Bjørge is an onshore and offshore oil

Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...

 and gas

Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, typically with 0–20% higher hydrocarbons . It is found associated with other hydrocarbon fuel, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is an important fuel source and a major feedstock for fertilizers.Most natural...

 and Marine software engineering and maintenance company. The company is based in Tananger

Tananger

Tananger is a village in the municipality of Sola, in the county of Rogaland, Norway. Its population is 5,817, a near double from 1980 when 3,020 people lived there.- History :...

 outside Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

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History

The company was founded in 1977 as a joint venture

Joint venture

A joint venture is a business agreement in which parties agree to develop, for a finite time, a new entity and new assets by contributing equity. They exercise control over the enterprise and consequently share revenues, expenses and assets...

 between Bjørge Enterprise and ETPM (now part of Acergy

Acergy

Acergy S.A. was an international offshore seabed to surface engineering and construction company previously known as Stolt Offshore and Stolt Comex Seaway and was part of the Stolt-Nielsen Group until 2005...

) to perform offshore maintenance services. In 1995 it was bought by Strand Enterprises, but listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange

Oslo Stock Exchange

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 in 1997. In 1998 the company bought Norcoat Services from Halliburton

Halliburton

Halliburton is the world's second largest oilfield services corporation with operations in more than 70 countries. It has hundreds of subsidiaries, affiliates, branches, brands and divisions worldwide and employs over 50,000 people....

 and Steinco in 2000. The same year Bjørge merged with Solberg & Andersen. 2001 saw the purchase of Scana Moland from Scana

SCANA

SCANA Corporation is a $9 billion Fortune 500 energy-based holding company, based in Cayce, South Carolina, whose businesses include regulated electric and natural gas utility operations and other energy-related businesses...

 in 2004 Eptec was bought. The same year Bjørge chose to leave the MMO business that was heavily dominated by Aker Kværner

Aker Kværner

Aker Solutions ASA is a Norwegian multinational provider of services related to engineering, construction, maintenance, modification and operation of both large and small industrial facilities. The company, with roots back to 1841, has its headquarters in Oslo and is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange...

 and Vetco Aibel.

On 20 September 2010 the company announced a plan to spin off its process, fire and safety solutions division into a new company.