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"It's extremely satisfying to be in a position to reward the hard work and dedication of our staff, especially in these difficult economic times," said Mark Sim, Commercial Manager for TDW Offshore Services. Demand for TDW Offshore Services' pipeline maintenance and isolation services rose through 2008, tied in large part to the fluctuating price of oil. When oil
was priced at $140 per barrel, demand slowed resulting in the surplus oil being stored in pipelines. "With the pipelines full of oil, many companies deferred carrying out maintenance that would normally have taken place had the oil been moving through the pipeline. The knock-on effect was that TDW wasn't retained to carry out these services, and sales dipped," said Sim. "When the price per barrel dropped to $40-45 dollars, our
phones starting ringing with requests from customers for pipeline maintenance services, and they haven't stopped," he added. To keep pace with demand, TDW Offshore Services is actively recruiting for additional staff to fill a wide variety of roles, both on- and offshore. Although the majority of positions are based at TDW Offshore Services' global headquarters in Stavanger, a number of them are located at the company's bases in Houston, Singapore, Dubai and Aberdeen, Scotland. The company is currently carrying out a variety of pipeline services operations in Mexico, Qatar, the Caspian Sea, and the UK and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. Further operations are scheduled to commence later this year in Malaysia, Australia and Equatorial Guinea. ODIM recently launched what it terms groundbreaking technology, the ODIM Smart AHTS anchor handling concept, which the company touts as three times as effective as competing solutions in terms of capaci-
Above: TDW Offshore Services AS, a provider of pipeline services and technology, distributed a bonus to its employees worldwide. Said Mark Sim, Commercial Manager for TDW Offshore Services (Below) "It's extremely satisfying to be in a position to reward the hard work and dedication of our staff, especially in these difficult economic times,"
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