Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Materials Management News

Worley, AVEVA to Roll Out Cloud-based EPC Solution

Worley CEO, Andrew Wood (left), and AVEVA CEO, Craig Hayman (right) announce partnership to build upon AVEVA Enterprise Resource Management software and deliver the first cloud-based solution optimized for the EPC market. (Photo: AVEVA)

Engineering and industrial software company AVEVA announced that Worley has selected AVEVA’s Enterprise Resource Management solution as its preferred  materials management platform. The partnership combines Worley’s engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) knowledge with AVEVA’s industrial software expertise to deliver the first cloud-based Enterprise Resource Management solution optimized for the EPC market.As EPC projects operate as mini-enterprises, on-premises configuration and hosting of enterprise projects within private networks is not only costly…

Danos Acquires Shamrock Energy Solutions

Left to right: Danos owner and executive Eric Danos, Shamrock owner and president Jeff Trahan, Danos owner and executive Paul Danos (Photo: Danos)

Danos announced Wednesday it has reached a tentative agreement to acquire the assets and business of fellow Louisiana-based oilfield service company Shamrock Energy Solutions.Danos said it expects the deal to be effective in March 2019, and added the closing is subject to certain remaining contingencies.Danos owner and executive, Eric Danos, said, “This strategic investment allows Danos to better meet our customers’ needs through expansion of craftsmen, geographies served and…

Arnlea Lands Contracts with Chevron and Chrysaor

Jim Steele, head of business development at Aberdeen-based Arnlea (Photo: Arnlea)

Aberdeen-based oil and gas asset management software business Arnlea said it has secured contracts with two operators for its mobile software inspection and maintenance product Intrinsix Ex. Arnlea signed an agreement with Chevron for the deployment of Intrinsix Ex across five of the operator’s North Sea assets. Chrysaor, which acquired a package of North Sea assets from Shell earlier this year, has also committed to use the same Arnlea solution on three of its assets. This contract is for one year, with the option to extend.

ZF Acquires Bosch Rexroth Industrial Gears Arm

The now fully completed acquisition of the industrial gears and wind turbine gearbox portions of Bosch Rexroth consolidates ZF's industrial gears business portfolio – these will also be used for heavy tunnel drilling machines. (Photo: ZF)

Following the go-ahead from antitrust authorities, on December 1, 2015 ZF has officially taken over the industrial gears and wind turbine gearbox business from Bosch Rexroth AG. With this, some 1,200 employees altogether at the Witten, Beijing and Lake Zurich (USA) locations will thus join the technology company. The purchase price has not been disclosed. For ZF, the acquisition is an entry into the business with large industrial gears that are used in oil rigs, mine vehicles, tunnel drilling machines, or cableways, for instance.