primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . april 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message aibel as type private industry petroleum founded 2007 headquarters stavanger norway key people jan skogseth president and ceo helge midttun chairman products maintenance and modifications onshore and offshore field development renewable energy number of employees 4 500 20166 parent ratos 32 % sj tte ap fonden 18 % and ferd capital 50 % website aibel aibel e b l is one of norway s leading service companies and a turnkey supplier of oil gas and renewable energy projects . the company has more than 100 years of history and has been an important partner in the development of the oil and gas industry since the first oil was extracted from the north sea . contents 1 about aibel 2 operations 3 history 4 fcpa violations 5 see also 6 references about aibel edit aibel s more than 4 500 employees engineers builds maintains and upgrades oil and gas production facilities . the company works with new and existing facilities onshore and offshore . aibel is currently present at approx . half of the offshore installations on the norwegian continental shelf at three onshore facilities in norway and delivers a wide range of services to operators all over the world ; ranging from concept development studies and field developments to modifications and maintenance of oil and gas installations . aibel s headquarter is situated in stavanger . the company also has engineering offices in asker bergen harstad hammerfest haugesund kristiansund oslo and stj rdal . internationally the company has established a recruitment office in denmark and engineering offices in singapore and thailand . the company also has two major yards ; one in haugesund norway former hmv and one in laem chabang thailand . operations edit about half of aibel s employees are engaged with maintenance modification and operating services at existing oil and gas facilities on the norwegian continental shelf . the company has several large long term maintenance and modification frame agreements . it also delivers stand alone modification projects often involving installation of new modules . aibel also has a wide range of services within field development . the company develop concepts for e.g. onshore production facilities fpsos floating production storage and offloading and fixed platforms . being a turnkey supplier aibel offers its clients the full range of services including studies project management engineering procurement fabrication installation commissioning and completion . in august 2011 aibel was awarded a major contract with abb for the design and development of the dolwin beta platform for a major offshore wind park off the coast of germany . the platform will receive alternating current from wind parks and convert it into direct current before sending it onshore via subsea cables . the platform left aibel s yard in haugesund august 2014 . in february 2015 aibel won the contract for the engineering procurement and construction of the drilling platform for the johan sverdrup field . the construction work is now underway at the company s yards in haugesund and thailand and at partner nymo s yard at grimstad norway . history edit although aibel as a brand and company name is relatively new the company can look back at more than 100 years of heritage and history through companies like national elektro elektrisk bureau eb haugesund mekaniske verksted hmv abb and umoe . the company has been an important partner in the development of the oil and gas industry since the first oil was extracted from the north sea . today aibel is an independent company owned by investor companies ferd ratos and sj tte ap fonden . fcpa violations edit in november 2008 aibel group ltd the united kingdom uk subsidiary of aibel agreed to pay a criminal fine of usd 4.2 million to the us department of justice doj for violations of the foreign corrupt practices act fcpa . aibel admitted to paying bribes to government officials at the nigeria customs service in exchange for preferential treatment which allowed the company to secure an improper advantage with respect to the importation of its goods and equipment into nigeria which were needed for a deepwater oil drilling operation . 1 aibel admitted it had failed to comply with its obligations to implement an enhanced compliance programme and effective fcpa monitors after it had entered into a deferred prosecution agreement dpa with the doj in 2007 for separate violations of the anti bribery provisions of the fcpa with respect to its operations in nigeria . 2 see also edit list of oilfield service companies references edit fcpa enforcement . recent enforcement actions . fcpa enforcement . the european anti bribery blog 23 november 2008 . aibel group limited pleads guilty in the us second time around . the european anti bribery blog . archived from the original on 2012 02 24 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title aibel & oldid 742833168 categories private equity portfolio companiesmanufacturing companies of norwaymultinational companiesoilfield services companieshidden categories articles lacking reliable references from april 2015all articles lacking reliable references navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages norsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 6 october 2016 at 02 28 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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