This agreement will combine the Companies’ respective core technologies, experience, engineering, and manufacturing capabilities to provide a robust marine drilling riser inspection and repair solution for drilling contractors around the world consisting of onboard, onsite, and at facility services using proprietary automated and manual inspection techniques.

This agreement will also provide full service repair facilities in the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil as well as forging and machining assets for aftermarket parts manufacturing.

AFGlobal lifecycle services VP Roland Kennedy said: “We look forward to our relationship with ExPert Riser, which will better enable us to meet and exceed the global drilling riser inspection and repair requirements of our core customers.”

ExPert Riser Solutions president and CEO Bill von Eberstein said: “ExPert Riser is very pleased to team up with AFGlobal to better inspect and repair marine riser for our customers, not only in the Gulf of Mexico but internationally as well.”

Source: Company Press Release