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Why Choose Emotio

Choosing an agency is never an easy choice, what if

they don’t deliver on time? What if you don’t like the

design? What if the website doesn’t work? What if…

What if… As Jim Morrison once said, there are things

known and things unknown and in between are the

doors. We are simply asking you to open a door and

find out what we can do for you.

After 25 years running an agency, we’re sure Damon

has the answer to most if not all of your questions.

So why use Emotio?

Emotio are in a unique position with interests in both

a technology and design/marketing business. This

means that not only can our highly qualified designers

create your marketing collateral, whilst our marketing

experts make sure your design performs, but we have

an enterprise level development team and hosting

company to look after your websites or apps.

You get the best of both worlds.

Emotio’s team have been designing and building brands

since 1989, our digital and print skills have been honed

over 2 decades with hundreds of successful campaigns

and websites behind us and many more in our future.

We use strict, transparent project management tools

and processes’, communicating regularly with clients

so everyone is kept in the picture.

This makes sure projects get delivered on time and on

budget.

We have worked across almost every sector, some

for more than a decade, such as Hospitality, Retail,

Finance, Professional Services, Oil & Gas, Property &

Construction and Manufacturing.

They say people buy people, I guess that is the only

way you’ll know if we are right for you, so pick up the

phone or send us a message.

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ASCO is the leading provider of integrated

offshore support and logistics services to the

oil and gas industry. The company, which has

operations in the UK, Norway, Holland, the US,

Canada, Australia, India, the Caspian, Oman,

Singapore and Trinidad, prides itself on tirelessly

working to provide the best possible customer

service levels. This aim, combined with the

highest standards of quality, safety and efficiency,

underpins all of ASCO’s extensive services.

“As a sales and services company, customer

service has to be at the forefront of everything

we do,” confirms Andrew MacDonald, CEO

of ASCO Europe. “Not only do we constantly

examine the way in which we can improve our

services but we continuously look to ways in

which we can make it safer, more reliable, more

efficient and effective in order to reduce the risk

that customers import into their operations by

doing business with us.

“We play a role that is often ‘mission critical’,

it may be low profile, but we provide services

that are essential to our clients, so from the start

this approach has been key to our success and

the way that we have evolved as a business. So,

we’ve built upon a reasonably simple business

model of adding value to our customer services

by providing clients with the benefits of our

fully integrated offering. We can leverage those

services by focusing on extremely high levels of

client service and the management of safety in

the workplace.”

This attitude has been crucial to ASCO’s

success and instrumental in building the

company’s excellent reputation in the industry,

which is respected by clients worldwide. “We

have worked hard to build lasting relationships,”

asset

Andrew says. “In fact, in some respects it is

easier to name who we don’t work with than

who we do, but our customer base covers all

of the key operators in the market, as well as

a large majority of the tier one contractors. As

a service company, however, we feel that it is

important to always look to ways of improving

our services, and this is something that we have

really worked on recently.

“Over the last 12 months for example, we

have really ramped up our whole attitude

to customer service even further. For a long

time we have built our business on the solid

principle of delivery of value for our customers

- if it doesn’t deliver value to our clients then

we don’t want to think about it. So, this year

we have enhanced our customer service

team quite considerably by investing in and

recruiting managers that have specific skills in

certain areas of customer service development.

We’ve implemented ‘client advisory boards’

where we listen to our customers in terms of

gathering feedback, and we have also launched

our Knowledge Zone, which establishes

and identifies best practices, processes and

procedures all built into a commercially

attractive model. All of this enables our clients

to get the advantages of ASCO’s experience and

shared learning over the years.”

ASCO’s experience, skill and knowledge

extends across its service portfolio, enabling the

business to provide a fully integrated range of

logistics services both on-and offshore. “In terms

of our European capabilities we have a fairly

comprehensive network of bases that we provide

our services from,” Andrew comments. “We

operate from a number of locations stretching

from the Shetlands, down past Peterhead and

Aberdeen in Scotland and Great Yarmouth, and

these are our key onshore supply bases.

“On the continent, we have a base in Ijmuiden

in the Netherlands, from which we principally

support drill units with their waste activities

in the Dutch sector, and we also have a strong

presence in the Norwegian market supporting

oil and gas operations on the Norwegian

Continental Shelf (NCS). This stretches from

the South right up to the North of the country,

where we are well positioned to capitalise on the

future developments in the Arctic regions.”

The business is also involved in waste

management, which it provides through

Enviroco, its specialist environmental services

business. “Most recently Enviroco has brought

an award winning tank cleaning system to the

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specific client, Amarinth’s solutions fall into a

number of categories: process pumps, seal support

systems, packages and modules, and spares and

service. Its process pumps have a number of

applications, such as oil and gas, chemical and

industrial process, but for the former market the

company offers its API 610 process pumps in

OH2 Horizontal and VS4 Vertical series. Now

in its eleventh edition, the API 610 standard,

which is the specification for centrifugal pumps,

is specifically designed and developed to provide

technical standards for the pumps supplied in oil

and gas related markets such as production, power

plants and refinery operations.

Illustrating the innovative and high quality

approach of Amarinth, its API 610 pumps have

been designed to the latest standards using up to

date software as a heavy duty, minimal wear, long-

life pump that, due to its modular design, provides

clients with a number of options to ensure it meets

the most demanding operational requirements.

This particular Amarinth product is widely

used across the oil and gas industry by many

of the leading companies. In 2008 for example,

Amarinth delivered an API 610 pumping

solution for a major FPSO project by Aker

Floating Production. Aker had a number of

specific requirements for this particular project,

which due to its short lead-time and lack of

final specifications for the pump, required a

flexible and responsive supplier able to provide

high quality pumping solutions at short notice.

Throughout the project the specifications of

the pump changed rapidly yet Amarinth was

able to apply its experience and knowledge to

successfully navigate the process, meeting the

short deadline and providing solutions that met

specified performance and DNV witness tests.

More recently Amarinth was involved in a

three-way consultation project to develop a small

footprint pump and seal support system for the

Amarinth, a leading manufacturer of

pumps for general industrial, chemical and

petrochemical applications, was formed to

utilise the skills, creativity and passion of people

who have worked in the pump industry for

many years. The business, which provides

clients with made-to-order, customised

solutions, can boast more than 300 years’

combined experience among its employees,

making it the pump provider of choice for a

broad range of industries.

The company was formed in 2002 following

the closure of Girdlestone Pumps, itself a

well-recognised and highly experienced pump

manufacturer. Continuing the quality work

and retaining the knowledge of its employees,

Amarinth was able to develop quickly. In fact,

after initially concentrating on building its

reputation in the UK the company quickly and

successfully expanded overseas, where it now

exports more than 80 per cent of its products.

Today Amarinth offers a large range of

pumps and associated solutions, all of which

are engineered-to-order and tailored to meet

the exact requirements of the individual

client according to the highest international

standards and cutting-edge technology. It does

this through a dedication to customer-oriented

service, placing the highest possible emphasis

on customer satisfaction delivered through

exceptional manufacturing capabilities and an

unwavering focus on innovation.

While its products are custom made for a

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Amarinth Ltdamarinth.com

ServicesPump manufacturer

yet Amarinth was able to successfully meet the

technical specifications of HHI in just 28 weeks,

again demonstrating its ability as a flexible, agile

pump manufacturer capable of engineering the

most difficult innovations.

Of course, these examples highlight just one

area of Amarinth’s expertise, but the business is

continually developing across its product range

in order to maintain its leading position in the

market. Every three to five years it looks at its

future product developments, using its expertise

and experience to understand what the changing

market requirements will be and thus, how to

develop the business moving forwards.

Such a dedicated focus on staying ahead

of the field has always been a cornerstone of

Amarinth’s strategy. Throughout its lifetime the

company has relied on its skill and expertise

to consistently deliver on its promises by

exceeding its customer’s expectations. For a

relatively young business this approach has paid

handsomely, making its shared objective of being

a leader in its field a reality.

Quad 204 FPSO, which is to be located west

of the Shetland Isles upon completion. For this

project Amarinth was selected to supply pumps

for the produced water treatment and reservoir

pressure maintenance re-injection package to

be used on the FPSO. However, a number of

design challenges predominantly around the

space available on board made achieving a final

solution particularly challenging.

Using a collaborative approach to the project

Amarinth carried out the design work with John

Crane and BP engineers to develop an integrated

pump and seal support system package that sat

on a bespoke baseplate, effectively wrapping

the seal support system through 90 degrees

around the pumps whilst still maintaining

its interoperability and meeting the footprint

limitations imposed by BP. Success in this design

meant Amarinth was suggested by BP to Hyundai

Heavy Industries (HHI) for a second challenging

project on the same FPSO. This particularly

complex requirement had seen little interest from

Amarinth’s competitors due to its difficult nature,

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are working together to develop reliable power systems

specifically engineered for fracking that address the need

for continuous duty equipment in harsh environments.

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International Oil Show from October 21-23

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Megarmemegarme.com

ServicesSpecialist rope access solutions

inspection and engineering division in order to

construct and approve an RT bunker facility that

would position it as a first tier inspection and

engineering contractor. “This is a mandatory

requirement to store and transport the isotopes

necessary to carry out radiographic testing,

which is one of the NDT disciplines required

under the long-term inspection contracts in our

region,” highlights Billy. “The process took some

time and investment for the construction, as

well as the stringent new regulations that were

being implemented by the newly formed Federal

Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR), but

since then we have secured a couple of long-term

inspection contracts with Occidental in Qatar and

Total ABK in Abu Dhabi as well as other work

with international and local EPC contractors.”

Megarme is highly reputed for its safe, reliable

and high quality approach, a reputation that the

company maintains through stringent training

at its own state-of-the-art facility. “The Megarme

Training Center (MTC) is located in Dubai

Investment Park and is the best of its kind in the

region,” Billy adds. “It is an 18 metre high facility

that caters to the highest IRATA standards and

can be used for basic or bespoke WAH training

packages.”

Although Megarme has only been operational

for two decades, Billy admits that further growth

is high on the agenda. “As we approach the

halfway mark in 2013 our main focus is that we

stay on track to achieve our ambitious growth

targets, whilst staying within our budgets for the

year. As mentioned, we are opening our new

office in Saudi Arabia in 2014. Its a huge market

and a notoriously difficult one to penetrate, but

the regional knowledge that we have within the

GCC gives us a huge advantage to overcome

the many challenges that are inherent with

operating a specialist services company in this

part of the world.

“We are also being presented with increasing

opportunities in North and West Africa, which

are being explored, and we have had a JV in

India for the last two years as well. Also, we

work in the Caspian region through our partners

there, mobilising projects in Azerbaijan and

Kazakhstan, which are other growth areas for

us. Ultimately we want to continue to innovate

and grow at the trajectory we have been and

prove our replicable business model works

in a number of other countries in the MENA

region. I think that the next decade will be very

interesting, and we are poised to accelerate

our growth and potential from the strong

foundations that we have established over the

last two decades,” he concludes.

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Megarme is highly reputed for its safe, reliable and high quality approach, a reputation that the company maintains through stringent training at its own state-of-the-art facility

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Currently in development, the first system to be introduced is being engi-neered as one completely integrated system to provide the lowest total cost of ownership and the ability to align regular maintenance schedules.

For news and updates, join us at the Permian Basin International Oil Show from October 21-23 at booths #J106-J108





Cummins Middle East FZEmiddleeast.cummins.com

ServicesPower generation

venture with Jaidah’s Heavy Equipment Division

- a subsidiary of one of Qatar’s largest multi-

product importers and retailers, Jaidah Group.

This is all part of our growth strategy, and

through this approach we continue to win more

contracts with large oil and gas companies.”

These deals are with clients from all over

the Gulf, including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,

Oman, and in the UEA. “We have active

projects that we are working on right now, as

well as some under development that will hit

the market in 2014/2015 and we believe these

will be game changers in the industry,” added

Rachid. “These are new engine platforms that

we developed over several years and are very

significant products.”

Indeed, these products will reflect the extensive

resources that Cummins dedicates to research

and development (R&D). “Cummins allocated

one billion dollars to R&D last year, which gives

an indication of what kind of investments we

are making into our upcoming products,” said

Rachid. “There is a lot of confidence in the future

of Cummins in this market and we are very

excited about the products and services we will

be offering going forward.”

quick and efficient way to rebuild their engines

to the same quality standards all Cummins

factories would offer.”

Another key achievement is the division’s

certified Training Centre, which is dedicated

to the training of in-house staff and valuable

customers. “We have increased the number of

employees and technicians particularly over the

last three years in the Middle East, and we need

to make sure they are trained and certified for

the engines that they work on,” said Rachid. “We

also have customers who sometimes prefer to do

their own maintenance on Cummins engines and

we want to make sure that they have all the tools

necessary to do that successfully.”

Given the amount of investment Cummins is

making in the Middle East region, it is obvious

that the company considers this to be an emerging

market, with great possibilities. “If we look at

our five year plans we are continuing to invest in

this business because we believe the Middle East

market will see significant growth and we plan to

be part of that story,” confirmed Rachid.

“Over the past three to four years we have

opened new facilities, hired more people and

in 2012 started Cummins Qatar LLC; a joint

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in the range of services it is able to provide. Early

on in its life, as its service package increased

and its list of clients grew, the company moved

to a modern well equipped office space and

warehouses, from where it still operates

today. Continued expansion means that today

SeaMar Services provides agency management

and logistics services to the major offshore

construction, survey and diving companies

in the industry, operating a 24 hours per day,

seven days per week service in every port in

the Netherlands. This extensive network is

successful in large part due to the dedicated and

highly experienced personnel that the company

employs, all of whom have a wide range of

knowledge in various aspects of the marine

and offshore markets and a strong network of

suppliers built on a solid, trusting relationship.

As a mark of its quality, in October 2012 SeaMar

Services was ISO 9001 : 2008 accredited by Det

Norske Vertitas, and in June 2013 it received

its AEO (Authorised Economic Operator)

Certificate from the Dutch Customs.

It is in the field of vessel management and

vessel agency that SeaMar built its reputation

among clients such as DeepOcean, Subsea

7, Oceanteam, GSP Offshore (Grup Servicii

Petroliere SA), Bluestream, and Fugro. Under

this banner, the business covers all aspects of

agency and management, so providing such

services as vessel and project management,

crew management, vessel brokerage, logistics

support, and vessel agency services for vessels

that visit Den Helder, Ijmuiden or any other

port in the Netherlands.

In terms of vessel management, SeaMar

SeaMar Services BV is a market-

leading agency services business that works

in the offshore and shipping industries. The

company is widely known as the SeaMar Group

of companies, which with its subsidiaries offers

an all-round service package for the offshore and

marine sectors in the North Sea market. This

package encompasses such services as vessel

management, vessel agency services, shipping,

customs formalities, freight forwarding, and

other services such as purchasing, vessel

brokerage, and office/storage facilities.

Based in Den Helder in the Netherlands,

SeaMar Services was established in 2000 by

current managing director, Leo Balkema,

who himself has more than a quarter of a

century of experience in the sector. Speaking

to European Oil and Gas in 2009, Leo said

of the company’s establishment: “We have a

small team, which is very experienced in the

industry, and which is familiar with vessel

management. When I started the company, my

database of clients came from the 15 years that

I spent as operations manager, then general

manager, of DSND/SeaTeam in the Netherlands.

My colleagues have also been working in this

industry for very many years. Because of this

we are able to react quickly and competently to

our clients’ needs. We have been recognised for

our flexibility and our know-how within our

logistics operations. It is key to our success to

ensure that lines of communication between

ourselves and the customers are always open,

and that we have a very personal approach.”

Since Leo established the company it has

continued to develop, both increasing in size and

packageComplete service

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PPGPPG is a global player in anticorrosive coating systems for a wide range of offshore and subsea applications. Its leading SIGMA COATINGS and AMERCOAT brands provide the ultimate protection for new-build or maintenance projects.Its systems offer proven, trusted and tested performance for offshore assets including NORSOK M-501 approved solutions, hydrocarbon fire protection, PITT-CHAR XP, subsea market leader: PHENGUARD, innovative maintenance solutions: SIGMASHIELD 880 and well established local supply chain for optimal service.

pipework, steel structures and subsea

pipelines against corrosion in the oil and

gas industry; it has recently expanded its

Montrose base from seven acres to ten acres

and acquired new heavy lifting equipment

as part of an investment of £1.5 million in

the building of new facilities. With on-site

facilities including a blast bay, thermal spray

hall, main spray hall and fully automated metal

spray facility at its Montrose base, which the

company expanded into in 2009, Gemini can

offer complete standard or bespoke solutions to

its long-standing and extensive client base. Over

30 years it has developed its flexible coating

services for new equipment, whether land based

or offshore, topside or subsea, as well as offering

refurbishment and upgrade of old coating

systems. Topside coating projects range from

the structural components on oil rigs, including

accommodation modules and helidecks, through

to process and control equipment, such as pipe

work (spools) and valves.

Typically based on the NORSOK M501

standard for both paint and thermal spray, the

applied coatings’ types, controls application

methods and quality are stringently regulated.

For subsea environments, one of the most

severe tests for protective coatings, Gemini has

established a long and successful history and is

able to offer the highest standard quality in this

demanding market where any mistakes result

in huge expense. This has led to numerous

approvals with major blue chip equipment

manufacturers; equipment protected by

Gemini applied coatings includes BOPs, valves,

protection frames, pipelines and risers.

At its Montrose facility the company can

take on the most challenging of tasks, with

its purpose built main spray hall that covers

more than 1000 square metres and comes

equipped with two ten tonne overhead cranes

for component handling assistance. The ISO

18000 accredited spray hall can produce various

coatings from epoxy paint that conforms

to NORSOK industry standards, to more

specialised systems, such as anti-fouling paint.

Meanwhile, its multi-function thermal spray hall

is where both specific surface preparation and

thermal spray is undertaken. Believing the basic

process of surface preparation is the foundation

of its success, the company’s main blast bay

is accessible from the main yard and opens in

to the main spray hall. Most components are

maneuvered in to the bay with fork lifts, while

larger items are loaded on to bogies by cranes

When founder and managing director

of Gemini Corrosion Services Ian Guthrie was

working offshore in 1982, he saw first-hand

the impact of corrosion on scaffold fittings

and learned the majority of these fittings were

scrapped when returned from the offshore

rigs. Seeing a gap in the market, Ian launched

Gemini Corrosion Services in a small unit at

Spurryhillock Industrial Estate, Stonehaven,

15 miles south of Aberdeen, where he began

refurbishing scaffold equipment. This offered

offshore companies the benefits of extended

asset life expectancy and a fast response

turnaround from a local supplier.

Recognising that further opportunities existed

within its offshore client base, Gemini increased

its range of services in 1985, investing in surface

preparation equipment and establishing its

corrosion services business. The enhanced

business volumes resulting from this increase

led to the company relocating to larger premises

on the Spurryhillock estate, which became

Gemini’s headquarters whilst it continued

to develop and expand facilities with the

construction of new coating and blast halls and

ongoing improvements to its infrastructure.

Furthermore, the company implemented

training and development schemes as well as

internal promotion to ensure the retention of an

experienced and qualified team.

Gemini is today a world leader in protecting

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