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Marske’s Recruitment Business Manager for the UK, Lee Grimes said, ‘’We are delighted to be working with Oil and Gas People and to be included among the first recruitment companies to be using this fantastic new website. At Marske we are continually developing and looking for new solutions to enable us to offer our clients and candidates the best possible service. We believe that Oil and Gas Peoples’ new model will offer us not only a more efficient service, but also huge cost savings over current recruitment and job sites.’’

Managing Director of Oil and Gas People, Kevin Forbes responded, ‘’As a contractor who has worked for the last 6 years within the Oil Industry, I became frustrated at existing recruitment sites. They offer candidates very little in the way of service and only add to a recruiters work load, in that they have to spend a lot of time sorting through irrelevant CV’s, often received in response to traditional job ads.’’

Kevin went on to say, ‘’It’s sometimes hard to implement change and to introduce something new. Recruiters are used to the current offering of job sites to the point where they accept their flaws and the extra work they create. We are delighted that Marske can see our vision and that they are prepared to support the site from the offset.’’

www.oilandgaspeople.com aims to offer a more efficient service by allowing recruiters to post jobs for free on the site. Jobs posted will be automatically matched to suitable and available candidates and both sides will be required to confirm their interest in each other, before any candidates contact details are released. It’s a process that is totally free and allows recruiters the best possible chance of placing a candidate before they make a small payment to release matched candidates details.

Candidate’s profiles on the site are very detailed and only candidates who are actually available and actively looking for work will be shown. Candidates can link to their profiles using them as a free online CV and as a place where they can store all of their employment documents.

By removing the processing of hundreds of irrelevant CVs from a recruiter’s workload, Kevin Forbes hopes that candidate plus in essence, recruiters, shall once again be offered a more personal, direct and less time consuming service.  The old complaint regarding recruiters never getting back to candidates shall be placed in the past, along with the old-fashioned traditional job board models.

Each candidate selected for a position will receive regular updates through the site and they can be safe in the knowledge that they have full control over their personal details and will no longer be bothered with cold calls about irrelevant jobs.

More details about Marske Site Services can be viewed on their website www.marske.com and more details on why Oil and Gas People is better for recruiters and candidates can be found here http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/about.asp

With the present decline in the gas and oil industry along with the recent trend for pay offs and pay cuts, a vast majority of individuals are looking for better prospects. The down turn has resulted in fewer jobs but more people looking for work. It’s a difficult situation for recruiters, now more than ever they are being inundated with CV’s from potential candidates. Recruiters work loads are increasing at a time when they themselves are trying to cut costs. It is difficult for recruiters to cut costs as there is lots of administration work associated with registering new candidates and from reading through masses of CV’s received for the few vacancies that they have.

The oil and gas market is already showing signs of recovery fueled by the rising oil price and the announcement of new discoveries and prospects, in countries where the doors have traditionally been closed to foreign oil companies. Recruiters don’t want to be turning candidates away when they could have hundreds of vacancies to fill in a few months time.

So how do recruiters cut costs? Traditionally most recruitment companies rely on job boards to find candidates. The current model these sites follow sees a job being posted and candidates asked to send their CV in response. With so many people desperately looking for work these sites make it easy for anyone to send their CV. More often than not most of the CV’s received are irrelevant with the individual not even meeting the basic requirements for the position! It creates lots of unnecessary work for recruiters as each application has to be reviewed manually and logged in their system. The irony is that these recruitment sites charge vast amounts of money for job posts and access to their candidate database. They do very little to assist with the reduction in a recruiters workload and can add to fruitless time wasting and frustration on the recruiters part.

Recruiters now more than ever are turning to their own databases to find candidates. This however presents another problem, keeping an in house database up to date is near impossible! How do recruiters know which candidates are actually looking for work?? Lots of time is spent cold calling potential candidates and sending emails. It’s a lengthy process that not only takes time but costs a great deal of money, employees time has to be budgeted for, plus international calls soon amount to huge phone bills. End case scenario is that you will end up paying to place the position on a job site anyway, as a  result of your own candidate database failing to produce the match required for the vacancy.  This in effect doubles the cost and could see you loosing the position as most companies now use more than one recruitment company. Speed in finding candidates is essential.

So what’s the solution? How about a site where recruiters can post oil and gas jobs for free? A site where suitable candidates can be automatically matched to positions and recruiters can view their matches for free? A site that offers a better solution and solves all of the above problems while offering a better service to candidates…

Enter into the market oilandgaspeople.com A site that has been developed by people in the oil and gas industry and has been designed to solve all of the above problems. Offering cost savings of up to 75% over traditional job sites and a process that makes finding suitable candidates painless and instant. All of the traditional admin work is done away with. Recruiters can post positions for free and then have that position instantly matched to suitable candidates. Candidates detailed profiles can be viewed for free and both sides confirm an interest in each other before an individuals contact details are released. No more cold calling candidates, waiting for reply’s to job ads and sorting through hundreds of CV’s. Just instant matches to suitable and available candidates!

oilandgaspeople.com offers recruiters the best possible chance of placing a candidate before we charge a recruiter. Our match process allows recruiters to search every part of a candidate’s profile. No longer do they have to rely on key word searches. Our candidates are required to update their availability every 60 days to stay live on the site. We will never boast about how many hundreds of thousands of candidates we have registered! Just how many up to date candidate profiles we have, who are actually available and looking for work. Recruiters will be able to download a matched candidates edited CV absolutely free of charge. This CV can even be sent over to their client for approval before a minimal fee of as little as £25 is charged for a candidates contact details.

Our service means candidates are not constantly browsing for jobs. Positions find them... They don’t get send hundreds of irrelevant job alerts and nor do they receive cold calls about positions that don’t interest them. Our candidate profiles can even be linked to and used as a free online CV. Click to view a sample candidates profile. All of a candidates employment documents can be attached to their profile thus saving recruiters even more time once a candidate is accepted.

Through personal experience and essential feedback from over 300 agencies during the past year, we can now offer a more efficient and affordable recruitment service. No other Oil Job site allows recruiters to post positions, match candidates, and access candidates profiles for FREE! We charge a very small fee to release a candidates contact details but only after we have given recruiters the best possible chance of placing that candidate. Our match process is instant and means recruiters can have suitable CV’s on a client’s desk within an hour of receiving the job.

Our model aims to fundamentally change the oil and gas recruitment market. Click here for more information on why we are better for recruiters and candidates.

Oil and Gas People is different from other oil and gas recruitment sites. We follow a totally new model that has been designed from the offset to offer a better solution to candidates and recruiters. The site has been developed by people who work in the industry and have a real understanding of the frustration often felt by job seekers and recruiters, when using existing recruitment sites.

Traditional oil recruitment sites charge recruiters an arm and a leg, for access to their candidate databases and for job postings. They are inefficient and out dated, often creating lots of extra work for recruiters as they have to manually sort through hundreds of CV’s many of which wont even meet the basic requirements for the advertised position. When searching candidates it’s impossible to know which are available and which are not. Many hours are spent cold calling candidates and screening people by email and phone. It’s a process which is expensive, frustrating, time consuming and thanks to www.oilandgaspeople.com, now outdated!

From a candidate point of view, just how frustrating is it? having to search through job sites every day, looking for the latest positions, filling out cover letters and applying for jobs. Often you won’t even receive a response or acknowledgment. How about all the irrelevant job alerts that fill your inbox and cold calls you receive about positions that are of no interest to you.

Oil and Gas People solves all of these problems and more! With our site, recruiters post positions for free and are then automatically matched to suitable candidates who meet their exact requirements. Candidates build detailed profiles on the site that offer a complete insight into their requirements, training, qualifications, availability and work history. A sample candidate profile can be viewed here

These profiles are visible to recruiters minus a candidates contact details, totally free of charge. After posting a position on the site, recruiters can instantly view all the candidates profiles who most closely meet their requirements. They then click just one button to send there job description to their chosen candidates. Candidates contact details are safe until they view the position and decide to be put forward. After accepting a position all candidates contact details and certificates will be available to the recruiter. They even receive an edited CV which they can forward to the end client totally free of charge!!

Recruiters will only ever pay a fee when a candidate is matched to a position and accepted into the role or for an interview. We give recruiters the best possible chance of a return for their money before charging them. By the time they need to pay a fee they will have confirmed their interest in the candidate, the candidates will have confirmed their interest in the role and the job will have confirmed their interest in the candidate. It’s a unique three match process that is instant and totally free to every recruiter and candidate.

Other sites constantly publish figures about how many candidates they have in their database. What use is hundreds of thousands of registered users, if only ten percent of them are actually available at any given time? Why should it be up to the paying customer to work through the database and find out who is available?

With www.oilandgaspeople.com candidates will be required to log in and update their profile and availability at least every 2 months or they won’t automatically appear in search results. We will never boast about how many outdated CV’s we have. Just how many high quality candidates profiles we have, who are actually available for work and actively looking!

Candidates can also benefit from our social networking site http://www/oilandgascommunity.com which allows members to exchange information and network with oil and gas people around the world

There are many more reasons why we are better for recruiters and candidates. Don’t just take our word for it though. Sign up today and see for yourself!! www.oilandgaspeople.com

A new website is set to change the way oil companies and agencies recruit employees. Launched to candidates at Offshore Europe and due to go live to recruiters soon, http://www.oilandgaspeople.com raises the bar to new levels with their bold and very unconventional recruitment model that is the cause of much concern to existing oil and gas job sites.

Designed from the very offset to offer a better solution for recruiters and candidates, www.oilandgaspeople.com will minimize a recruiter’s work load whilst speeding up the process of finding suitable candidates. No longer will recruiters need to advertise positions online, wait for candidates to respond and then have to spend days sorting through masses of CV’s often received. Oilandgaspeople will instantly match suitable candidates to positions uploaded by recruiters.

Candidate matches will be instant and very accurate, due to the vast amount of information held on each candidate. We can match candidates based on their experience, qualifications, training, location, personal requirements, visas held, salary expectations, previous companies worked for, job title, availability, project experience, industry experience and more… Recruiters can even prioritise each requirement to get supper accurate matches!

Candidates no longer have to continuously search job sites, they are safe in the knowledge that if a suitable position is posted that meets their requirements then they will be automatically put forward. Candidates will maintain complete control over their contact details by having to confirm their interest in each position, before the recruiter receives their contact details. This process means candidates no longer receive cold calls about irrelevant positions and recruiters can instantly find suitable candidates.

What makes oilandgaspeople.com really different is that the above process is completely free! Recruiters no longer have to pay thousands per year to access a data base of candidates, nor do they have to pay hundreds of pounds each time just to advertise a position. Oilandgaspeople.com will only ever charge a fee when a candidate is placed in a position or accepted for an interview.

Recruiters can confirm a candidate’s interest and carry out pre screening through the site before receiving their edited CV for FREE. If the candidate is accepted for the position then recruiters pay a small fee for that persons contact details at the final stage. For convenience candidates can also upload all their certification, qualifications and employment documents to their profile, these will automatically be sent to the recruiter once a match is confirmed.

Oilandgaspeople.com aims to go beyond the services of other job sites. We hope to be announcing some key partnership agreements in the near future that will allow us to offer contractors and consultants in the industry, a complete solution for their business management. LTD company insurance will be provided through the site at very competitive rates and exclusive offers will be available from accountancy and pay role firms.

To show our commitment to the industry we have recently launched www.oilandgascommunity.com which is a social networking site aimed at improving networking and communication between oil and gas people worldwide. The site will allow the sharing and free exchange of lessons learned, incident alerts, lateral learning and safety bulletins. A safety document library will soon be offered along with lots of information pages for new starts to the industry.

More information on www.oilandgaspeople.com and why we are better for recruiters and candidates can be found here - http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/about.asp

With the current down turn in the oil industry and a recent trend for pay cuts and pay offs, a record number of people in the industry are now seeking employment. The decline in oil prices has lead to projects being put on hold and some projects being cancelled altogether. Major oil companies are looking to reduce costs, and in doing so are cutting their work force.

This has an immediate impact on the recruitment industry, with some recruitment companies reporting half the amount of positions and double the amount of available candidates, compared to this time last year. With the market even more competitive than ever before recruitment companies are also looking to cut costs. Unfortunately this isn’t so easy as in a down turn, recruitment agencies work loads actually increase, as more people seek employment.

Most recruitment companies covering the oil and gas sector use sites like oilcareers and oilandgasjobsearch to find candidates and advertise positions. These sites are so well established that they are a must have resource for recruitment companies. They charge extortionate rates and do nothing to help recruiters cut costs. They know there model works and they know recruiters have to use them, as there is no alternative! Until now…

www.oilandgaspeople.com is a new recruitment site developed by Kevin Forbes, a contractor who works in the Oil Industry. Kevin seen the problems faced by recruiters and also the frustration faced by candidates seeking work. He says: “Oilandgaspeople fills a gap in the market and offers a solution that is genuinely better for recruiters and candidates”.

No longer do recruiters have to pay for job postings and access to a database. Candidates benefit by being automatically matched to positions that they meet the requirements for. Candidates don’t have to browse for new jobs every day and they will never miss out on suitable positions. Recruiters don’t need to wait for candidates to reply to job postings and no longer have to sort through hundreds of irrelevant CV’s often received in response to job ads.

The best thing is the above process is totally free, with recruiters only ever paying a fee when they have a candidate match. There are no hidden fees and the site includes many features that other job sites charge for, for free!

Oilandgaspeople has been created from a clean slate; the site follows a new model and has been designed to offer a better solution for candidates and recruiters. We aim to be the largest oil and gas job site, which we will achieve by working with recruiters and candidates, listening to feedback received and building a site that works for Oil and Gas People and not for the media companies profiting vastly from other sites!

To prove our commitment to the industry we have also launched a community site that will allow oil and gas people the world over to network and exchange information. www.oilandgascommunity.com aims to create safer work environments by allowing oil and gas people world wide to learn from each others experiences, mistakes, lessons learned and to share advances in technology and improved work methods.

www.oilandgaspeople is live to candidates now and will be live to recruiters soon.

More information on how the site benefits recruiters and candidates can be found here http://www.oilandgaspeople.com/about.asp
 

Social networking is growing more popular every day, LinkedIn, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter and others, have fast became a part of our every day lives. The ability to network and connect with like minded people all over the world is not only a great way to socialise and keep in touch with friends; it is also a very powerful business and marketing tool.

Lots of small companies and even some larger ones are releasing the power of the web and using it as a way of generating interest in their business. Lots of companies now recruit on social networking sites and the chances are if you don’t have an online presence you are probably missing out.

All of the above are reasons why people join such sites. www.oilandgaspeople.com hopes to take it a step further. We believe social networking could be used to improve safety within the oil and gas industry. In terms of safety, some countries are much further ahead than others, some companies have strict policies in place, and others have next to none. The standard varies from country to country and from individual to individual.

It comes down to training, knowledge and education. We see the same accidents occurring time and time again. Often those involved will say they ‘didn’t know’ or ‘weren’t aware’ Accidents and incidents that probably would have been avoided, if only we had managed to learn from other peoples lessons and mistakes.

Let’s use the powers of social networking to share lessons learned and to educate others in the industry. Wouldn’t it be great to have a massive resource of people from all aspects of the oil industry? A bank of knowledge and information that can be tapped at any time! From every day tasks to huge projects, you can bet someone has done it before. They may know a better way, a product you wasn’t aware of or a procedure that could save you time, money and improve safety.

The industry is ever changing, ever developing and pushing the barriers of new technology every day. It’s impossible to keep track with everything. Let’s use social networking to expand our knowledge, share our experiences and to improve safety across the board.

www.oilandgaspeople.com is not just another oil and gas jobs site. It has been created by oil and gas people, for oil and gas people! As part of the site and to prove our commitment to the industry, we are proud to announce the launch of www.oilandgascommunity.com a brand new social networking site for anyone working in oil and gas.

It doesn’t matter where you work or what you do, we are confident you will have something to bring to the table. We are going to be developing the site over the coming months and hope to include lots of pages with information, lessons learned, new technology, industry news etc, etc…

People can post requests for help and information on the forums. Join groups of like minded people, create events, chat instantly with other members, share information through blogs and build a profile advertising their company.

If you work in health and safety our sister site www.hsepeople.com will also be very relevant to you. HSE people is a well established community site that will give people an insight into the potential of www.oilandgascommunity.com

Hope to see you all there soon.

Kevin Forbes
www.oilandgaspeople.com
www.oilandgascommunity.com
www.hsepeople.com
 

Launching a brand new company at such a prestigious event as Offshore Europe would fear even experienced business men, but for Peterhead man, Kevin Forbes, it was the ideal launching platform for his new venture www.oilandgaspeople.com and an opportunity not to be missed!
 

Kevin a contractor, who works in the Oil and Gas Industry, became frustrated at the existing Oil and Gas recruitment sites and came up with the idea for Oilandgaspeople over a year ago. He says: “The launch at Offshore Europe was the result of over a years worth of research and months of web design work and testing. We consulted with lots of recruiters and agencies, to tweak the initial idea into what we have now. A solution that challenges the format followed by traditional job sites and offers a better more efficient service for Recruiters and Candidates.”

Oilandgaspeople allows candidates to build a profile. Essentially a complete insight into that candidates work history, qualifications, experience, training and requirements. Recruiters upload positions to the site for free and are automatically matched to available candidates. Candidates have to confirm they are interested in the position before a recruiter receives their edited CV for free.

This allows recruitment companies to put CV’s across to clients totally free of charge. The site even formats the CV and adds the recruitment company’s logo automatically. When a candidate is accepted for a position the recruiter simply logs in and pays a small fee for that candidates contact details. An unlimited access option is even available to larger recruitment companies that allows access to candidates contact details at an earlier stage.

Kevin says: “For years agencies have paid huge fees to other Oil Job sites, for access to what is essentially just a CV data base, and for posting job ads. Recruiters get very little for their money. Often the data base is out of date and recruiters still have to cold call potential candidates to find out who is available and who isn’t. When posting jobs, recruiters have to wait for candidates to reply and then sort through hundreds of CV’s, to root out the ones that meet their requirements. It’s a lengthy process and one that relies on the right candidate coming across their job posting in the first place.

Oilandgaspeople is essentially a dating service for candidates and recruiters. We ensure that candidates never miss out on a job that they meet the requirements for. Likewise for recruiters in that they find candidates instantly who meet their exact requirements. No more waiting for candidates to reply to ads, no more sorting through hundreds of CV’s and cold calling potential candidates. Just instant free matches and a very reasonable fee at the final stage, if the candidate is placed!

www.oilandgaspeople.com is live to candidates now and will go live to recruiters from the 5^th of October 2009. The site has many advanced and innovative features that genuinely make’s it better for recruiters, better for candidates and better for oil and gas people. As part of Oilandgaspeople, a new social networking and community site specific to the Oil Industry has also been launched. Join today for free at www.oilandgascommunity.com

CONTITECH BEATTIE GIVES SAFETY THE GOLD MEDAL TREATMENT

ContiTech Beattie Ltd’s has launched two new products to help with health and safety in the oil and gas industry, giving them the Gold Medal treatment at the prestigious Offshore Europe exhibition and conference.

Great Britain Olympic hero Victoria Pendleton joined the Ashington and Aberdeen-based market leader in hose technology for the oil and gas industry to help celebrate the launch.

The six times World Champion, Commonwealth Champion and Olympic Champion in track sprint attended the event in Aberdeen, one of the major showcasing events in the industry’s calendar.

Both of the new products have safety at the forefront of their design. While the first new product is specifically designed to be fire retardant, the second has built-in floatation capability.

The athlete’s success in the Beijing Games in 2008 reflect the company’s own Olympic Challenge of raising its turnover to £42 million by 2012 through further overseas sales growth, developing internal processes and developing new products and services

Victoria also uses inner tubes produced by ContiTech Beattie’s parent Continental group.

Andrew Esson, managing director of ContiTech Beattie, said: "Victoria Pendleton is a national sporting hero and her Olympic pedigree is an inspiration to our team who, like Victoria, have their own 2012 targets to achieve. It was a great honour to have someone who has achieved the highest standards time and again while burning rubber on the track launch our new hoses – one of which has been designed specifically so that the rubber does not to burn when deployed in its own field.

"The Floating Hoses mean that there is now no longer a need for a separate hose and floatation collar arrangement, making life easier for the customer who may previously have had to search for the right matching partnership.

"With the fire retardant hoses, the benefits are clear for customers who use our products for flammable environment. Safety is a priority in the oil and gas industry, so products like these are there to save lives and avoid disasters happening."

ContiTech Beattie’s Fire Rated Diesel Hose has been tested and is certified by Lloyds Register to OSG/1000/499 to withstand 700ºC for 30 minutes and its typical usage would be for fuel oil suction and delivery, with up to 50 per cent aromatic content. This hose design is also suitable for seawater, mud and other offshore applications, as well as long lasting bunkering applications.

This hose allows the safe use of oil/fuel suction and delivery in high fire risk areas.

High tensile textile cords with embedded steel helix wire and antistatic wires provide the reinforcement, while ozone and hydrocarbon resistant covers lie over layers of heat resistant fibre.

The Floating Hose range, offers Bulk Material, Diesel and Potable Water applications.  The range eliminates the need for cumbersome floatation collars, providing a high quality solution for floating bulk hose applications.

Integral buoyancy layers eliminate the need for separate tie-on floatation collars. This removes the possibility of the collars moving in service and affecting buoyancy, ensuring the satisfactory floatation and high visibility at all times is provided through appropriately coloured bands on the hose body, while removing the possibility of snagging under water.

The high tensile textile cord-reinforced hoses use multi-layers of PE foam for floatation and have black CR/BR blend, abrasion, ozone and hydrocarbon resistant covers.

ContiTech Beattie is a world leader in the design, manufacture and supply of flexible hose assemblies and associated hardware to the oil and gas sector. Originally formed in 1960 as Beattie Hydraulics Limited, a manufacturer of carbon steel hydraulic hose fittings, the firm rebranded from Phoenix Beattie Limited to ContiTech Beattie Limited in 2008 and now employs 97 people, including 82 in Ashington and 14 in Aberdeen, with one in Singapore.

Pic caption: Victoria Pendleton (centre) launches the new hoses with Dr Tamas Katona (MD, Continental, left) and Andrew Esson (MD, ContiTech Beattie, right)

The UK's new offshore safety chief has warned the industry there is no room for complacency.

Steve Walker, who has just replaced Ian Whewekk as head of the Health and Safety Executives (HSE) offshore division, said he wants the regulator to be respected.

Meeting Industry at Offshore Europe in Aberdeen yesterday for the first "time in his new position, Walker said: ' Ian has left me an excellent legacy. Under his watch the industry did improve in its leadership of offshore health and safety... but one of my top priorities is to make sure the industry is not complacent with its current safety standards.

"I want the industry to deliver on its commitments to maintain safety."

Walker said he wants the HSE to be an efficient and effective regulator and hopes it will be respected by the industry. However, he raised concerns about spikes in the number of hydrocarbon releases and major accidents in the first quarter of this year.

Walker, who has been with the HSE for more than 30 years and in the offshore division since 2004 was responsible for running the organisation's recent and largely positive KP3 review into offshore safety.

"We gave the industry a pretty good message when the review was published in July but the Industry still has to keep its eye on the ball.

"I recognise the challenges in keeping aging installations fit for purpose at a time when industry is looking at the technical and cost demands of developing existing fields, especially in the context of the economic climate and the energy debate," he said.

Robert Paterson, the health and safety director of industry group Oil and Gas UK, said: "Over the last 21 years the industry has made huge progress in putting in place multiple barriers on its offshore installations to prevent escalation of dangerous occurrences and to reduce their impact.

SOURCE - www.upstreamonline.com

HOBBS VALVE UNVEIL NEW PRODUCTS AT OFFSHORE EUROPE 2009

NOF Energy member, Hobbs Valve Ltd, has unveiled two new products at Offshore Europe 2009.

The South Wales based company introduced Triple Offset Cryogenic Butterfly Valves and a 600lb pressure class range at the exhibition, which took place in Aberdeen between 8-11 September.

Industry leaders in the design and manufacture of patented Triple Offset Butterfly Valves, Hobbs Valve produce high specification, high performance valves for supply to the global on and offshore Oil & Gas, Chemical, Petrochemical, Nuclear and Power industries.

The new butterfly valve has been specifically engineered for use in the delivery of Liquid Natural Gas and can withstand temperatures of -196°C.

Hobbs Valve has added the 600lb pressure class range to its existing portfolio of 150lb and 300lb valves to be able to manage high pressure applications.

Hobbs Valve is fast carving out a position in the sector securing considerable maintenance and repair work in the Oil & Gas market. In addition, it has recently secured contracts for projects within the UK Marine Industry.

Rhys Jones, Hobbs Valve Ltd Commercial Director, said: “The introduction of these new products will play a part in the growth of our market share.  Offshore Europe is an ideal location to introduce our new technology to the market and we are keen to meet new potential partners and customers who will benefit from our valves.

Joanne Leng, Director Business Development at NOF Energy, said: “Hobbs Valve demonstrates the skill and innovation that exists in the UK supply chain.  The global market is continually looking at the UK to deliver engineering excellence and high levels of service.  Companies such as Hobbs Valve are meeting that challenge.”