Seagull Oil & Gas has acquired all the shares in the EX training provider, ExTek AS, Norway’sonly centre approved to validate core competency of oil & gas industry employees and contract staff under the globally recognized CompEx Scheme.

With the acquisition of ExTek, Seagull will have one of the most comprehensive and complete packages of El-Safety and Ex training in the market.

“ExTek has been developed by some of the leading experts on electricity in explosive atmospheres, and is the only Norwegian approved CompEx centre,” says Morten Aasen, Managing Director, Seagull Oil & Gas. “We see an increasing focus on high quality training and individual certification in the in the oil & gas industry. ExTek is a natural enlargement of the Seagull Oil & Gas portfolio of products to meet our target to become a complete provider of training solutions for the Oil & Gas industry. We believe the combination of e-learning, required practical training and interactive theory discussions with subject matter experts give the best learning outcome on these high risk subjects.”