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issue 3 / 2010 the Fmc customer support eastern region internal magazine

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MC teChnologies golF ChAllenge page 8

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FMC CS ER gives top training to newly hired engineers page 5

Trygve Arnesen comes on board at FMC as Director of Aftermarket Eastern Region page 6

ACtion MAn Technical Service Engineer Raymond Bertelsen relaxes at high speed page 11

as i interact with my colleagues around the region, i hear a common refrain: “i am so busy!” this represents a very good kind of busy. Yes, things are going well for Fmc customer support and the future is very bright. and it will stay that way as the company has won a number of new contracts.

as the workload increases, our recruitment for new employees also steps up pace. in fact, if you look at the milestones column on page 8, you will see that we have had 30 new hires in bergen alone in the last few months! one of these is the director of aftermarket in our region – trygve arnesen. You can learn more about his background and his plans for the company’s future on page 4.

Parallel with this growth, we are also expanding both our office space and workshop facilities here in bergen with the purchase of a new site, not far from our main location in Ågotnes. see page 3 for more details.

but let’s make sure that we all continue to set aside time to relax and recharge outside of work. supporting a healthy work/life balance is important to Fmc, so we highlight in each issue of work/over the variety of ways that our employees choose to spend their “time out”. read about raymond bertelsen’s “daredevil” escapades on page 11. Perhaps you want to try them yourself?!

Andreas Helgesen marketing and communication manager,

cs sales & business development

andreas.helgesen@fks.fmcti.com

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2 start subsea school retroFit choke best student

What do the subsea structures include?

Subsea structures are the hubs in the subsea infrastructure. The purpose of a manifold is to gather together all the wellstreams and send them in the right direction. To prevent the mani-fold from disappearing, a foundation system must be provided. Protection structures are a natural part of this.

What does the subsea structures course cover?

The subsea structures course has been developed to make the partici-pant aware of the various questions that must be answered before we can design a manifold system, including

foundations and protection structures. The purpose is not to give the right an-swers but to ask the right questions. We also discuss the meaning of life, or more precisely, why we do subsea. The his-tory of subsea structures within FMC is covered, together with an attempt to see what the future will bring into this area.

has FMC made any advances in the later years?

The knowledge of designing mani-folds and foundations has been utilized in development of the processing sta-tions FMC has built – first, the Tordis Station and, later, the Pazflor Stations. In the future, more and larger process-ing stations will be built, and they will all be based on the philosophies evolved from the design of production mani-folds. This has proved that the founda-tion technology we are using is not only suitable for production templates, but also may be used for any type of station located on the seabed. This could open up for new opportunities outside the traditional oil business. /

The choke, which has a good track record, was ordered on a

Gullfaks FCM because neither over-hauled chokes nor new chokes of the old type were available. As a result of the retrofitted choke, FMC was able to reduce the overhaul job’s lead time and thus could commit to an earlier deliv-ery date – a delivery date that was met.

Persons involved / The retrofit choke was designed and produced by the FMC Emerging Products & Tech-nology department in Houston, and the FMC CS Engineering department, in cooperation with Kongsberg product groups, did all interface engineering. Two employees in Bergen – Geir-Arne Nesse, Product Support Lead, and Stian Fjell, Discipline Specialist – were key personnel involved in pulling this off.

hoW it WAs done / All engineer-ing and scope definition work was done up front. This meant it was “plug and play” for the workshop organiza-tion when the choke arrived on site at Building 9, ready to be assembled into the flow control module and then for final testing. Sverre Undeland, Manag-er Overhaul and Re-certification, says,

“The workshop organization, which was working with a very tight sched-ule, did a tremendous job building the FCM. And, thanks to good planning, they completed it without any major problems.” PlAns For the Future / FMC has furthermore done a lot of work to iden-tify how to retrofit other flow control modules. It is a good measure for reduc-ing lead time, taking advantage of the company’s increased control of the sup-ply chain and, at the same time, provid-ing the customer with a good product. “The experience and lessons learned from this job will now be analysed so that we can act more quickly when our customers order the next job of this kind. We hope to get more jobs like this,” says Undeland. /

Established by NCE Subsea, SpareBank1 SR-Bank and the

Underwater Technology Foundation, it was awarded for the first time this September in Bergen at the Under-water Technology Conference. To qualify, the candidate must be ranked amongst the top 25 percent of the class. The winner is then selected by his or her peers as the student who they believe has contributed the most to the community and been a driving

force for professional development.“It is a great honour, and I thank my

classmates for voting for me,” says

Bakke. He adds, “Subsea is the future, and there is a need for many skilled workers in this industry. Everyone in my class got a job after finishing their studies.”

The underwater technology pro-gram’s first class of students gradu-ated with their bachelor’s degree in the spring of 2010. The three-year program provides an introduction to planning, operation and maintenance of under-water installations. /

Subsea school: subsea structures

A retrofit of the first FMC choke

New employee awarded “Best Student” honour

One of the nine sections of the FMC Customer Support’s Subsea School program focuses on subsea structures. Here is an overview of the main themes by instructor Trond Ståle Olsen.

FMC has done its first retrofit of a FMC choke into an existing flow control module (FCM), which was in for an overhaul at FMC Customer Support in Bergen.

Frank Robert Bakke, who began at FMC Customer Support in Bergen this August as a Project Engineer, has received the honour of being named the Best Student 2007 - 2010 in the bachelor’s degree program for underwater technology at Bergen University College.

3mile/stones aberdeen st. john’s

Approximately 60 employees participated in the event, which

was loaded with team building activi-ties. Teams were decided at the begin-ning of the day by the pulling of names out of a hat, with a base support team member leading each one. To add to the “clash of the clans” feeling, each team was christened with the name of its leader with the Scottish “Mc”, meaning “son of”, tacked on to the front of his or her name.

First up were the Highland Games, a variety of traditional Scottish Games such as hammer throwing and tossing the caber. After a barbeque, the com-petition continued with Teamopoly – a giant Monopoly board game adapted to team building. At the end of the day, points were tallied and first place went to the McBurns team, who were pre-sented with gold medals and a bottle of

champagne. Second place was awarded to the McHollicks and third place to the McTaylors. For those who could, the event continued on into the evening with a buffet at a local restaurant.

“Base Activities Day is a great way to

get to know colleagues who you don’t normally interact with thus providing a platform for a better understanding of other roles in the company,” says Human Resources Manager Shonagh McFadyen. /

Hurricane Igor travelled from the west coast of Africa, across

the Atlantic and then up the eastern seaboard. By the time it reached Ber-muda, it had thankfully weakened to a Category 1, staying at that strength as it passed the east coast of Newfoundland. Winds gusts in St. John’s reached 137 km/hour, with rainfall between 120-134 mm, causing severe damage such as fallen trees, flooding, road washouts and power outages.

To prepare for the storm, the local

base put the Emergency Response team on alert. As the base is located very close to a river, there were concerns of the river flooding its banks and then moving into the FMC buildings. Some personnel kept a watchful eye on the rising river waters; other personnel moved equipment to a safe location as a precaution, securing anything that could be tossed around by floodwater.

When the water levels finally did overflow the bank of the river, all non-essential personnel were asked to leave,

with some persons remaining to moni-tor equipment and facilities.

the dAy AFter / The storm moved past the island and started to lose its strength. FMC is glad to note that there were no damages to facilities or equip-ment. Several of the staff are dealing with power outages in their homes, however. But though it may be incon-venient to have no power, at least all staff and their families are safe. /

Team building in Aberdeen

Hurricane Igor in St. John’s

On Friday the 9th of July, the Aberdeen FMC CS base held its second annual Base Activities Day. Despite the lack of sunshine, the event was again another great success.

On Tuesday, September 21, Hurricane Igor arrived in St. John’s, creating havoc for both the city and FMC St. John’s.

New faces at FMC CS ER BergenTrygve Arnesendirector aftermarket

Simon Heldal Auneapprentice

Frank Robert BakkeProject engineer

Stiv V. BrundtlandProduct support engineer

Charlotte DagnesProject Planner

Lena Beate Engelsenapprentice

Jon Kristian GulbrandsenPersonnel coordinator

Aleksander Hauglandapprentice

Eirik Hauglandapprentice

Marius Jensenapprentice

Espen Johannesentrainee

Tonny-Andrè Wallin Johansenapprentice

Sandra Kraavikapprentice

Gry Elizabeth Larsenmaterials coordinator

Raymond Lian

Yakov MandelProject engineer

Tony Marøyma coordinator spare Parts

Charlotte Lyssand MollandProject engineer

Roy Erik Monsentrainee

Birgitte Munchsenior hr consultant

Richard Nordgårdapprentice

Kristoffer Osnesapprentice

Ulf Boje RasmussentsP manager angola

Ole Reidar Skaufelworkshop technician

Kristian Tindvik Slettentrainee

Morten SolbakkenProject Planner

Frank Andre SvendsenProject engineer

Geir AndreThomassenProduct support engineer

Julia Winklertransport, customs & excise coordinator

Ruth-Lidny Yksnøydiscipline engineer

Work anniversaries5 years

Virginia Cushnie (Aberdeen)

Norman Havgreen (Aberdeen)

Kenneth Murray (Aberdeen)

Robert Scott (Aberdeen)

Gary Smith (Aberdeen)

10 years

Vidar Haugs (Bergen)

Kim Christian Pedersen (Bergen)

Jarle Rabben (Bergen)

15 years

Kevin Clark (Bergen)

Per H. Nordgaard (Bergen)

Kim Rene Schutz (Bergen)

Roger Spilde (Bergen)

20 years

Raymond Girdwood (Aberdeen)

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4 russia Ågotnes exPands

The site, which was built up in three stages in 1974, 1984 and 1994, is located approximate-

ly one kilometre from the existing facility at Ågotnes. FMC are now completing the building of four work-shops distributed over 5,430 square meters, as well as 1,000 square meters of administrative offices. “The need for more space was imminent”, Senior Advisor Per H. Nordgård, who came into the process in May 2010, explains. “Since the bordering land could not be purchased, we were looking at many properties in the area when this one became available.”

Then Director Nils-Petter Sivertsen at FMC Custom-er Support Eastern Region managed the demanding and, at times, difficult negotiations that lead to the closure of the contract on the 30th of June 2010, thus paving the way for the planning and re-building of the facilities. The purchase itself was not particular-ly time consuming – rather it was the negotiation,

which took over a year to complete.Nordgård is responsible for the complex undertak-

ing of re-shaping the site that is now underway. It will be adapted to fit FMC production and management requirements, and the move to the site is planned to begin towards the end of the year. Workshop capac-

ity is expected to increase to 80 workers, while the offices will accommodate 27 people. “Personally, I’ll be working at this site until I retire in a couple of years. As I quite like the facility, it will be a nice way to conclude my time at FMC,” adds Nordgård. /

Discovered in 1992, the Kirinskoye Field is located 29 kilometres east off the Sakhalin

Island. It will be developed with six separate satel-lite wells, which then will be tied back to a central manifold. The gas is to be transported directly from the manifold to processing facilities 15 kilometres on-shore. And this is where FMC comes in to the picture.

“The plan is to have all infrastructure on the seabed as well as two XTs installed before the ice arrives in October,” Erik Vik, Business Manager for New Mar-kets, explains. This will allow for the first gas deliver-ies late next year. The four remaining wells will fol-low suit, scheduled for drilling in 2012 and 20123.

The project organisation will be based in Bergen, Norway, as will stack-up testing and SIT, with some resources run out of Sakhalin and Moscow. Moreover, FMC Malaysia will most likely also be involved in the supporting due to the nine-hour time difference be-tween Norway and Eastern Russia.

FMC Customer Support will be travelling to Sakha-lin to assess the existing onshore facilities and discuss the possibility of setting up a sub-sea base. Vik con-cludes, “As this is the first sub-sea project in Russia for FMC, our success is critical for our future business in the federation.” /

40,000 m2 expansion in Ågotnes

High stakes in Russia

When GE Energy decided to move their operations abroad a year ago, a huge area of nearly 40,000 square metres came up for grabs in Ågotnes. This was good news for FMC Customer Support as we were looking to expand operations.

FMC Technologies will for the first time be undertaking a subsea project in Russia and stakes are high as icy conditions make drilling possible for only four months per year.

• the site covers 37,415 square metres (of these, almost 6,500 square metres will be new offices and workshops).

• the workshops will be capable of performing maintenance of xt, Fcm, th/itc/tc.

• there will be a recertification workshop and a new workshop dealing with scm maintenance.

• the site will have significant storage capacity both outside and inside.

• the site is suitable for further expansions if needed.• main activity at the new location will be the maintenance

and recertification of Fmc customers’ subsea equipment.

• the sakhalin island is located in the sea of okhotsk.• the kirinskoye Field reserves account for 75.4 billion

cubic metres of gas and 8.6 million tons of gas condensate, making it bigger than the sleipner Field.

• the water depth is between 85 and 90 meters.• reservoir pressure is expected to be at 295 bars with

temperature at 108°c.• the ePc deliverables consist of 6 enhanced horizontal

subsea trees (ehxt), including rigid whs, 1 manifold, Plems, structures, controls and so on.

5training

Starting outon the right foot Last year, FMC Customer Support made the decision to stand out from the crowd by developing what could be called some of the best training in the business.

Whereas many companies leave their new employees on their own to learn by do-

ing, FMC CS has created a tailor-made four-week training course for newly hired engineers. The goal is to help them to be as productive as possible as quickly as possible by giving them insight into the function, structure and basic details of FMC prod-ucts and services. Having been in place for a year, it is now regularly offered as new employees join the company.

A better eMPloyee / Charlotte Mol-land, who recently completed the course says, “I believe this training makes me a better employee for FMC Technolo-gies in regards to both knowledge and confidence, allowing me to function in-dependently more quickly than would have been possible without it.”

With a mix of classroom and workshop training, the course is run in weekly seg-ments that cover education in wellhead, completion (HXT and VXT), interven-tion and control systems WAS and IWOCS. Apprentices act as the teachers, or mentors, extending employee devel-opment beyond the new hires. This role challenges the apprentice to take responsibility and to learn how to structure, select and convey their knowledge. Apprentice Frank Robert Telle says, “It is a great way to meet new faces at FMC and to learn a lot in the process.”

The mentor follows the new employee through-

out the day, going through all the equipment, ex-plaining its structure, form, tick and installation. The course’s detailed daily plan not only ensures the most significant areas are covered, but also acts as a guide for the teacher and guarantees that all get an equal education regardless of the supervisor in charge.

Recent participant Frank André Svendsen was impressed with how the apprentices managed their role, saying, “They should be praised for the manner in which they deliver their presentations and the patience they display with the so-called new beginner questions, which are answered in

such an easy to understand way.”

the exAM / The training concludes with an assess-ment for each completed discipline. Each candidate delivers a one-two hour presentation with an ex-pert group as the audience. The presentation must include all equipment – how each piece is tested,

used or installed. The presentation also includes any scenarios about things not being done according to procedure.

Throughout, the experts challenge the candidate by asking questions that force reflection. The experience becomes thus more or less a two-way dialogue between the candidate and the expert group, turning the exam into a learning arena and not simply a presentation.

greAt FeedbACk / Participant evalu-ations have been positive, showing that the students view the programme as quite valuable. Eight engineers newly graduated from Bergen University Col-lege just finished the course at the end of this August. Frank André Svendsen is one of them, and he sums up the ex-perience by saying, “FMC has managed

to maintain its reputation as one of the country’s leading companies in training. Every new employ-ee should go through this type of course.”

The next step will be to evaluate the course and its long-term impact, for example after three-six months on the job. /

6 trygve arnesen

Arnesen is very pleased with the reception he has received at the company. He says, “I feel

that the people here want me to succeed. That is a great feeling as a manager and a very good platform for me to start my work here.”

Based out of Bergen, Arnesen is responsible for Cus-tomer Support, Well Intervention Services (formerly FPS FMC Production Services), Flow Management and Condition Performance Monitoring. The four departments that work with Aftermarket are now collected under one umbrella, enabling FMC to bet-ter focus on related business opportunities. “There is great potential for growth in this area,” he explains.

“I feel that the people here want me to succeed. That is a great feeling as a manager.”

goAls And ChAllenges / Pursuing these oppor-tunities while maintaining the same level of quality and customer focus is what Arnesen considers the biggest challenge in his new role. “We want to con-tinue the very good trend from the past years, keep-ing the motivation and the inspiration together with the focus on HSE, quality and cost efficiency. We also need to make sure that we have the right personnel to develop new business areas,” he says.

Arnesen welcomes the travel necessary to do this position, hoping to have met all the Customer Sup-port staff during the next couple of months. Prioritis-ing getting to know an organisation and its people

fits well with his open, team player leadership style. “I normally make decisions after a thorough process of surveying the management team.”A history With FMC / His first interaction with FMC was many years before his first day on the job with the company. When he was Managing Director at Prosafe in Aberdeen, Scotland in 2002, FMC and Prosafe carried out the first riserless well interven-tion ever performed in Norway, done for Statoil uti-lising the semi-submersible vessel MSV Regalia. This led to meeting FMC staff such as Hans Jørgen Lind-land and Tore Halvorsen, among others. During the process, Arnesen was impressed by the innovative technology development within FMC. But his posi-tive impression of the company had an even earlier

beginning because, as he explains, “I of course knew of the company, thanks to FMC’s excellent reputation and strong brand.”

Arnesen, who left the position of CEO at the off-shore wind energy company NorWind to join FMC’s team, has solid industry experience behind him. Roughly nine of those years were spent working up the ranks of offshore drilling positions primarily at Transocean – the practical and demanding nature of the work simply appealed to him. “In addition to the weather challenges, working offshore involves daily interaction with the client and working on cross-company teams – all during a concentrated period of

the two weeks that you are living together as well as working together.”

This background gives him a special understanding for the work environment of the offshore employ-ees – almost half of the FMC customer support staff. “They are on the front line, meeting client demands and expectations everyday, so it is so important that we support them,” says Arnesen.

sAFety CoMes First / Prioritising safety is para-mount for Arnesen. “I do not accept any safety com-promises,” he says. He continues, “All employees, no matter where they are, should simply stop the work if they feel unsafe. I really back them up.” Arnesen has twice experienced the tragic loss of a colleague. “Standing in the church next to the grieving families was heartbreaking. As a manager, I felt guilty and responsible.” These incidents changed his attitude about safety in a way that has also seeped over into his personal life – he is the first one to put on goggles or a helmet.

Moving ForWArd / Simultaneous with his start at the company has been the establishment of After-market, which represents a significant growth oppor-tunity for FMC. Management will concentrate on the expansion of current activities, the development of new services based on our hardware and better pack-aging of our products, systems and services.

“Whatever we do, we need to keep focused on de-livering the quality and efficiency that our clients ex-pect – the client is paying our salary,” says Arnesen. /

FMC welcomesTrygveArnesenThis August, Trygve Arnesen joined FMC in the newly created position of Director of Aftermarket, Eastern Region.

Trygve Arnesen trivia• grew up in the tiny community of uskedalen, norway,

south of the hardanger fjord. • holds a masters of science in Petroleum technology from

the norwegian university of science and technology. • began his career in 1981 at bP Petroleum. he was a

drilling engineer for six months before giving into the lure of the offshore life.

• has worked offshore on ekofisk, treasure swan, treasure hunter, heimdal, gullfaks a&b, troll and more.

• has been ceo or President of norwind as, ocean rig asa, Prosafe offshore ltd and Prosafe drilling services as.

According to Stephen Smith, FMC CS Opera-tions Manager for Special Projects, the six op-

erational improvements listed below “reduce risk, rig time and unnecessary testing offshore.”

1) Well CleAn-uP / Shell was looking to get a light-er fluid in the tubing that can be accepted by the pipe-line flow assurance and process engineering with the least impact on the existing completion design.

The drivers for change from Shell’s side were: • Minimising pipeline depressurisation• De-risking the well delivery schedule • No usage of lower riser packages (LRP)/emer-

gency disconnect packages (EDP)• A rig time reduction of 10 days for each well

“Shell presented this to FMC in November 2009, and wanted it delivered by May 2010. Therefore, we put a fast-track project together at Kongsberg in or-der to be able to deliver,” Smith says.

FMC’s output included the following: • Two SLS systems with full-bore access• Two slick joints, X-over and extension joints• 2,000 metres of 8 5/8” casing with Hydril 563

connection• A casing riser handling study• Global riser analyses• Casing riser qualificationIn order to deliver the solution in that short time-

frame, weekly face-to-face meetings were held in Kongsberg with Shell to close the design and solve any issues regarding the interface.

2) tubing hAnger instAllAtion / Due to a wa-ter depth of 850 metres and a strong current, Ormen Lange operations have experienced some challenges with the use of the XT umbilical and umbilical discon-nect frame. “The umbilical has experienced some wear and tear, and also risks further damage,” Smith says.

Together with Shell, FMC CS managed to find a so-lution for installing the tubing without the usage of a workover control system and XT umbilical. The solu-tion consisted of:

• Two remotely operable vehicle (ROV) operable panels with remote control unit and hydraulic jumpers

• Two multi-quick adapters with hot stab receptacle

3) tree on Wire (toW) iMProveMents / After the successful TOW project in 2009, Shell wanted to im-prove the installation method, and asked FMC for a so-lution that could run enhanced horizontal subsea trees through a moonpool with the use of a cursor frame.

FMC has now modified a subsea tree running tool with bolted-on bumpers that can be utilised for tree on wire work, and made a Brayco SV/B subsea hydraulic power unit for mounting underneath any work ROV.

“These modifications will expand the weather win-dow for operations, thereby reducing waiting time. The usage of the cursor system also opens up for pulling the horizontal subsea tree, which wasn’t an option with the last system. The savings in rig time due to these chang-es should be seven days per well,” Smith says.

4) iMProved ProCedures And Fluid knoWledge / Major improvements and combin-ing individual equipment testing to stack-ups have reduced overall offshore testing.

FMC also recently held a major course together

with CS TSPs, operation personnel, Shell, and suppli-ers Castrol, Pall and FMC Engineering Kongsberg to improve flushing and drying methods.

“These modifications will expand the weather window for operations.”

5) onshore/oFFshore CreWs / Crew continuity has been highlighted by Shell as an advantage, as it leads to less downtime and safer operations.

“During drilling campaigns the TSP personnel (com-pletions crew) have been in Kristiansund together with workshop technicians testing and preparing equipment for upcoming operations, which helps achieve experi-ence sharing. The combination of crew on the vessel, on

the rig, and at Aukra has helped ensure good communi-cations and all-around knowledge,” Smith says.

6) Pre-stACkuP onshore / Shell is always look-ing for improvements that can both reduce rig time and cut HSE exposure. Now they can sail into Kris-tiansund and lift onboard LRP/EDP assy and surface flow tree/swivel/slick joint assy that have been tested and are ready to be deployed when arriving offshore.

“By doing this, Shell saves offshore handling/stack-ing of heavy equipment and pressure testing. This is an HMS advantage that is not dependant on weather, and reduces risk significantly,” concludes Smith. /

7ormen lange

Tomorrow is always a better day FMC CS’ continued improvements on the Ormen Lange project in the Norwegian Sea – Europe’s deepest subsea development – provide Shell with more effective and safe operations for every day that passes.

8 Fmc golF tournament

Golfand

good luckon Friday the13th

The seventh annual FMC Technolgies Team Golf Challenge, which is the largest customer event hosted by FMC Customer Support Aberdeen, was by all accounts a big success despite taking place in August on a day that superstition holds as synonymous with bad luck – Friday the 13th.

in norway…. to be allowed on a norwegian golf

course, you must have a golf card, proving that you

have the necessary skills. this card is issued by a golf club,

and some lessons are required. Fmc’s golf group subsidises

the cost of this course for employees. our golf group in bergen

has two green fee tags, which allow employees free play at sotra

golfklubb, where we also cover the cost of one weekly training

session during the season with a golf pro. in addition, Fmc

participates with one team at the Fmc cup, an indoor winter

tournament at sotra golfklubb. in scotland…. employees in aberdeen have access

to a corporate golf membership at newmachar golf

club. the membership allows four players to

play on either the hawkshill or swailend course at any time.

Getting up to par

9Fmc golF tournament

Indeed there was ominous heavy rain and thunder in the preceding days, causing organ-

isers to remember the hailstorm that challenged the previous year’s event. But the 70 customers and employees who gathered on the Hawkshill Course at Newmachar Golf Club near Ab-erdeen were rewarded with the best golf event FMC CS has hosted to date.

Barry Davidson, Commercial Spe-cialist at FMC CS Aberdeen, had overall responsibility for the event. He explains, “The event has grown each year in every way possible — the number of participants, the quality of the organisation and promotional prod-ucts and more.

Scotland, the country where golf originated, is an excellent location to play the game, and the Hawk-shill course, designed by the internationally renowned Dave Thomas, is regarded as one of the toughest golf courses in the area. “Our event offers a fantastic op-portunity to play a great golf course!” says Davidson.

the PlAy-by-PlAy / Twenty-two teams competed using the Texas Scramble format, which caters for golfers of all abilities and ensures ‘prompt play’ when a large number of players are involved. Scoring was for the most part of a particularly high standard with only two shots separating the top ten placed teams. With four teams locked at ten under par, a recount over the back nine holes was necessary to identify the eventual 2010 winners – Chevron II, a team composed of Gordon Watt, Ian Watt and Ainslie Thomson.

Individual prize winners for nearest the pin on the sixth and ninth hole were Graeme Ferguson (TOTAL

E&P) and Ian Maxwell (FMC) respectively, with TO-TAL E&P’s David Middleton taking the prize for long-est drive at the twelfth. After the event we had dinner,

a prize ceremony and drinks.All of the major operators were rep-

resented at the event – BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Shell, Total E&P

and more. From FMC, various areas of the company partici-pated, such as Customer Sup-port, Surface MFT, Fluid Con-trol, UK Sales and Marketing

and FMC Production Services.It’s not just a game: A helping

hand for charityWhile the event provides an ideal

platform to network with clients, it also serves to raise money for local charity. The event was structured so that the players made a donation to charity in exchange for a chance to win a top-of-the-range putter. This amount was then matched by FMC.

A total of £2,500 will be donated from the event to the ARCHIE Foundation – the official charity of The Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital which provides new medical equipment, toys, specialist training for staff and support for families during their children’s stay in hospital.

“Having personally visited the charity last year for a guided tour of the hospital, it is extremely humbling to see the good work being done,” says Davidson.

PlAnning For 2011 underWAy / With the event’s success and the popularity of golf as a business-net-working tool, it is no surprise that plans are already underway for the 2011 FMC Technolgies Team Golf

Challenge. And continuing with the strive for im-proving year after year, the 2011 event will give play-ers the opportunity to win a car for recording a hole in one at the FMC-sponsored ninth hole. “Our golf event presents a less formal environment in which to discuss business and the chance to meet with both cli-ents and business colleagues alike in a social environ-ment. We look forward to welcoming both in 2011,” declares Davidson. /

The Prizes team prizes• First place: a voucher to be spent in the newmachar Professional golf store, a presentation hip flask (for holding drink such as spirits) and a trophy, which is a replica of the claret jug awarded at the british open and is engraved with the winners details and retained by Fmc.

• last place: a voucher entitling each team member to an individual lesson with a golf professional (this perhaps will allow them to improve for next years event!)

individual prizes • longest drive on the twelfth hole: a titleist vokey wedge

• nearest the pin on the ninth hole: a titleist vokey wedge

• nearest the pin on the sixth hole, the “charity hole”: a taylormade rossa putter

travel / log

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1. We invited jazz performers from Norway to play with local talent. This photo is taken at one of the orphanages we visited. The Norwegian musicians played first and after awhile the children took over the show, contributing a vocalist and an entire orphanage as a dance group.

2. In advance of the trip, employees in Bergen collected a variety of children’s clothes that we brought with us to Angola and then distributed to children at this orphanage.

6. One of the many concerts was this one held at the church of one of the local band members.

4. After one of the concerts, we were invited to join a

local music group’s rehearsal. It was a perfect match, with all

hitting it off and this group became a back-up band for a

concert held later that evening.

5. A great concert was

held at the Norwegian Embassy in Angola.

3. This is from a concert we had in a park just outside one of the schools in Luanda. As always on this trip, the audience did not stay still and it developed into a big dance show. After the concert, the band spent a full two hours signing autographs.

For many years, FMC Technologies in Angola has supported the festivities and concerts that make up the Luanda Jazz festival, hosting a number of events for customers and employees. Andreas Helgesen, Marketing and Communication Manager with FMC Customer Support in Bergen, was involved with the organisation of this fantastic event. Here’s a look at his experience…

Jazzing it up in Angola

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the first time / I have always liked sports. About 15 years ago I started freestyle ski-

ing and biking downhill. And then, roughly 3.5 years ago I took up ice climbing as well – to get to the best free skiing areas, you have to be able to repel down to the base to begin skiing. Before-hand, I mostly did mogul skiing, where the ter-rain is characterised by a large number of differ-ent bumps, or moguls.

What is your motivation? / The number one reason is that I feel free and forget about all the stress of daily life when I am out in nature “play-ing”. As a bonus I get fit as well. It is also social for me because I meet people who have similar interests, attitudes and hobbies.

I feel free and forget about all the stress of daily life when I am out in nature “playing”.

Are you competitive? / I am most interested in competing with myself – I am always trying to beat my best time. But, I do participate in one or two competitions a year and find it useful to measure my skills with others.

From 1996-2004, I was on the Norwegian na-tional freestyle skiing team but eventually had to quit because of my knees. For my first European cup competition, it was a great experience com-peting against the stars I had previously only seen in magazines and movies. That they looked at me as their competition was a great feeling.

how often do you “play”? / As often as I can! Sometimes that means every day for three weeks and then not at all for another three weeks. When I am getting ready for a season, it takes about two hours of training per day for the specific sport. But my time after work is

even more limited these days as I am also study-ing for my MBA.

do you need a lot of gear? / I became inter-ested in these sports after seeing others doing it and all the gear they require was part of the attraction! It looked so cool! I must confess that I love collecting all of these gadgets. Just for ski-ing, I need a pair of skis for powder, one for ice skiing, one for moguls/bumps, one for the slopes and another with a loose heel to hike on top of mountains that don’t have ski lifts. Now think that I also have just as much gear for all of the other sports I do!

do you have a favourite season or location? / I love the winter because freestyle skiing is the activity I like the most. I manage to find good lo-cations in Norway for all of my sports. For exam-ple, I climbed up Starefossen outside of Bergen when the waterfall froze this past winter. Other-wise, I try to organize at least one trip out of the country a year – La Grave ski resort in France is one location I have been to many times.

how does your family feel about your ad-venture activities? What about safety? / Of course my mother is always worried. But I have done this for so many years now that she has given up! I am always careful to have the right protective gear, and if I am not 100 % sure about a situation, I stop. A few years ago, I was caught in two avalanches in one week. Thankfully, I was fine both times, but I was so shocked that I did not ski for the rest of the day.

it is all about fun / I play so many different sports that whenever one gets boring to me, I just switch to the other. My way of living is to have as much fun as I can, which means the people around me have fun too. /

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Raymond Bertelsen, a Technical Service Engineer for Control Systems at FMC CS in Bergen, insists that his favorite sports should not be defined as extreme. Even though they may look very adventurous to others, he prioritises safety and carefully calculates the risk involved. His top three activities are freestyle skiing, downhill biking and ice climbing, but he also likes windsurfing, kayaking and biking on asphalt.

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12 who i am when in...

Fmc’s subsea base in canada is based in st. john’s. the capital city of the province newfoundland and labrador, st. john’s is located on the northeast coast of the avalon Peninsula and is the most easterly – and oldest – city in north america.

ECONOMY the economy in newfound-land is booming from oil and gas activity. For the most part, the province has been unaffected by the global economic reces-sion that has taken place since 2008.

WEATHER Pack your umbrella and rainproof clothes! of all of the major cities of canada, st. john’s is the cloudiest (only 1,497 hours of sunshine a year), foggiest (124 days a year), windiest (24.3 km/h average), snowiest (359 cm) and wettest (1,514 mm). but what else could you expect from a location so far out into the atlantic ocean?

NATURE… AND THE NATURE OF THE PEOPLE newfoundland’s nature is similar to norway and scotland, with a va-riety of natural beauty enjoyed by visitors from all over the globe. the area is in fact home to two unesco world heritage sites – gros morne national Park and l’anse aux meadows national historic site. and, according to st. john’s base manager gerry mayo, newfoundlanders are also known as some of the friendliest and most hospitable people in the world…

ACCOMMODATIONS & NIGHTLIFE there are a number of good restaurants and hotels in st. john’s, and the city also has a burgeoning nightlife scene that has been enjoyed by many Fmc employees who have passed through in recent years. mayo says that he and his employees’ favourite hotel and restaurant is blue on water – a small boutique hotel that most of their fellow Fmc colleagues use when they are staying in st. john’s.

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when in...St. John’s

What i do / I started at FMC in 2005 as an apprentice in the

workshop at Ågotnes and was trained in the different disciplines – comple-tion, intervention and wellhead. After two years, I had my exam and got a trading certificate in subsea installa-tions. Since then, I have been working offshore as a service engineer for the intervention department.the best thing about my job / It must be the travelling. You never know where you are going the next time. I re-ally enjoy the challenge of it. New plac-es, people and equipment mean that I never get bored. And I am always going home with a lot of new experiences, im-pressions and friendships.My greatest professional and per-sonal achievement / I would say what I am working on right now, the Pazflor project. I have been in Horten since April, testing the separator system and all the tooling. From September I will be in Angola as a part of the crew in-stalling what we have tested in Horten.

My biggest inspiration / I have re-ally good coworkers. Clever guys who take their job seriously. I have a lot of respect for them. They always try to keep a positive team spirit, which is in-fluenced by our boss. We know we can always rely on her. So that is a big inspi-ration – to do a good job, and make her busy day easier. My earliest memory / My earliest memory must be from when I was between the age of two and three. We lived in a flat at that time. And the girl next door had two huge stuffed ani-

mals shaped like dogs. I can remember they were much taller than me. I was always so frustrated over the fact that I could not lift them up. And of course we moved away before I grew big enough to be able to lift them.

the worst job i’ve ever had/done / I had a summer job at an ice cream factory when I was 16. It sounds like every girl’s dream, but it was not. It was so hot inside of the factory! And there must have been too many other employees on holiday the weeks that I worked there because we were not re-ally enough people to cover the convey-or belts. It felt like they were running way too fast for my tiny hands to stack popsicles in to boxes. But I still love ice cream.My most embarrassing moment / After all these years in situations where I am often the only female, I can’t let myself get embarrassed anymore. My most cherished possession / My dog Frøya – a 6-year-old beagle. I can’t let her loose unless I want to spend a few hours waiting for her to get back from a trip, sniffing out all the cats in the neighbourhood. I also have to hide all the food in the house as high up as possible. She will do anything for food. But besides that, she is the cutest dog in the world. And yes, I’m biased. She is always just as happy every time I come home from an offshore trip. Regardless of how long I have been away. And in spite of her tiny legs, she can go hiking in the mountains for hours and hours.My favourite book / Because of all my travelling, I read a lot. So I have a lot of

books that I like. My two favourites at the moment are Jo Nesbø’s Panserhjerte (The Leopard) and Henning Mankell’s Kineseren (The Man from Beijing). They are both exciting all the way through and have a brilliant plot!My favourite film / I’m a big fan of the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino. So I can watch any of their movies when I am delayed by weather offshore. But the movie I have seen the most often is Apocalypse Now. It is a long movie, but I never get tired of it.My favourite musicians / I like a lot of different kinds of music: Band of Horses, Maria Mena, Thomas Dyb-dahl, Audrey Horne, Veronica Maggio, System of A Down, Tool, Led Zeppelin, Frank Sinatra and Kråkesølv. how i like to relax / I have always loved to go to the beach and lie in the sun for hours, often with a good book! But I recently discovered that surfing is also a nice way to relax. And when I am exhausted afterwards, it is just divine to have a nap or read on the sofa. As long as I don’t have any work waiting for me, the tiredness feels good.

the person i would most like to have dinner with is… / Author Henning Mankell. He has done some travelling around Africa and must have good sto-ries to tell. And he also has a lot of inter-esting political views. /

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