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News Release from: Tektonisk (UK)
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 10 December 2001
UK base for ShareCat equipment catalogue
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Tektonisk of Norway has announced the creation of a wholly owned UK subsidiary as a base for its continuing expansion into the process industry e-Content marketplace.
Tektonisk of Norway has announced the creation of a wholly owned UK subsidiary as a base for its continuing expansion into the Process industry e-Content marketplace Phil Gould and Paul Pestille, previously senior executives with Intergraph Corporation, have been appointed the UK's Operations Director and Sales and Marketing Director respectively
Gould and Pestille bring with them over 50 years' combined experience in the Process and Information Management industries and are well known and respected within the Owner Operator and Contracting communities.
"We are fortunate in acquiring Phil and Paul's commitment to enable us to fast-track the start-up of the UK operation" states Dag Pettersen, Managing Director of Tektonisk AS.
"The formation of a UK subsidiary is the logical next step in Tektonisk's expansion into the growing e-Content marketplace.
The UK is an obvious mirror for the joint ventures executed across the North Sea area and with companies such as BP and ABB already using Tektonisk's products and services, the availability of our UK capabilities will provide them with a wider, secure method of extending their relationship with us.
Even in this period of economic uncertainty, this expansion is a clear example of the cost-savings and efficiencies that our services and products are delivering and our commitment to our customers and the marketplace." Tektonisk's ShareCat equipment catalogue provides essential and accurate information on frequently used equipment in the oil and gas industry, such as instrumentation, electrical components, pumps, valves, heat exchangers etc.
The use of this equipment is also commonly found in many other segments of the process industry and offers the opportunity for these sectors to share in the cost effective access and use of internet based equipment data.
ShareCat complies with international standards and currently contains information from more than 900 global manufacturers comprising in excess of 6,000 models.
Tektonisk has documented over 700,000 tags for customers to date.
Since 1993, Tektonisk AS, located in Bergen, Norway, and employing 25 employees, has combined extensive engineering and technical experience with specialised and significant IT knowledge to create the company's unique business concept, now being used by the majority of major oil and gas companies on the Norwegian shelf.
The fast-growing database provides information to a number of disciplines including purchasing, engineering, construction, commissioning, operations and maintenance.
Using Tektonisk's unique template technology (officially verified by the equipment manufacturers), the available models and variants can extend to millions of different items of equipment.
These can be built by users themselves 'on the fly' using the information stored in the Tektonisk equipment catalogue which is fully supported by detailed manufacturer's documentation.
The company's consultancy services supporting the use of ShareCat are aimed at quality improvement and quality assurance of information.
ShareCat assures quality and accuracy of data.
Major customers include Statoil, Norsk Hydro BP and ExxonMobile as well as ABB, Heerema and Kvaerner.
The company also supplies technology to Internet company Interance.
In addition Tektonisk has established business partner agreements with Intergraph Process and Building Solutions.
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