Lloyd’s Register and Aker Solutions have signed a framework agreement to ‘drive efficiency in engineering and subsea oil and gas developments’.
The contract gives Aker Solutions access to all relevant services from the Lloyd’s Register Group, including inspection, compliance, certification and advisory/consulting services in areas like risk management/HSEQ, engineering dynamics, asset integrity, drilling, wells and reservoirs.
Agreement demonstrates Aker Solutions’ commitment to advance their business performance initiatives in a tough environment of challenging market economics – and to ensure continued innovation in design with high accuracy, consistency, relevance and transparency.
Lead group category manager, Gaute Fardal from Aker Solutions, said: “We are pleased to have Lloyd’s Register on board as a new Group Frame Agreement supplier to Aker Solutions.
“Our expectations to the agreement are highly competitive priced services and further enhanced efficiency in our processes and product solutions.”
The first call off from the contract is already in place: a global project for international quality management system standard ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 (environmental) certification of Aker Solution’s Subsea division.
The project will be carried out by LRQA – a division of the Lloyd’s Register Group specialising in management systems compliance.
“Of special interest is our process for technology qualifications,” said Inge Alme, Sales Director at Lloyd’s Register.
“This is an important area for a company like Aker Solutions, where new innovations in areas like subsea processing can be critical for tomorrow’s leading oil and gas operators.”
The framework agreement is valid for three years with options for extension for a further two years.
