Latest News Update from Sahil

DST Tool Services now in Oman

18 April 2012

FOS announces the arrival of Northstar DST services into Oman. Northstar is a Canadian company offering downhole services and tools when and where you need them. Combined with FOS surface well test and wireline packages; you now have the complete exploration well testing solution – ex Muscat! See more at www.northstardst.com

FOS Well Test Unit 8 Achieves 2 Years without LTI

16 November 2011

Well Test Unit 8 achieved 2 years of operation without a Lost Time Incident on the 7th November 2011 . This represents not only the combined manhours of all crew but in addition, all subcontractors and third parties working on location.

During this period WTU8 worked a total combined 171,174 manhours and drove a total of 374,849 kilometres

This is a remarkable achievement considering the hazardous nature of exploration well testing performed in a remote and harsh desert environment. FOS apply the four pillars of HSE to all operations which is proving to be an effective means to minimising and managing the varied hazards which are part of daily routine,

Toolbox Talks, Supervision, Hazard Observation and Communication and Empowerment to Stop Work

WTU3 Achieves 9 Years without LTI

1 July 2011

The crew and subcontractors on FOS Energy Well Test Unit 3 achieved the remarkable milestone of 9 years without a single Lost Time Incident on 30th June 2011.

Despite coping with extreme desert heat, remote locations, and continuous 24 hour operations on high pressure toxic wells , the crew managed to accumualte a staggering total of 1.12 million man hours worked and 2.68 million kilometers driven safely during this 9 year period.

Well Test Units 3 function is to test the productivity of newly drilled and discovered exploration wells on Omans oil and gas bearing frontiers. These discoveries are vitally important to Oman's economic future and prosperity and FOS exploration well test units are at the forefront of the oil and gas reserves bookings process.

David Hawkes CEO stated, " I take immense pride in this remarkable achievement and I give thanks to the numerous subcontractors and suppliers who continue to support FOS Energy with safety and quality in mind"

Chairman Saad Al Jenaibi congratulated the crews for their dedication and commitment and stated "This news has made my day . Well done "

FOS Energy Celebrates 11 Year Anniversary

3 April 2011

On April 1st FOS Energy LLC proudly announce the achievement of 11 years operation in Oman, as a specialist oilfield service provider, to Oman’s booming oil industry.

FOS Energy has developed an excellent reputation for quality service, with Oman's main Oil and Gas operator and has maintained an outstanding track record of safe working. Using specialised, heavy duty, well test equipment, crews worked shifts, maintaining 24-hour operation in the harsh desert environment of the Oman oil and gas fields, where summer temperatures frequently exceed 50ºC and sand storms reduce visibility to a few metres.

Much of this work has been done in the extremely hazardous sour gas fields of South Oman where high level of lethal toxic gas poses an ever present threat to the well being of the crews.

In 11 years of continuous operation, our oilfield crews have clocked up 1.725 million man hours worked and 4.237 million kilometres driven without a single recorded lost time incident.

The implementation of an integrated programme of safety initiatives, including pre-job safety meetings, daily toolbox talks at shift change, HSE training , Hazard Observation Program and Empowerment to Stop Work have contributed towards the attainment of this remarkable safety record.

Saad Al Jenaibi: FOS Chairman,

”FOS Energy is the main choice for our clients due to our record for performance, reliability, service delivery, HSE and quality. For us as FOS Energy team, we are a company that has strong future growth potential, whilst caring for the human capital, the environment and the community we work within.”

Said Al Naamani: FOS MD ,

“I am very proud of what the management and field crews have achieved. This milestone of success for FOS proves that a concerted focus and dedication to service quality and safety provides a robust and sustainable business model.”

Abdulsattar Al Marshidi: Head of PDO Well Engineering Group

"Fantastic achievement , coming from a local company that works on potentially hazardous tasks, makes it even more notable.

Well done and please convey our appreciation to the crew of FOS"

FOS achieves OPAL HSE competency certification

18 October 2011

In grand ceremony honoured by H.E Nasser bin Khamis Al Jashmi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Oil and Gas, a total of 59 HR and HSE – 45 and 14 respectively - professionals received their competency certificates and cards of OPAL’s (Oman Society for Petroleum Services) popular HR and HSE competency programmes. Amongst these candidates was FOS QHSE Supervisor Sulaiman Mohammed Hamood Al Kalbani. The event was held at the Oil and Gas Exhibition Centre at PDO on 2nd October , and attended by senior officials and managers from the Ministry of Oil and Gas and PDO beside the senior managers of the candidate’s employed companies.

We greatly appreciate the efforts of OPAL in raisng the standards for HSE professionals in the Oil and Gas Sector

OPAL was started in 2001 with a vision to promote standards in Safety, health , Environment and associated training. See http://opaloman.org/ for more details.

FOS awarded new exploration Well Test Unit

31 October 2011

FOS is developing and expanding it’s exploration well testing capability , with the addition of a new self contained testing unit, due to be commissioned in December 2011.

The exploration unit will be used to test the productivity of newly discovered oil and gas reserves , including tight shale reservoirs , crucial to Oman’s economic future.

The new unit is completely self supporting with mobile camp facility for up to 40 crew , service and support personnel. It is designed for extreme sour service (H2S gas), and capable of testing wells up to 15,000 psi at rates of up to 2600 m3/day of oil and gas rates up to 2.5 million m3/day.

This new unit will complement FOS existing inventory of exploration test units and multi phase test units for gas development fields.

MPM signs up FOS as Oman distributor for high performance flowmeters

4 August 2011

FOS Energy have been appointed as the distributor of choice for MPM High Performance Flowmeters, in Oman, offering both permanent and mobile well testing solutions.

“The parallel to MPM's Technology is when the combustion motor replaced the steam engine”; Gordon Stobie Conoco Phillips USA

MPM , based in Norway supply a range of high performance flow measurement and metering systems to the oil and gas industry worldwide.

For more information please see www.mpm-no.com

Pictured: David Hawkes, FOS Energy CEO and Geir Kaada , General Manager MPM Middle East

New FOSTRAK Internet based Asset Database

8 December 2010

FOS Energy LLC has commisioned a purpose bult web based asset and maintenance database. This will allow our currect register of over 5000 individual assets and equipment to be tracked together wih online storage of all related certification and material traceability documentation.

Phase 2 will see the addition of maintenance schedules for all critical and pressure containing assets. Each piece of equipment well stream exposure is logged on a daily basis and planned preventative maintenance schedules will be automatically highlighted as they become due.

As the database can be accessed from any internet enabled pc it enables all supervisors to efficiently track equipment and due dates very simply. The main benefits of the system is maintenance cost reduction and the elimination of literally hundreds of data books, maintenance books and materials certification books. Phase 1 will go live in mid January 2011 with Phase 2 planned for Q2 2011