Roxar AS

Roxar AS

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Company type	Private
Industry	Oil & Gas
Founded	1984
Headquarters	Stavanger, Norway
Area served	Global
Key people	Steve Grundmeier (President)
Parent	Emerson Electric
Website	http://www.roxar.com

Roxar AS is an international provider of products and associated services for reservoir management and production optimisation in the upstream oil and gas industry. Roxar is headquartered in Stavanger, Norway and operates in 19 countries with around 900 employees. Roxar offers software for reservoir interpretation, modelling and simulation, as well as instrumentation for well planning, monitoring and metering. Roxar was acquired by Emerson Electric Company in April 2009 and is now part of the Emerson Process Management Group.

Roxar has two main divisions; Software Solutions and Flow Measurement.

Roxar Flow Measurement develops real-time flow measurement and instrumentation of wells and data acquisition systems. From high temperature reservoir monitoring to multiphase flow metering, sand erosion sensors, oil in water monitoring, and corrosion detection, the technology helps operators make reservoir management and flow assurance decisions.

Roxar Software Solutions develops and supplies software for 3D modelling, analysis and Integrated simulation of oil reservoirs. Flagship software products include Roxar’s reservoir modelling suite Irap RMS, Tempest reservoir simulation software and its history matching and uncertainty estimation software EnABLE.

History

Roxar was formed in 1999 as a result of a merger between Multi-Fluid ASA and Smedvig Technologies AS.

1984 - Smedvig International Petroleum Research Group AS (IPR) is established. The company develops technical solutions within drilling and production.

1987 - Smedvig IPR establishes Permanent Downhole Monitoring Systems (PDMS) in a 50/50 joint venture with Lasalle Pressure Data Services Ltd. Smedvig IPR Services AS is established.

1991 – Smedvig IPR becomes the sole owner of the PDMS business. Smedvig IPR AS buys 30 percent of the shares in IPAC AS, a software company specialising in advanced software for stochastic modelling of reservoirs.

1991 - First CorrOcean subsea sensor is installed on the Norwegian Continental Shelf

1992 – Multi-Fluid launches the MFI WaterCut Meter. Smedvig IPR AS participates in the formation of Petec AS, a reservoir consulting company.

1993 – Petec AS participates in the formation of Odin AS, a software company specialising in advanced software for stochastic modelling of reservoirs. Smedvig IPR AS merges with Smedvig IPR Services AS and becomes Smedvig Technology AS.

1994 –Smedvig Technology AS acquires the remaining shares in IPAC AS and acquires PTL Tønsberg AS, an electronics company specialised in integrated hybrid circuitry.

1995 – Smedvig Technology AS acquires 100 percent of the shares in Petec AS and Geomatic AS, a company specialising in the 3D reservoir modelling software IRAP RMS. Smedvig Offshore acquires Prodrill Ltd, a drilling consultancy business in the UK, and the management of this company is taken over by Smedvig Technology AS.

1996 –Smedvig Technology AS acquires 49 percent of the shares in Onics, a reservoir consulting company in Moscow. Smedvig Technology AS acquires 100 percent of the shares in Odin AS.

1997 –Smedvig Technology AS becomes Smedvig Technologies (Holding) AS with full ownership of Geomatic AS (former Petec, Geomatic and Ipac). Multi-Fluid is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange.

1998 – Smedvig Technologies (Holding) AS and Multi-Fluid ASA launch a co-operation to develop a downhole water-cut meter. Multi-Fluid introduces the first subsea multiphase meter.

1999 – Smedvig Technologies (Holding) AS merges with Multi-Fluid ASA and becomes Roxar ASA, a public company quoted on the Oslo Stock Exchange, specialising in reservoir modelling software, PDMS and multiphase metering.

2001 – Roxar ASA acquires Fluenta AS, a company specialising in multiphase meters, flare gas meters and sand monitoring.

2003 – The two major investors in Roxar ASA, Lime Rock Partners LP of the US and Smedvig AS of Norway acquire control of Roxar ASA and the company is delisted.

2004 – Roxar AS establishes a branch office in Moscow and acquires full ownership of Onics in Russia.

2006 – Arcapita, a private equity firm completes acquisition of Roxar. Roxar acquires EnergyScitech, a UK-based independent consultancy and software development company.

2007 – CorrOcean acquires oil service company Mareco AS and adds complementary products for chemical and MEG/Methanol injection to its Subsea portfolio.

2007 - Roxar is acquired by CorrOcean ASA (est. 1979) and following the merger the company is listed at the Oslo Stock Exchange as Roxar ASA.

2009 - Roxar is acquired by Emerson, St. Louis USA and becomes part of a USD 28 billion company

Management

Steve Grundmeier – Roxar President
Alesia Thomas – Vice President, Finance
Kjetil Fagervik - MD Roxar Software Solutions
Elin Steinsland - Director, Hardware Engr & Dev
Ole Dahl - Director, Quality, Health & Safety
Eivind Dykesteen - Director, Intellectual Property
Terje Svendsen - Managing Director, Operations
Dimitry Bolotnik – General Manager, CIS

See also

• Schlumberger
• Halliburton
• Emerson Electric Company
• FMC
• Cameron International Corporation

External links

• Roxar main website
• Sand & Erosion
• Well Applications
• Flow Metering
• Mechanical & Process Equipment
• Reservoir Management Software

References

• Emerson Process Management
• Article: "Reducing Uncertainty in Reservoir Management" Zeus Technology Magazine, January 2009
• Article: “Challenges in maximising production” Oil & Gas Technology September 2010
• Press Release: Emerson Acquires Roxar
• Press Release: Roxar launches RMS 2010.1
• Press Release: Roxar launches subsea Chemical Injection valve