Bjørge is an onshore and offshore
oil and
gas and
Marine software engineering and maintenance company. The company is based in
Tananger
Tananger is a large village and urban area in Sola municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The urban area is located on the west side of the Stavanger Peninsula between the North Sea and the Hafrsfjorden. It lies about southwest of the city ...
outside
Stavanger
Stavanger (, , American English, US usually , ) is a city and municipalities of Norway, municipality in Norway. It is the fourth largest city and third largest metropolitan area in Norway (through conurbation with neighboring Sandnes) and the a ...
,
Norway.
History
The company was founded in 1977 as a
joint venture between
Bjørge Enterprise and
ETPM (now part of
Acergy
Acergy S.A. was an international offshore seabed to surface engineering and construction company previously known as Stolt Offshore and Stolt Comex Seaway and was part of the Stolt-Nielsen Group until 2005. The company was registered in Luxembou ...
) to perform offshore maintenance services. In 1995 it was bought by
Strand Enterprises, but listed on the
Oslo Stock Exchange
Oslo Stock Exchange ( no, Oslo Børs) (OSE: OSLO) is a stock exchange within the Nordic countries and offers Norway’s only regulated markets for securities trading today. The stock exchange offers a full product range including equities, deriv ...
in 1997. In 1998 the company bought Norcoat Services from
Halliburton and Steinco in 2000. The same year Bjørge merged with
Solberg & Andersen. 2001 saw the purchase of Scana Moland from
Scana in 2004
Eptec was bought. The same year Bjørge chose to leave the MMO business that was heavily dominated by
Aker Kværner
Aker may refer to:
Places
* Aker, Norway, a geographic area in Oslo and a former municipality in Norway
* Vestre Aker, a district of Oslo within former Aker municipality
* Nordre Aker, a district of Oslo within former Aker municipality
* Aker Br ...
and
Vetco Aibel.
On 20 September 2010 the company announced a plan to spin off its process, fire and safety solutions division into a new company.
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References
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Engineering companies of Norway
Companies based in Rogaland