Subsea 7 S.A. (stylised as Subsea7) is a
Luxembourg
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ish
multinational services
company
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involved in
subsea engineering
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and
construction
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serving the offshore
energy industry
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. The company is registered in
Luxembourg
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with its headquarters in
London
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. Subsea 7 delivers offshore projects and provides services for the energy industry.
Subsea7 makes offshore energy transition feasible through working on lower-carbon oil and gas and by providing services for the growth of renewables and other emerging energy industries.
History
The company was formed by the January 2011
merger
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of two predecessor companies,
Acergy S.A. and Subsea 7, Inc.
Acergy was founded in 1970 as Stolt Nielsen Seaway, a division of the
Norwegian Stolt-Nielsen Group offering divers for the
exploration
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of the
North Sea
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. After a series of acquisitions, including
Comex Services of
France
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in 1992 and
Houston
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,
Texas
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–based Ceanic Corporation in 1998, the company changed its name to Stolt Offshore in 2000. Five years later Stolt-Nielsen
spun out the company as an independent business listed on the
Oslo Stock Exchange
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and
NASDAQ
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. The firm renamed as Acergy in March 2006.
Subsea 7, Inc. was the result of a series of mergers between DSND Offshore AS,
Halliburton Subsea, Subsea Offshore and Rockwater over an extended period, with Rockwater and SubSea merging in 1999 to form Halliburton Subsea, and the resulting company operating as a 50/50 joint venture with DSND in 2002 with the name Subsea 7.
Halliburton exited the joint venture in November 2004. The company was listed on the
Oslo Stock Exchange
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in August 2005 following its
restructuring
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the same year.
On 21 June 2010 the combination of Acergy S.A. and Subsea 7 Inc. was announced and was completed on 7 January 2011. The new entity took the Subsea 7 name while retaining Acergy's Luxembourg
domicile and operational headquarters in London.
The chairman and
chief executive
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CEOs find roles in variou ...
roles were filled by Kristian Siem and Jean Cahuzac, who had previously held the same roles at Subsea 7 and Acergy respectively.
Presence
The current
headquarters
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for Subsea 7 is located at 40 Brighton Road,
Sutton, London
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.
See also
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List of oilfield service companies
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References
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Engineering companies of Luxembourg
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Companies listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange
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Energy engineering and contractor companies
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Oilfield services companies
Multinational companies headquartered in Luxembourg
Multinational companies based in the City of London