Derrick Services (UK) Ltd - DSL
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DSL is an API licensed drilling structure specialist. With international offices supporting the upstream industry worldwide, our in-house resources ensure we provide customers with a turnkey solution to meet their requirements from design and engineering through to site work, inspections and completion, both safely and efficiently.
Address
Falcongate House, Faraday Road Harfreys Industrial Estate
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR31 0NF
United Kingdom
Phone: 44-1493-669141
Fax: 44-1493-668409
Press Releases
DSL RAISES STANDARDS FOR DERRICK SAFETY
DSL’s continued investment in training and competency has been further recognised with the approval of its Competence Management System for Derrick Technicians by OPITO.
The OPITO approval comes on the back of DSL’s achievement of gaining API & IADC status as an approved training academy for ‘Derrick Technicians’ earlier this year. The combined API, OPITO and IADC training and competency establishes DSL personnel, all of which will go through this training and competency assessment, as both the highest qualified and only qualified derrick technicians in the Industry to date, Worldwide.
The OPITO Oil and Gas Academy have developed a set of best practice criteria, which enables companies existing Competence Management Systems (CMS) to be benchmarked, evaluated and approved against.
In light of DSL’s OPITO achievement, in relation to their Derrick Technician Competence qualification, Mike Smith (DSL’s Managing Director) states “gaining this approval is independent confirmation that the DSL Management System used to ensure competence of our Derrick Technicians is of the highest standard, providing our customers with the confidence that the training and competency of DSL Derrick Technicians is the best available in the Industry today”.
There are a multitude of benefits of having an effective CMS such as improved staff motivation and productivity, encouraged staff ownership due to development, reduced frequency and severity of incidents and accidents, reduce costs and gives the business process an added value.
Notes: DSL, Derrick Services (UK) Limited, is a privately owned Oil & Gas Industry Construction Company providing a range of products and services to the Industry, Worldwide, ranging from General Fabrication, Engineering & Project Management, and Offshore Construction Services through to the supply of Drilling Structures, Rig Refurbishment etc.
For further information (on this article or any of DSL’s products or services):
Visit: www.derricksl.com
Email: enquires@derricksl.com
Or contact: Michaela Smith
DSL (Derrick Services (UK) Limited)
Falcongate House, Faraday Road
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 0NF
+ 44(0)1493 669141
DSL DELIVERS QUALIFIED INSPECTORS TO IMPROVE DERRICK SAFETY
DSL, an API & IADC certified training provider, has achieved API accreditation of its “Derrick Inspectors” training course and associated exam, in accordance with API 4G & 4F.
This is the first Industry recognised training for Derrick Inspectors in the Industry to date, and represents a turning point for ensuring that drilling derricks, some of which are rated to 1000 tonne lifting capacity or more, can now be inspected and certified by Qualified Inspectors.
Whilst other rig critical equipment such as cranes, BOP’s etc. has for decades been subject to inspection and certification by Inspectors qualified to regulatory body approved courses, Drilling Structures have, up to now, never had the benefit of Inspectors armed with product specific inspection qualifications.
The achievement of this qualification for DSL has been a long term ambition of the company and owner/Managing Director Mike Smith, who stated, “derrick related incidents still represent a very large percentage of overall incidents on rigs today. The introduction of qualified and competent Inspectors working under the umbrella of an API 4F Licenced company provides the industry with both a qualified standard to adopt, as well as arming the Industry with the ability to further eradicate the amount of incidents on both offshore derricks and land rigs”.
“Operators and Drilling Contractors can now rely upon this Industry approved qualification and standard for the inspection of Drilling Structures where before there was none. Thus ensuring that the quality, competency and consistency of these inspections are maintained, whilst at the same time eliminating inadequate inspections by unqualified personnel. We are proud to be able to use our experience, expertise and competency of drilling structures and channel it into qualifications such as this that enables DSL to make a positive contribution to Industry Safety and Standardisation”.
DSL already runs API accredited training courses for Derrick Technicians and is now working on Derrick Inspection courses for Drill Crews that will be offered to the Industry in the coming months. In the meantime, DSL are currently having training structures built in Brazil and Singapore as part of its strategy to provide this and other derrick related training to specific geographical locations of the Industry.
DSL supports the upstream industry Worldwide with operations in the UK, USA, Brazil, Dubai, Singapore and India from which it undertakes the Inspection, Recertification, Repair, Modification, Upgrade, Design & Manufacture of Drilling Structures as well as a variety of other inspection and construction related activities to the Industry.
Notes: DSL is a Drilling Structure Specialist providing a range of products and services to the Oil & Gas Industry, Worldwide, ranging from General Fabrication, Engineering & Project Management, Offshore Construction Services through to the supply of Drilling Structures, Rig Refurbishments and Inspection Services.
For further information (on this article or any of DSL’s products or services):
Visit: www.derricksl.com
Email: enquiries@derricksl.com
Or contact: Mike Smith
DSL (Derrick Services (UK) Limited)
Falcongate House, Faraday Road
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 0NF
+ 44(0)1493 669141
DSL ENJOYS INCREASED TURNOVER AS IT EXPANDS OVERSEAS OPERATIONS
Last year has been very good for the DSL Group, with a sales increase of nearly 40% to £22m and profits up even more as the investment in overseas subsidiaries over the last three years has been completed and these companies are now standing on their own two feet. The UK operation alone has seen a 37% increase in turnover as well as a better than expected increase in profits.
DSL has invested heavily in overseas subsidiaries in the last three years and as these operations have since created their own revenue and profit streams which has in turn eased the burden on the UK operation and contributed to the bottom line of the Group, which will have achieved an overall turnover increase from £14m in 2011 to £22m in 2012.
Following on from this growth last year, DSL has hit the ground running with derrick refurbishment contracts in Holland and Abu Dhabi as well as a significant derrick recertification contract in India.
This has led to twenty new permanent jobs over the last twelve months in the UK with many more being created during spells of particularly high activity, during which at times the company was working on a near 100% increase in turnover from the previous year.
More jobs have been created overseas with expansion of the Dubai operation into new bigger premises and the establishment of additional engineering resources there, to support its Middle East, India and Singapore Operations.
Their Singapore Company is about to move into brand new larger premises to enable it to sustain the growth that it has achieved in the last two years. This will also incorporate dedicated in-house fabrication facilities, as well as training facilities for its local field staff.
DSL has also recently opened an office in Cochin India on the back of both projects for Drilling Contractors working in Indian Waters, as well as a significant contract with ONGC for the Survey, Engineering and Re-certification of several of its offshore exploration rigs.
Mike Smith Managing Director of DSL said “these results reinforce a progressive trend of increased orders from both new and established customers. What is all the more pleasing is that those trends are continuing with several significant orders having been received over the holiday period and immediately after the New Year, with a few more that we are waiting to hear about. All of which points towards 2013 being a year of continued growth and activity for the business.”
Great Yarmouth is the head office of the Global operation which now includes operations in Singapore, Dubai and Brazil and offices in India, Houston and Aberdeen.
Notes: DSL is a Drilling Structure Specialist providing a range of products and services to the Oil & Gas Industry, Worldwide, ranging from General Fabrication, Engineering & Project Management, Offshore Construction Services through to the supply of Drilling Structures, Rig Refurbishments and Inspection Services.
For further information (on this article or any of DSL’s products or services):
Visit: www.derricksl.com
Email: enquiries@derricksl.com
Or contact: Michaela Smith
DSL (Derrick Services (UK) Limited)
Falcongate House, Faraday Road
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR31 0NF
+ 44(0)1493 669141
Products
Name: Full List of DSL Services
Description: Company’s Registration and License Certificates:•ISO 9001: 2000 •API Spec Q1 •API 4F •API 8C •OPITO •First Point Assessment - •DROPS•IRATA•IMCA
Details:
Drilling Package Refurbishment& Upgrade/Land Rig Refurbishment & Upgrade/Inspection Program: Drilling Structure & Dropped Objects & Lifting Gear & Critical Load Path Equipment/Drilling Structure Recertification/Inspection Software/Decommissioning/Derrick Assembly & Outfitting/Site Personnel/Project Management, Engineering, Design, Fabrication & Procurement
Name: Derrick, Mast & Substructure Inspections
Description: API 4G specification for Inspection, maintenance and repair of drilling structures specifies that such work scopes should be carried out by suitably qualified companies/individuals.
Details:
DSL meets the requirements of API due to the following Licences and Accreditations: API 4F, API Specification Q1 , ISO 9001:2000, API 8C Licence. The qualifications of DSL, supported of course by our experienced Inspection Personnel and, as importantly, the technical support and guidance provided by our Engineering Dept. gives you the assurance that you are engaging the right company to carry out this work without compromising your operation. We carry out all the recommended inspection levels that API specify for your drilling structure, and can provide you with full fleet inspection services that provide you with the peace of mind that the same high standard of inspection is being applied to all of your assets.
Name: Derrick Upgrade, Refurbishment & Recertification
Description: Our focus on Derrick upgrade, refurbishment & recertification projects ensures that when you engage DSL to undertake your derrick work, you are employing probably the most experienced, competent and qualified vendor available to you.
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