Bjørge

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Bjørge ASA
Public (OSE: BJORGE)
Industry Engineering
Founded 1977
Headquarters Tananger, Norway
Area served
Global
Key people
Steinar Aasland (CEO)
Svein Sivertsen (Chairman)
Revenue NOK 838 million (2006)
NOK 41 million (2006)
Website http://www.bjorge.no

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History

The company was founded in 1977 as a joint venture between Bjørge Enterprise and ETPM (now part of Acergy) to perform offshore maintenance services. In 1995 it was bought by Strand Enterprises, but listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange 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 and Vetco Aibel.

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References

  1. "Bjorge unveils demerger plan". Upstream Online . NHST Media Group. 2010-09-20. Retrieved 2010-09-21.