With approximately 1300 dedicated multi skilled employees, we operate a number of fixed and floating production drilling platforms in Norway and the UK, under the world’s most stringent regulatory environment.

Our zero fault culture, built on trust, openness and a commitment to rigorous QHSE practices, our first and primary objective is safe operations.

To meet the changing requirements of our clients, we aim to be flexible and evolve our skills by introducing new technology, work processes and operational models. This dynamic landscape means we must retain the best people to ensure optimum performance, strict standards and the highest quality deliveries for our clients.

Our services

Production drilling, completions, slot recoveries, P&A, workovers and maintenance activities,  with special competencies within subsea, well control, HPHT, MPD, QHSE, and maintenance management.

Integrated operations

Platform operations integrated with:

  • Casing running services
  • Tubular rentals
  • Fishing and milling, wellbore clean out tools
  • Inspection services
  • Project & Engineering
  • Offshore project execution

Integrated operations can provide more efficient operations with reduced POB and costs, and planning and execution as one team.

Integrated operations centres

Utilising IT technology in an Integrated Operations Centre to facilitate daily collaboration between the onshore support organization and the offshore operations.

By analyzing information and data in real time, we can implement preventive and corrective actions together with our offshore crew, to deliver first class performance, safer operations, improved work processes and greater efficiency.

Clients

This dynamic industry landscape means drilling companies must retain an exceptional focus on day-to-day operations to ensure optimum performance, strict standards and the highest quality deliveries for their clients. This is something that Odfjell Technology intrinsically understands – it has been our focus for more than 45 years. 

In that time we have emerged as a true market leader in contract platform drilling, while establishing a position as one of the major engineering and platform drilling contractors in the North Sea, with a growing global ambition.

Our services

We provide production drilling, completions, slot recoveries, P&A, workovers and maintenance activities. We have special competencies within subsea, well control, HPHT, MPD, QHSE, and maintenance management.

Platform drilling

With the Statfjord B award in 1978, Odfjell expanded from mobile drilling units into platform drilling market and established itself as the first Norwegian drilling contractor within platform production drilling on the Norwegian Continental shelf. Since 2003 we have been a successful player in the UK platform drilling market. In 2020, we are at the forefront of the contract-drilling sector with a large number of operations in the North Sea including the most sophisticated platform drilling installations both in Norway in in the UK; The Johan Sverdrup in Norway, the Mariner, Clair and Clair Ridge installations in the UK.  

Odfjell Technology currently operates a number of fixed and floating production drilling platforms where we blend highly skilled personnel, modern equipment, advanced collaboration environments, and optimal work processes to create efficient operations – every day, everywhere. 

Our people are central to our success. Odfjell Technology prides itself on attracting and retaining the best people: creating workplaces that are motivating and satisfying, while putting the framework in place to enable our employees to develop with their assigned tasks. 

This approach allows us to stay ahead in such a demanding environment and is all part of our broader commitment to continual improvement. 

This is what makes Odfjell Technology a trusted supplier for platform drilling, chosen for our experience and expertise.

Proven safety and operational performance

Odfjell Technology has decades of platform drilling experience, running contract drilling operations on both the Norwegian and the UK Continental Shelves. The Drilling & Technology team operates, and has experience from, both floating and fixed production-drilling platforms. This experience includes operations on state-of-the-art drilling facilities, with cyber-based technology. The unit has received a number of awards for its excellent safety performance.

Efficient operations through one integrated team

The unit has one integrated team that heads and supports operations internationally. This organisational structure promotes the practice of, and focus on, sharing experience, best practice and competence between sites.