Fraser Offshore is a drilling project management company working for oil and gas businesses operating in the North Sea.

Our 31 people are specialists in well construction and include drilling superintendents, drilling and well services engineers, offshore drilling supervisors and logistics specialists. Organised in client teams, they are skilled in planning drilling campaigns and supervising work at the wellsite. Each project team operates much like a traditional oil company drilling department. With personnel safety, environmental protection and large investments at stake, this work demands rigorous planning, effective teamwork and total commitment.

Our skills are rooted in the Southern North Sea (SNS), where complex geology presents many challenges. The area has been intensively exploited over three decades, but in recent years drilling campaigns have become shorter, resulting in the fragmentation of key skills. Well teams assembled for short campaigns often need to re-learn operational lessons, at considerable cost to the operator. We operate from a shorebase at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, working closely with the service companies that carry out most of the work for SNS wells.

FOL project teams have unrivalled, continuous SNS experience and are equipped to help field operators achieve the best results. Core personnel have experience in front-line engineering and management roles on more than 120 SNS wells for eight operators. Their experience is fully up-to-date and is drawn from hands-on supervisory and managerial positions.

We provide a flexible range of project management services for drilling offshore oil and gas wells, working under straightforward and transparent commercial arrangements. Fraser Offshore does not promote its own corporate identity. Project teams are contracted for extended periods to oil and gas company clients, adopting their policies and objectives. As a result they do, quite literally, wear the client’s hat.