2012 in review

HSE

Omega launched Improve HSE, inviting all team member to contribute to our HSE knowledge-base.

Health and safety is always our first priority. In 2012, we launched Improve HSE, inviting all employees to contribute to strengthen Health, Safety and Environment in Omega.

“Our employees at locations around the world have important knowledge and HSE experience that we can learn from through our Improve HSE initiative,” says Karina Hovden Stava, Omega's new HSEQ Manager.

Since Improve HSE was launched in September, we have received a lot of great tips and suggestions from employees worldwide. One Improve HSE proposal resulted in us offering  “quit smoking” courses through Advantage.

International

Simon Calvert is spearheading Omega's Consultant Services "down under".

Omega has invested heavily in international expansion in 2012. We started the year by welcoming two new Consultant Managers to our international offices. Mark navbar-brand joined our team in the USA and  Simon Calvert has spearheaded our consultant services push in Australia, giving Omega its best chance of gaining a solid foothold in the consulting market on every continent.

In September, we opened our seventh international office when we established a new Omega Department in Brisbane, Australia. 2012 also proved to be a year of expansion for our other overseas offices: Canada will double its team and Singapore signed two major agreements with ConocoPhillips and Höegh LNG Asia.

Team

Marcus Renås' return to our team marked the "Omega 1000" milestone on 19 September 2012.

As Omega marked its 25th anniversary in 2012, we also reached another milestone, welcoming  team member 1000.

During the year we have also strengthened our Management team in several locations accross Norway in order to meet the growing number of consultant requests from our clients.

Gunn Tollefsen joined our team in Oslo,  Leon Dyngeland is our new Consultant Manager in Ølensvåg, while  Kari Marie Usken and Kristin Jaeger make up our Consultant Manager team inStavanger.

Advantage

Among our teambuilding offers in 2012, 30 team members got to experience Norway's Lofoten archipelago.

2012 offered a wide range of exciting experiences to Omega employees via Advantage, including exotic trips to  Lofoten,  Istanbul and an exhilarating teambuilding to  the Formula 1 Grand Prix in Germany.

We celebrated Omega's 25th anniversary with extra teambuilding opportunities in 2013, as well as new apartments and houses both in Norway and the USA:

• Pensacola Apartment
• Hovdenut Cabin
• Bømlo Sea House

The last 12 months have also provided opportunities to sign up for more Active Advantage offers, including the  Ironman triathlon.

System

More than 100 participants joined our system developer conferences in Haugesund, Norway and Dallas, USA.

Omega's technology department started the year by launching the new Appframe R4. The new version of our Appframe framework was also the main focus of Omega's developer conference, AppEd, which was held in both Haugesund, Norway and Dallas, USA last year.

Omega's latest systems product, Pims Interface Management System, started the year off well when it was chosen as the interface management system for the development of the Petro Rabigh refinery in Saudi Arabia.

Clients

Omega systems and personnel completed an 18-month-long assignment on one of the world's most advanced rigs in Ølensvåg.

In March, Omega completed one of its largest projects, in the Haugesund region, when Scarabeo 8 sailed from the harbor after a major renovation job at the neighbouring shipyard of Westcon in Ølensvåg.

This year, we have also entered into agreements with several other companies, including Norwegian Odfjell and Apply Sørco.