i8 | tomorrow’s energy SHAPING THE DELIVERY OF TOMORROW’S ENERGY BY NEALE CARTER Energy services company Penspen has been providing engineering, project management, and asset integrity services to the oil and gas industry worldwide for over 60 years. Originally founded in the UK in 1954 as Spencer & Partners, the company has grown to include over 1,000 engineers with major offices in London, Aberdeen, Houston, Abu Dhabi, and Bangkok. Penspen has undertaken over 10,000 projects in its time, addressing a wide range of challenges from pipeline feasibility studies to integrated facilities design to asset management and rehabilitation projects. Our heritage is onshore pipeline engineering, and we have been involved in countless major pipeline projects around the world, including the 380 km Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline, which we designed and engineered in 2011. However, we have expanded on this heritage very significantly over the last 30 years and now provide the full scope of engineering services for the full life cycle of an asset. In particular, this September saw a number of important changes for Penspen, which is positioning itself to grow in size and scope in order to best serve its clients across the energy industry. As part of a package of measures aimed at bringing our diverse capabilities together as a single, dynamic force, we not only rebranded our entire global presence, unifying all our existing sub-brands such as Greystar Corporation under the Penspen name, we also made a strategic acquisition in the form of the engineering division of DPS Global, now known as DPS Engineering. Coinciding with Penspen’s 60th anniversary year, the DPS acquisition, which increases the company’s overall headcount by 10%, supports our strategic drive to grow our scope of services worldwide. In particular, it significantly strengthens our oil and gas process engineering capability, and brings access to the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) construction market in Asia-Pacific. The move is part of Penspen’s wider strategy to expand. As a company, we are also increasing the amount of partnership working we undertake, in particular within the Dar Group itself. For example, we are currently working alongside R&H Rail to undertake a study with major South African freight company Transnet into existing and planned rail, and port and pipeline infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa, covering eighteen separate countries. Having been sub-contracted by R&H Rail to undertake the pipeline infrastructure component of the study, Penspen has developed an excellent working relationship with R&H Rail and hope to continue collaborating with the firm for future projects. By leveraging our many connections across the energy industry, and expanding and developing our offer to clients across Europe and Africa, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, we have welcomed our 60th year with quite a celebration. 48