Saga Subsea AS have now established ourselves on the Gran Canaria Subsea and Offshorebase (GCSB), where we will offer our clients the same services as we today do from our main offices on Killingøy Offshorebase, Haugesund.
Together with the also Haugesund based company Otech, Saga Subsea will be a part of the development of the base and make this a natural stop for mobilisations and maintenance for subsea vessels on their way to, or from projects in West Africa or South America.
Saga Subsea managing director Einar Tollaksvik says: "We think that the foundations and pre-work for this Offshorebase, commenced by Otech and Satocan, have been done in a very professional way. With regards to our subsea activity and the services we provide today, we believe this base and Gran Canaria have great potential, and placed geographically perfect for a majority of these services."
Otech managing director Odd Are Tveit says: "The companies behind GCSB are Otech together with Satocan. We have chosen Gran Canaria due to its strategically position in the middle of the most important oil and gas regions of the world, or as we say ‘in the centre of the world’.
"This is the most southern port in Europe, able to offer our clients a safe place to mobilise, commence projects and use as a base for operations on West Africa and South America without being afraid of unpredictable costs, corruption and custom problems."
Saga Subsea is today established on the GCSB with offices and storage. We have these days prepared a large shipment of rental tooling which is on its way down from Haugesund. This is equipment we rent out to subsea projects, and will be available on GCSB for our clients. We are ready to receive vessels alongside today, and prepare these with equipment and personel, or receive assets for maintenance and repair or preparations before or after projects. Contractors can send down equipment for storage, and in the future mobilise these directly from the GCSB.
Einar Tollaksvik says: "One of the most important things for the contractors, is for them to know that they can send down equipment, and that this is taken care of by a Norwegian company with solid experience within maintenance and repair of subsea assets. We have been a part of preservation work and preparations of subsea PIG L/R, maintenance and re-builds of FMC’s and manufacturing of a wide range of specialised ROV tooling."
Einar continues: "Our main office is on Killingøy Offshorebase, Haugesund, which today is the largest subsea cluster area in the world. This is where we have worked up our experience for this type of work, and can also mention that the majority of our staff has solid experience with subsea operations. Most of our staff have been offshore for many years, and know what is to be expected by the clients. This is an enormous strength for us."
From Killingøy Offshorebase, we have worked up a solid experience how an offshorebase can be operated very efficiently and professionally, which is a good experience to have in the bag to Gran Canaria. This fits very well together with Otechs original plan for the GCSB, a Norwegian-inspired subsea base, located in the centre of the world.