Petrofac Training Services has been awarded a significant contract for Training and Emergency Response Services with Statoil (U.K.) Limited to support its UKCS operations.

In the new five-year training partnership, Petrofac Training Services is appointed as Statoil’s preferred supplier and will provide a wide range of HSE, survival, fire and marine training services to support Statoil’s personnel working on the Mariner field and the wind power projects, Hywind and Dudgeon, located in the North Sea.

In addition, a key aspect of the contract will be a full training and support programme for Statoil’s Incident Management and wider emergency response teams, ensuring preparedness ahead of any potential incident scenario. This will include the delivery of major emergency response training, emergency response exercises, relative response training and reviewing of plans.

James Kirk, Director of Training Services, West, Petrofac Engineering & Production Services, said: “We are delighted to have been appointed as Statoil’s preferred supplier which reflects the strength and depth of our capabilities, experience and facilities in the UK. Throughout the contract our specialist teams will be focused on both maintaining and enhancing the knowledge, expertise and skillset of Statoil’s talent-pool to support safe and efficient on-going operations of its assets and facilities in the North Sea, UK sector.

“Despite the challenges our industry continues to face, competency of our respective workforces remain a top priority; as a result we will provide a highly integrated and flexible delivery model aligned to Statoil’s needs.”

About Petrofac

Petrofac is an international service provider to the oil and gas production and processing industry, with a diverse customer portfolio including many of the world’s leading integrated, independent and national oil and gas companies. Petrofac designs, builds, operates and maintains oil and gas facilities, delivered through a range of innovative commercial models, enabling it to respond to the distinct needs of each client and helping them to transform the value of their assets across the oil and gas life cycle. Petrofac’s service offering is underpinned by its ability to develop resource holders’ local capability through the provision of skills training with competency development and assurance frameworks. Around 20,000 employees operate out of seven strategically located operational centres, in Sharjah, Aberdeen, Abu Dhabi, Woking, Chennai, Mumbai, and Kuala Lumpur and a further 24 offices worldwide. Petrofac is quoted on the London Stock Exchange (symbol: PFC).

About Statoil

Statoil ASA (OSE: STL, NYSE: STO) is an international energy company with operations in 36 countries. Building on 40 years of experience from oil and gas production on the Norwegian continental shelf, we are committed to accommodating the world's energy needs in a responsible manner, applying technology and creating innovative business solutions. We are headquartered in Stavanger, Norway, with approximately 23,000 employees worldwide, and are listed on the Oslo and New York stock exchanges.