Porsgrunn
In Porsgrunn Telemark you will find BIS Production Partner’s administration and head office. Also located here are two of BIS Production Partner`s business units.
Business units and operative units
The administration of two of BIS Production Partner’s business units in Porsgrunn are:
- BIS Production Partner Norway NES ( North, East and South )
- BIS Production Partner Offshore, Turnaround and Consultancy
Besides the operative units that belong to BIS Production Partner - Norway NES, the following operative units are also located at Porsgrunn:
- BIS Production Partner Industrimuring Porsgrunn ( part of BIS Production Partner Norway West )
- BIS Production Partner Project Management & Engineering ( part of BIS Production Partner Norway NES )
BIS Production Partner’s activities in Porsgrunn employ around 850 persons.
Products and services
Our units in Porsgrunn supply products and services in all of BIS Production Partner’ six areas of activity:
- Maintenance services
- Workshop services
- Project Management & Engineering
- Fireproofing
- Consultancy
- Courses
Organisation and contracts
BIS Production Partner Norway NES
The business unit is organised as five operative sections in charge of contracts based on the following section and product structure:
Workshop production
Workshop production covers the following areas:
- Machine workshop
- Valve workshop
- Plumbing workshop
- Sheet metal workshop
- Plastics workshop
- Valve workshop
- Rubberising workshop
Building services
The unit covers the following sectors:
- Building
- Surface treatment
Project management and Engineering
Services supplied from this unit are:
- Project management
- Idea development and process concepts
- Studies and decision fundaments
- Engineering
- Project control
- Planning
- Plant/installation management
- Completion and testing
Maintenance centre
Services supplied from this unit are:
- Mechanical
- Electro
- Automation
- Engineer services
- Transport and crane (located at Rafnes)
- Crane inspection
- Calibration
- Tele
BIS Production Partners Offshore, Turnaround and Consultancy
The business unit is organized by areas that make deliveries based on the following section- and product structure:
- Rotating machinery with extensive experience from maintenance of heavy rotating machinery offshore and onshore with many different customers. The service ranges from online and offline condition monitoring to project management, planning and execution of maintenance and overhauls.
- Turnaround Services provides services in consultancy, project management and planning, and execution of turnarounds. The unit has extensive experience in the area and has conducted many relativelybig projects during major shutdowns in refineries and similar plants.
- Maintenance services and Contract Work; plan and carry out maintenance assignments and take responsibility for campaign maintenance, backlog reduction, turnaround planning / execution, and othermaintenance related tasks on offshore installations and onshore facilities.
- The unit can supply most of personnel categories, both for short term and longer term assignments. We have extensive experience from manning of projects, with engineers, technicians for commissioningand start-up and operational personnel for work permits and production.
Consultancy Services in BIS Production Partner consist of:
- Maintenance Management:
- Maintenance Analysis
- Maintenance Improvement Activities
- Training and education in planning, execution and systematic improvement of the maintenance process
- Carry out maintenance assignments and supply personnel as required
Education and training:
- Simulator training for control room personnel
- Competence mapping
- Status surveys
- Preparation and follow up of training plans
- Planning, development and implementation of courses and training tailored to your needs
Health, environment and safety:
- HES improvements and projects (attitude and behavior)
- Working environment
- Emergency preparedness
- Chemicals- and waste management
BIS Production Partner Industrimuring
The unit in Porsgrunn belongs to BIS Production Partner’s area of business for fireproofing contracts. It contains specialised competence for servicing of the:
- Petrochemical industry
- Ferro industry
The unit has premises and equipment for prefabrication of incinerators.
Machines and equipment
BIS Production Partner has fully equipped workshops and premises in Porsgrunn. The description for these is provided under Products and Services. These include in particular:
- Calibration station for quantity gauges, which due to its size (2 – 400 and more) and capacity (0 – 1100 m3/h) is unique on the Norwegian market
- Control room simulator where personnel and others are trained to deal with critical situations
- Equipment (including premises) for prefabrication of incinerators
Contract sectors
Our units in Porsgrunn supply most of the products and services included in BIS Production Partner’s contract portfolio. All our contracts are single-trade or multi-trade according to customer wishes and requirements. Our services range from small single assignments to total contract concepts. See other pages in our presentation for more detailed descriptions.
Areas of supply that are unique for the Porsgrunn units are:
- Technical research support that is a specialised contract comprised of design, building and operation of research plant
- Prefabrication of incinerators
- Prefabrication of process plant
Competence
BIS Production Partner has management/supervisors, certified operators and engineers with years of experience in preparing and executing maintenance assignments. We have operative and process competence in all our market segments. Together with our partners we represent a unique highly specialised competence that we place at your disposal. In cooperation with our customers we find solutions that are the best possible for each individual instance in regard to:
- Uptime for production equipment
- Cost reductions
- Safe implementation (HES)
- Sound technical solutions
Particular mention should be made of the Porsgrunn units’ specific competence in:
- Total supply of experimental, cross-trade projects
- Construction and prototype presentation
- Advanced 3-dimensional construction and visualisation
- Modification and improvement of existing plant/installations
- Building and maintenance of Ex-systems and instruments
- Programming/configuring of control and logging systems
- Testing and calibration of technical gauging equipment
- Total supplier of clean gas systems
- Microprocessor-controlled orbital TIG-welding of pipes
- Assignments in GMP activities (pharmaceutical industry)
Our customers
You will find our customers in industry, power plants and public activities. Our units in Porsgrunn are preferred suppliers, and/or have long-term supply agreements with among others:
- Yara – Porsgrunn
- Ineos
- SiC
- Noretyl AS
- REC Wafer
- Hydro Aluminium Holmestrand
- Norsk Hydro
- Statoil
Address: BIS Production Partner AS Postboks 1094, 3905 Porsgrunn, Norway
Switchboard: +47 03 247