How much of a priority is the Murmansk operation for Reinertsen as a whole today?
The work that Reinertsen does in the oil and gas sector entails both fabrication and engineering. A small percentage of the company’s turnover comes from the fabrication division, but the work that is done in Murmansk is really the foundation of Reinertsen’s whole operation. Today, all fabrication is being done in Russia. Reinertsen recently won a contract at Mongstad TCM. All fabrication for this project is being done in Murmansk. The operations at Nordanger are now exclusively focused on maintenance and modification. The reason that these operations are based in Norway is that it is more convenient, as all of Reinertsen’s fabrications are in place on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. It must have been quite a big change of mindset for the company over the last five years to move everything out here. It’s enormous, we are getting up to 450 people now while I only had 130 in September. Now, in April 2010, we will have 450. Is engineering still done at the headquarters in Trondheim? We h
