
Baku, Azerbaijan, March 22. OES Asset Integrity
Management with head office in the United Arab Emirates, eyes
cooperation with more drilling contractors in Azerbaijan, Director
of Business Development (Asset Integrity) at OES Asset Integrity
Management Glen Ashwell told Trend.
“We currently have an active contract with bp for doing surveys
and inspection work for them and a master service agreement (MSA).
We’ve worked in this region before. We’d like to work with more of
the drilling contractors, Azerbaijan’s state oil company (SOCAR),
Umid Babek Operating Company (UBOC) and any other drilling
contractors that are operating in the region,” he said.
Ashwell pointed out that his company wants to collaborate and
work with the drilling contractors and the operators here to expand
into this region.
“We’re looking to have more personnel on the ground in Baku and
work in the Caspian. We’ve worked in the Caspian in different
regions, in Iran, in Turkmenistan with Dragon Oil and some other
contractors,” he recalled.
OES are a global leader in inspection, rectification, and asset
support solutions for the Oil & Gas and wider energy industry. It
provides a suite of specialist services that span the life cycle of
a range of rigs, assets and facilities, from the planning and
construction stage, reactivation and through all phases of
operation and maintenance, right until decommissioning of the
asset.