OUR GREAT MINDS

    by Tina Olivero

    High Value Solutions for Complex Offshore Projects

    Executing large scale, technically complex offshore oil and gas production facilities has been a KBR specialty since 1947 when the company built the first offshore platform out of the sight of land for Kerr McGee. The world has changed since then. Projects are more complex and technically more challenging. External market factors can cause capital expenditures and operating costs to escalate without warning.

    KBR’s 70 years of experience includes working with some of the world’s largest oil and gas projects. We design, build and manage complex projects from concept to completion for a wide range of global clients. KBR supports the offshore energy industry by providing integrated engineering and program management solutions for production facilities and subsea developments in some of the harshest, most remote environments on earth.

    Two years ago, KBR made a commitment to intensify its focus on the upstream oil and gas market and expand its presence in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM), the Americas and worldwide. One key part of this strategy was the reorganization of KBR’s Oil and Gas business in order to better serve the Industry and respond to our client’s needs, specifically in Canada to support the East Coast Canada offshore developments.

    KBR’s two subsidiaries, Granherne subsea and field development company and GVA Consultants, the world’s leading designer for semi-submersibles and FPSO hulls from new build to upgrades and conversions, were moved into the Oil and Gas business unit under Roy Oelking, the newly appointed President of Oil and Gas.

    Since the reorganization, Oelking and his team, Rebel LeBoeuf, VP of Project Management, Americas and Chris Sherertz, VP of Business Development Americas have been focused on growing KBR’s Oil & Gas businesses.

    “We are working to bring a high value engineering solution to projects in the Americas,” said Oelking. “Through close collaboration between Houston, our engineering center in Monterrey, Mexico, and other KBR offices linked by KBR technology, systems and processes, we are dedicated to delivering competitive engineering services – not only to our clients in the Gulf of Mexico and the Americas, but also around the world.”  KBR is also working with Hatch in St. John’s Newfoundland and have current project execution activity with them in Australia.

    The renewed focus on the upstream oil and gas market has paid off. KBR has won several projects in the GOM.  The team is currently bidding on several projects in Angola, Eastern Canada and Alaska to reinforce KBR’s strong offshore presence outside of the U.S.

    KBR’s Oil and Gas group recently moved to its new offices in Houston’s Energy Corridor, where many of its clients are located. The Houston Westside campus will give KBR the flexibility to respond to engineering, project management and government contracting opportunities throughout the energy corridor, with the support of its corporate and operations office in Downtown Houston.

    “We are committed to delivering breakthrough results and adding value at every phase,” said Oelking. “From field development to design and execution and throughout the life of a project, KBR offers the experience, integrated services and resources to help our clients get the most out of their assets and make their offshore project a success.”

    Tina Olivero

    30 years ago, Tina Olivero looked into the future and saw an opportunity to make a difference for her province and people. That difference came in the form of the oil and gas sector. Six years before there was even a drop of oil brought to the shores of Newfoundland, she founded The Oil and Gas Magazine (THE OGM) from a back room in her home on Signal Hill Road, in St. John’s, Newfoundland. A single mother, no financing, no previous journalism or oil and gas experience, she forged ahead, with a creative vision and one heck of a heaping dose of sheer determination. With her pioneering spirit, Ms. Olivero developed a magazine that would educate, inspire, motivate and entertain oil and gas readers around the world — She prides herself in marketing and promoting our province and resources in unprecedented ways. The OGM is a magazine that focuses on our projects, our people, our opportunities and ultimately becomes the bridge to new energy outcomes and a sustainable new energy world. Now diversifying into the communications realms, a natural progression from the Magazine, The OGM now offers an entirely new division - Oil & Gas Media. Today, The Oil and Gas Magazine is a global phenomenon that operates not only in Newfoundland, but also in Calgary and is read by oil and gas enthusiasts in Norway, Aberdeen, across the US and as far reaching as Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. Believing that Energy is everyone’s business, Ms. Olivero has combined energy + culture to embrace the worlds commitment to a balance of work and home life as well as fostering a foundation for health and well being. In this era of growth and development business and lifestyle are an eloquent mix, there is no beginning or end. Partnering with over 90 oil and gas exhibitions and conferences around the world, Ms. Olivero's role as a Global Visionary is to embrace communication in a way that fosters oil and gas business and industry growth in new and creative ways.

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