Manager in the oil service company Sensor Developments. Here accompanied by Maria Katarina Kvendbø (left) and Hilde Thorny Eikebu from CCS Group.

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We strive to develop optimum solutions for society, and offers expertise on the behaviour of soil, rock and snow – and their interaction with the natural and built environment. NGI serves the following market sectors: Offshore energy - Building, construction and transportation - Natural hazards - Environmental technology.

ExAmPLES Of OUR PROjECT wORk IS • development of a Subsea Leak Detection system (SLD) to alert

leakage of gas from the seabed beneath offshore oil and gas installations

• R&D with the purpose of limiting damages on buildings and construction sites due to soil conditions and foundation works

• investigation and monitoring of sediments in Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy to evaluate the effect of the natural sedimentation on reducing the bio-access for pesticides (DDT)

• R&D on hazard to infrastructure as a result of extreme weather conditions, such as landslides, debris slides and rock falls.

NGI is a private foundation, established in 1953, with headquarters and laboratories in Oslo, and offices in Trondheim, Norway, and Houston, Texas. Among our clients are industrial companies world wide, various programs under the United Nations, governmental institutions, and the public and private sector.

Check www.ngi.no to learn about our research efforts and case stories covering foundation engineering and analysis of challenging structures, natural hazards risk assessment, instrumentation and monitoring, tsunami modelling, avalanche and landslide warning, and waste handling, to mention a few.

For 60 years now, NGI has been a premier provider of geotechnical expertise.

Optimal and practical SOlutiOnSNorwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI) is a leading international centre for research and consulting within the engineering geosciences. Our world class experts are ready to serve. Each year, they carry out project assignments in more than 25 countries around the globe.

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Typical FWS graphical display with real-time data and a 9 hour forecast giving a clear understanding of how the weather conditions develop.

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Everybody is talking aboutthe weather but only A+D knowsSome work tasks and complex operations, such as heavy lifting operations, transport of large constructions and other offshore work tasks can only be done under certain favorable weather conditions. This is a well-known fact in offshore and marine operations and experi-enced seamen all over the world have often developed remarkable skills in assessing weather conditions and predicting the development.

Specialized offshore vessels also install sophisti-cated electronic systems to monitor important parameters, such as wind, current, waves, vessel motions and many others in order to have exact data available.

Also drilling in deeper waters will often bring challenges related to fluctuating and unpredictable currents. These may have a critical influence on both rig location and installation of expensive equipment. Current profilers with capability of measuring sea currents down to more than 1000 meters water depth are available and can be tailor made to the installation.

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEMSInstrumentation company A+D in Sandnes, Norway is a specialist company in building and installing such monitoring systems, typically called

Environmental Monitoring Systems (EMS), Current Monitoring Systems (CMS), Vessel Motion Monitoring Systems (VMS) or Helideck Motion Monitoring Systems (HMS). These systems typi-cally include a suite of sensors to measure these parameters, such as wind sensors, meteorological sensors, motion sensors, current profilers and wave sensors. This information can then be combined with data from the vessels motion sensors and other data in order to see the complete picture.

The DADAS software refined by A+D over many years is simple and user-friendly and will give the user a quick and useful understanding of the situation. DADAS can always be tailor-made to the specific project in order to give the user exactly the data he requires for the project or work task.

FORECASTING WEATHER STATION – SMART SOLUTIONS FOR THE FUTUREA new and exciting development now is the ability to combine measured real-time data with very accurate forecasts of the next hours and days. A+D is now cooperating with the specialist fore-casting company ConWx Aps in order to develop

what is called a Forecasting Weather Station or FCS. The FCS is a combination of a product and a service, where an online weather station is combined with smart forecasting technology in order to give the user both real-time data showing the present situation and a good prediction of the future.

We all know by experience that a standard com-puter generated weather forecast typically has a limited accuracy. By transmitting real-time data to the forecasters, this accuracy can be improved significantly, giving demanding users a much higher quality forecast. This can in turn reduce the amount of downtime considerably.

In applications where downtime costs money – this can be a highly profitable investment!

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The basis for this expertise is a broad experience with projects for the Arctic area of Northern Norway including extreme cold climate on Svalbard, onshore and offshore infrastructure and platforms in Arctic seas.

This experience is combined with a strategic involvement in research and development projects, both in-house and in cooperation with other major research organizations, like NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, the University Courses on Spitsbergen (UNIS) and Sintef.

The coast of Norway is characterized by a complex bathymetry, islands, reefs, sub sea cliffs and steep shore slopes. This gives challenges in assessment of wave state and wave propagation and impact of waves on structures. The Barents Sea presents a transition zone to ice covered areas in the European Arctic. The Eastern part is characterized by yearly presence of first year sea ice, occasionally multi-year ice

and icebergs. The western part of the Barents Sea is ice free and poses Arctic challenges such as sea spray icing, in combination with severe wind and waves. Further east and north, the Kara Sea and Arctic Ocean present challenges related to extreme cold climate and the presence of severe ice conditions, with multi-year ice, and icebergs. Multiconsult has in general an extensive experience in costal and offshore infrastructure. In particular this includes specialized experi ence in cold climate and Arctic engineering and design. Our experience ranges from assessing the design physical environment, planning and logistics, onshore infrastructure, harbours and sea front structures, fixed and floating structures near shore and offshore, and includes infrastructure design and ice in ice coved waters.

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Merit Consulting is a multinational consulting company providing ERP solutions to customers worldwide. The solutions are based on Infor M3. Infor is the third largest enterprise software provider in the world with more than 70 000 customers. In Europe, Merit is the main Infor partner on Infor M3. Today Merit is serving more than 30 000 users on the latest technology platform, recognized for among the ERP industry’s most modern and user-friendly solution.

VALUE CHAIN fOCUS”Essential for our kind of business, is a thorough understanding of the customer value creation process. We cater to businesses that have demanding logistics and service-intensive operations, and they are often vertical leaders and/or multinational”, Outzen says.

”To be operational 24/7, our customers need solutions that both enforce them to work proactively and ensure ongoing operations. As one of few on a European basis, Merit is positioned as a provider that can accommodate this customer group needs”.

Bottom line, the Merit Consulting business is all about making customers more competitive.

COmPLEx BUSINESSES mADE SImPLE“Our business idea is simple. We make businesses more efficient by offering business consulting and software that makes complex business processes simple for the end-user. By having the right knowledge and intelligent systems work for you, there is substantial value growth potential,” says Outzen.

Complex logistics, significant volumes and global presence are common characteristics of Merit customers. The consultancy company has opted out several businesses areas to focus on selected verticals, including manufacturing, distribution and retail, food and beverage, equipment and service management.

SERVICE, mAINTENANCE, RENTAL AND OIL&GASLargely, the customer businesses are within service, maintenance and rental and in the

Oil&Gas industy. The customer reference list include Aarbakke, K. Lund Offshore, GS Hydro, Swire Oilfield Services, Aker Well Service, Nymo, Stangeland Maskin, Nordic Crane Group and Coast Center Base (CCB). Since the dawn of history, thruster systems manufacturer Brunvoll has been trusting Merit as enterprise software provider.

In another industry, SAS is a customer demanding the same high standards for reliability as clients within the offshore and maritime sectors. This summer, SAS entered an outsourcing agreement with Merit. Now, Merit is running the SAS Infor M3 based aircraft maintenance systems. Concomitant with this, several SAS employees in Oslo and Stockholm were transferred to Merit as employer.

IN THE AIR”Being expensive assets, airplanes should preferable be in the air. To achieve this, careful ground based planning is required including detailed spare part overview and logistics,” Outzen points out.

”Also, this applies to the maritime and offshore sectors. Merit enable this through ERP systems and consultancy services”.

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Enabling OffShOrE and maritimE grOwthFor more than two decades, Merit Consulting’s resources has been providing enterprise software and consulting services to the offshore and maritime sectors. ”Our systems play a key role in mission critical operations both for our customers and their customers”, says managing director Erik Outzen.

Merit Consulting As:• 300 employees in 9 countries

• Revenue 2012 NOK 350 million

• Offers business solution Infor M3

• Offers software: Merit Application Suite

• Business consultancy expertise in the following fields: Manufacturing, distribution and retail, food and beverage, equipment and service management

SAS and Merit Consulting have entered into an outsourcing agreement, summer 2013.

For several years, thruster systems manufacturer Brunvoll has been trusting Merit as enterprise software provider.

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When a family in Germany or the UK sits down for a good dinner, the food could well have been prepared with the aid of Norwegian natural gas.

Norway is one of the world’s largest gas exporters, covering about 20 per cent of consumption in 27 EU countries. Since domestic production by these nations meets only about 30 per cent of their gas requirements, they depend on imports for heating, cooking, communications and industry.

A well-functioning transport system forms a key link in the value chain from production in rough seas to consumers in Europe. Gassco is the operator for the Norwegian gas transport system, which comprises offshore pipelines and platforms, process plants in Norway, and receiving terminals in four European countries.

Millions of Europeans depend on Norwegian gas for energy.

Gassco makes sure that it reaches them.

nOrwEgian gaS heats Europe

Read more about Gassco and its operations at www.gassco.no.


The Norwegian company offers a proven EGCS, better known as a scrubber, designed for the maritime industry. Typically, payback time of the investment is only one year.

By “scrubbing” the gas flow with caustic soda (NaOH) enriched seawater, the EGCS removes sulfur and harmful soot particles from vessel exhaust gas. Sulfur emissions to air may cause respiratory illnesses and acid rain. The alkaline water mix neutralizes acid and converts sulfur to harmless sulfate. Discharged to sea, the sulfate has no adverse environmental or health effect.

ImO CALLS fOR 0.1% SULfUR LImITThe International Maritime Organization (IMO) regulation calls for a 0.1% sulfur limit in Emission Control Areas (ECA) by 2015 and a worldwide limit of 0.5% by 2020/2025. The current ECAs include the coasts of North America, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.

Ship owners can comply with these new and much stricter rules by:1. Operating vessels on more expensive

distillate fuel with 0.1% sulfur content. 2. Converting to new fuel types (e.g. LNG).3. Continuing their heavy fuel oil (HFO) operations, which most

existing vessels are designed for. Install EGCS for 98% sulfur reduction.

HFO is widely available and much cheaper than distillates. With current price difference between the two fuel types, vessels trading inside an ECA will typically achieve payback time on EGCS investments of one year.

UNIqUE SYSTEm Since 2006, Clean Marine has invested more than 25 MUSD in EGCS development. Currently, the scrubber is the sole system on the market

with true multi-stream exhaust gas handling. One common EGC unit serves all on board exhaust sources included boilers. Without efficiency loss, the system is proven for operations in all waters and harbors globally. With good margin, the EGCS meets the current IMO pH limit for effluent water discharges.

A Clean Marine EGCS is operational and fully certified on the Torvald Klaveness owned bulk carrier MV Balder. In the U.S. ECA, the vessel was first ever to operate this kind of system.

STEEP ORDER GROwTHFor American Eagle Tankers (AET), Clean Marine is supplying EGCS for two shuttle tankers under construction at Samsung Heavy Industries. The tankers are on Statoil charter and will serve oilfields in the North/Barents Sea. One single Clean Marine EGCS unit will manage 10 exhaust sources (2 main engines, 5 auxiliary engines and 3 boilers).

At publication of this article, a major Greek ship owner is also signing up for a Clean Marine EGCS installation on Hyundai Heavy Industries built vessels.

Clean Marine offers ship owners and yards the equipment and support needed for EGCS installation on both ships in operation and under construction. The company expects steep order growth in the years to come.

Clean Marine is dedicated solely to emission cleaning

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This according to Torbjørn Rogde, Managing Director in Tristein, one of the leading Marine Operations providers in Norway. The company was founded in 2007 by partners having long and diverse experience from the shipping, petroleum and logistic industry. Since the beginning Tristein has taken significant market shares in Norway, and also operate in other parts of the world.

– Since we started our business we have seen the on-flow of new active operators on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, with strong E&P organizations. Many of these operators

have chosen not to invest in in-house marine operation competence, but rather find it more efficient to rely on Tristein’s wide competence in the marine field, says Rogde.

OUTSOURCING IS COST EffICIENT- Our aim is to provide our clients with easily managed interfaces. That is achieved by providing holistic services, based on tailor-made project tools and templates, resulting in a clearly visualised continuous improvement process. We believe this contributes to making our clients better, in addition to ensuring documented

compliance with both regulatory and industry rules and standards, says Operation Manager Einar Walderhaug.

– The alternative is to establish this competence in-house. That is both time consuming and expensive, and additionally the in-house competence is vulnerable to recruitment from competitors. Interface Management is Risk Management is Cost Management, Rogde summarizes. www.tristein.com

Rig Move on the NCS (Foto: Tristein)

tristein’s serviCes: • Marine Operations

• Renewable Energy

• Engineering & Survey

• Base Management & Logistic Services

• FPSO & Mooring Services

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– Our clients require access to the highest level of competence and experience within marine operations to ensure safe and cost-efficient services.

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Safe software – safe operationsMarine Cybernetics is an Independent Verification & Validation organization with headquarters in Trondheim, Norway. The company utilizes a simulator based test technology, known as Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) testing to the offshore and mari-time industry in cooperation with major industry partners. Modern vessels have advanced computer systems for dynamic positioning, power generation and distri-bution, lifting and towing operations. It is well known that software problems lead to delays as well as compromise safety. While the test and verification regime for structures and machinery systems is well established, most of the computer systems on today’s vessels are put into operation without sufficient independent testing and verification. HIL testing is a well proven test methodology from automotive, avionics,

space, power electronics, robotics, and nuclear industries, and is now also gaining recognition in the offshore industries. HIL testing facilitates systematic testing of control system design philosophy, functio-nality, performance, and failure handling capability, both in normal and off-design operating conditions. This is conducted in a virtual test-bed where there is no risk to man, vessel, or equipment. For a new-build, independent HIL testing will identify software errors before the vessel is put into operation, and will also shorten commis-sioning time. For a vessel in operation, HIL testing can be used to assess software up-grades before they are taken into use, and used in troubleshooting to eliminate known issues on the rig. Our main goal is to help assure our customer’s success in building, maintaining and operating their assets. We

achieve this by keeping an overarching focus on maximizing the Customer Value of our software testing services. At the core of customer value lies the Integrity and respon-sibility inherent in our third party role and a continuous focus on delivering the right quality in our products and services. The right quality is what our customer needs to be the leader in their industry. As we are a young, vibrant and dynamic company with an international background we have the tools to succeed!

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THIRD PARTY HIL TESTINGMarine Cybernetics contributes to safer and more profitable ships and offshore installations, through third party testing

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The chain required had a diameter of 133 mm, with massive links of 200 kgs each was not easy to locate and apparently SOTRA was the only company in the world with a stock of this chain that could mobilize within short notice. In total 1000 mtrs of chain was shipped in 40 containers with a weight of 400 tonnes in total to be used for the salvage of the giant cruise ship. The ship was successfully salvaged by TITAN Salvage during summer 2013.

This is not the largest chain supplied by SOTRA, says General Manager Jan Vindenes, as he point out that the company has recently supplied chain with diameter of 172 mm and weight of 450 kgs per link for the ALLSEAS newbuilding “Pieter Schelte”. The Ship with a length of 382 mtrs and width 124 mtr, is being built at DSME Shipyard in Busan, Korea. -It was our China branch that won that contract, based on the confident the shipowner has with deliveries from SOTRA. China production was not allowed without contribution from a well know supplier with a quality assurance program and 3rd party inspection, inform Mr Vindenes.

So SOTRA mainly focus on big size anchors and chains? – No, we also supply smaller sizes, comment the Sales Executive Nicolai Malmo. – We supply all sizes suitable for the smallest rowing boats until the largest the super tankers. Our customers are fishing boats, tankers, freight ships, tall ships, oil rigs, aqua farms, dry docks, small and large

yachts and shipyards, precise Mr Malmo. – A rough calculation tells us that we have 10,000 tonnes of anchors, chains,

shackles, swivels etc. in stock, and continues, – This is located at our yards in Norway, Netherlands, China and Scotland.

– It has not always been like this, comment Mr Vindenes. – It was my father Jarle Vindenes that established the company in 1980, as

a specialised of handling surplus equipment form oil industry in

Norway. He started with two bare hands and a big mortgage.

The first year he had a handful staff. The company has

grown and the SOTRA GROUP

own today mechanical workshops

and property in Norway. The

daughter company SOTRA ANCHOR

& CHAIN has expended

to become a world-

wide player within its industry.

Among our many deliveries, one of the

most special one was the supply of anchor for the

royal family in Norway. It was an old fashion stock anchor to be used as decoration at their summer house that was given to them as a gift on their 25 years wedding anniversary, from the Royal Norwegian Navy, inform Mr Vindenes.

– If airplanes had used anchors and chains, SOTRA would supply these also, continue Mr Vindenes…

SOTRA ANCHOR & CHAIN became famous overnight in March 2013 when it hit the news that the company had won the contract to supply chain for the salvage operation of M/V “Costa Concordia” at Isola del Giglio in Italy.

Jan Vindenes, General managerwww.sotra.net

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Norsafe develops, manufactures and supplies marine lifesaving systems for all types of ships and offshore installations, and has produced over 25 000 lifeboats since 1903. The Norsafe Group is fast expanding, counts 1100 employees worldwide and has its headquarters in Arendal, Norway. The company has a worldwide involvement that includes production, sales, delivery and service of lifesaving equipment for ships and to the offshore industry. Norsafe owns production and sales/service companies in Norway, China, Greece, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Australia, the USA, Japan, Brazil and the Netherlands. DNV-OS-E406 and NORSOK R-002 are regulations required for Norwegian waters from 2015. As the world leader, Norsafe already has a new range of compliant LSA products available for delivery.

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Active Business Solutions is a certified partner of Microsoft Dynamics NAV and has steadily increased its market share in the Nordic countries over the years. Our focus on quality has not gone unnoticed by the market.

Quality from start to finishBefore we begin a new job for our customers, it is most important that we do the necessary preparations and make sure that we understand our customers’ expectations. It’s important to us that our customers get exactly what they have been promised. This means that no changes are allowed to prices, delivery date, or quality after the deal is signed, says Jesper Messerschmidt, founder of Active Business Solutions.

- Dynamics NAV includes everything you need to run and develop a successful business, no matter how specialised your business is or where you are in the world, says Messerschmidt.

At the moment, Active Business Solutions is implementing the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics NAV: NAV 2013 with our customers. This version is the platform’s next generation and uses the latest technologies from Microsoft for cloud computing, web services etc., which makes our customers more capable of expanding their business with these new technologies.

The keyword is accessibility! Active Business Solutions has developed several modules for Microsoft Dynamics NAV to handle all the challenges our users face on the go. With access to the internet, users can maintain daily routines from all over the world through web interfaces – for example, time registration, project management, reporting and budget-ing, and invoice workflow handling.

Nordic Microsoft Dynamics NAV PartnerActive Business Solutions is a Norwegian-Danish company that provides project management, consulting, implementation and development services in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.

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Established in 2003Offices in Norway and DenmarkFully owned by employeesWide range of customers from all over the worldCertified partner of Microsoft Dynamics NAV

OffshoreActive Business Solutions supports several customers with the offshore businesses. The offshore division in the Norwegian AF Group, which works in HVAC for the marine and oil industry, is one example. These companies use Microsoft Dynamics NAV with several add-on solutions from Active Business Solutions: Active Workflow, Active Time & Attendance and Project Management. These solutions allow project managers to access real time project information, approve incoming invoices and allocate costs to projects.


”HR, Asset Management and Environmental accounting must comply with all laws, regulations and customer requirements. Also, profitability, efficient operations, safety and security must be in focus. All is handled by our systems,” says Svein Berntsen, CEO of the OCS Group.

BEST IN CLASS”In the OCS Group, best in class is about more than IT technology. Equally important is our knowledge of customer s’ businesses and needs”, adds Karl Johan Kirkebø, Market Director of OCS Group.

Within their fields for more than 30 years, OCS HR and OCS Asset Management have been meeting the demands of the maritime and offshore industries which are world renowned for strict customer´s requirements and governmental regulations. Now, the company is ready for growth on the global market.

“On initiative from the IMO, regulations similar to the Nordic regime apply to countries and areas like Africa, South East Asia, the Arabian Gulf, Brazil and the Gulf of Mexico. Our systems are ready for handling this,” Berntsen says.

PAYROLLS wITH 100 000 EmPLOYEESOCS HR is in daily use by 200 ship owners and offshore companies in almost 40 countries. Totally, more than 100 000 employees are on payrolls in OCS HR.

“Onshore HR systems cannot handle the complexity of the marine sector’s needs,” states Kirkebø. OCS HR match the strict requirements for the different positions given from regulatory bodies.OCS can help the

Maritime Hr, Asset Management and sustainability reporting

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“Increasing our customer’s compliance capability, i.e. their ability to meet all the regulatory requirements they face, is essential to our business,” says (from left) Siren Berge, Karl Johan Kirkebø, Svein Berntsen and Tor Arhaug.

OCS Group provides solutions within the business areas Human Resources (HR), Asset Management, and Environmental and CSR Performance. Based on its strong position within the maritime industry and supported by standardization of international regulations, the company is heading for global growth.

customers to be compliant in relation to the working agreement to the seafarers’.

INTEGRATES SEAmLESSLYOCS Asset Management integrates seamlessly with OCS HR.

“The solution is designed for all aspects of effective rig and ship management, including maintenance, purchasing, supply chain management, HSEQ and document management. That is, all you need for rig and ship operation,” says Tor Arhaug, CEO for OCS Asset Management.

20 YEARS Of SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING“Eventually, you need a specialized IT Solution to operationalize, measure and monitor your corporate social responsibility”, says Siren Berge, CEO of Emisoft.

“Our tool is helpful in achieving compliance with the leading standard output format Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and also CDP that is commonly used. We see a shift towards an increased interest in delivering high quality sustainability reporting

both on standard disclosure indicators and customers’ key performance indicators and internal targets. Since flexibility is a core advantage in our system, the combination and relation between external and internal commitments can be trusted in TEAMS SR”, Berge adds.

TEAMS SR is best practice and knowledge implemented in one single system as a result of more than 20 years of experience!

ENVIRONmENT AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITYTEAMS Sustainability Reporting system covers emissions to air, water, land, energy and water consumption, waste and chemical management in addition to social aspects within work environment, human rights, society and product responsibility.

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