Saturday, January 14, 2017

Large bemanningskutt in Aker Solutions – Today’s Business

650 positions affected in a round of fresh cuts in oil service company.

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Aker Solutions has informed its employees that the company must carry out major bemanningsreduksjoner. The total may be the talk of the 650 positions, approximately 270 of these in Norway.

The Kjell Inge Røkke-co-owned the company delivers products and services for the oil and gas industry all over the world.

It was bransjenettstedet offshore.now that the first publicized case. The company has confirmed the cuts facing DN.

Persistent market decline

” We have today informed our employees about the need to reduce working capacity in some locations. About 650 positions, mainly in Norway, the united Kingdom and India may be affected, says director of communications, Bunny Nooryani of Aker Solutions to the DN.



Ms. Bunny Nooryani of Aker Solutions. Photo: Thomas Haugersveen

She says that the cuts will affect about 270 positions in Norway, including 170 positions at the company’s Subsea services facility at Ågotnes and around 100 positions at the company’s yard in Egersund.

the Adjustments to be made due to the persistent markedsnedgangen and as part of a global reorganisation that started in november to strengthen the company’s competitiveness, says Nooryani.

Big effektiviseringsplaner

When Aker Solutions last fall presented its quarterly results, the enlightened Aker Solutions is that it was ahead of schedule with respect to the effektivitetsforbedringsprogrammet which aims to improve efficiency by at least 30 per cent by the end of 2017.

The time expected the company in an improved market in 2017.

“There are some signs of improvement, primarily in mature fields, in line with expectations that oil prices will stabilize at a higher level in 2017.”, wrote the company in connection with the quarterly numbers in October.

Aker Solutions has around 15,000 employees, and has been through major cutbacks in the workforce after oljeprisfallet hit in 2014. In the last year warned that up to 1500 jobs go. The company reduced capacity by 1000 positions in 2015, half of which were in Norway.

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