For a second consecutive year, Aker Solutions has awarded Advanced Insulation – a leading manufacturer of technical coatings including specialised fire protection and insulation materials for the upstream oil and gas industry – Supplier of the Year status.
The award, presented by Aker Solutions at its Supplier Day 2014 event in Brazil on 4th December, was in recognition of Advanced Insulation’s performance and contribution for the Commercial Items category.
Commenting for Advanced Insulation, managing director Andrew Bennion says: “We are delighted to be rewarded for our efforts by such a prestigious global company.”
Advanced Insulation has been working with Aker Solutions in Brazil for a number of years and, more recently, has been supplying its ContraTherm® C55 multi-layer syntactic phenolic composite system for use on 99 vertical subsea trees being delivered to the Guará, Lula, Sapinhoá and other subsalt oilfields in the Santos Basin. The $300 million contract was awarded to Aker Solutions by Petrobras.
As Joao Volpato, general manager of Advanced Insulation Systems in Brazil, says: “The whole team, both in the UK and Brazil, has been involved to ensure that we continue to gain the trust of Aker Solutions; and to meet and exceed the expectations of the customer.”
The ContraTherm C55 subsea system from Advanced Insulation can be tailored to meet specific subsea project requirements. The resilient insulation material has been developed to tolerate the extreme temperatures and pressures required for high-temperature subsea developments. It can be applied as a wet coating directly to primed substrates in the field, as a pre-moulded engineered component, or a combination of both for certain applications.
For further information on Advanced Insulation’s topside and subsea insulation systems, call +44 (0)1452 880880, email sales@aisplc.com or visit www.aisplc.com.
