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Lamor is proud to announce the development of a new 12m workboat which is well suited for shallow water environments. The 12m workboat is constructed from Marine Grade aluminium with a flat bottomed hull resulting in a light ship draft of 0,5m and a recovered oil tank capacity of 12m3. The workboat comes supplied as standard with integrated LAMOR inbuilt oil recovery systems, together with boom reels and marine specification knuckle cranes for oil skimmer deployment. The design principal includes two propulsion versions, one with tunnel propellers or an alternative with jet engines. The LAMOR shallow water workboat is especially suitable in tidal areas such as the Frisian Islands in Western Europe which are separated from the mainland by arrow belts of shallow waters and tidal mud flats. The workboat can help in protecting the island's seaward coasts, beaches and resorts from oil and debris pollution. Bohai Bay in north-eastern China is another example of a shallow sea bay area, with wide mild slope mud beach. Several oil fields are located offshore the Bohai Bay, making it one of the busiest seaways in the world. The new Lamor shallow water workboat allows access to areas where oil spill response operations using traditional workboats is not possible. 

For more info, please contact Jari Ahoranta, Global Sales Director, tel: +358 20 7650 100 or email: info@lamor.com

This 12,5m workboat delivered to Romania in 2005 has now been developed to suit recovery operations in shallow waters

 

LAMOR AND SWIRE UNITE TO CREATE A NEW CONCEPT IN OIL SPILL RESPONSE AND OCEAN CLEAN UP CAPABILITY

PRESS RELEASE11 MARCH, 2008; SINGAPORE - Lamor Group Ltd (Lamor) and Swire Pacific Offshore Limited (SPO) have established a 50:50 Joint Venture to provide emergency oil spill response solutions for the Oil and Gas sector.

The joint venture, Lamor Swire Environmental Solutions (PTE) Limited (LSES) will allow Lamor, a world class leader in oil spill response equipment, and SPO, a dedicated leader in the offshore supply vessel market, the opportunity to unite their core expertise, experience and skill sets into a single bonded global enterprise that will provide the oil & gas sector with the most cost effective and contemporary solutions to oil spill preparedness and response available anywhere on the market. LSES will define a new era in seamless Tier I (local)/ Tier II (national)/ and Tier III (international) oil spill response.

Operationally, the joint venture is presently establishing strategically located cross-globe emergency response Depots capable of offering guaranteed, safe, rapid and overlapping access to Tier II and Tier III oil spill protection and combat resources.

The service will offer clients a one-stop shop for training, exercises, equipment, and tiered response supported by dedicated logistics and personnel deployed and trained to combat spills of national and international significance.

The joint venture will also have access to the Swire Marine Training Centre which will become a centre of excellence for comprehensive pollution management training as part of the overall service offering.

To supplement existing inventories in Finland, Singapore and West Africa, the JV has placed further orders for EURO10 million worth of emergency oil spill response equipment for initial deployment in the Middle East.

Commenting on the new Joint Venture, SPO Managing Director JB Rae-Smith said "With the increasing focus on the environment and the problems being caused by pollution, we have seen increasing requests from our Customers for a more effective and comprehensive response to pollution related issues.

"LSES has been set up to cater to this demand and will enable SPO and Lamor to add considerable value to the services we currently provide by providing locally available oil spill equipment and staff trained in pollution control and clean up", he said.

"The Joint Venture is unique in the sense that our vessels will be equipped to handle the additional oil spill equipment and our officers and crews will be specifically trained in pollution response." Rae-Smith continued. The key to the service offering is to combine Lamor's experience in handling pollution response with global SPO's network of vessels and people to provide an immediate offshore response capability.

Nico Larsen, Vice President Lamor Group, said; "Both companies have acknowledged a growing emphasis in the marketplace to developing environmental management capabilities, and in respecting that principal Lamor, has joined SPO to provide efficient responses to oil spills globally. LSES target is to set up around 10 regional Tier 3 oil spill response centers. These Tier 3 centers together with the SPO fleet make fast establishment of several smaller Tier 2 level centers possible. The joint venture also strongly supports our strategy of global presence and growth in both onshore and offshore environmental response.

LSES not only offers customers access to oil spill equipment but also provides the means through SPO's offshore fleet to actually mobilize it to provide faster emergency responses.

"Lamor has grown substantially in the last 10 years and is now a globally recognized environmental management business, and through this Joint Venture, we now have access to SPO's unprecedented global network, to deliver even higher standards of service to our customers", Larsen says.

Additional information about LAMOR
Lamor is a leading provider of innovative oil spill response solutions with more than 25 years of experience in oil spill response technologies. Lamor conduct most of their Research and Development in Finland but have permanent sales offices and agent networks that cover the globe. Most of Lamor's patented equipment is produced in Europe, America and Asia. They are committed to finding new solutions to protect the environment from oil spills and to leading the way in finding smart solutions to pollution.

Additional information about SPO
SPO owns and operates over 66 offshore support vessels, with a further US$650 million investment programme in new buildings for delivery from shipyards in 2008-2011. The fleet includes modern Dynamically Positioned Anchor Handling Tug Supply (AHTS) vessels which are ideal for use in oil spill recovery offshore, salvage, towage. SPO also has over 1,600 experienced seafarers available for a variety of tasks including oil spill containment and recovery. SPO also has warehouse space in Dubai, Singapore and Cameroon containing Oil Spill Response and salvage equipment. Headquartered in Singapore, SPO has regional offices in Australia, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Qatar, Scotland and the United Arab Emirates, and operates vessels in every major oil exploration region outside of North America. SPO is a subsidiary of Swire Pacific Ltd., a blue-chip company listed in Hong Kong.

SPO Media Contact: Mr JB Rae- Smith, Managing Director, Swire Pacific Offshore

Lamor Media Contact: Mr Nico Larsen, Vice President, Lamor Group
Tel. +358 40 5177920 or +358 20 7650 100.

www.swire.com.sg
www.lamor.com

PRESS RELEASE: Lamor Group is reorganising its business; Rasmus Guldbrand is appointed Managing Director of Lamor Group

Finnish oil spill recovery company Lamor Group, is reorganising its activities and centralising the resources of the entire group under a single management team.

Rasmus Guldbrand, former Managing Director of Lamor Corporation Ab, has been appointed the new Managing Director of Lamor Group. Jari Ahoranta, who has worked as Lamor Corporation Sales Director, will take over as the new Managing Director of Lamor Corporation Аb.

New Group Managing Director Rasmus Guldbrand will also manage Clean Globe International (CGI), and the previous CGI Managing Director Lasse Parvinen will become a consultant for other development projects important for Lamor business.

Fred Larsen will continue as the Chairman for Lamor Corporation Ab's board and Bent Larsen as the Chairman for Clean Globe International's board. Bent Larsen will also become Chairman of Lamor Group's Board.

- The scope of Lamor Group's activities is expanding rapidly and the Clean Globe International' concept of oil spill prevention and response is being well received worldwide.
- CGI are planning towards over two hundred environmental centres to be established worldwide during the upcoming years. This vision is fast being materialised. The basis for the growth is the foundation of LSES (Lamor Swire Environmental Solutions). LSES is a joint venture between Lamor and Swire Pacific Offshore, Bent Larsen, Chairman of the Lamor Group, says.

Lamor's partner, Swire, is one of the largest service vessels operators in the world, working in the offshore industry. LSES large planned regional warehouses, with equipment and vessels for oil spill recovery (Tier 3) will allow quick set-up of 10-20 smaller centre's (Tier 2) to operate from the Tier 3 centre. According to Mr Bent Larsen, LSES's goal is to establish 10 regional Tier 3 oil spill response stockpiles. LSES's first large Tier 3 centre will be established in Dubai.

- Through networking and by combining the regional Tier 3 centres and the local Tier 2 centres, we will achieve an integral system of oil spill prevention and recovery in the region. Following this, we will focus on developing waste treatment and land remediation services in connection with the Tier 2 centres, Bent Larsen explained.

- We have entered a new stage of development within the Lamor Group. The establishment of Clean Globe International required large development investments. For a technology supplier to become an international service provider is not so easy. It has been a big step, which has drawn us closer to our client base, said Bent Larsen, Chairman of the Lamor Group.

- Lamor's strong customer focus, combined with the concept of the Clean Globe Centres, provides the necessary impulse for development in the transition period, stated Rasmus Guldbrand, Managing Director of the Lamor Group.

Further appointments within the Lamor Group:

Vesa Tiitinen, Chief Financial Officer
Jochum von Schoultz, Vice President, Ballast Water Treatment & Underwater Technologies
Peter Rigby, Vice President, Administration
Nikolai Kildishov, Vice President, Russia & CIS
Nico Larsen, Vice President, Lamor Swire Environmental Solutions

For additional information, please contact:

Bent Larsen, chairman of the board of Lamor Group, tel. +358 40 543 8686

Rasmus Guldbrand, managing director of Lamor Group, tel. +358 040 7237812

Lamor Corporation Ab

Lamor is the world's largest manufacturer of oil spills response equipment. With 25 years of experience Lamor specialises in comprehensive solutions developed for a specific problem using the efficient technologies of oil gathering. The company's sales office network covers the whole globe and production facilities are located in Finland, America and Asia. The turnover of the Lamor Group amounted to 33 million euro during the last financial year.

From the left: Rasmus Guldbrand, Bent Larsen and Jari Ahoranta
 

PRESS RELEASE

Clean Globe International (CGI), member of the Lamor Group, expands it operations in Russia by acquiring a 26% share of Ecoshelf Ltd. Ecoshelf Ltd is a 10 year old environmental service company operating on Sakhalin Island in Russia. They specialize in oil spill response, waste management and other environmental protection services. Ecoshelf Ltd. annual turnover is approximately 20M EUR and employs in excess of 200 persons. The company's main customers are Russian and international Energy Companies.

- We are proceeding in Russia according to the business plan. Through EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Finnfund and NEFCO financing we are able to grow the company on a fast pace by investing in oil spill response and waste management in a way that supports the company's ability to form wider strategically valuable service agreements together with its customers. Lamor Group's Clean Globe International supports the local company and its client base through its global expertise network, said Lamor Group's Chairman Bent Larsen.

- In our 10 year existence, Ecoshelf Ltd. has grown steadily. With a strong partner like Clean Globe International, we can now provide the best solutions for our customers on the Island. The first investments in new equipment has been agreed and we have a plan to invest more than 50M € in new technologies during the next three to five years, using the financial strength that Clean Globe brings as a shareholder, says Ecoshelf Senior Project Manager, William Stillings.

The acquisition is financed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation Ltd, Finnfund and Nordic Environment Finance Corporation, NEFCO.

For additional information, please contact:

Rasmus Guldbrand, CEO, Clean Globe International,
tel. +358 20 7650 100

William Stillings, Ecoshelf Ltd. - Sakhalin,
tel. +7-914-755-1868

Clean Globe International Ltd (CGI)

Clean Globe International (CGI) is an independent company providing environmental services. CGI helps its clients in preventing accidents, in responding to oil or chemical spills, in arranging port and hazardous waste management and in land remediation projects as well as in environmental auditing. CGI's Clean Globe Center concept is a cost-efficient way to outsource environmental services. Each Clean Globe Center provides its geographical region with an equipment stockpile and offers an efficient way to respond to oil spills and arranging port and hazardous waste management. For more info, please visit: http://www.cleanglobe.eu

Ecoshelf Ltd. - Sakhalin

Ecoshelf is a Limited Liability Company founded in 1997 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia. Ecoshelf is the first specialized company in the Russian Far East to conduct oil spill response operations. The company has a wide variety of state-of-the-art oil spill response equipment providing high-quality oil spill response services both offshore and onshore. Ecoshelf provides a full spectrum of services to support oil field development on the Sakhalin Shelf and E & P operations in Vietnam. These services include for example; offshore and onshore oil spill response and prevention, protection of highly sensitive areas, cleaning of oiled offshore and onshore areas to restore environmental balance, training of personnel, writing oil spill response plans, waste handling of hazardous industrial waste and a 24 hour oil spill emergency response coverage. For more info, please visit: http://www.ecoshelf.net